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wherein I face the eternal struggle of "oh god is this going to make me look dumb"

I HAD SO MANY COOL IDEAS OF STUFF TO TALK ABOUT UNTIL SUDDENLY MY ACCOUNT WAS ACTUALLY SET UP AND THEN I CHANGED MY MIND

Anyway follow me or yell at me to follow you or something D: I'll be less awkward eventually. Maybe. It's an adjustment process!

...and they choked me and my sister and nearly pulled our hair out and robbed us and stuff. It kinda sucked.

They were armed with... a ballpoint pen. :T But we were caught entirely off guard, so... yeah. (I never saw it, but my sister was really confused when they waved it at her threateningly as they left. I just kinda wondered what that pathetic-feeling thing they kinda jabbed me with was.) The upside was my sister was so freaked out she forgot about most of our money! So we're not broke, and the robbers probably feel pretty jipped because they barely got anything. Meanwhile I was wondering "Man if they really gouge my eye out like they say I'm gonna have to call the optometrist and tell them not to worry about ordering a new left contact."

The police and their 4-hour interrogation to 2am was nearly worse than the break in, they kept trying to get us to admit to selling drugs or something and repeatedly asked me if I was retarded or mentally ill. I mean, I know I kinda jump around in explanations and don't remember certain things very well... but I'm not -that- bad. :T

Anyway yeah this is a lot easier than explaining it to all my friends one-by-one (And then forgetting half of them by the time I see them online), so yeah. Posting a journal about some police manner might be kinda faux pas but they'll never see or care and it's not like I'm ~*~popufur~*~ or on imgur and it's detail-light. (There's some other stuff I left out.)

So yeah that happened! I'm okay, but this house sure doesn't feel particularly safe anymore. :T Maybe I'll put a cool knife somewhere nearby or something. And actually start locking the doors. Yeah uh especially that last one. We take the dogs out all the time so I don't usually bother whilst we're still here... but this changes things. A lot. :T

So yeah I guess that covers it. @_@ Good night people! I'm around on skype or wherever if you want to poke me.

I just had my yahoo account stolen by one! Thankfully since I have an old email I don't use anymore linked to the account, I was able to get my password back with no issue >_> I know it's a mailbot because I have all these alerts about failure-to-send for spam emails and yahoo alerting me they noticed suspicious activity and whatnot.

So if you got weird email from my yahoo, uh, yeah! I don't normally email people. By normally I mean pretty much ever. This is what we have instant messaging programs for!

...in other news, for those who knew about my hand getting messed up in a minor road accident, it feels sooooo much better today then it did yesterday, and I don't think it'll be bothering me anymore :D As long as I'm not stupid and put a lot of weight on it for some reason.

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Not really (that hasn't happened in an eternity, probably because I don't wear them that often), but people who hung out around me at AC probably have heard at some point, or at least noticed, that my glasses are terrible and messed up and I was constantly adjusting or holding on them. (AC and watching movies are almost the only times I use them; and AC was... a lot.) Skip the next 3 paragraphs if you don't want to read glasses backstory stuff, which you may have heard at AC anyway :P

So, yeah, they got messed up last year around May (So yes I had the same messed up glasses last AC). I bought a new pair after 2012 AC! It was pretty great. Then I took a nap about two weeks after buying them and old people stole them. Don't ask, I don't know, maybe they thought it was their pair of glasses or they accidentally knocked them over and stepped on them and didn't want anyone to know or something.

Then I got a new pair again, because, well, I didn't have any decent glasses again! I should probably mention at this point that I have to pay entirely out of pocket for new glasses. >_> Not only did the cheap section not have a single pair of frames I liked anymore, but the kind of frame I got last time was the last one they had of that kind (it was in their Understock from a long time ago), so I ended up deciding to get something different; a frame with differently sized/shaped glasses parts then what I usually get.

Terrible, terrible idea. They feel kind of weird and heavy at first, so I figure I'll get over that eventually. "Eventually" just turns out to be "I can't wear these without feeling really ugh for about 7 hours afterwords no matter how short I have them on, and they make my left eye feel terrible". At this point I really didn't want to buy new glasses for the third time in about a month or two without any success, especially considering I don't use them often, so I just suffer through using the messed up pair and the new but unwearable pair.

And now after wearing them for most of 4~5 days of being at AC, I find an old but perfectly usable pair of glasses in a cupboard at home. By now I've already very definitely messed up my left eye some by wearing bad glasses, so even this perfectly good pair feels kind of bluh after I take them off, but... at least I have ones that I can wear, now. That's... an improvement! A significant one.

Also I'm seriously debating going to college for Accounting for several reasons (My sister is doing it and says there's lots of openings for positions in that area, and math is definitely a strong point of mine which I figure is a lot of accounting, etc) Despite being good with computers, going into that area for a job... never actually seemed that appealing :/ I feel like I'd probably get bored to death of programming if I even got through learning it, and ontop of that I've often heard of things like "entry level positions want 3 years of experience" (I'm not sure if that was for programming specifically, but... I don't want to anyway, so it doesn't help.) The other areas are, what? Computer repair, or troubleshooting? I don't exactly hear positive remarks from several people I know who work as IT Support either, and I sure know that after awhile I would explicitly try to avoid having to help my mom with any of her computer issues.

