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You're unsure if I am a loose end or a strand
that waits for you to mend or understand
A few words
"When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness."
~ D.H. Lawrence

"Is the meaning of life defined by its duration? Or does life have a purpose so large that it doesn't have to be prolonged at any cost to preserve its meaning?"

"Living is not good, but living well. The wise man, therefore, lives as well as he should, not as long as he can... He will always think of life in terms of quality not quantity... Dying early or late is of no relevance, dying well or ill is... even if it is true that while there is life there is hope, life is not to be bought at any cost."
~ Seneca

"People will tell you nothing matters, the whole world's about to end soon anyway. Those people are looking at life the wrong way. I mean, things don't need to last forever to be perfect."
~ Daydream Nation

"All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death."
~ The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes

"The road now stretched across open country, and it occurred to me - not by way of protest, not as a symbol, or anything like that, but merely as a novel experience - that since I had disregarded all laws of humanity, I might as well disregard the rules of traffic. So I crossed to the left side of the highway and checked the feeling, and the feeling was good. It was a pleasant diaphragmal melting, with elements of diffused tactility, all this enhanced by the thought that nothing could be nearer to the elimination of basic physical laws than deliberately driving on the wrong site of the road."
~ Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend."
~ William Blake
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Aw, this is cute, and also something not cute at all
Friday, May 22, 2015
Chode

I like little games like this, even if they're a bit cheesy. If I could make games I might do something like this once in awhile. Probably with more interesting gameplay though. Wanna make that end message feel like a prize!

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In other news, I decided to look at a sex offender registry to see if there were any in my area and welp, looks like there are. Interestingly enough, about half are white middle aged dudes. Not sure what to think of that. That's not very representative of the population here, in any case.

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Faces and accidental CBT
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
"Far Away, By My Side" by Peter, Bjorn & John.


I realized that I haven't been to an open mic in awhile. That seems like it would be a nice thing to do. Maybe I should see if any friends want to go. I think the last one I went to was with my not-yet-boyfriend, and one of my classmates was playing piano/singing. She was pretty good. Ever since then, any time I mention my boyfriend around her, she doesn't remember his name, but she remembers him having very good posture when we were sitting at the open mic.

Last night I went to my mom's friend's daughter's book debut at a book store. That wasn't particularly interesting, but I picked up One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn while I was there. Read the first few pages and it seems alright so far. It's very different than the type of stuff I normally read, which is good I guess.

For one of my classes I was reading a chapter about CBT and I felt like I related to a number of the techniques described there. It's odd. I guess I was using some CBT methods on myself before I even knew what CBT was. Basically just correcting for irrational/inaccurate thinking in myself. I think it started because of the very low self esteem I had as a teenager. I felt like I was so terrible I couldn't possibly be right about anything, so I sort of sectioned off a part of myself into a voice that disagreed with all my thoughts about things. And I guess that... got me to stabilize my thinking and bring it in line with reality more? It was a very aggressive, harsh voice, but it did the trick. I beat myself into feeling better about myself, haha. Actually going to a counselor at St. John's was definitely helpful, though. The therapist after that... not so much. I think I liked my counselor at St. John's more because he challenged me and didn't just let all my confused thoughts go unquestioned. Very straight forward, no nonsense. Occasionally I wonder what he's up to now. I'll probably never know, though. I wish I could remember his face better. I feel like I have a hard time visualizing people's faces, including my own, in my mind. Like a mild mental prosopagnosia. I like looking at people's faces close up and trying to remember all the details but it doesn't seem to help significantly. The pictures I take of myself, too, are kind of efforts to make it seem familiar. I take a fair number of them but mostly I don't share them. Just like to have them as a record-keeping type of thing.

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Maker Faire pictures (and other thoughts)
Monday, May 18, 2015
Welp, I found out there's a budgie tag on Vine today. Time to never be productive again, I guess.

This makes me so happy.


I like this one too.


So, Maker Faire was fun! Some of the exhibits/shows I was hoping to see weren't there this year, but there were some other new things that were cool.

