trans christian, any pronouns. artist at heart, programmer by trade. this is my journal of sketches, project notes, and assorted thoughts – spanning games, technology, creativity, neurodiversity, and more!
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
It's Thanksgiving today! You may have already known that, but it's nice to announce anyway.
(Warning: Much of the rest of this post will be sentimental and will involve my life up to this point along with random memories. Read at your own risk.)
I'm personally thankful for having friends. I've never really had the chance to have friends since I was eight; my parents were constantly on the move, and I was homeschooled. Since I never took roots, and since I was never surrounded by people outside of church, I slowly went away from social-ness and became an introvert. Not that that was a bad thing; I began doing more solitary hobbies such as video games and maze-drawing, which have now become ingrained into my very being.
My parents then adopted my brother (who is actually my cousin) two years later. He's a social flutterby, to put it lightly. We get along for the most part, but he ended up being my only "social" contact. As a result, we have our own little quirks and inside jokes that no one else would understand, which doesn't help with being social. It just creates more of a box.
Then I began going to smart school just last year, which is like college at high school. Jumping from a conservative Christian bubble to a worldly liberal social setting was a stretch at first, but I like having friends now. I click well with my circle of friends, possibly because we're all smart and most of us share similar views. It also helps with being away from home.
Now that I've troubled you with my sentimentality, here's a song for Sonic After the Sequel that sounds like a sugar rush.
http://soundcloud.com/kgzmusic/breakfast-time-horizon-heights
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Presented Without Commentary: A Calvin and Hobbes Comic
Beach party, anyone?
It should be mandatory to play this song at least once at every beach party, all summer long.
Don't ask me where the name came from.
F1RST P0ST
[A group of people enter the room.]
WillWare: Oh, hey! This is my new blog thing that I'm working on.
Person 1: That's cool!
Smart Alex: "New"? Like your theme isn't?
Person 2: What's it about?
WillWare: A number of things, actually. I'll post about music, video games, art, philosophy and religion, whatever cool stuff I find, smart things, and my life at *location* School for Math, Science, and the Arts, which will soon change to college.
Person 2: *location*?
WillWare: I'd rather not give away my age or location. Stalkers.
Smart Alex: I think your blog is having a bit of an identity crisis.
WillWare: It's a little bit of everything, to be sure. I hope I can keep it organized. I've never done this "blogging" thing before.
Smart Alex: I can tell.
Person 1: Oh, be nice. He's new.
Person 2: How often will you be updating this?
WillWare: I'm hoping for about once every day or two. School is taxing, though.
Person 1: Which is why you're making this over Thanksgiving Break?
WillWare: Yep. Except my school seems to believe that "break" = "pile on more homework", so even this is a stretch.
Smart Alex: So is the blog itself.
Person 2: Just shut up. So, what are your hobbies?
WillWare: Pretty much everything I've listed already...
Person 1: That's honestly not much.
WillWare: Even within my hobbies I'm pretty closed-minded. I listen almost exclusively to Christian and video game music - mostly the latter - and I play mostly Nintendo, Sega, and indie games. But within those restrictions I'm open to anything - heavy metal to orchestra, brick breakers to platformers.
Person 1: I just noticed... what's with the name of your blog?
WillWare: I'm a CS guy.
Person 1: Ah.
Smart Alex: Would you say you're a "good" coder or a "great" one?
WillWare: ..."Good." Why?
Smart Alex: It's said that good coders are failing in one subject, while great coders are failing in all of their subjects and dropping out.
WillWare: Well, I failed both halves of American History last year...
Smart Alex: Yep.
WillWare: But I got an A on the first half over the summer. Even so, I'm wary about my grades in social studies courses.
Person 2: Speaking of which, what's your homework over the week?
WillWare: ...It's mostly in Religions of Asia, my SS class this semester.
Person 1: Then you might want to get to that!
WillWare: Yeah, I probably should. See you guys!
Person 1, Person 2, Smart Alex: Bye!
[Exeunt.]
Finals
I haven't left... Life happened.
First up, finals are coming soon. So I've had to prepare for that.
Secondly, I forgot I had this blog half the time. I was working the other half.
Third, I should warn my tiny following: To me this blog is almost like a journal. Sort of. The problem is, I've tried keeping a journal before, and it didn't quite work out. Each of the five or so times I tried, I ended within a month. Except one, which I managed to keep up for four months. Either way, things don't look good for me keeping this up.
I like to think I can change that. At some point, I will figure this out.