Midgar Swamp Updates

The personal blog of James Gowdey, aka CaptainCanada...a half-Canadian geek with a 4:47 mile, an obsession with DDR, and a whole lot of random links.

Wednesday, May 02, 2001

My mom was laid off today.

We're not going to move into that new big house.

Writing sentences as individual paragraphs makes me sound as lame and depressed as children's author Gary Paulsen.

Even fragments.

Bad.

Anyway, I had a great day today. Aimee of the Rightful Anime Club(TM) appointed me as the new president as she sent herself into exile. That means I am the GOD OF ANIME at my school, while JohnWang is SATAN OF ANIME. Kick ass.

I biked to Jew School today, which is about a mile away on a windy route from my house. There are two GREAT bike routes to the place, though. When I'm a CIT in the summer there, those routes will come in mighty handy. At Jew School, I volunteered to play piano for an upcoming service. Damn, I can play a mean "Shalom Rav," and you'd be knocked over at my "Eili Eili."

Well, my big assignments for this week are quickly clearing up, and I'm feelin' fine. Whoo-ee. Time now to check on Mundi Noctem...

Tuesday, May 01, 2001

Well, it's been a nice afternoon. I'm going to be the best actor EVAR in my school play. My parents and I looked around our prospective new house, and it looks awesome. Now if only my sister would stop complaining that it's not close to a mall, and I stopped reminding mom that it's 800 THOUSAND FRICKIN' UNAFFORDABLE DOLLARS, we'll be months away from moving in!

I cooked a giant chocolate mousse for French class today. Here I am in all my glory, preparing the best chocolate mousse EVAR for the hungry French students out there.

Well, since that ate up 4 hours of my day, I've only got 2 more hours of homework! LOL!@ Bye now.

Big projects... I've got an essay on Monday... must start today. Also rehearsal today, have to memorize a monologue for Drama, and must find a good recipe for chocolate mousse.

Now, for the complaining...
My mom and stepdad announced they may be buying another house, this time one that they'd permanently live in, and they'd rent out the one we're in now. It's not such a bad idea... for one thing, the location is a few blocks from my dad's house, so there would be no more driving back and forth. That would be a big load off on everyone.

The bad stuff, though: Lily does NOT want to move. She has friends where she lives, and there are none in Dad's neighborhood. Also, it would be more of a hassle for both of us to get to school, seeing how at least one of the schools (mine) is very close to our current house (as I stated before, we live right behind it). Also, it's the cost... I don't think Mom would get enough money for a new house by just renting out our current one. I think we'd have to sell it, which is the general idea, but probably not until I leave for college.

This is all great and such, but it's just an idea. There's probably a 50% chance of this happening... and it'd happen over the summer. Exciting stuff, though. Lily burst into tears the moment she heard, and I jumped for joy.

"Yo" means "you know" in Japanese. It's like you can say it at the end of a sentence, yo.

Lobster sticks to magnet.

I added a "Further Info" feature to this journal, in case anyone wants to add further info to any of these blogs. It probably won't come in handy at ALL, but what the hell.

Monday, April 30, 2001

I REACHED BACK LIKE A PIMP AND SLAPPED THE HO

THE BOYS IN THE HOOD ARE ALWAYS HARD!!!!!!!!!

DON'T QUOTE ME BOY I AINT SET SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve's letting me listen to what is now the BSET SGON EVAR.
M'kay.

On Monday mornings, school starts at 9:15, so we always get a lot of time to do stuff in the computer lab. So far, we've littered the boards with pants at my roleplaying town Mundi Noctem, then we killed each other in a Tic-Tac-Toe deathmatch on the Swamp Groupbard, and then I zoomed in on a fold in the pants of a new picture I drew in Flash.

I'm also working on a MIDI of FFX's Suteki Da Ne, like I promised I wouldn't. Eh. Whatever, it's a pretty nice song. It'll get really old fast like all the other Uematsu ballads, though.

I'm going to research making a géant Créme Brulée for French... that'll be thweet.
I've also got a big ass-ay to write for W. History (like M. Bison)... I should get started on that before it's due 4th period today.

I can't believe nobody celebrated Pants Day on the 26... even though I created it on that day. There's always next year when I'm planning a parade down Stockton street in SF, honoring pants... UNTIL THEN!

Sunday, April 29, 2001

OH MY GOD, YOU MUST CHECK THIS OUT.

Well, it's been a "hectic" weekend for me so far. I guess you could call it a non-stop weekend, but then you'd be an idiot.

Lessee... after I came home from school, I got ready to go to this temple service that the 10th grade "Midrasha" class would be leading. I didn't mess up that bad when it came my time to lead. Afterwards, there was a sleepover there. I hung out with these girls - here's the amazing part - they were anime fans, but REAL LIFE ones! They're just like the people you meet on the internet that think they suck, constantly make references to crack, and say "^_^;;;;," but in REAL LIFE!!!!! WOW!!!!!

I feel asleep watching Gattaca.

Next morning, I was rushed to Japanese class, where I discovered an 81/80 on my Midterm. YAY!!!! That doesn't mean I'm not failing the class, though.

I then went back to my school, where a courtyard renovation was taking place. You see, our school facilities SUCK and the students vandalizing it don't help, so the sane people are trying the best they can to make the school look nice. I give it until Wednesday when all the flowers we planted will be ripped up and stepped on. It felt good, nonetheless. And to top it off, I got extra credit in a few classes for it. The only catch: James was there too. AAAAAAAAAAUGHG!!!!!

Afterwards, I got ready to babysit for Joel and Elliot, two kids I've known for a while. We watched Titan AE which wouldn't have sucked if only there was a better ending.

Next morning, I went to Dad's, where I found Lily had rented a game called Roller Coaster for the PS2. Pretty mediocre game... it was just like Roller Coaster Tycoon, only in 3D and easier. The graphics could have been better.

I'll be doing homework for the rest of the weekend, I guess. bai