December 9, 2003

In the Arms of Sheep

Er, no. Really. It wasn't my idea to begin with, particularly. But I will admit to a certain morbid fascination with the title, so here we are.

At any rate, I find it slightly morally offensive to have to get up before dawn to go to a final which will last me 20 minutes. I really do. Nevermind that I've been getting up at 5 and 6 lately.

Last night's final was slightly amusing, despite the fact that I spent all day with a raging Godzilla-devastates-Tokyo-and-then-for-fun-does-it-again level headache, followed by the mother of all stomachaches. But here I am in the test. And there's like 25 multiple choice questions, 3 5-sentence paragraph short answers of the type "So, what ACTUALLY went wrong in Mexico in the 1980s, anyway?" and a long essay of the type "So you have these countries, like Britian, which are the 800 lb gorillas of the world, and you have other countries, like Mexico, who cower in the corner whimpering "We are weak, please don't kill us." Why is this?"

Oh, sure. I know that. Gotta get in on the ground floor of capitalism, yo. *scribblescribblescribblescribblelalalathisisfunscribblescribble* In any event, I wrote just as much as anyone else, but got done a full 20 minutes ahead of the rest of the class. So as I get up to leave, everyone must have obviously had paniced looks, because the prof is like "No, no! Don't worry! Some people just work at different speeds!"

So I went back, and saw a video the RAs were watching of some guy beating Super Mario Brothers 3 in 11 minutes while collecting 99 lives because he could. Like, damn.

In other news, today will suck a lot. Why will it suck a lot, you ask? Because when I went to get my books for my paper that's due tomorrow, it turned out that somebody had already checked them all out. Thus leaving me to totally fake something. Uh, right. No problem.

Guy who jacked my books, I'd just like to let you know, when the squirrels come for you in a scene eerily reminiscent of the one in Terminator 2 where Sarah Conner goes berserk on Miles Dyson with an M-4, don't try to fight it. Just give in.

Speaking of Terminator movies, we didn't get to see Pirates of the Carribean. I even tried faking the cashier out with a display case, but he wasn't having any of it. So we got Terminator 3 instead, because Laurent hadn't seen it yet and, honestly, what the hell else is out right now? So we watched it, and it was good.

Pringles, we note, are also good.

That will be all.

Posted by Dwip at December 9, 2003 8:53 AM
Comments

You know... I could hate you for the speed of your scribblings. But then it'd probably pale in comparison to those unfortunates who took that final with you ;)

Posted by: Raine at December 9, 2003 10:40 AM

"...and a long essay of the type 'So you have these countries, like Britian, which are the 800 lb gorillas of the world, and you have other countries, like Mexico, who cower in the corner whimpering "We are weak, please don't kill us." Why is this?'"

LOL.

Oh, and the Super Nintendo thing reminds me of a t-shirt at my local EB Gameworld, which has a picture of an NES controller and the caption "Know Your Roots."

And Pringles are a little too salty for my taste. Good from time to time, though.

Posted by: Regina at December 9, 2003 12:17 PM

Terminator 3 was teh suck.

X-Men 2 came out this year. You should've rented that if you had to watch another movie again. Heretic.

Posted by: Whir at December 9, 2003 9:23 PM

I never saw X-Men 2 the first time. For that matter, I never saw X-Men 1. No interest at all.

Yes, I am a heretic. Yes, it's at least kinda warm up on the stake.

Posted by: Dwip at December 10, 2003 7:14 AM

And sodium makes the world turn. It and caffiene.

No, I never wanted to see 40 anyway.

And my roots, for the record, are the Atari. Combat, Space Invaders, and Super Breakthrough rocked.

And then I moved to the NES. And it was Good. And then we skipped over the SNES, for it was Not As Good. But then we got the N64, for it Kicked Ass. Yes.

Posted by: Dwip at December 10, 2003 7:18 AM

There were a couple good games for SNES. Metroid at least rocked.

Super Breakthrough is still the best game ever.

Posted by: Whir at December 10, 2003 9:49 AM

I forgot to say this earlier: If you're getting up at 5 and 6, does that mean you're napping in the afternoon, or does it mean that you've actually discovered normal sleep patterns?

Posted by: Regina at December 10, 2003 12:15 PM

It means I'm going to bed at like 8. Which isn't exactly normal either, actually, since I'm getting upwards of 9 and 10 hours of sleep. Slightly more reasonable would be 11-7 or 12-8, but apparently not.

Normality, of course, is in the eye of the beholder. The sooner I get back to, say, 3-11, the better.

Posted by: Dwip at December 10, 2003 12:45 PM

T3 was good, Whir's taste is in his mouth. And I've still burned more hours on a 2600 than any other system.

Posted by: Timmeh! at December 10, 2003 10:12 PM