It's my birthday! One of my friends made me a cake. All of my friends are supercool. I might be visiting Ohio next week? More on these stories as they develop (mostly on facebook).

So, I just dared one of my friends to find this. If you do find it, a few helpful tips:

I'm probably not as creepy as my old journals make me sound
Yes, I was that annoying and emo. It was bad.
Most of my deviations are absolute crap! Even the best one in there is far from ideal and needs rewritten some time.
No, really, I'm actually less creepy than my old journals would lead you to believe.

That is all. No names shall be mentioned in order to prevent googling.

A new deviation?! From me!? IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN YOU'D THINK

Well, here's another increasingly infrequent update. Holy balls, it's hard to believe it's been six months since I last updated this damn thing.

And as it has become near-sacred tradition to do, I look back at old journal entries...shit, I was a loser. BWAHAHA I KNEW IT! Not that I'm not still a loser, but I'm definitely nowhere near as much of a dumbass as I used to be. I'll probably look at this next time I post and think the same thing.

It sort of makes you wonder where I'll be a year from now. Right now, life is (wait for it) angst-tastic because of (wait for it) a girl, but certainly (or at least hopefully) in a year's time I'll either be over her or dating her (more likely the former). Weird how life turns out like that. I'm going to text her tonight at midnight; it's the only contact with her that I can muster the courage for. So...well, we'll see how that goes.

2008 has been sort of a mixed bag. On one hand, I've tried a lot of new things (heheheheheheheheh...), met some new people, and been pretty successful in the academic and financial aspects of life. On the other hand...well, I managed to not be single for a whopping three days (BIG mistake), and it just hasn't been a terribly happy year.

CMU is going well. I'm an RA, for those of you know don't already know, and I've got a pretty damn nice apartment for it. Next year I'm hoping to rent a house with a few of my friends; there are a few places that are on the market even now that we're gonna start looking at. Computer Science, despite being a tremendous long shot, was definitely the right choice for me, and despite being woefully inadequate in it compared to most of my friends, I'm still doing pretty damn well. Also, my first D&D campaign (as a player; let's not talk about my abortive attempt at DMing) ended at the end of the semester. My roommate was the DM, and in addition to being an all-around awesome guy, he's pretty damn good at what he does. He's running another campaign next semester, and I can't wait for that to get started.

Lately...well, I've been playing a whole bunch of Left 4 Dead and nethack. That's been my winter break so far. I don't really dislike being home, but it sure as hell is boring. I can't wait until I have a place of my own. Well, more or less. My and a few of my friends' own, I suppose would be the correct way of saying. But you get the idea.

New Year's resolutions. Stop being single, first of all. Resolution 1a would be make sure relationship is both not a horrible mistake and reasonably long lasting; I'm not holding out any false hope of meeting whoever I'm going to spend the rest of my life with (or rather, false hope that such a person exists), but I'd at least like to have one good, wholesome relationship.

Aside from that, not really all that much. Get a summer job, I guess? That seems more like a summer resolution to me, and it seems reasonably likely *knock on wood* that I'll be able to get at least a halfway decent internship this summer.

So I guess that's it. This will also mark the first New Year that I've run in for three years where I haven't been at Katie's house. Sorry, Katie; I couldn't justify going back out to Ohio again. Any reason I would have found to go - even that bitchin' scarf! - would just have been a flimy excuse to see a certain someone (alluded to in the second paragraph) again, and...well, Thanksgiving demonstrated how well that works out. I may be many things, but knowingly creepy is not one of them.

Happy New Year everyone; I hope everyone's 2009 is better than my 2008.

Well, for certain definitions of "old." 19, to be precise. Woo! I haven't updated this damn thing in ages (wow, almost a year...I seem to have this good yearly thing goin' ), so here's what's new:

College is awesome!

Summer sucks ; ;

But I have a summer job on campus starting Friday!

Also, today is my birthday, w00t w00t

Still single...ladies

That's about it. I don't really do much artsy stuff any more - probably because I'm pretty damn bad at it - but I'm almost definitely going to try my hand at writing some stuff in the future, so I'll be sure to post it here if I ever get around to it. I have this thing where I tend to write the very very beginning of a book, then ignore it and never go back. Eh, oh well. They're fun ideas, at the very least.

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*cough* That will be all. Also, I have a livejournal now, for those of you who are really interested in the goings-on of my life. Send me a note to get the link; I don't want to post it for the whole interwebs to see.

EDIT: AAAAAAAAAAAAH I HATE EVERYTHING

Where "everything" (not case sensitive) means "how the fuck does an apostrophe follow by a close-parentheses get parsed as ?!??!?!?!??!"