A break

Gods, I feel like I'm writing a final paper for a class with the amount of carrying on I've been doing and procrastination. (Got a work project due tomorrow, lol.)

But I did want to take a few minutes to ramble a bit about Second Life. Yes. Second Life. Go on, make fun of me. I'll wait.

Done? Ok.

( whoa, this got long, yikes )

Anycrap. SL=damn fascinating in its own weird little way.

Back to work with me.

Something to constantly remind myself of

Nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, ever turns out to warrant the amount of stressing I do over things. Especially since the way I stress over things leads to a sort of terrified paralysis, which, since I'm not doing anything towards eliminating said cause of stress, makes the whole stress thing worse, and cue downward spiral. And I'm always so disgusted with myself for falling into that trap, especially since after breaking out of it enough to actually deal with the problem it ALWAYS ends up being an "oh.... that was it?" sort of thing.

Yeah.

I need to tattoo something on the back of my hand to the effect of "you are so making it out to be worse than it is" or something. Cause this shit right here is gonna give me a completely unnecessary stroke one day.

Bullet points

Since I have a moment or so to breathe, I thought it was time for a bullet list of happy things in my world.

• 181.fm - the Buzz. I know I'm late to the party, but I'm loving the party now that I've arrived. It's like someone found the grungy alternative soul of Z100 during the early/mid-nineties when I listened to it non stop from 6am-midnight with breaks for school and subway tunnels and spit it into an internet radio station. It was one of the main things that kept me sane last night as I valiantly battled Morpheus while trying to finish my project.
  
  
• Thunderstorms. We've been averaging about one every 36 hours for like a month, it's crazy.
  
  
• Olympics. GUH, EPIC WIN for Beijing for that opening ceremony alone. I'm sure the British are all like "CRAP what are we gonna do to upstage THAT in 2012???" Yeah good luck with that, guys. The Chinese pretty much PWNED this one. Really they could have stopped at the end of that opening 2008 Fo drum number and it still would have pwned everything ever.
  
  Fail for Bob Costas and Matt Lauer though. There've been several ibarw posts about how eurocentrically skewed the coverage of the parade of nations was, and at some points it WAS pretty damn cringe inducing. If the host nation uses an ideographic writing system rather than an alphabetical one, it does not give you the right to call the ordering of the nations "nonsensical." And you really, really couldn't find anything more interesting and relevant to say about the Central African Republic other than it being in the center of Africa? *facepalm* They should offer a commentary-less SAP channel or something for these things. Also... I couldn't get through it as it was being broadcast because there were commercials every five minutes. And when you're watching a 4+ hour long program that gets intolerable wicked fast. Went far better a couple of days later when sydneycat and I watched it again on DVR.
  
  On the positive side, I totally have Go USA!! crushes on Mike Phelps, Shawn Johnson and Nastia Lukin.
  
  
• Lynx, Xaio Hu and Cougar, thank you for bringing the squees, lolz and music this week. I'm glad to have met you guys. Also thank you for making last night less ignominious.
  
  
• The Perseids peak tonight, and it should be a fabulous show, provided the skies clear. I'll probably be up working anyway.... D:
  
  
• LobsterLM. Heh heh. And that is NOT #8.
  
  
• VACATION IN 4 DAYS!!!! *FLAIL*
  
  

This is pretty cool.

http://www.walkscore.com/

This site rates your neighborhood by determining how walkable it is. Pretty much this is determined by seeing what type of amenities are within walking distance from your house.

I find it funny that Camp Amoeba has a better walkability score (92 - Walker's Paradise) than The House in Brooklyn (76), but they do say that they fail to take public transportation into account, which is probably the only reason why.

I'm amused to know that there are people on my flist that have a zero score.


ETA: LOL! The Buzz is playing "Detachable Penis!"

EATA: just to keep all memes in one post...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 1 or fewer people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?