~Lote

After months, 33 weeks, to be exact, I have re discovered deviantART. As with the other times this has happened, catching up on my messages and watches has been an all-nighter. I had over 600 message center items when I logged in, about 450 of which were deviations, and I looked at all of them. I did read some journals, but not very many at all. Out of the 150ish I may have read 20.

All those deviations have left me feeling a little inspired, as well as looking back through some of my own work. As soon as possible I shall be off to find a suitable pencil and a sketchbook and see where I wind up. In the meanwhile I'll probably touch up some of my poetry or short stories while I work on my website.

As you may have gathered, I need things to fill up my time. Any of my local friends who may read this are encouraged to get me out of the house for any reason whatsoever.

Things have been good and bad lately. Balance is often favorable, and I find this mix of events to be comforting.

Until next time,
Enjoy yourselves!

Lote

PS. In other news, the lazy moodicon totally looks like a green smiley getting head from another green smiley on a recliner... with flies buzzing around... wtf...? Just thought I'd let you all in on that 'cuz I stumbled across it when I was looking for my mood. (ADD much?) A lot of my cousins have ADHD. One time a couple of my cousins got drunk and said something about my girlfriend that pissed me off, then had the gall to tell me about it later. Gall was a planet in Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. You got the jet pack there and got to kill the only cliff wampa in the game. I wish I had a jetpack. I'd fly around and stuff. Legendary Frog made a flash video about a jetpack and a gnome. When I played WoW, I made a gnome character with Josh. Lock and Stock were there names. Too bad there weren't two more people and we could have SmokingBarrel1 and SmokingBarrel2. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a good movie. I used to work at a video store. That was the bomb for a while. Bombs are strange things. How can something so bad be so cool to watch? On second thought, they aren't very cool to watch most of the time. I mean, if you're just blowing something up like an old junked car or a pile of wood or something, it's cool, but when the government plays with bombs people get hurt. Stupid ass kids, too. That reminds me of the Butterfly Effect. That was a pretty good movie. Are you still reading this? I hope to god not. That would be a total waste of your time. Man! That reminds me! I spent a hella lot of time looking at people's artwork a little while ago. Okay, now I'm serious. If you're still reading this I should give you something... like... a life! Seriously! 1up, man! Go for the green mushroom! It's good for you, I promise! Don't give me that 'mushrooms are poisonous' crap. This one's different, we swears it.

We swears!

On... On....... On the PRECIOUS!

The precious is treacherous! It will hold us to our word!

Just get the mushroom! You know you want 99 lives!

I've been sitting here catching up on my Internet life at my dad's where I don't normally have computer access, much less Internet access. Well, "how are you doing this?" you ask... What? You aren't asking? Wow, the only two reading this are the two who already know. Well, in case someone stumbles across this, the aforementioned was made possible by the release of the 2.0 update for the Sony PSP. Yeah, that's right, I caught up on DA, and browsed to my heart's content all on my PSP.

Work is exhausting... I think what keeps me going is that I see something new every day... and I'm getting paid. On Thursday I will get my first paycheck ever. That means over the weekend I will have my license, insurance on my mom's car, and cash. That means I'm doin' something this weekend. If anyone at all wants to hang out with me, I'm going to clean my mom's car up maybe tomorrow, maybe Friday, and we're gonna do some shit. If I can find it, I'm definitely going to see Star Wars finally... tired of frickin' waiting. I told Josh I'd see Land of the Dead with him, so I'll see how that works out. Taking someone out to lunch... how that came about is all a blur, but so is everything else from the past two weeks.

Work is funny. It started off as a third-shift job (10:30PM to 7:00AM), they had us work one day of the weekend and gave us a memo saying that all third-shift employees who worked in the finishing department (that's me) were being transfered to second shift (3:30PM to 12:00). That was crazy. I had two days to fix my sleeping schedule, but I managed it in one.

Stephen is a bitch. For those of you who know who I'm talking about, you'll understand. I have some stuff saved on a computer in the student center, but out of the two days that I am here in a week's time, he is on that computer from the time I get here to the time I leave playing retarded-ass runescape. The whole time. Runescape is definitely not a game you should play at all, much less over five hours.

