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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part VII |
[Nov. 13th, 2008|11:52 pm] |
Today's topic is home.
It's getting colder and I was without my winter jacket (plus I had to pick up some other things) and I needed to fax a 20 page document and giving Campus Design and Copy ~$10 did not appeal to me, so today I went home (or actually my parents' house, but I'm still at the point where it seems homey)! I'll be back in Amherst tomorrow so it probably seems like sort of a useless thing but I disagree.
It's really neat to adjust your routine for one day. My dog went nuts when I came home and would not stop jumping up and licking me. I ate a home-cooked meal and drank cheap wine. I went grocery shopping with my dad. I was going to do my laundry (without having to pay or wait or anything!) until my dad volunteered my mom to do it! I got to lie on something other than my bed (the couch, also the floor). I watched a football game with my parents even though I don't like football. It's so different than what I'd normally be doing and it's kind of nice and refreshing every once and awhile.
Still wouldn't want to live there for more than a couple of weeks though! But if anything makes me wish I owned a house, it's going home and remembering what it's like to live in a house. |
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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part VI |
[Nov. 12th, 2008|11:24 pm] |
Today I'm writing about movies.
Have you ever watched an older movie and thought 'this _has_ to be done with computers but there weren't any computers then!'? Happens all the time to me. There's a lot of neat resourceful stuff that can be done with just film I guess. Such as: how do you a a semitransparent over of one scene with another with just film? I don't really know anything about film, so it's always shocking how much can be done with it. |
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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part V |
[Nov. 11th, 2008|11:57 pm] |
Today I'm writing about candy!
I like candy a lot. I don't think I have a concept of 'too sweet'. I never like to have a supply of candy because I eat it really fast because I have no self control. Even when I buy candy from the vending machine (ALWAYS peanut M&Ms) I tell myself I won't eat them all at once and they're gone before I know it.
There are times when I'll want some certain food (like I'll crave meat or something) and it seems like nothing else will satiate that craving, but a lot of the time candy works anyway especially if it has chocolate or peanuts in it. |
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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part IV |
[Nov. 10th, 2008|11:19 pm] |
Today's entry is about sleeping.
I like to sleep. If I let myself just sleep with no limits I probably do a solid 10 hours. I sleep pretty lightly sometimes I go through stages where I wake up a lot during my sleep plus sometimes have trouble falling asleep to begin with. So I guess maybe this is a reasonable amount of sleep, all things considered.
Nevertheless, I wish I slept less because it seems like a pretty useless thing to do. However, I do enjoy it a lot and really enjoy lying in bed and doing nothing in the morning, even though it feels wasteful. I've often though that there's something wrong with me because of the amount that I sleep, but a pretty standard battery of blood tests that I got because of hand tremors didn't show anything. Still I wonder if my feelings towards sleeping are something I should try to overcome or just roll with. |
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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part III |
[Nov. 9th, 2008|11:16 pm] |
Today I'm discussing attraction.
What makes a woman attractive to me is a combination of a shared set of interests, a creative/inventive (in the sense of not just being a consumer of media/culture etc if that makes any sense) outlook on life, and a smattering of physical qualities (often with the attraction to the physical qualities intensifying over time). I'm not making this up! Now of the first two I'd say the first one and to a lesser extent the second one are pretty good predictors for friendship with a person in general. Taken to its logical conclusion I think we could say I find attraction to be superset of friendship.
Okay, so I feel like that's totally not how most people work! There are different sort of predictors for friendship and attraction and that blows my mind wicked hard. And it makes me feel a little naive, but I totally can't force myself into this mindset.
So let's apply this to a concept that I've seen thrown around: loving someone as a friend. If you look at things through the first perspective it's a pretty vacuous statement because if you were to love someone there would be attraction and the friendship would be implied. I think it might actually mean that telling party finds you physically flawed beyond overlooking! But if we look from the second angle it totally works because no state totally overlaps the other.
Remember that your comments are public for the world to see, so be prudent! |
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| Vacuous Matt Serial Part II |
[Nov. 8th, 2008|10:56 pm] |
Today's entry is about the economy!
I don't like the term 'the economy' because it's really abstract, but everyone's using it so I will too for simplicity's sake. The economy sucks for a lot of people right now and I feel like I should be upset, but I'm not, and yeah I'm not really comfortable with how uncaring that sounds but I can't say I'm losing sleep. I just don't feel it. But then again when people mention it do I join in with the whole 'fuck this subprime mortgage, lack of government oversight, George W Bush bullshit' or do I mention how I could stand to benefit from this--barring the American economy breathing its last breaths and keeling over--by buying low. Former seems insincere and the latter seems a bit uncaring and glib. |
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