The Roulette Wheel

So here I am, a couple days after my cold "Allison" and just chilling here in my front room watching Fringe and listening to the rain. I love the rain. No really. I really just like to sit and listen sometimes. I really like to think about the concept of someone being lucky enough to simply walk between raindrops. I just like thinking that there just might be people out there that are just that lucky. Obviously I'm not one of them, but legend would dictate that someone like that would be completely fuck-stupid. Yes I said fuck-stupid. It was not a typo. Anyway...I guess I wouldn't mind being that person for a day or two. That would be awesome. It would also be a genuinely unique experience, which I just love! :)

On a side note it would seem I have a date for later today (Saturday). Considering my track record of late I don't really expect all that much from this but I'm not really much of a quitter. I think my approach to things sometimes (definitely not all the time) is to just continue to bash my head against hard objects until they eventually break. That really works for more than you might think. I mean it's not really how I would approach my job but it WAS how I approached getting into AFFD and several other important things in my life. Anyway, wish me luck I guess. I would say I wasn't going to need it but we all know that a big fat lie.

So I've been going ape shit reading comics this week. No really. I've gone from episode one to current on The Boys, The Walking Dead and Herogasm and I'm forty something issues into Invincible. You already knew all that though. I have no intention of stopping but I REALLY need to slow down. My eyes are really not standing up to the punishment. That's a rough estimate of almost 200 comics in the span of a week. I don't think eyes were made for that kind of usage. Though if you have ever considered catching up on your comics may I recommend the combinations of kickasstorrents.com and ComicRack. All are good stuff.

Meh. Kinda ran outta things to talk about this time around. Even a couple repeats on such a short post is pretty sad. I wish I could use an excuse along the lines of "Oh no! My netbook is almost outta batteries" but even though it's been two days of near constant comic reading, it still has two more hours of charge!. Nootch! I'm out!

Tommy "Seriously? Nootch? That's from, like, the 90's?!" Schubert

So here I am on the precipice of another big change. Funny thing is? It's not really me that's changing.

Ted leaves tomorrow. He won't be back for a good long while. This is a really big and positive move for Ted so I'm really wishing him all the best. That's not the problem. Actually...it's not like there really is a problem. This is what things looking good looks like. Jobs. New places. New experiences. New friends. I'm actually a little jealous. No really! I really enjoy the excitement of uprooting my life and moving it someplace else. You got to start all over again. You get to be someone else. Maybe you were the ubernerd in your original group, in your new group you could be the lady killer, or even the leader. Maybe there are new places that just speak to you. Like a badass comic store, or a coffee shop that just can't get any cooler. Your choices are infinite. Your roots are free. I really love that feeling and I really miss it sometimes. Ted doubted that I was actually a little jealous when I mentioned it the other day. That's too bad. It's true.

Not all that much going on lately that's worth talking about. DIFF just ended a couple days ago. Got a number and a couple chick contacts outta it, but nothing has happened from them that's worth mentioning quite yet. Met Lou Diamond Phillips and Wally Pfister, both were really cool guys. Hung out a lot at the filmmaker's lounge. Saw a bunch of my film friends that I basically only see at the festival as none of them really invite me anywhere and never come when invited. Saw almost twenty films this year. Lots of documentaries. I would recommend some but most of them are actually already on video. I'm just really glad it's over and really irked that, though I finally mustered the courage to call the chick I got the number for, she just didn't answer the phone...or call me back. Oh well. I often wonder why I even bother.

I'm really excited about a couple lame ass things lately.

I bought a chiclet keyboard for my computer. Unfortunately that didn't have any in America so I had to order one from the UK. I'm just recently finding out (I exclusively touch type) that a lot of the more irrelevant key are actually labeled differently. Hope that never becomes a problem.

I also turned my netbook in to an eReader. Let me tell you: I HIGHLY recommend doing this if you have a netbook. It's cheaper and more functional than just about anything else out there and it's light enough to read comfortably for hours. I have completely caught up with The Walking Dead and have been really enjoying Herogasm, and The Boys. I have just about all of the Invincible series and I'm reading like a mad-person. It's really really awesome. That combined with using my netbook for AFFD meetings, D&D, browsing the web infront of the TV, the usual word processing, anime and movie watching, I really just can't think of why someone would want an iPad over a simple netbook. Especially considering they are already significantly more powerful that mine with even longer battery life.

Ok...I have been writing this off and on for several hours now and it's just time to bed. Night all. I'll be back soon probably. Only seven more weeks of school!

Tommy "my @ sign is where the quotes symbol should be" Schubert