Status Reports, Crushes, and Talk To Me!

my mood: rested
reading: Firestar by Michael Flynn
listening to: A lawnmower somewhere outside my window
Playing: Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga
Working on: IPC Homework
Trying to learn: Latin and Japanese AND HTML AND ASL
Practicing: Typing (of the Dead)

Status Report
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ComicCraze: In Progress
Omega Termini: Delayed
Aspects: New Project, In Progress

Review last post? I think I will... So, second paragraph: My Eagle Board of Review is in a week, which means that the rank and the Court of Honor probably in a couple of weeks. Third paragraph: Still stands, though I'm not quite as annoyed about it right now. Fourth paragraph(After the Q&A's): It's true! Really! I'm not crazy! Not much, anyway.

In case you didn't notice, I've added a status report to the top of my posts. ComicCraze is my webcomic fansite, and although I havn't made much progress on it recently, I still consider it a work in progress and intend to continue work on it shortly. Omega Termini is my own webcomic project, and I'm still going to work on it sometime, but for now it has been shelved for a while. Aspects is a new project that has been turning in my mind for a while. It is another webcomic, so I won't be able to start the actual comic until I know how to draw (a long while off) but I will be able to design the site, do some storyboarding, and so on. I'm going to be including the status report as a regular "feature", and I'll hopefully be getting more specific as to how each project is going.

Now I've reached a topic that I'm a bit unsure of. However, I'm either having a moment of lucidity or insanity, so I'm going to charge ahead and speak. The whole social life thing at school is huge, as anywhere else. As I have mentioned before, I had earlier been asked who I "have a crush on". Being the antisocial fool that I am, I've been trying to keep away from evenletting a crush develop, but it has and had before. So, for the curious, I'm going to post the people I had a crush on this school year as well as the person I have the crush on now. Before I get scared and stop myself. No last names will be used, to vaguely protect the privacy of these people. Ok, so, the begiinning of the year to about thanksgiving break: Mindy. From there to a few weeks after Christmas break: Lizzie. Then for a while, absolutely no one. Now, Lauren. Of course, this is the only place I'm going to admit any of this. Now, that's done, so I'm not going to go back and delete it.

My e-mail has changed. I will still be infrequently checking my hergenjohn one, but the new one is (I'm writing it backwards in an attempt to prevent spam): moc.liamg@neryhobeew

I will check that e-mail fairly frequently, at least once every other day. Feel free to e-mail me or IM me or whatever. I'm always a willing listener.

Speaking of listener, I'm also very curious. So, the next time you see me, tell me about yourself (And spread the word to others! Tell your friends to tell me about themselves!). What's on your mind? Where are you from? How do you think? Just tell me anything your comfortable telling me. Please. I'm willing and ready to listen to your troubles, your fears, and your joys. So tell me a little about yourself. Actually, tell me alot about yourself.

Well, on that rather disjointed not, I bid you all farewell. I'll post more later (maybe).

~WeeboHyren

Stereotypes, Intelligence, and a B

my mood: weary
reading: little tidbits of wisdom on the web
listening to: saria's song running through my head
Playing: Stepmania
Working on: Comic Craze
Trying to learn: Latin and Japanese AND HTML
Practicing: Focus

So, no need to review the last post, so I'll go straight into this one.

I have finally finished my eagle scout application. All that is left now for me to actually do is have an eagle board of review, even though the process itself continues far beyond that. Then I get to have my Eagle Court of Honor, where I'll probably have to give a speech (bleh). When that is done, I'll be done with getting ranks in Boy Scouts. My active participation in the organization from that point forward I'm unsure of at the moment. I suppose I'll figure that out later.

It is very interesting to be stereotyped as "the smart one". I make no claim at being particularly talented in the realm of academics, and yet that's apparently what I'm seen as being. How this all happened I'm not really sure about. Although I get good grades, I'm never very studious or dedicated to my classes. Maybe it's because of all the little bits of trivia that I (unknowingly, in my case) learn? Either way, it leads to some interesting assumptions. These are probably perpetuated by the more dedicated people who get such high grades. Jeez. People are individuals, right? So don't clump me together with some stereotype. I feel like having a press conference. You know, address all the questions that all the people at Chapin KEEP ASKING.

Q: Is this your first B?
A: No, EPISD is just hella easy.

Q: Are your parents gonna be mad?
A: No

Q: Are you upset by this B?
A: Nope. A little interested, for reasons later in the blog.

Q: Wow. You obviously are a confident and intelligent young man. Would you like to have my job/my loyalty/control of the free world?
A: Yes. Unless, of course, your job sucks.

