Twig

One of the things I like most about running is that it wakes me up. (I run in the morning.) I'm so much more awake at this time of day than I was yesterday. (I wake up at 10am, and it's currently 11:40am.) Also I keep meaning to move my alarm up to 9am, so I guess I'll do that right after clicking the post button.

Oh I'm not down on just running. I mean, before this week I was doing literally nothing, physical-activity-wise. I still do mostly nothing but I am committing to this, at least. I just kind of feel like I'm wasting days when I'm not running. I know that there's no way in hell I'd be able to run every day right off the bat, but I also know that I could be doing other things. I don't have any equipment of any sort, but I think I could handle burpees and sit-ups and push-ups and the like on the off days. Well, maybe not burpees, since there's jumping involved and my legs are sooooore.

I don't even know what a kettleball is (though I imagine a ball with a handle or something) so it sounds like an exceptionally large amount of exercise to me. Especially because literally all I'm doing right now is the running. Which I realize is not ideal. Well I'm eating better too. I think. I haven't really been keeping track of it, but I stopped eating thirteen extra dinners for snacks and my meals are smaller and filled with less microwave burritos. (But man I enjoy a microwave burrito.)

Gross.

Oh man I love most Disney movies in part because they're such good musicals. ): I could still watch The Little Mermaid TODAY and enjoy it. And now I want to watch The Lion King.

It's good except it's all about white people because Disney hates non-whites. (I guess it's unwise to make dumb jokes based on random internet comments when I've never seen the movie, but well, I'm the worst, so why stop there.)

Okay guys I bought BG&E on Steam, I downloaded it, I installed it, and I vomited out my eyeballs at how completely broken it was. So here's some things I did to fix it! 1) I tried JoyToKey and xpadder and gave up at both of them when I found Pinnacle. http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/pc-controller-support/alpha-gamepad-joystick/xbox-360-ps3-psx-etc/beyond-good-and-evil It works well! I didn't like the supplied profiles, so I made my own. It works well! It is shareware though. 20 day trial. Ten bucks. Shrug. 2) There was some gross disgusting grossness with widescreen going on, and so I found this widescreen patch that instantly worked for me. http://steamcommunity.com/app/15130/discussions/0/864960354268889227/ No more stretching!!! 3) The HUD and some other elements of the game were flickering like mad all up on my face and so I found this little guide to fixing various issues, including said flickering, desyncing cutscene audio, and better AA (though this last bit is pretty standard fare for a hardcore PC gamer). http://www.cnet.com.au/making-old-games-work-on-new-pcs-beyond-good-and-evil-339338428.htm No issues here, either! Should you want to play the PC version, be warned it's gross. But it's mostly fixable. I still can't alt-tab, because when I come back the screen is black. Also once in the middle of all this I lost my HUD, but it seems to be back now. I haven't played past the ten minute mark, or hell, the five minute mark in the game because I kept restarting to fix things. Now I don't feel like playing. But I can when I'm ready! (Most people probably will not need this because they have consoles or whatever, but if you do, it's here.)

Welcome to the club! On the job front, I've not really done much ever since that Dallas job offer fell through back in February. I have half-assedly applied a few places, but I'm currently taking advantage of my parents' generosity and just... holding off for a while. I've currently got three things in the works, but not beyond the initial phone introduction for any of them.

I recall a lot of that, myself. Whether the game presented it to me in some fashion (subtle or otherwise) or I just read a similarly-presented internet comment, I have no idea. Or it's possible I'm just using Merus' post as some sort of bizarre filler for the holes in my memory and don't realize it. Ruddy human brain.

THAT TEARS IT!!! I'm buying it on Steam and playing it immediately after I finish the game I'm playing now.

I watched seven and a half episodes. A not-insignificant portion of every episode is the "attack animations" of the various characters when they fight. As in, identical stock animations every time. Lady spinning her keys to summon dudes. Pink hair screaming with fire in the background to summon fire on his body. Naked dude holding his fists together to make ice magic. Sexy knight lady getting magic-girl naked to equip bikini armor so she can fly. Couple that with an entirely uninteresting everything else. The pacing would probably be better in the manga, but the story would still be boring garbage.

