New Logs, Old Logs, and the Chorallaries

This is the blog that should have been. Last weeks has just been horrible, and I really had no incentive to blog. Nothing really happened... And even if there were stuff to blog about, I would rather choose to keep up in EVE than "waste" time blogging or sleep. No, not sleep.

There were 3 points of interest from last weekend. The first was the 60th anniversary Logarhythms concert. The theme was alumni reunion, and I thought the combo was for the worse. They weren't bad or anything, but it wasn't as entertaining as their past concerts. It might just be because of the music. The old alumni (like really old) sang a bunch of old songs that didn't really pique my interest. The highlight of the concert was definitely the beginning when the alumni from the 2000s sang, and one of them did Float On by Modest Mouse. Then on Friday, the song was woke me up (my alarm is the radio) was Float On, and I was like omg, that song is so good. Been hooked ever since. I'm going to post a shit load of pix after the text.

The other two highlights are more ephemeral. The first one was an epic (yes epic, epicness does not have to correlate with fun) Magic game. It was Emporer format with me, Anton, and Amber vs. Nathan, Bohan, and Anthony. But it turned out to be more like me and Anton vs. Nathan with some support from Bohan. The seating made it easy for me to transfer my creatures to Anton for him to pound Nathan with. We played three games. Nathan changed his deck every game. The first two was rape. The beatdown from two beatdown decks (my Naya and Anton's Nathan's Progenitus) was just too much for one deck to handle. The third game was a fucking marathon. At one point, I though Anton was going to be screwed, but we fought back and first eliminated Nathan. Bohan at this point was a good repertoire powerful creatures, and Anton and I were being really careful on each of our turns because both sides had more than enough firepower to kill each other in one turn. At the same time, the games have been really straining on the other team, and they were really on edge. Until at one point, while Anton and I were planning out our attack, Bohan was like FUCK IT. "I SCOOP! ALRIGHT?! YOU GUYS WIN! I'M NEVER PLAYING MAGIC AGAIN!" Four days later, he was back. That game really showed the dark side of Magic. Magic can be fun, but in its core, it's still a competitive game. And competition can really push buttons. Nathan was really sad and Bohan was pissed after those games. I made me wonder if we truly liked playing Magic, or it's just an easy escape from other harsh realities. Some people drank, party, smoke, etc., maybe our heroin is Magic.

The last "highlight" was a late night AIM chat I had with Anton Monday morning (before classes >.<). We were talking about group dynamics again (mega >.<). And well things weren't so optimistic in the conversation, and lots of sensitive shit came up. I hate stagnation. Anyway I think I got more mad than I should have in the chat and maybe said my bad stuff? I apologize.

So yea, last week SUCKED. Like one of the worst weeks of MIT so far. Like I just felt overall really antisocial, so I tried to play a Sandra and actually tried to be productive with the antisocialness, which just lead to more and more epic fail. Like my school work even decreased in quality. I just pwned on the 18.03 test (I don't know my grades yet, but I'm certain I got -20pt out of 100; there were just too many damn direction fields to draw; fuck I hate 18.03). I even skipped class to study for it and got a good sleep... Shit. 18.03 makes me feel shitty. So I tried to bury my pain in Magic and went to the draft. And had the worst draft ever. I got shitty cards and made a shitty deck. When it pours, it rains, right? Went back to MacG to play some EVE (which is pretty awesome, and I wish I made more time so I can do corp stuff instead of just missions and farming :'() and then started 6.01 at 1AM. Not good. I half-assed the last few questions, so I could watch Savior vs. Zero in the MSL ro8 at 4:30, so I didn't get perfect even though I could have. Yea, I'm continuing to let myself down. And to pile more shit on, Savior lost to my noob. Game 4 was just embarrassing. Savior, where are your mutas? Sigh. I got 3 hours of sleep that night.

Thursday was when the light started to peek out of the dark clouds. I was paired up with someone called Luis Pena for 6.01 lab, and he was actually not a retard! My first partner was nice and all, but not too good at comp sci. My second partner was just dead weight. Finally, I got a competent partner. And we breezed through the lab in 2 hours (labs are 3 hours long) and even spent 30 minutes looking for the concept questions. After class, I returned my Hyperstudio keys to Belinda. It signified the official termination of my journey with the team. I can't say I learned much, but it was fun, and I made good money. Belinda is also awesome. If you are into web developement, web design, or Shakespeare, and need a summer or spring job, I can recommend you to Belinda. Awesome person to work under. After that I was just too exhausted for the rest of my classes and take a loooooong nap back in MacG. Worked on 14.01 later that night. And earlier Friday morning I watched Stork advance in the OSL tiebreakers baby! Birdtoss is gonna get gooollld.

We had Joe Jacobson come over to speak for MAS Friday breakfast. He helped design the e-ink display for the Kindle, so I thought the talk was going to be really cool, but instead it was about complexity functions and was boring as hell. And I fell asleep right in front of the guy, but he really didn't deliver his worth imo. The class were like normal. Nirupuma made fun of one person asking a question... It was a legit question, but when the TA asked if anyone else was confused, no one really said anything, so she basically said that the girl asking the question was either need to grow up and learn some study habits or she's failing at being funny. It was really harsh, and I think she realized it too. Yea.. she's intense. I wasn't prepared for my meeting with Ankur because of the horrendus week, so I did some intense programming after classes to "catch up". This lead me to be so late for the meeting that he left. >.< I felt really bad. There's also a flood after the downpour... But Friday night was awesome. Anton, Nathan, Bohan, and I went to MacG to do some Rock Band. It was SICK! Normally when I do vocals, I do put in any effort, but last night when I sang Float On and The Hand That Feeds, I really sang. It's like letting out angst. It felt good. After 2 hours, some other people came, and we let them take over because we were tired. They were INSANE! Like this one girl just pwned up the drums and guitar on expert. And one guy got 100% on expert guitar! WTF!!! We then went back to Next to watch Slumdog, which I dled from torrent in 20 min (I FUCKING LOVE MIT INTERNET!). Nathan wasn't impressed... But watching it again was still really good. It's not a technical "good" movie, but I felt like it had great mass appeal, and really good story telling. A top notch movie (when Nathan said the the Da Vinci Code was just as good, I was like NO FRACKING WAY). insert: I need to stop doing so many caps. After that, Julian, Anton, Anthony, and I talked. It was first about Julian's problems, which I'll write about in the next paragraph, and then Anton and Anthony talked about religion... so a long time. I wasn't too interested and fell asleep on the couch. Eventually so did Anton and Anthony. Then I woke up at 5AM because of neck pain, and was like WTF? Where am I? Julian, the douche, left us sleeping there and went to bed. Anton and Anthony were also passed out. LOL. Friday night was good.

Ok to be continued.. waiting at Bad Taste Concert from the Chorallaries. It's going to start soon. It's got lots of hype :D.