I'm not exactly about to jump into college tomorrow or anything so it's not as if I've made a decision (I haven't even talked to my sister about it yet, which I'm now planning on doing soon), but, I guess this is something I'm looking into now. I certainly need to figure out a career plan thing in the near future, anyway. :P But... yeah!

Also I got my scooter fixed (It was only $109, hooray) and I got new shoes because my old ones were starting to come apart, yay :D With this being right after AC and a trip up north shortly before that due to a death in the family, I am now -totally broke- >_>;; Well, I'll save up money from work again fairly fast as long as there's no new incidents...!

Huh. Well, I'm here in the Doubletree on the last night of being at the convention and trying to be quiet since one of my roommates is here, and stuff. I'unno, I feel kinda weird! I've just sort of been thinking a lot the past day or two. It's past midnight and I'm in a strange mood so half of this is probably silly and pointless.

There's a fountain really close to the Doubletree, a big one with water jets (I suppose?) and lighting at night and stuff. We don't really have big ones like that where I'm from, so it was really nice! At night (before it's shut off at late night) it lights up all orange. I kind of wanted to just go out to the fountain at night with someone at some point and just relax, and talk, and enjoy it and the cool night air and everything. I'm silly, though, so I never really ever actually -asked- anyone. So obviously it didn't happen!

I was walking back to the doubletree alone earlier 'cause my roommates were going to stay at the convention for awhile longer, and the walk and breezy night air woke me up, when I had been going back since I was really tired (among other reasons). I ended up walking around the fountain for a half hour, although it'd already been turned off, heh. The ripples on the water from the wind were still really nice, and it was really breezy.

...it was really nice getting to see everyone again, along with meeting some new people! Since this was my second AC, I actually had an idea of what I was getting into, and some goals in terms of who I wanted to hang out with a bunch.

...in crowds, it's really easy to be around, even right next to someone, for hours and hours, but in the end it doesn't really feel like I actually hung out with them at all.

Although, anyway, really, for the most part things were great! Heretic's cactus button is the best. I was walking with him one-on-one when he talked about the idea of getting one, heh. (And again when he went to pick it up!) And if you don't know about Shaq Soda, well, uh, it's certainly a thing. They had towers of it on our table in the zoo after people found out about it. (And then there's that time Jag stole the poster from the Crinkle Club... *shuddergiggle*)

But, anyway. Mmmn... it's a little depressing to think about going home and just going between work and the computer for a year. I really don't have anyone to hang out with at home, and while that didn't bother me a whole lot for quite awhile, recently... more and more I've been thinking "It'd be really nice to take someone with me out to a restaurant" or "I'd like to just spend a night watching movies on the couch with someone", or make dinner for people, or other little things like that.

Maybe it's 'cause I've been skyping with people more! :P (I'm at least halfway joking)

...I've been wondering more, mostly while I was walking around the fountain just a little bit ago, about the possibility of moving in with someone. It's both a really appealing and also kind of scary thought. The living situation I'm in now has some big downsides (cockroaches, water breaks constantly, other minor but bleh issues like broken shower handles) but I like the town I live in itself, and my rent is fairly low (200-ish a month plus my own food), and I have a feeling I like my job more then I'd like most others I'd have any chance of getting.

Bagging groceries might sound boring and average, but the customers are almost all really nice, I get to hang out with the cashiers a decent bit and one or two of them are really fun personalities, and I get about 30 hours a week; not a measly low 20 and not 40, which for some inexperienced young person like me feels like it'd be really heavy or whatever! But, anyway. then apart from that... I have my brother, sister, and uncle around (the latter a really small amount of the time and my sister only sporadically, but) to back me up whenever I need some help with whatever.

If I moved out somewhere far away, I'd kinda lose all of that! Mmph... I guess I don't really know how to weigh the upsides and downsides. I'm not familiar enough with what they even are. I hadn't ever done anything like "snuggling" until this AC in the first place! (It was weird, but pleasant, moreso in certain situations/people/whatever/snuggling is average isn't it?! Augh! D:)

...I'm ranting a whole lot! It's been like a half hour, I should probably go to bed. Tomorrow's gonna be weird, because there's going to be 4~7 hours where I won't have a room (and after a bit I don't think people in the Westin will either; noon checkout time limit) as my flight doesn't leave until almost 6pm. But, whatever, it's not a big deal :3 Just have to lug around my suitcase for awhile!

It's called luggage because YOU HAVE TO LUG IT AROUND EVERYWHERE AUGH

Good night people!

...in a mood like this, I kind of wish I had a coin to throw into the fountain before I left.