Out of morbid curiosity I finally gave Fairy Tail a chance because Crunchyroll nabbed the first season (except episodes 13-28 for some weird-ass licensing reason????) It is godawful. The worst. It's like I went back in time and was watching Bleach and Naruto again. (Before Naruto got terrible, or at least before the point where I thought it got terrible.) What a waste of my time. But, well, I was bored, so I did it. Lesson learned.

Ooo la la! I did forget to stretch on the first day, but I remembered on the second day! It's possible I didn't stretch enough, but I just assumed it was because these are muscles I otherwise never utilize. I mean, even a slight jog tends to use different muscles than a brisk walk. Human body, you so cray cray and complicated. Also, I have been running on my parents' treadmill, but I'm wondering if I should just suck it up and run outside instead. My parents live in a ridiculously in-the-middle-of-nowhere neighborhood with perpetually empty streets, and aside from the freak snow a couple nights ago, it's pretty warm. But the treadmill's RIGHT THERE! And I have a weird complex about other people watching me do things and I'm super self-conscious, even though logically I know no one gives a shit. Blargh.

AHH i just read a game of thrones spoiler before realizing that this is the first season of game of thrones where i don't know anything about it WELP

I did my second day of the running today even though my legs were still sore from Monday. Now they are super sore. I'm looking forward to Friday when I can look forward to two full days of rest before running again. Also what is this why am I still fat, aren't I supposed to have lost like a hundred pounds by now? And then I pan-fried some fish for lunch, which I've never done before because I'm a horrible person who doesn't know how to cook. It tasted pretty okay! I think I cooked it too long. Live and learn.

I just checked out the store for the first time because I've been lazy up until now and Sean presented the link to me in a handy clickable format. Dang I wish that had been the color of the Kickstarter's shirt! I like my shirt but I like those colors a whole heckuva lot more!

I don't have the consoles to play it on.

Okay then. I've heard bad things but never actually played it. Suppose I'll give it a shot soon.

The PC version is a bad port, right? I want to play it again after all this talk, but I don't have the consoles to play it on anymore. D:

Haha, I was about to say, there's at least ONE that does it right! Otherwise, completely agreed. Such a boring trope because it's never handled right. That said, there was a time when I was super deep into loving Warcraft lore. Man. I kinda miss those days. I was so innocent.

Yeah, Spice and Wolf is fantastic. I gave up in the middle of the first episode of Nobunaga the Fool. Heh. It was terrible. I'm definitely enjoying Jojo! I watched the first episode of Mekakucity Actors and I think I am going to stick with it. It's very much Anime. I watched the first two episodes of Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro and I think I will also be sticking with that. The main character is a total jerkwad, though. I watched the first two episodes of The World Is Still Beautiful, and I'll be sticking with that. I am still watching Hunter x Hunter. This arc is taking so long! I'm still not not enjoying it, though! Definitely a shonen. I am in the middle of rewatching season one of Mushishi. Still every bit as good. Still can't wait to get up to the new stuff. And finally... I watched a non-anime on Crunchyroll for the first time ever. http://www.crunchyroll.com/sdb-national-police-agency-special-defense-bureau I think I love it.

Huh. I was just a couple weeks ago thinking about making a little game/toylike this. Guess I decided to read a post in this thread for the first time at just the RIGHT time so now I don't have to. (I think I still will.) Have you ever seen Ball Droppings? http://balldroppings.com/js/

It was especially hard to ask my mom about it because, being my mom, she always seems to expect the world of me. Like I'm the best person ever. I've been able to talk to my friends about such things because they know me for the miserable failure that I am, but my mom has no idea, or at least HAD no idea, or maybe pretended to, I don't know.

Two days ago, at my birthday dinner, when I was feeling particularly depressed, I finally worked up the nerve to ask my mom about seeing someone (seeing as she's a therapist), and she thought it was a good idea. I think it was the most nervous I've ever been when talking to my mom. So that's out of the way. Now I'm just getting nervous about actually seeing someone. So basically, I'm also doing this thing. It'll be fun!! (?) I don't know if I should be seeing a therapist or someone who can actually prescribe medication. But hey.

I did day one of Couch to 5k this morning. WHOA!