Now that that is done, on to the next topic. This is related to school a bit. It's also something that intertwines with the rest of my life. It's kind of a mystical spiritual type thing. Actualy, its almost purely like that. It's my "luck". Yes, I'm just superstitious enough to believe in luck. Ever been really, really lucky? Like the teacher suddenly deciding to not collect homework for absolutely no reason, but you know that it's because you didn't do the assignment? That's how I feel most of my day. A general feeling of pronoia, like instead of everyone being out to get me, they are out to help me. As a counterbalance of this, I don't think I have ever won any public contest based on chance, like bingo or the lottery. It's worth it. Instead of winning a few games or so. I am LUCKY. Not an amazing luck, but one that lets me calm down a bit and relax during life. That's right, I'm not smart. Just very lucky. Of course, some might say that it was just my subconscious trying to assert some substitute for self-confidence into my life. Some might say that, if they had overanalyzed the whole thing. However, it affects external things too. Or maybe I'm just being a conspiracy theorist. The jfactor (as I would call it if I used a cliched name, which I will.) is not flawless. Sometimes it throws a curve to keep me on my toes. However, overall it keeps me sane.

So there you have it. Another glimpse into one of my numerous quirks. Hope you had fun. Next update within a week, methinks.

Don't forget to IM/ call/ write/e-mail/ talk IRL!

~WeeboHyren

More Tommorow

my mood: content
reading: nothing in particular. Just finished The Da Vinci Code
listening to: DDR songs running through my head
Playing: Flash Games linked on Milk and Cookies
Working on: Eagle Scout Rank Application
Trying to learn: HTML. Fully.
Practicing: DDR Songs

Hmmm....Im on Saturday this time. Go me.

Last post in review, now. Third paragraph: I'm pretty much done with flash for now. I'll learn it when I need it. Fifth paragraph: Still working on Eagle Scout Application, and still have the same life goal. Sixh paragraph: Still working on it. Seventh paragraph: Havn't started the uberplugging yet.

This post will probably be shorter than my already usually short posts. This one will simply be me rambling for two or three paragraph, and then off to bed. I'm tired enough as it is. In fact, skip the paragraphs, I'm going to sleep. more tommorow morning

~WeeboHyren

Flash and Web Design

my mood: rushed
reading: The Last Heroes by W.E.B. Griffin
listening to: www.highscoreonline.com 8-bit background goodness
Playing: Fire Emblem
Working on: My Eagle Scout Rank Application
Trying to learn: Macromedia Flash
Practicing: 3-ball juggle

Well, once again I've missed my update day. This whole set update schedule apparently does not work for me. So, in order to remedy the problem, I'm just going to get rid of the schedule. I'll try to update on Saturday's at the minimum, but no guarantees. For those of you who aren't already aware, I am showing the date and time of my most recent blog posts in my AIM profile. Once again, my AIM screen name is hergenjohn.

Ok, now for the post before last post in review. Third paragraph: It'll be a while before this thing moves, if at all. Fourth paragraph: I think this is one of the longest times I've gone without impulse buying of some sort. Fifth paragraph: Same thing. Contact me through AIM or e-mail me. Sixth: Still holds true. Now for last post. First paragraph: Seriously, come and ramble. I enjoy listening. Second paragraph: Not much to say on that. OK, now on to new topics.

I've recently been trying to learn how to use Macromedia Flash. It is far more difficult than I had expected. Of course, most of that difficulty is probably caused by my learning strategy: screw around with the software and hope I learn. I figured that since it worked with Photoshop, I might as well try it. However, for Flash, I think I'm going to switch over to using tutorials. With luck I'll be able to figure out how Flash works from them. At the very least, I'll learn a little.

Life is a little crazy at the moment. Along with trying to keep all of my schoolwork straight, I'm also trying to finish my last few steps to getting Eagle Scout. I should probably be working on finishing everything I need instead of writing this, but for some reason I really don't feel like it.

By "a few steps", I may be making an understatement. I still have to finish finding references, look up a couple of dates, and write a "statement of my ambitions and life purposes". I've pretty much taken care of the references, and I plan on finding out the dates today at the scout meeting. However, I'm not so sure about the life goals and ambitions part. My life goals and ambitions are pretty vague. They aren't just so short that I can sum them up in one sentence, they pretty much are one sentence. Something like "Enjoy life and make the world a better place at the same time." It may be simple, but it works for me.

Web page design is also harder than it seems. Its not so much the difficulty of the job, as much as the exactness that is required to have a good looking design. A few pixels misalignment can make the whole thing look screwed up. I'm going to scrap my old designs and do it more methodically. First a layout, then do my tables (carefully), then put in the images and such. Of course, that's only to get the homepage done.

I need to start plugging my blog IRL. Hopefully I can get a bit more traffic through here. Of course, I only have a very small potential reader base: people who know me. No matter, I'll plug it anyway. It would also be nice if you, my readers, would do the same. If you know someone who knows me, or hell, someone who knows of me, give 'em the link, even if you think they've seen it already.

So I guess that's it. You've lived through another installment of my blog. That wasn't too painful, was it? The next one will be in a while, I suppose. Just watch my AIM profile. In the meantime, while you eagerly await (yeah, right) the next post, talk to me. IRL, if possible, but if not then on AIM. Just tell me who you are. I've had some strange experiences with AIM. ^_^

~WeeboHyren