I'm allowed to have one mopey journal every few years, right?

I hit the brakes on my scooter this morning to slow down at an intersection like anyone would normally do. Well, for whatever reason, while my scooter did slow down -some-, it wasn't nearly as much as it should have.

I turned some to avoid running into a car and fell over. Scraped my arm pretty badly. It's not that bad, thankfully I'm not terribly injured or something; but it's enough that I'll be wearing a bandage for awhile and will probably have a scar.

After I got off work (we were slammed by busses of tourists... uh, metaphorically slammed) it turns out my scooter doesn't work anymore, and weird things indicate the starter is most likely terribly screwed up, because the kickstarter was too easy to push and made extra noise and the normal starter made an extremely worrying grinding thing happen.

So the day after tomorrow I'm going on a 10 hour car trip to Delaware for my grandpa's funeral, and then another 10 hour car trip back in a few days. I was debating getting a 3DS recently, although the thing is there's only like 2 games on it I actually want to play, and then I know I'd never touch it afterwords, so I'll probably only actually get one if someone would like to buy it from me afterwords (It'd be nigh-mint condition and come with Etrian Odyssey 4! And I'd probably give a reduced price.)

Not that I expect to find anyone who'd do that, but I figured it's worth mentioning.

There's other things that were already putting me in a blugh mood, but my scooter breaking is realllly augh. At least I don't have to worry about work for a little while because of the trip, I guess.

I'll be around all tomorrow and probably all tomorrow night so I can attempt (and fail) to sleep through some car trip. So I'll be around! Hi.

In three hours.

And then I'll be in transit for like... 23 more. :C (So, don't expect to see me for a day or two >_> <_<) But then I'm there for three weeks! I'm visiting my mom.

Gee, I sure wish I never lost my pack of GBA games in middle school. I suuure could use them right now. 23 hours is a long time... maybe I can make my sister watch Madoka with me on my laptop during the 4 hour layover at one airport.

I'll take pictures! You can ask me for some when I get back :3 I'll probably still be online a lil' every now and then, assuming I can get internet access, which I should be able to manage just fine.

Jeez, memes are created fast these days. From the time stamps, this got started while the debate was -still going-... although, obviously, once you get pretty close to that the images start getting into super cheap quality.

I swear, this is almost the only thing I know about the presidential debate at present, other then the democrats apparently creaming the republicans and news channels saying otherwise. (But I'm not going to get into that. I don't have my facts checked anyway.) :T I don't have enough of an attention span to watch the entire thing, instead I get summarized versions of it off the relevant thread of a forum I go to. And then I saw this gem that sprouted up from Mitt Romney apparently saying he has binders full of women.

It's 3:23am yet I keep giggling. Regardless of how you feel about the song, this one is my favorite so far. Help I'm too easily amused by dumb things.

...I'm going to have to make another journal in the near future just so this pointless, ridiculous journal isn't the one sitting on my user page. Ahahaha crap.

Feel free to blame me for wasting your time with this journal :D It's never a good thing when I make posts in the middle of the night. People I play Mafia with know that all too well.

This is the best cartoon I have seen in a long time and I can't stop watching it aaaaaa

And oh jeez Mabel is so adorable I don't even. (Also, SMILE DIP)

Also this is the opening theme so that I have something to link to you people who've never seen it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tctX.....1EQeA&hd=1

So I thought, other people on FA post a journal when they stream, since I stream stuff sometimes I might as well at least once.

http://www.livestream.com/tumalu

In about 20 minutes, gonna stream myself playing Glover. I'm probably going to be streaming for several hours+, although it likely won't be Glover the entire time. And yes I have a mic, so I can be chatty and also bitch about the ball falling into a goddamn pit for the millionth time god dammit.

For anyone who doesn't know, Glover is an N64 game where you control a disembodied glove, trying to get a ball to an end of a level, solving puzzles by rolling, slapping, and throwing the ball, as well as transforming it into other kinds of balls. The physics are pretty nice, which means the ball will roll and bounce everywhere and fall into endless pits and the pointy ends of swords, and just in general make you want to kill yourself.

...okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit with that last sentence, but I could never get anywhere near beating the game as a child and I have a feeling this stream is going to be, uh, "interesting". :V

My regular viewers usually enjoy my pain anyway, so whatever. You sick fucks. >:c

After I get tired of Glover, I may stream other things, like Michael Jackson's Moonwalker (Genesis version) or that silly 2.5D (2d sprites, 3D playing field) shoot-em-up I've been playing lately.

...I get way too rambley when I make these kinds of things. So yeah. In about 20 minutes. http://www.livestream.com/tumalu

EDIT:WOW that was crashy. Glover is out, MJ's Moonwalker is in. Still streaming atm.

Edit again:Aaaaand it's over. Would have been a -lot- longer if Glover actually functioned, but it was still like, two hours.

But on the upside, Michael Jackson saved -all- the little children! Hooray! ...maybe. And then there was weird spacefights.