Rawrville

Well, my life’s been a series of ups and downs and loops and turns and barrels and corkscrews lately. Between losing my iPod, going to Nickel City, playing Rock Band, panicking about classes/projects, and more or less falling for a girl, I think I can see why I’ve felt, intermittenly, happy, sad, angry, exhausted, and irritated.

Alright, maybe I should start where I left off; Cloverfield and getting internet access back. A few days after that (I can’t even remember what day now, this is kind of sad) I had the iPod in my coat pocket, I was in the CTI building (with friends!) and I went to the PC Gaming Lab, (with friends!) which I put up on one of the coat hanger things. I left the PC Gaming Lab several times, for various amounts of time from short to long, and when I finally checked my pocket, (as I was leaving the lab for the night) it was not there.

Great.

The iPod my parents got special for me (and even spent extra money on for a warranty!) is lost.

The one they got me to replace my broken, old one, is lost.

Presumably stolen. IN THE GAMING LAB. WHILE FRIENDS OF MINE WERE THERE.

I don’t blame my friends, by any means, but it just seems like somebody should have noticed or something. It’s possible it got lost before then, when I was talking with friends before going into the lab, but I doubt that. I mean, wouldn’t one of them have noticed? Said something maybe? The only way something like that could have happened would involve the iPod falling out of the pocket when I got up (I was sitting down) and somebody coming around while I was gone and picking it up.

Whatever DID happen, though, it made (and is still making) me sick to my stomach. I cannot believe I screwed this up.

I want to just give my parents some money for the thing and apologize, but I’ll explain why I can’t later in this post.

Almost immediately after that, I got around to panicking about my GAM 245 project. There’s a good reason, though!

I hadn’t actually worked on it. At all. It was a team project, and I was unable to communicate with my team for most of it.

Can you see why that’d be a problem?

Anyway, I made it through that, and, hopefully, managed to make up for the lack of previous work on my part.

Next big thing: I got “let go” by my GameStop down here.

Apparently my manager decided to take me off payroll because there weren’t enough hours for him to warrant keeping me.

Whatever, I don’t really care. I was probably going to quit that job in February or so anyways. More power to him, I guess.

Then, on Tuesday night, I find out that the teams for my machinima class were switched around. Well darn.

On Wednesday, during our class, we decided to fuse my team and my old team into one giant megateam to conquer them all.

Thursday, I get home from class to find out that my internet is dead… again. I looked under the bed, and, lo and behold, Secco hooked his “switcher” up in my ethernet jack again, with my computer and all the living room stuff plugged into it. I unplug the “switcher” and put my ethernet cable into the jack, no luck. Luckily, my roommate’s jack still works, so I’m using that for internet now. Secco’s been the usual isolationist he is, though, and I haven’t been able to bitch him out about this yet, but he’ll probably whine and say that it can’t be that, it’s gotta be something else, but I was using the internet FINE from that jack up until he plugged the damn thing in, so I’m gonna say that LOGIC states that something, either that “switcher” or something in the living room, is getting our jack disabled over and over again.

On Friday, I hung out and ate breakfast with a bunch of friends, then my friends Will and Sara drove up here to visit.

The three of us joined with Tony (my roommate) and Kyle (his girlfriend) and some DeFrag members to Nickel City.

Nickel City is an arcade where all of the arcade games run on nickels. Thus, arcade games are MUCH CHEAPER TO PLAY.

It was pretty awesome.

Oh yeah, between all of this, I played a lot of Rock Band. (I’m at Medium on drums, Expert on most guitar and mic)

And, possibly the biggest thing of all of this, I’ve been flirting (ohmygosh) with a girl.

We’ve been texting back and forth pretty heavily and I’d like to imagine that it’s all the kind of playful cute things that matter.

In fact she even took time to come eat lunch with me on Friday despite having to come put up with a bunch of nerds!

(if you are reading this, Danielle, I do like you) (I’m just really shy, sorry)

Also she’s agreed to dinner and a movie sometime, which should be awesome! We just need to find a time… and a movie.

So I guess things are looking up or something. I guess. I dunno, I’m pretty bad at predicting these things.

EDIT:

Now our Rock Band Guitar is broken. I have to cover for this one and pay the holding fee EA charges while replacing it.

Oh, and I have to borrow money from a friend to do it. EA will refund the money, but only after getting our broken guitar.

This means that I cannot register for ACEN before the $40 deadline is up AND I can’t go out to the movies. Good game, Ian, good game.

WHY DO I FAIL SO HARD AT LIFE?