The "How Was Your Day?" Thread

[ASR]

Yesterday the temperature was in the high 50's. Today we got 5 feet of snow.

I absolutely adore Michigan weather - it defies all logic.

[ChaosVortex]

I went to school. I did stuff. Stuff that was very uninteresting. Went to a friend's house. Played Tales of Symphonia, and RE4. Came home. I want to sleep now, but I have math homework...

[Rama Olendris]

OH NO NOT THREE FEET OF SNOW.

So yes that was sarcasm. Anyway the muscles in your arms that use while running aren't pulled at all in the same way as when you're shovelling.

Correct, but I do more than just run. I also have to do mandatory push-ups before running and other warm ups.

-And there's actually more than three feet of snow, and imagine digging a truck out of snow that deep on three sides said truck. It's very tiring and hard work. But very fun to play in.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Yeah, well today I found out there's a cure for a physical abnormality that's been plaguing me for awhile. The process is going to be a tad bit embarrassing, but at least it's going to work.

My arms really hurt which is strange because I'm an endurance runner and I thought I was in good shape.

Pics.

[ASR]

...of what?

[Rama Olendris]

Yeah, well today I found out there's a cure for a physical abnormality that's been plaguing me for awhile. The process is going to be a tad bit embarrassing, but at least it's going to work.

My arms really hurt which is strange because I'm an endurance runner and I thought I was in good shape.

Pics.

Orly? Ah, well, the only pics that I have are already embarrassing enough.

Here you go!

http://s199.photobucket.com/albums/aa64/vurennesthar/?action=view&current=IMG_5716.jpg

Me, at a friend's house, horrible make-up, horrible cosplay because my sewing machine broke.

I don't think I can get more embarrassing........

[preventerWIND]

Now tell everyone who you were cosplaying as! : D

[Captain Sanoguchi]

KOS-MOS or whatever from Xenosaga or whatever?

[Rama Olendris]

Now tell everyone who you were cosplaying as! : D

Nooo! Oh god no please don't make me! I'm already ashamed!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Oh by the way, there's a weight requirement for the internet, and you're below it. Leave.

[Rama Olendris]

Oh by the way, there's a weight requirement for the internet, and you're below it. Leave.

But internet gives me porn!

[Captain Sanoguchi]

'Kay... So who're you cosplaying as?

[Rama Olendris]

Not telling. And WIND I swear- if you tell... I'll *sensor!* and *sensor* until *sensor* *sensor*

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Whatever, less lipstick next time.

[Mikero]

'Kay... So who're you cosplaying as?

Layer.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

...Hey, you're right, I can see that. 'Cept too many eyes.

[Rama Olendris]

Yeah. As I said- bad make-up. The color of the wig made the color of the lipstick brighter than it actually is though.

'Kay... So who're you cosplaying as?

Layer.

.... O.o.... You bitch.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

You've been Mike'd.

[ASR]

Teehee.

Fun stuff.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Teehee.

Teehee?

[Mikero]

By all means, I didn't deduce it myself. I figured at least one other photo in the album would say the name, and a bunch did.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Mike did what I thought to do but was too lazy to do.

[ASR]

Can you never accept defeat?

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Was this really a competition?

[preventerWIND]

'Kay... So who're you cosplaying as?

Layer.

underbooooobs~!  : D

[ASR]

Was this really a competition?

You made it into one after it already ended.

"Yeah, uh, I though of that smart idea, too, but, uh, yeah, I forgot to, uh, do it. Yeah. So, like, I'm just as smart as him. I should get, uh, like, just as much credit."

OR MAYBE I JUST LIKE PICKING ON YOU

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Well, the idea did cross my mind, but at the moment I was busy finding my baggy shirts that I need to throw out in a few weeks because I'm about to lose a few odd lumps and afterwords they won't fit me anymore.

[ASR]

I'm so turned on right now.


Maybe.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

I think you have the wrong idea.

[Mikero]

Don't throw them out assbahg, donate them. It takes almost LESS effort.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Dude, they're two sacks of fat, I'm going to take medication to get rid of 'em. I can't donate 'em, and I don't think anyone would want 'em.

[Mikero]

Yeah that's what I meant, your body fat. Not the clothes or anything.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Yeah, I'm officially retarded.
Actually I found a better use for the old shirts. They have some bitchin' logos and stuff on 'em and I have a perfectly plain hoodie. So, I'm going to actually have somethin' to do this weekend.

