Postin'

Today's Monday, holy shit. I think I have a nutrition test tomorrow. I've been feeling strange lately.
BUT ARE YOU GETTIN' IT?
REALLY GETTIN' IT?
ARMAGEDDON IT?
This is one of THOSE BLOGS (in a voice as accusatory as I can possibly make it) where I have to agree a thousand times over that I'm older than 14. What kind of sense does this even make? 14 year olds can't make informed decisions about anything. If a 14 year old were irreparably harmed by one of these blogs (heh heh) there's no way this fucking warning would hold up in court.
All for what? This cunt's declaration that she loves the Lord Jesus Christ? Wow, how controversial.
Anyway what spawned this entry was the writer's block of the day:

If you were given the chance, what one thing would you tell the entire world?

I'm not gonna sit here and pretend I have any wisdom that could really change the whole world so I think I'd go with something more that's pissing me right the fuck off: your and you're. I'd explain to people (even non-English speakers, fuck you) that these words are not the same.
Of course most of Livejournal went with the tried-and-true "PEACE IS THE ANSWER LOL" which given the number of times people have said that and it hasn't stuck I'm guessing peace either isn't the answer or no one cares enough to try it out, so time to find a new angle, people.
It's a nice thought but nope, not working.

I would tell the world to simply love one another as God loves them excluding no one, to forgive everyone and to smile, laugh, live and love evereyday as if it is their last.

What about the terminally ill? I bet they're feeling forsaken and not loving life, exactly.
Fuck you there are plenty of reasons to be miserable. Don't tell people what to do.
Hey, hey, here's a thought: if we're all children of God what's so special about Jesus?

I have always loved Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house.

Nope don't care. Next entry.
GOTTA BE 14 OR OLDER TO LISTEN TO HER RAMBLE ABOUT FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT.

I believe all our disease can be cured through the injestion of plant matter extracted in its purest form.

Dumbest fucking thing I've read today, probably. If this were the case there'd be no disease. You really think people wouldn't have figured this out before now? With hundreds of thousands of years (or 4000 years if we're going by your reckoning, I'm sure). I mean Christ all mighty, a plant can cure cancer?
Yeah pack that radiation shit up, we don't need to work this hard.
Twit.

Which famous or infamous historical person would you bring back to life, and why?
I would bring back to earth, our Lord Jesus Christ.

>Jesus Christ
>historical
Ha, ha, ha.
Youuuuu.

I would love to meet Him and to thank Him face to face for all of the mighty works He has done and for all the blessings in my life.

What'd he do, really? I mean he healed some blind people (allegedly) and walked across water (neat trick if there are no boats to be had I guess) and then he died.
Everyone that was alive is now dead and everyone alive today is going to die so that's not really a "mighty work", is it? He didn't even write his own fucking book. He had his followers do it for him. Really if they hadn't written it down no one today would have even heard of Jesus, so really we should be thanking the Apostles first and Jesus second.
Oh man all of these are writer's blocks, I just realized. WRITER'S BLOCK SPECIAL, WOOOOO--

What is your greatest fear?

I FEAR NOTHING.

My greatest fear is losing my Alan, being alone and homeless with no food or resoures. I am physically challenged in that I am reliant on a wheelchair

Yeah maybe if you weren't such a hambeast.

If you've been following a relatively obscure band and they start to become popular, do you tend to lose interest at some point? Is mainstream appeal a turn off when it comes to music?

What are you, a hipster? You liked it before, what changed? Nothing about the actual music, to be sure. Now here's a really long and boring story about how she found love in a "really odd place" (the internet, fucking wow) and-- whatever, Christ.
Well. That's the end of her blog. Short entry today, wooo--

Let's employ active language to engage readers from the onset~

Well, someone was paying attention in creative writing class, good grief.
After an incredibly bullshit two days with FFXIV (where, oddly, my school situation improved dramatically-- I wonder if there's an inverse "convenience" correlation there) I'm finally in that beta, so let's see if school doesn't take the shit now.
Oh, right. Claire Hawthorne's Garden (ugh).

Two days of warm sunny weather does not an Indian summer make......however, it's warmer than it's been for a long time with a weather forecast that seems quite settled, therefore I'm determined that the next few days are going to be spent outdoors in order to make the most of it.

