I don't like talking about myself, so, uh...yeah. lol. I'm a major gamer, I read a lot of books (physics, math, philosophy, fantasy), watch and read some anime, and spend the rest of my time being annoyed at gravity for restricting me to being able to do only one front flip at a time.
I've posted a few of the articles/essays I've written, so if you're ever interested in reading anything that I have thought about or researched, check out my articles world, Kastom's Thoughts.
And the essentials:
Kastom's Bio:
Birth date: September 10, 1989
Sex: Male
Real Name: Tomas (Tom)
Living: Ontario, Canada
Occupation: University of Waterloo Undergraduate Physics Major
And I leave you with a quote from Adam which sums me up well:
"Kastom is very smart and wise, but sometimes he acts like a n00blet..."
So I guess I never mentioned it here, but last Friday I bought Borderlands.
And holy freaking crap is it a good game. If you can, GET IT. Ugh, soooo good. The FPS gameplay is extremely well done, the RPG elements of it are extremely addictive and fun, and...it's multiplayer.
So good.
Anyways, been playing that a ton. I don't really have much time each night after I get home from work; generally around 3-4 hours max before I need to be in bed, but my brother and I already have around 26 hours on Borderlands. lol. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we played soooooo much. Ugh, it was great. I'm pretty sure we played for over 12 hours on Saturday. Man I love getting into games like that.
So yeah, that's been most of my life for the past week, lol.
Big thing to note: Katana and I have been in a relationship for six months now. Pretty crazy stuff, eh? Long distance relationships are hella hard, but we seem to be faring rather well. It's been really difficult keeping myself in check and not spending all my money on going to see her and buying her presents all the time and all the other things I want to do, but I seem to be faring at least moderately well, considering how much I like her. *laughs*
So today, I have two things I'm massively looking forward to.
One: I'm eating Pho for lunch.
...
Hey. Pho is goddamn freaking amazing. If you aren't eating it right now, you lose 26 awesomeness points.
...
Mmmmmmm...Pho....*drools at thought*
Two: House party tonight. A friend of mine also on co-op here in Ottawa and his roommates are having a house party. It's gonna be sweet. I haven't been to one in quite some time now, so I'm really looking forward to it. I know a lot of you don't like the whole "beer and partying" thing, and quite plain and simply, I often don't either. Generally I'm much more of a fan of just having a few close friends over and drinking instead. But my partying side of me likes it every once in a while, and really, it's some more or less harmless fun and you get to meet new people. Which is something I often don't generally care to do, being the recluse I am *laughs*, but once again, it's fun to do every so often.
Anyways, that's more or less my life right now: Kat, games, work (which is boring), and some partying. Oh, and of course sitting on theO pretty much all day at work (because it's boring).
Wants to go eat Pho so badly,
- Kastom
P.S. Apparently I've almost completely forgotten about writing for the Winter contest. Hmmmm, lol. I just need to get the initial bit written, and then I'm sure I'll start frantically writing it. So in other words: I'm still planning on doing it!
*laughs*
ADDENDUM: I just got back from eating Pho. Man, I ate soooo much. This is the closest to throwing up from eating too much I've ever been. And I totally don't regret it. Mmmmmmmm...
Also, I decided to stop by the comic book shop on my way back to work. I almost got a Zelda wristband (I so far have 5 different ones, I want at LEAST one different one for each day of the week), but ended up not because it was smaller than the usual size (like heightwise, it was weird). Then on my way out I saw a Yoko pillow (whatever those things are called), and was like, "Mayb....no. Even as a joke this would be just creepy."
*laughs*
I just thought it might be funny to have one. I'm sure I could think of all kinds of pranks and the like to pull on people with it. But then again, just HAVING one of those is more than a little creepy.
That and I rather like having Kat still like me/Kat not beating me up.
*shot*
Oh dear, I just keep digging myself a grave, don't I?
So I go on Facebook this morning, and I see my friend mention something called "StumbleUpon". Crap that's a good site/thing.
So I'm meandering my way through interesting things on research, or some funny Internet thing, etc., when I come across this video. And wow, it's really well done. He puts in words what I have been trying to be able to sort out in my head for quite some time. So if you have 11 minutes, check it out.
Why Don't Scientists Fear Hell?
Hehehehe...scientific explanations are fun!
*laughs*
And this then led me to watch a few of his other videos, which were quite good. Then I found this other person, Pat Condell. His videos are really well done. He has incredibly good speaking skills. I highly recommend watching some of them.
Anyways, it's hours later writing this line from the last, so I figure I'll finish up, lol.
So, everyone knows about the Winter Writing Contest, right? Well I was thinking to myself, and was like, "Ok, I'll write something for it if I happen to get an idea. Otherwise, I'm just not going to bother thinking about it." And guess what.
I got an idea.
While I was falling asleep last night.
Now I'm tired.
And I blame all of you.
I always hate that. You know when you get an idea for something, just as you're lying in bed? Sure, you may be like, "Oh, I'll remember it in the morning." But then sometimes/often you forget. So I knew that I HAD to write it down at least. So I get up, and begin writing out the basic idea.
So then I'm like, "OK, I have it written down, now just stop thinking about it, and SLEEP." I climb back into bed, and attempt to think about other things.
Which failed.
Miserably.
So I get up again, and begin writing out a few paragraphs for it, before being like, "OK, I might as well turn on my laptop and write it out on there instead of this scrap of paper."
So I end up getting into bed about 2 hours later than I'd originally planned. And today I had to get up early. Blargh I'm tired.
It was worth it; oh I have no doubt of that. But I'm still tired.
*laughs*
So I don't want to say much on the idea, but I will say this: taking after Wayward, I am using theO members in a fic.
I feel rather stupid doing this, as it's the type of thing I never thought I would do; but damn, the idea just works so well I think.
And I think this is going to end up being a mulit-chapter thing. Possibly rather long. But since the deadline for the contest is so far away, it works perfectly. I think I'll write out the first few chapters, submit them at once, then begin submitting every chapter once I finish it.
And one thing I'm going to try to do is get as many theO members as I can written into the story. Even if it's small mentions, I want to get a lot of the members in it. I think it'll be more fun that way. Not to mention it works perfectly with my idea.
Anyways, just felt the need to mention it. Also the need to whine and place the blame on you guys for being too damn interesting and fun; so much so that I'm losing sleep over wanting to write a fiction story with you all in it.