[Mikero]

Good enough. I just hate the waste of clothing and food.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

If it makes you feel better last year I donated a bunch of old toys to charity. They went to mentally disabled kids even.

[Lunchebox]

A couple weeks ago I gave blood plasma. I got 35 bucks for it, and it potentially could help people, so I was more thn happy to do it.

Today, I got a letter from that lab where I gave blood.

Apparently I have Hepatitis B antibodies, which can be used to make a Hepatitis B vaccine, in poor countries in desperate need of said vaccine.

They need to run some tests, give me a vaccine shot for Hep B (To stimulate my antibodies), and ten days later, they'll take another sample, and depending how high my antibody levels have increased, I can help out a lot of people. I'm gonna call to see if I can start today.

[preventerWIND]

Congratz Lunche! On your.. very.. helpful.. blood.. Anyways, good to hear that you can help people with.. um.. Seriously, It's hard to praise someone for having good blood. : \

Good job none the less.

Anyways, today I saved a little disabled girls kitten and puppy from a dying old tree. Afterwards, I got the seeds from the dying tree, and planted them all in an empty field with a couple of my greenpeace friends. Then I convinced a lot of them to help me sing songs to needy children in the hospital, and then we headed down to the local recreational center and helped a couple of less fortunate kids get into some healthy after school activities.

Haha.. just kidding, I went to school, came home, sat on my ass, made some hot dogs and watched the Cosby Show.

[Johncarllos]

Funny, I gave blood last week.
Fun times.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

A couple weeks ago I gave blood plasma. I got 35 bucks for it, and it potentially could help people, so I was more thn happy to do it.

Today, I got a letter from that lab where I gave blood.

Apparently I have Hepatitis B antibodies, which can be used to make a Hepatitis B vaccine, in poor countries in desperate need of said vaccine.

They need to run some tests, give me a vaccine shot for Hep B (To stimulate my antibodies), and ten days later, they'll take another sample, and depending how high my antibody levels have increased, I can help out a lot of people. I'm gonna call to see if I can start today.

Lunche, you're bleeding for the people. You're epic like Jesus.

[Lunchebox]

You people act like I'm the first person who ever gave blood.

I ended up not getting the vaccine/giving blood plasma today since I caught Bronchitis on the 27th, and haven't finished taking my anti-biotics. Basically,. they don't think my immune system is up to it, so I have to wait until three days after I finish off my antibiotics, which will be next Friday.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

Whelp I just got done sewing Mario onto the back of my hoodie. It's bitchin'.
Don't diss sewing, I'm don't exactly enjoy it, and it's definitely not going to become a hobby of mine, but the results are awesome.

[ASR]

I'm underweight to give blood... I wanted to, though.

Anyway, today was possibly the most fun I've had in a while.
Before school, I have to park in the students lot, but after school, we chill in the band room for a while, so I let my friend drive my car up with me in it. See, he's already 17 and hasn't even taken driver's training yet due to personal problems, so I let him drive very short distances like across the school parking lot to the band room.

So I told him to park but he got cocky and drove further towards a circular couldesac-type bit behind the school. Our friends were in another car pulling up to the same lot right behind us. I'm like "Hey, man, park or I'll jump out of the car!" so I opened the car door at about 15MPH and pretended to jump... I don't know what came over me but I randomly decided to jump out towards a snow bank that looked cushy. I didn't even get close and I hit the ground hard. I have a high tolerance for pain, though, so I jumped right back up and started running after the car because my dumb buddy was still driving.

At this point the car behind us with my other friends pulls up and we have a "great" idea: use one guy's high-quality camera that we were using earlier to tape the school's pep assembly... to videotape me doing that same bit again. Crazy moron I am, I was all for it. It was fun despite the pain, and the whole freaking fact that I'm jumping out of a moving car.

So we go for a second round. I take off my green hoodie now because I don't want to ruin it on the concrete. I'm oddly not worried about my own flesh.

This time I stand outside the door a bit and launch off, completely lose my orientation and land flat on my ass. Totally scraped up my elbow and my wrist, but I jumped right back up and started running after the car again. This is all on video and is absolutely hilarious. It'll be uploaded to Youtube soon enough and I'll post it.

Anyway, there's still more. Bud A, as I'm going to call him, was the one I let drive my car. He's kind of a big kid, not super-huge, but still overweight. Kinda' round. We all convince him to try it once. For whatever reason, he agrees. I drive around the circular drive and he hops out for a good old fashioned tuck'n'roll and he is successful ---- except the guy with camera got a horrible angle. We couldn't see.