Flamethrowing rhino car.

(The flames came out of its horn)

The Two Penny bike.


A... gorillabot?


This guy's hat had a track that you could roll ping pong balls around!

He had some glasses that you could roll marbles down too but I didn't get a picture of that.

Legoscape.


A sword swallower! This one was new to me.

There was also a fire eater in the act, and a crappy sorta-burlesque thing.

My friends and I volunteered so we'd get free tickets, and our job was to help Tapigami pack up their exhibit. This was what it looked like during the faire...


And afterward when we were cleaning up.


Tapigami makes sculptures with tape, so it was pretty sticky. I ended up wearing some gloves I had stashed in my bag from the last Maker Faire. I was really glad to have them, because some of that tape was pretty nasty.

Anyway... That was Sunday for me.

Today I'm just doing reading for school and playing Twenty (aka procrastinating).

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My friend Alex drove me home from the Maker Faire, and on the way we were talking about relationships and stuff. I mentioned some of the things I do for my boyfriend, and he asked me what I get back. I wasn't entirely sure what to say. All I could think to respond with was "I just feel happy when I'm with him." That got an "awwwww" from him, haha. Even though it's not like, super energetic and bouncy happiness anymore, I guess there's something... nice about being together. Or doing things for him. I don't think about it in terms of what I "get back" really. I dunno. I love him and I think that's all the reason I need to want to do anything I do for him.

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I was thinking earlier about being right vs. being effective. I guess in some situations you could also describe it as tact. For instance, if someone is feeling really down, you can't tell them that their emotional state is in their mind and they can just change it. First of all, nobody wants to hear that, so it comes off as insensitive and not understanding. Even though it is true, pretty much, that you have control over your emotions, it's not an on/off switch you just need to be told about, and it's a skill that you have to develop. I've been encountering some people who don't have a good grasp on how to effectively react to other people's problems in the recent past, so it's something I've been considering.

Maybe it has to do with timing more than anything else. If someone comes to you and says they were the victim of a crime, it's generally inappropriate to say something along the lines of "well, yeah, but what about the perpetrator's side?" I think most people would understand and agree with that. When I was in high school I thought it was good to be bluntly honest, but I've been realizing more and more since then that being up front in that way can be really ineffective, especially since people may react by getting defensive and digging their heels in if you say something they disagree with/don't like. If you must correct people or assert your views, it seems best to wait until they're in a frame of mind to accept what you say with more tolerance.

So I guess that what I'm trying to do looks roughly like this?

Other: I have a problem.
Self: What is it?
-Listen, ask questions to increase understanding and clarify, find out how the person feels about the subject, refrain from inserting too many personal opinions unless they ask...
-Sympathize
-Find out what person wants to do or is doing about the problem (if anything; if they're doing nothing, do they actually want to do something? If they don't, it's not up to me to make them solve it)
-After it has been discussed to an extent satisfactory to the other party-
-Very gentle questions about possible dissonance in thought, if any at all (No grammar corrections; terminology clarification is okay if something is not clear though, I think)

My opinion at the moment is that it's better to phrase these questions as "I don't understand" statements rather than "I think you're wrong" statements. It can be tricky to do that at times, though. Sometimes people will say "I don't understand" in a way that implies they think you're crazy or wrong. You probably know what I mean.

So yeah, I'm still working on my approach to these things, of course. I'm sure I'll spend the rest of my life refining it.

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Please Say Something
Friday, May 15, 2015
"Please Say Something" by David O'Reilly.


I really loved this short film. Just found this guy's Youtube channel today. Didn't know he had other stuff than The Horse Raised by Spheres (which I think I linked before?). It's minimalist, but I felt like so much was conveyed by it.

Earlier... I think I was feeling... transcendent about something. I wish I could remember what it was. It just felt like everything made sense and things were right and my world was as I wished it to be.

My boyfriend and I played Divinity together tonight, which was nice. It wasn't for long, as we both have to be up early in the morning, but we finished a quest and got what ended up being kind of a crappy reward. Oh well.