Well, I guess that's enough of my shit for today... Hopefully gonna get the Internet back at my house soon. Not sure how I'm gonna call Alltel, but whatever. I'll figure that out... now...

Lots o' love
Lote

That's how I feel right now. These job things are rough little buggers.

I'm really not sure how to live workin a third-shift job and having a class just a few hours after I get off.

I wake up, go to work, work, go to class/sit around and try not to hurt/then go back to sleep.

My class ends soon, at least. Then I can sleep in the mornings and be awake with my friends.

(if you don't wanna read this whole thing, just read the last paragraph)

Body... Now, there's something I can understand.

I got random membership status for a week. Too bad, though, that I don't get on the Internet enough to really make use of it.

Yesterday was what I call an adventure. Went with my good buddy Josh to random mountain, upon which we found random lake, after which we got LOST AS FUCK!

The road to random lake was rather straightforward. I recall three or four turnoffs from it on the way up, yet SOMEHOW, on the way back, nothing (and when I say nothing, I mean absolutely, positively, without a shadow of a doubt and no exceptions NOTHING) was the same. We followed turn after turn of winding roads going up and down in elevation, completely without a sense of direction, and no clue where we'd wind up, yet we continued onward. Fearless. A little flustered, but fearless nonetheless.

After so much of that, we found a power line, and shortly thereafter we were on a small highway weaving a serpentine trail through a little rural area. We located a roadsign that told us we were on a little highway called '2' (like the comedian XD). I, being in the navigator's seat, whipped out the Dinky Map, which we later ascertained that we weren't on at all, and attempted to locate Highway 2.

THERE WERE FOUR OF THEM!

Four 2s. WHAT THE HELL? I want someone in office who will do something about these retarded highways and dinky maps. (with that revelation, I STILL don't have a clue who I would vote for)

We attempted to determine which 2 we were on (which, as I previously mentioned, wasn't on our Dinky Map at all). After making an educated and logical guess (as much so as any given college students could, at least), we began traveling as though we were on that highway.

After a while of driving, we turned onto something called 'Old Highway 5' which wasn't on the map at all. This upset me. We went in what we could only assume was the right direction at the time until we found highway 136, which was supposed to take us to a town that we couldn't pronounce that I will hereafter refer to as 'R.' The Interstate was supposed to run through R, which would've taken us back home in a hurry. So down 136 we went until it ended. Not in R, mind you, but just plainly and blatantly, without warning or apology, ended. No signs there telling us which way to go to get to R, but East and West 53. We went West. After a small lifetime on 53, we found a split that would take us to a town which I will hereafter refer to as 'C' which we were more than familiar with, and also allowed for entry to the Interstate. C is south of R, just so you know, and we wanted to go North.

After the incident with 136, we could only believe that R didn't exist, or there was an earthquake and they hadn't fixed the signs yet. Our faith in roadsigns severely shaken, we took a leap of faith and hoped that C actually was west on 53. To our delight, we found ourselves in C. Hungry, thirsty, and weary, we grabbed our weapons (wallets) and stormed (ate at) a Long John Silvers/A&W.

Our stomachs full, we turned back from the carnage (empty plates and glasses) and got on the Interstate. We drove through R (guess it was the earthquake theory) and made it home without further error.

We learned a couple of valuable lessons. The first of which is that if you go to a random lake on a random mountain, and on your way back you don't recognize your surroundings, TURN THE FUCK AROUND! The second lesson is that you should never trust road signs or Dinky Maps, despite the fact that they did get us back home. The third is less of a lesson than it is a peculiar discovery. Random lakes on random mountains harbor tadpoles that can make me feel inferior as a man... O.O I'm not even kidding... I mean, I'm an average guy, if you catch my drift, and those tadpoles were CRAZY! The tadpoles I grew up with were wee little guys. Like, about the size of 12- or 14-point font... The ones in the lake were more like 76. And tadpoles grow to, what, ten or eleven times the size they are when they become a frog? I need to go catch one of those and see if they get as big as I imagine... *wanders off*