For WHATEVER reason, he agreed to do it again for a better angle.
This time, we go for it and he sort of leaned out to much and instead of jumping out, he just FELL out. As in, face-first roll. The worst part? My wheel drove over his foot. I stop the car immediately and everyone runs out, all 6 or 7 of us. The camera-guy is still in the other car, sticking out the sun-roof videotaping Bud A keeling in pain on the ground. None of us know what the hell to do, he's cursing like a madman and I'm standing there scared #####less.
He recovers, miraculously, with nothing broken. He gets up and we help him inside and he rests for a while.

This injury was not for naught, though - we got TWO camera angles. Two high-quality cameras taped the feat. One guy was standing outside on the sidewalk and got a perfect view directly in front of him, and the other guy, as I already mentioned, was taping from the other car's sunroof.
The video is seriously material that you'd see on that show Scarred. If he had  really hurt himself, we probably would've sent it in... "unfortunately", he's 100% okay. A bit sore, yeah, but we were all surprised to see him get up. He's very lucky.

Later on, we go to K-Mart and mess around everywhere. We bought a dodgeball for three bucks and went outside in the parking lot. We threw it at each others' nuts as hard as we could. Then we went to Guitar Center and #####ed around for an hour or so.

We're retarded. I'm gonna' miss these guys when I graduate.

[Captain Sanoguchi]

tl;dr

Oh yeah, here's what I did. It's crooked and off center but I think I did pretty good.

[NovaMan XP]

ASR, I want to see those videos. xD

And Sano, that's pretty sweet.

[ASR]

We decided to hold off on the videos of Bud A for a while due to the fact that, well, he was run over by a car, with me driving, on school property, etc.

My video, however, will be up within the weekend, hopefully.

[Speed Racer]

I woke up this morning around 8:15 AM so I could talk to my professor about my class discussion that I have to lead on Monday night about Luke Cage, Hero for Hire issues 1-6. He didn't seem to be too bothered that I had only read the first two issues, leaving me with four more issues and an interview with the character's creator. Currently the five questions that I'll be leading the class with are:

1) Why did it take so long for a black superhero to get his own comic book?
2) Why did the creator/writers choose to have most of Power Man's enemies in the first few comics be white people? (A gimmie question, I know)
3) How is Power Man a creation of society?
4) What different black stereotypes are seen in the first six issues? What different kinds of black characters do we see, as classified by Bogle (one of the articles that we have to read for Monday, but I'm not covering that article - nice tie-in though)?
5) How well does the Luke Cage, Hero for Hire series represent black culture, especially of that time period?

I might change the questions as I read more stuff, but those are the ones that I'm currently going with.

I start my accounting internship in the controller's office at my college on Tuesday morning. Yippy-skippy.

As per usual, my roommate and I went to the movies. I've been trying to get him to see Michael Clayton since it first came out back in what, November? But he wouldn't do it, so we decided that we'd just see Juno today. We got an early start to our trip, since he needed to find a plush puffin; his new girlfriend loves them and he's going to buy her one for Valentine's Day. Anyway, as we're getting close to the shopping center near the movie theater, he says that he needs to take a dump. The bathrooms are clean at that theater, so he says that we'll just buy our tickets there for Juno (a 3:15 show) and then he'll go inside and take a dump, even though the movie wouldn't begin for another hour (it was around 1:45 PM).

So we stand in line and he goes first, and tells the lady "One for Michael Clayton". I just stood there dumbfounded as he bought his ticket and went inside. I bought my ticket and went inside, not even sure what to make of it. Here's a movie that I've been trying to get him to see for months, he kept telling me that he had no interest, and suddenly he wanted to go see it. According to him, he enjoys doing stuff like this for fun, as he also tortured me over Rambo and the upcoming film Jumper.

Michael Clayton was great. It kept me in my seat, especially with the explosive ending that kept me guessing. George Clooney is good when he does a drama (Good Night and Good Luck was incredible), so that was one of the main reasons why I wanted to see it, plus the early Oscar buzz (which ended up with this film being nominated for Best Picture even though it doesn't have a chance in hell of winning it) helped that along. Highly recommended.

After that we went to Panchero's, which is a Mexican food restaurant that specializes in burritos and quesadillas. Good stuff, I love my burritos with nothing but rice, steak, chicken, and corn salsa in there.