Fascinating. What do you even say to this? Who the fuck cares about Indian summer or whatever the weather forecast or whatever this shit is?

The light has changed over the last few days; it's golden, mellow, less harsh than it has been over the previous weeks.

>semicolon
>less harsh
>mellow
JUST REWRITE THIS, FUCK ME. If the light is mellow isn't it, by definition, not harsh? Also you're creating a list. The list can't be its own sentence so you'd just use a colon because you're leading into the clause. In fact, this is expressly why the colon was created and you still missed the usage. Goddamn.

The last day of any month usually passes unmarked by any conscious thought, but this year the last day of August seems to have taken on a certain significance for me.
If only that wasn't the case, if only I could drift unknowing and thus unfeeling, from August through to September without any sense of loss.

DEEEEEEP.
You do realize no reader is going to have any clue what the fuck you're on about, don't you? Who, honestly, has ever heard of the end of the end of the month being "unthinking" prior to this nonsense?
That's not to say you can't coin new ideas but your ideas have to first make sense and second be cool, and this fails both checks. In fact, the end of the month is the time for most thought because that's when payments are due and especially when a season changes people have to go back to school or their work schedules change and a million fucking things are different at the end of a season.

To know it is August is to acknowledge it is still summer.....while to know it is September requires an acceptance of autumn.

I actually sat and watched the clock when I knew August was ending. September starts and we are in the month of FFXIV.

Yet nature moves at her own speed.

ALIEN. NOT YOURS.

The clear blue skies of this morning had disappeared by noon to be replaced with banks of broken grey cloud moving down from the north-west.

Man, you're boring, Claire. Let me rewrite this sentence for INTRIGUE.
The clear blue skies of this morning disappeared by noon, to be replaced by the indefinite shadows of ALIEN INVADERS.
YEAAAAAAAH. Also note "had disappeared" became just "disappeared" because "had disappeared" is passive voice (and therefore a no-no when writing an opening paragraph) but also because it's fewer words.

As the rosehips get redder their leaves slowly become more yellow.

Unbalanced sentence, ahoy! Wouldn't "get redder" sound a lot better with "become yellower" as opposed to "become more yellow (grammatically incorrect)"?

Howard and I didn't appreciate being woken unexpectedly this morning by the roofer

Howard and Claire. Let's just take a moment to hate them.
There we go.
How can you post this much about a fucking garden, Jesus Christ all mighty. I'd wager War and Peace, which is about a fucking war isn't as long as this nonsense and that book is like 2000 pages.

When I found this poem by Christina Rossetti this afternoon I thought how apt it was for today was a day when I had two and a half roses in the morning and none by dinnertime......

>found a poem
>apt
What, do you live at a college or something?

I also took the trowel and dug up all the golden feverfew seedlings from around the tree although I've left two in the shady stone circle until they develop stronger roots.

"Shady stone circle" sounds like something a grimoire in a video game might reference over and over and then you find out the "stone circle" is the giant, phallic tower when viewed from an aerial view and the shadow it casts at noon points to some secret archive or something.
Sorry this is so boring I'm trying to create interest where there is none, let's proceed.

They are going to have to grow quickly though for I'll need them dug up by the Full Moon.

... Because the archive closes forever at the next full moon.
The hell?

Today is Lughnasadh or Lammas, a celebration of the harvest.

Today is that noise you make when you have a lot of sinus leakage and you try to get all the snot into your throat.

This morning I was briefly horrified to see that the potted sage had appeared to wilt.

Good, fuck your potted sage. May a blight descend on your entire garden.

Today is still windy but not stormy which is a big relief for me, although it's still too windy to take any photographs of the garden.

.. while I pondered weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Man now I'm quoting Edgar Allan Poe, this is getting dire.

To my surprise yesterday's storms hadn't abated by this morning.

It's the tempest-worshiping Shadowmen who create this unholy affront to our nation.

Despite the unseasonal gusts,

Despite the accursed Sirocco wind that beats down upon my head, I make my way across the scorched and twice-damned wasteland to my destination: the camp of the Lost and Ill-Fortuned souls.
Man my sentences are so much better. They have mythological references, they have curses and damnation, they have tempest-worshipers-- man, I rule.

I was determined to get the rest of the golden feverfews moved into bigger pots for they appeared to have stopped growing in their root-bound state.

