Another possibly unread post (but its for me anyways, so whatever...)
Hello!
This past week has been pretty good seeing as how it was spring break for me. Although it was spring break, I felt rather in the dumps. I stayed at home and did a whole lot of sleeping in reality, often waking well after noon. On Thursday night, I decided to fix my sleep schedule. In my case, this means not sleeping for more than 24 hours, not driving, and perhaps shuffling like a zombie (with a little drool hanging from the side of my mouth). After staying awake for 34 hours, the time I had decided to sleep arrived. I closed my eyes at ~10:30PM and when I opened them, it was 5:30AM. For some reason, I couldn't sleep more than 7 hours. Even though I had every intention of getting close to twelve hours, shutting my eyes did nothing to my confusingly awake body. Anyhow, while this tactic for changing my sleep schedule worked many times during my time in the navy, this schedule change was easily reversed by my non-compliant body yesterday. I spent the night closing my eyes and relaxing and nothing came out of it but a bunch of thoughts about how rich my life experiences aren't. Naturally, this is my Achilles heel of depressing stuff, but I'm not going to write myself into depression by sharing details here. In the end, I found myself still awake with the sun coming up (thank God, its doesn't show up in my window in the morning...). I finally shut my eyes then and got some sleep. It was alright, but the notable thing was that I had a dream. Some of you may think this is normal, but I almost never remember having them. This one was vaguely about dwarves going against their stereotypes by being underground party masters instead of the lords of craftsmanship. I think I'll add this element into my story - or some other - better story that isn't some horrible attempt at creating a world that could fix my tedious and unsatisfying life. I thought that this might be a one time thing, but lo' and behold I just woke up from another dream in which I saw a fantasy world giving birth to a form of government which utilized long-lived dragons as a pillar of the new society. There were some uncomfortably and perhaps incredibly ecchi things in it (something akin to an orgy cannon that has nothing to do with governing and everything to do with defeating enemies... somehow - I'll spare the details since I'm not even sure of them). In any case, I hope these kinds of dreams continue so that I can create an interesting - if not compelling fantasy realm with some shamelessly re-appropriated pieces of other stories and actual bits of scientific theory that I always love to see in stories (like that theory that God is the natural law which all matter obeys - see this). I'll go ahead and mention while I'm on the topic of shamelessly reusing material that others created, but I also intend to use a slight variation of the soul particle theory found in the latter books of the Ender's Game quintet some higher power might explain it with reference to the Orson Scott Card novels to a character or a character might have the same mindless experience of controlling their soul and travelling along the threads of fate/life/relativity/etc.
Anyhow, I have a physics test to redeem from the ashes. I got the second highest grade in the class - a 47/100... My professor doesn't understand that the pace a student has in solving problems is not comparable to the pace he thinks it should be. Out of the 10 questions, I answered maybe 6. With all the "weather" we've had here (snow/ice/weird crap for Texas in March), I wasn't able to get my test back to see what I did wrong. A curve on the test would have been amazing though... the highest grade was a 50, so I would have gotten an A if the class was scaled up.
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Spring break wasn't all *bleh* though. I watched How to Train your Dragon 2 for the first time since it just came out on Netflix. I'm glad that they kept the story dramatic for the adult audience (which may or may not contain myself). I recommend it and I will probably watch it again soon.
Also, I binge watched an anime called Kotoura-san (also on Netflix). Seeing that I binge watched it, I obviously recommend it. The beginning is rather sad, but that is made up for immediately after the male protagonist is introduced since he starts to harass her with his dirty (and highly interesting) thoughts.
Lastly, I watched the most mind-bending shoujo I've ever seen - Puella Magi Madoka Magica. As far as mind-benders go, I give it a 90-95 degree bend in comparison to the full 180 degree bend (maybe it was more of a break?) I experienced by watching Neon Genesis Evangelion side-by-side with Excel Saga for the entirety of both series (complete madness was experienced - and foaming at the mouth was worth it). It was a nice experience to see some real drama (rather than the brainless boy-crazy stuff that I've seen in others) and the story really puts magical girls into a new bracket of awesome for me.
I'll post something again, if only for myself. I have to say I'm unsure about the continuation of "Broken Life", since I'm liable to have better ideas about main characters that don't resemble me in the future.
- The one who krusts knuckles