We went to see a 5:40 showing of Juno, which I thought was good. I don't know if I'd say that it's "Best Picture" worthy, but it was definitely good. Only problem that I had with it is that some teenagers might get the wrong message that if they get pregnant, everything will turn out fine and they'll go through it with plenty of ease. Still, the girl who played Juno was great and there were plenty of laughs.

Continuing our mission for a plush puffin, we hit up a bunch of stores, never finding one. There's penguins out the ass, no doubt to the number of penguin-related films that have been released over the last couple of years, but I was surprised that we couldn't even find a puffin Beanie Baby. All was not lost though, as I picked up the Collector's Edition of Devil May Cry 4 (with bonus art book), 6 Transformers, and two gaming magazines (EGM and Xbox; Barnes and Noble didn't have any new issues of my UK favorites, Edge and GamesTM).

Good day all in all, as I'm now playing Devil May Cry 4 (it kicks awesome ass) while talking to a friend that I haven't talked to for a month.

[ChaosVortex]

I drove around alone in my Mom's car. Pretty cool day. I wanted to get Yu-Gi-Oh! 2008, but neither Gamestop or the Flea Market had it. Big dissappointment.

However, the drive wasn't pointless. I managed to grab Tales of the Abyss and an Action Replay for the DS.

EDIT: <3 Cheagles.

"Mieu Mieu~!"

[ASR]

Yesterday was pretty fun. See, for winter drumline, our band teacher had rightfully NOT signed us up for a competition over winter break, but the organization pulled out the rulebook or some dumb ##### like that and said we had to perform yesterday.
Now, our drumline instructor is a pretty cool guy, so he didn't force the entire drumline to go, plus some of us were on vacation anyway. So, instead, he skimmed the rules and put up the bare minimum:
We needed 8 performers, and 4 minutes of showtime, with at least some marching.
8 of us volunteered and our instructor pretty much set up a show that was just a big "##### You" to the organization, except in a nice way. We devised the makeshift show to just be a big joke:
We played the most basic warm-up excersize for about a minute, which is essentially straight eighth-notes under the guise of the name "8-8-16" with alternating hands.
Then we played a slightly more interesting yet much longer and dragged out excersize 16 times, marching forwards and backwards at random times.
To top it off, we played our pep band groove akin to the beat of "This Is How We Do" for the remainder of the 5 minutes.
All the other drumlines got a kick out of it because of how ridiculous the whole thing was.

We got 1st place, too, because everyone else competing in our class didn't have to do this bull##### show... but in the end it was pretty funny.

I went to GameStop later that night and bought a Classic Controller for the Wii. I really wanted to play the Donkey Kong Country games again, and the GCN Controller wasn't cutting it.
I must say, it's a nice controller. Not good for NES games, though. Well, I mean, I'd just rather use the sideways Wii-mote.

Lastly, those videos of me jumping out of my car will have to wait: the kid with the camera went on an impromptu vacation to Vegas with his family.

[Speed Racer]

Things I have to do tomorrow:

Before 3:30 PM - yell at my advisor for switching up my schedule this semester without telling me; there's the posibility that I may not graduate on time because of this. This is going to be tricky, because if he puts it back to my 3-credit internship (as it was originally), then all I have to do is go tell the Student Accounts group to take off the $425 that they're trying to charge me. If he won't change it, then I'll have to go yell at my advisor that

1) He should have told me he was going to switch it.
2) He should have told me about this so I could drop out of my Money & Banking class. Last day to drop out and not have it effect your student history was TWO DAYS AGO.
3) He's going to have to figure out what I am going to do now, because my schedule for this semester was built around the fact that I was only doing a 90-hour/3-credit internship. It would be impossible for me to do a 180-hour/6-credit internship and graduate on time at this point.

3:30 PM - Hand in a 2-3 page paper about how the costumes, dialects, sounds, and music effect the ideas of the future and multiculturalism in Blade Runner.

6 PM - Hand in a 3-4 page paper about the racism seen in the Superman newspaper comic strips, along with discussing the hardships of the Japanese-Americans placed in American concentration camps.

7:30-ish PM - Lead a discussion about the first six issues of Luke Cage, Hero for Hire.

9 PM - Attend a meeting at my college's anime club to discuss when/where/etc we're going to hold our game night. Glee.

Tomorrow is going to suck.

[Abominator]

Today is MIND BOGGLING.