I kept a sprig of feverfew in my helmet to ward off sickness and disease, a superstition I now knew to be false as my leg joints ached and protested under the burning fever of Helljoint.
WOOOOOOO patch is done time to play some FFXIV.
New character time--
Miqo'te master race reporting in, I think--
Seeker of the Sun or Keeper of the Moon? One looks normal while the other is something straight out of your nightmares, I think this choice is obvious--
Lower intelligence than the Moon one, though. You heard it hear first, folks: nocturnal people have two more points of intelligence.
Well last time I picked pugilist which worked out fine but let's mix it up a little.
Let's try the coward's weapon: archer.
Apparently the shit I've selected has created someone with more fire than electrical defense.
Oh well, keep my character out of electrical currents and water and I guess I'll be fine.
Ah, see? Already it's raining fire. I knew fire resist would be important.
Oh right, this.
Err-- go away.

OPEN BETA MOTHERFUCKER (for real)

Ha, ha, just kidding about that whole "no peasants in my open beta that starts today (yesterday)" thing. It starts today (critical bugs prevented it from being yesterday but apparently not so critical to keep it down for more than 24 hours) also everyone is invited I guess.
Oh well, time to grind my wheels with boring bullshit I'll bitch about until 19:00 PDT (that's 10:00 PM in real time [EST]).
I found this jackoff via the WRITER'S BLOCK wherein Livejournal actively encourages bullshit nothing posts by posing questions that you can answer straight from your blog for free posts. Today's question piqued my interest because, well, it's one of my personal interests:

What kind of craft would you design to travel through time and space? How would it work? What would it look like?

If your answer isn't "a Gundam" or "a Battle Barge to PURGE THE ALIEN" you are officially boring.

A giant cloud o_O

Oh.
Oh...
His blog's name is "Nick Rides Clouds". I get it.
No, that's great. Really.

What is your opinion of relationships where there is a significant age difference between partners?

Oh another one of these, brilliant. Well if one partner is underage and one is 40 I think it's morally objectionable, but otherwise I do not give a single fuck.

It seems to me that often the older person is doing it so that they can get away with being manipulative, which is wrong.

... What?

The younger person can also use perceived attractiveness for manipulation, which is also wrong. But, I think it's ok if there's mutual attraction and no manipulation. I also think it's inappropriate to date people who are teens if you're, say, past 25 (and I think that's a liberal range).

Aw come on, can't a guy date a girl old enough to be his daughter?

Lately, most of the movies I've watched have stupid endings. It's like the writers think they're being all cool and postmodern by making a movie with a dynamic character, and then instead of completing the character's transformation or completing the point of the whole movie, they make an inconclusive ending. I think movie makers ought to take a clue from Japanese RPG endings.

I almost did a spit take when I read that.
Have you played any JRPGs lately? They're more guilty of this than any movie I've ever seen in my entire life.
Except The Matrix trilogy, maybe.
Also the Star Wars prequels (which were just plain bad).
But other than that, yes.

They're always long, and drawn out, no stone left unturned.

Except Final Fantasy XIII, good Christ.
If you're a fan of narrow corridors with no branching paths, I have a game for you.

Goddamn it I HATE when people give you a deadline for something and then nag you about it before the deadline.

Join the education department, then.
The education department, where you're not told your deadlines a good 50% of the time and you've exceeded deadlines to things you didn't even know existed.

I graduated college! Bachelor's degree in music, Magna Cum Laude, from Allegheny College. I'm now 22.

Whew, man. Glad I picked a degree where I can get a job or I'd find myself in your situation shortly.

I'm not straight edge anymore, but after some experimenting, my lifestyle has remained essentially the same. The main differences are that now I'll have a drink once a week or so, smoke some tobacco once in a while, and occasionally get a little intoxicated with friends.

Yeah, contrary to what most straight edge fags think (and they are fags) people who don't outright CONDEMN ALCOHOL aren't all raging alcoholics.

In a way, I feel stronger about my desire to be in control of my own life now, because I know that I'm not in denial of anything. I'm still vegan (of course), and have been getting more into Macrobiotics lately.

Jeez, what a pussy. How can you ever play a badass guitar when you're this much of a pussy?

Since graduating, things have been very difficult.

