From The Sonic CD OST.

From the Sonic CD OST.

The following is a dramatization of real events:

"My charger for my computer broke! One of the wires must have frayed. Oh well, I'll be out of commission for a couple of days. I'll just order a new one via Amazon Prime.

"WHAT?!? It's EIGHTY DOLLARS?! Not happening! This had BETTER be covered under warranty.

"I've been on hold for the past thirty minutes... What, it's under warranty? Great! How long will it take to get here?... FIVE TO SEVEN DAYS?!?!

"I'm gonna be without a computer for a WEEK! Classes will have started by then! Now I can't stream, or work on my mappacks, or distract myself during class, or refresh the same eight websites every five minutes, or... Or..."

.....................

*starts grinning*

"OH NO, now I can't do everything on my computer! I'm FORCED to learn how to better use my phone as a secondary way of obtaining information. How HORRIBLE!

"Aw man, now I can't play my computer games! I have to play my new 3DS games that I got the other day instead. One of them is even my first Pokemon game! It's pure TORTURE.

"Darn it, now I can't work on my mappacks! Forget the fact that I've been working on them for months and haven't made much progress on anything - I OBVIOUSLY can't be productive now! I guess I have to take a break or something.

"Now that my computer is out of commission, I can't do ANYTHING on it! I'm now forced to start doing everything else that I've been neglecting because I was doing all these IMPORTANT things on my computer! And things won't go back to normal for a WEEK! Whatever will I do..."

*packs away computer*

Over time I've slowly discovered an odd phenomenon about myself and my ability to understand things: words are stored in my head as feelings.

The first time I figured this out, it was with the word "freezing." When I hear that word, I actually feel a little colder. It's a very subtle feeling, almost unnoticeable, and it lasts a shorter time than it takes for me to even say the word.

It's a subconscious thing. In fact, 99% of the time I don't even notice. Occasionally I'll just notice it for no reason at all. Other times I watch myself to see if it's really happening, or if I'm just making it up.

Naturally, I've tried other things. It turns out I do this with numbers as well. I have a very distinct feeling of the presence of "one," or "three," and even an idea of "one taken from three." It starts to distort with larger numbers; I can rationalize that 10,002 - 10,001 is the same as 2 - 1, but they don't feel the same. Another thing that works is punctuation; I can feel the breaks and pauses in the sentence differently based on a single comma or capitalized letter.

This plays into how I understand the world. When my teacher explains something in class, I'm able to connect with the idea in a way that lets me explain it to others in a way they can understand. When someone is telling a story of what happened to them, it's essentially happening to me at the same time; I'm able to empathize. It is the strangest and most wonderful thing.

Why do I say all this? Because maybe this is normal for people, and someone can get some use out of knowing this about themselves. Or, maybe I'm just lucky. One thing's for sure: this is all just further proof that I think too much.

Some days: "Why don't I have enough friends? I wanna go meet people and make friends and do things with them!"

Other days: "People, please stop pestering me... I just want to be alone for a while... I'm trying to be as nice as I can about this..."

I just realized that I never made a feature page for Twitter like I did with Facebook and DeviantART. So let's jump right in!

I've been thinking about this for a while now, because SOMEONE keeps complaining that I don't have a Facebook account (you know who you are >_>). I'm not trying to imply that this is a replacement somehow, but I did get positive remarks when I expressed interest in Twitter, so I thought this would be a good experiment.

So what features do we have here?

140 character posts - There are plenty of things I think of throughout the day that are WAY too short for me to post on here. Twitter would be a good way to get that out there. Besides, posting something gets it off my mind, so it's not floating around distracting me from whatever I'm doing while trying to lengthen it out to "blogpost length" (whatever that is).

Follow businesses I like - I know I've said before that I prefer to go to their site instead of reading the post on social media, but I've been looking for some sort of RSS feed to keep that all together, and this sort of fulfills that role.

#hashtag - If I start using hashtags outside of satire, please someone slap me.

Follow people - The entire purpose of social media right here. Watch my friends and family and other peeps do things. But there are two snags:

Most of my friends don't post much on Twitter. That's fine and all, but they'll get drowned out by all these other things I'm following that post every ten minutes. I'm not sure how to work around this yet, but if I don't find out anything I'll live with it.

My friends and family aren't as careful as I am about their location/identity/etc. So by looking at who I follow, people could figure out who I am and where I'm at, which renders all my attempts at privacy useless. I could up the privacy on the account, but that would protect everything, and I only want to protect some things. But I'm figuring out that if anyone wanted my information, they could find it already (despite my efforts). So it's becoming more of a moot point.

With that in mind, this is an experiment, so I'm not sure where this will go. But I think a lot of good will come out of this, so let's see what happens.

From the... um... I'm not sure what it is. But you can import it from Amazon.