Note to self: buy Microsoft Word at next opportunity. Or contact Dad about it.
Either way. Should work.
WordPad is all well and good, but I don't think that's what the teacher is looking for.
Anyways.
Another note to self: you have, like, three freakin' hours between classes in the afternoon. That's way longer than you need to eat lunch. Except for tomorrow. I think I have a class tomorrow during lunch....should cut down on my ridiculously long break. But not by much.
At any rate. Would be best just to go home and drop off books. Since home is, like, a ten-minute walk away.
Or a five minute Trax ride. Whatever floats your boat.
I might just walk home today instead of taking Trax.....as convenient and as fast as it is, I think I'll only take it in the mornings, when there's danger of being mugged by homeless people. Or drunk kids coming home from the brewery that's RIGHT
ACROSS THE STREET.
Or maybe that was at the Peery Hotel.
There was that fancy-shmancy cantina....the INFERNO, if I recall correctly.
Very....INFERNAL, indeed. A lot of money went into spicing up that drudgy little street corner. A big fancy light-up sign, torches in the windows, a crap-ton of
neon beer advertisements.....man, who WOULDN'T want to go there?
Apart from respectable members of civilized society, I mean?
This is really random.
Ironically, we are also right across the street from Temple Square.
So.....sandwiched between Heaven and Hell, you might say. In a very broad sense. I like to think of it as the place between inspiration and damnation. A guiding light and outer darkness. Whichever you prefer.
For being the main hub of Utah, Mormon Central, SLC has a surprisingly small number of actual Mormons. And a surprisingly large gay population. Well, there's irony for you. Makes sense, though.....SLC reminds me a lot of San Francisco.
Man, I miss San Francisco.
Someone just passed me, joyfully exclaming, "I'm free! Free as a bird!" into his cell phone. He looked - and sounded - to be about my age. Figures.
I have a feeling that they haven't updated their billboard since last semester.
The devotional they have scheduled for December 10th is kind of a giveaway.
I wonder when the next devotional is.....being a shy person, and also a new student, I am very much out of the loop. It's very disorienting. Not to mention frustrating. I feel stupider than I actually am. I hope.
Am I stupid? Or just really, really tired? I'm inclined to think that it's the latter. I did not sleep very well last night. Or this morning. But hey, I wanted classes in the morning. So I GOT classes in the morning.
Saves my afternoons, I guess. Which is nice. For homework.
Can't wait for Friday.
It suddenly got very quiet in here. Wonder if there's something I'm missing.
Maybe they're evacuating everyone out of the building. And I'll be the last one here, blissfully unaware, typing on my computer until the flames consume me and I am DEAD. And then my random WordPad entry will become my last Will and Testament. Or something like that. Preserved for future generations.
I should hope, anyways. My computer - The Boss, as I like to call it - is a monster. It accounts for about half the weight of my pack. And my dad's the one who picked it out (I sort of helped, but not really). So I imagine that it could endure fire and rubble reasonably well.
It's an interesting thought - what if, in a thousand years or so, I was dead (well, duh) and some futuristic civilization (or maybe we'll have cycled back to primitive by then.....) discovered my computer and figured out how to use it? And, what if, what IF, they used it as basis for their study of ancient history/religious cult?
That's a frightening thought, actually. Or a sobering one. It's not like I have anything really BAD on here.....just my stories and my drawings. And this entry.
And maybe some essays. Song lyrics.
And way too many computer games.
Huh. Wonder how they'd figure that.
I sure hope they don't figure out my Steam account and decide to play The Longest Journey. Or Half-Life 2. Or Team Fortress 2.
As fun as those games are, they do not reflect kindly on me or my society.
Except maybe The Longest Journey. I finished it a few months ago, and it's only now that I decided that I like it. I actually want to play it again.....
I guess you'd expect me to finish playing that Dreamfall sequel. Pshaw. That THING does not deserve to be called its sequel.
I mean, on its own, it's a decent adventure click-and-point-whateveryoucallit sort of game. But as a sequel to The Longest Journey? No way, man. It does not COMPARE.
It's not nearly as fun. Far too heavy and serious. Not to mention that, for some mysterious reason, they decided to add a fighting aspect to the game. An incredibly flawed, really grinding aspect that offers no satisfaction whatsoever, adds nothing to the story, and was obviously shoved in at the last minute.
It's funny, because almost everything else about the game is beautifully designed. I mean, for 2004, it's really impressive. The settings are absolutely GORGEOUS. The characters are....slightly less gorgeous. Well designed for posing. But for regular day-to-day movement, like walking and talking and facial expressions.....yeah, it's very 2004.
And don't get me started on the writing.
In the Longest Journey, it's obvious that the writers liked and enjoyed what they were doing, and were having fun with the story and dialogue. It wasn't really heavy (with some exceptions), it was just....fun. And charming. And.....just really fun. The characters were really funny and likeable and charming people. Yes, there is a LOT of profanity (yes....wear headphones. And don't use subtitles. At all.) and sexual references, but still. FUN FUN FUN. I enjoyed it. I played through the whole thing in under a week.
Dreamfall is not that. At all. Obviously not the same writers.Or maybe the same writers, but different mentality. It feels like they were trying to make one of those heavy, thought-provoking games that win Best Game
of the Year Award and becomes a classic.
Which is ironic, because that didn't happen. It's ironic, because the original Longest Journey took the fun, light-hearted approach, and it's the one that's become a Gaming Classic.
Whilst Dreamfall is famous for being....the sequel to The Longest Journey.
And that's it.
Just goes to show - if you want to make a sequel, stick to the original spirit of the story. TLJ managed to be interesting and thought-provoking (sort of) without all the cliched storylines or boring characters.
Aaaand....wow, I must have been holding that all in for waay too long. I should be ashamed of myself. But I'm not. Look at all this lovely writing! I do love writing. I should do more of this, when I have the time....