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Close
Thursday, May 14, 2015
"Just What I Needed" by The Cars.

I don't mind you comin' here
And wastin' all my time
'Cause when you're standin' oh so near
I kinda lose my mind


I've never considered this song one of my favorites, but it's very comforting to me for some reason. Some people say it's about sex but I've never interpreted it that way. It feels caring, but undramatic and uncomplicated. Like taking a nap with someone you love on a couch on a warm summer day, then waking up slowly and seeing them there and smiling at the simple pleasure of being close to them.

Sometimes that's all I really want in a given moment-- to be close to someone I love. I don't know that it even matters what we actually do.

"Close to You" from the Mirrormask soundtrack.

Why do stars fall down from the sky
Every time you walk by?
Just like me, they long to be
Close to you


I think the Mirrormask version of this song is my favorite. It's slow and sleepy and has a slightly different vibe from most other versions.

Even though it feels good to be truly awake and in reality and feel things, there are times when I really enjoy being half asleep and comfortable and knowing there's nothing I have to do or get up for. Waking up and still being sleepy and knowing I can go back to sleep for however long I want is such a nice feeling.

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Cute things
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
So I saw this shirt over the weekend when I was with my boyfriend...

Bunny Love

It's so cute, gahhh. I already have a bunch of t-shirts but I kinda want this one. To some extent I feel like I should be trying to get more stylish clothes and accent pieces rather than more of what I already have like twenty of... -Sigh-

I was making plans with my friend tonight to go to Maker Faire this weekend. It's his first time, so hopefully it'll be lots of fun! I'm excited. :)

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Dreams and comfort
Monday, May 11, 2015
I dreamt that I was a guy by myself at some sort of science museum. The whole ceiling was like that of a planetarium's, with stars and celestial bodies cast onto it. In the dream I imagined that I was there with two others, a girl and another guy who was my friend. We were all close, but there were some unspoken romantic feelings between me and the girl. We wandered around the museum, enjoying the exhibits together, and the girl and I pointed to the ceiling and made up new constellations, which we named for each other. Periodically I would remember that my relationships with the two people were imaginary and I would find myself alone there. It was sort of like waking up from a dream into my dream, and it was a sad, lonely realization.

In the night my boyfriend woke me from that dream by reaching over to me and touching my arm. I wasn't sure what was happening at first. It was very dark, but I thought maybe it was time to wake up and he was just pulling me closer for morning snuggles (since that is usually how things go when I'm at his place). He said something about being scared though, so I moved closer and put my arms around him and told him everything was alright, even though I was still confused. At some point when I started waking up more I thought to ask why he was scared, and he said he thought he heard a noise come from my direction and was afraid someone was in the apartment. Later on in the day we decided he probably had a bad dream that woke him up. For some reason thinking about this makes me feel very affectionate towards him. I don't want him to feel scared or bad about things, but I like being able to comfort him, I guess. Being able to comfort people in general is kind of nice.

I wish I could sleep at his place more often. Maybe once school gets out...?

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Touch Pianist and bad timing
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Listening to the old classic(al)s again because of this game, Touch Pianist. It's interesting to see how people play some of the faster classical music on different instruments, like guitar.

I liked this rendition of Clair de Lune.


Playing through the Gymnop�die pieces in the game mildly made me want to try to learn the first one on piano. I haven't actually played the piano in years, and I remember pretty much nothing about reading music, so that could be hard. There are some... rather extensive tutorials on Youtube though, so maybe I could do it? I think a bigger obstacle would be keeping up the motivation to practice.

Right now I feel like I want to do things. It's 2:30 AM, this is the worst time to want to do things. I feel like starting new projects but I need to go to sleep. I was tired all evening and my brain is only starting to wake up now. -__- Very inconvenient. Maybe I will think of some comic ideas though. I haven't drawn one in so long. Sometimes I think I'd really like to try doing a more serious comic, but I'm not entirely sure how far I could get with that.

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