Because you have a degree in music with a focus in guitars, Christ all mighty. Let's take a brief survey and find out if the three greatest guitarists of all time even went to college, shall we?
Carlos Santana didn't even go to college, apparently.
Eric Clapton went but was kicked out, and
Slash didn't even graduate high school.
So there you have it, that's what three of the best guitarists have to say about school.

I'm thoroughly convinced that the frenetic pace, excessive waste, obsessive competitiveness, and apathy of modern society are simply crazy.

>Obsessive competitiveness
>apathy
Nope, can't have it both ways.

Farewell to one of the best straight edge hardcore bands ever, and definitely my favorite. I'm sad to see them go. I'm happy I got to see them play one more time though. I got kicked in the face a few times, but hey, that's hardcore.

Not really. Did you let those blows go unaccounted? If so, I have some bad news.
That's what knights used to do upon accepting a new knight into their ranks, don't you know. Wind up and crank them right in the jaw. "Let that be the only blow that goes unaccounted" and that was the end of the ceremony.
Goddamn people used to kick ass.

This Saturday, I went to D.C. to see the Holocaust Museum,

Oh I've been there. I also got to talk to a real life Nazi (who fought in the war, even). Shit was pretty cash, actually.

On the way up, I got to meet and talk to this girl Marla, who's actually from my hometown, so that was neat, but also a bit of an awkward situation to be in while the tv was simultaneously showing drunk blondes taking off their shirts. Hmm...

"Wanna follow their example? Eh? Eh?"

There's so much information and so many stories at the Holocaust Museum; I would have liked two full days to go through it instead of 2 hours.

Really? There's a lot of information at a museum? News to me.
71.7% done with this latest FFXIV patch. There have been three patches total between the end of closed beta and the beginning of open beta, which is exactly two more than I expected to have to download.

So, this semester at school, I decided I would go to the meetings of the college's Christian outreach club. It's designed to be for Christians of any persuasion, whether protestant, orthodox, catholic, etc... I felt as though I hadn't really given Christianity a fair shake.

Oh, that reminds me. I have to write a brief primer on a religion for "pussy sensitivity class" and worship of the Twelve Olympians isn't an option. Why are they discriminating against my religion? ;_;

I was raised protestant and orthodox

Err, okay?
You do realize the Protestants were protesting Orthodoxy, right (also Catholicism, which is the same shit basically)?

Many times, I find myself wondering how to live in this world, which has (as I like to put it) ended.

>world has ended
>the sun is still out, there are still TECHNOLOGICAL MARVELS ABOUND
wow what a drip.
Seriously we live in a world that is so technologically evolved when your aforementioned Christians were condemning witchcraft they might as well be condemning themselves, because to those primitives who wrote the Bible we are sorcerers one and all.

What does that mean? It means that the great world wars are over, and we generally live in a time of peace.

What'd Warhammer say about this? "It's not war that I fear, it's the unending hell of peace" or something?

We're not living in a world that's ended. We're living in the Roman Empire.

HOLY SHIT, EVEN BETTER.
Goddamn my day just got better.
Out of the way, plebeians.

The U.S. has become, to a large degree, the enemy of goodness, and this is why it's so hard for us to see what's right or wrong anymore.

>Roman Empire
>enemy of goodness
Considering they enjoyed some of the highest standards of living (for the time) in the world and their collapse heralded a dark age that lasted for hundreds of years I'm not sure I really follow you here.

Think about it. Today, Americans are party to the killing of a million animals every hour for food.

Americans are also party to killing hundreds (probably) of people every day. So what?

The point is, things are essentially the same as always. When you take a good look, the "evil" in the world is plain to see, and it's obvious what's right to do: fight it. The biggest obstacle, really, is getting over our fear of confrontation, and I speak for myself most of all when I say that.

Hey man, you posted this to the greatest invention mankind has ever conceived (the instant sharing of information the world over) under a government where you can openly call the government murderers and they don't even arrest you. I can think of at least ten ways in which you have it better than the average Roman citizen.
I wish...
people showed kindness to each other more often.
Ho-boy.
Anyway my patch is done and I have some posts to make on another blog I'm keeping for school as well as BLACKBOARD POSTAN so I guess I'll be off.
Hey if anyone is reading this and playing FFXIV (no one) pick Jecht as your server and maybe we can hang out sometime :3