Jon Furniss

WOTD: Failure n. 1. Jon Furniss

So I fail.

And I give up.

Take that world.

On another note, I’ve been in the need of a good conversation lately, so if you’re good at conversing (because I’m certainly not) please talk to me. My AIM screenname is FurnissLovesYou. My phone number is: 516-732-8970.

kthxbai

I’m not sure at what point today I decided not to post, or if I even decided. But to be not too completely terrible, here’s a WOTD:

unflinching adj. not flinching, yielding, or shrinking; steadfast; resolute

WOTD: secret agent a person who carries on espionage or similar work of a secret nature, as for a government.

I know that that is technically two words, but that’s what my random finger pushing found.

What I did during my Human Condition class today before I fell asleep:

I’m trying to remember what it first was that sparked my interest in disinterest. What pushed me to apathy, laziness, and a constant state of boredom? I remember when I was younger, I loved to learn. I was constantly curious, trying to absorb as much information as possible. Now I want to learn and better myself, but due to a combination of perpetual busyness and the brief breaks of laziness, I hardly have the time. These are then coupled with procrastination, the “I’ll do it tomorrow” or “maybe next month” and “that would be better in 2008.” I have become accustomed to recreation and therefore almost every moment where I’m not at school or work is spent in relaxation. I am stuck in a rut in which I get nothing done and I can’t get out because I get nothing done. I am easily defeated, giving up quickly when faced with aversion. I do not stand up for myself or others. I’m a lover, not a fighter, but I spend almost no time doing either.

After that point I realized how boring the class was and dozed off for the next half hour or so. That’s more exciting because I have a paper on The Aneid due in two weeks. Except I haven’t even tried to start reading it yet. Oh well, I’ll worry about that the night before it’s due.

Good night.

WOTD: confessedly adv. by confession; admittedly

I really have nothing at all to say today.

Except that the latest World of Warcraft patch came out today. And I’m a nerd.

That is all.

Sorry.

WOTD: bothersome adj. causing bother; annoying; troublesome; irksom

So I’ve been fairly busy and uninteresting lately. But that’s about to change.

Not.

So what is going in my life? Some stuff, so I’ll tell you.

First and foremost and probably most excitingly, I get to move over to the Geek Squad in two weeks. =D

Secondly, for those who are wondering what I’m doing with my life: I still don’t know.

But I have decided to go back to Adelphi next semester, even though I hate it. I’m only taking 12 credits (which I’m taking 18 right now), so that shouldn’t be too bad.

Next year I’m still not sure what I’m doing. While Hawaii was the top choice for schools that I’m applying to, I’m beginning to realize the financial infeasibility of it. I’m starting to think of somewhere closer to home, most likely Pennsylvania. That’s where I want to live after college anyway, so I figure it’s a good place to start.

Oh, in the category of failing my goals: This morning I woke up completely exhausted and stuffed up (much how I am right now, but worse), and I went back to sleep and did not go to the gym. So that is the second goal I’ve failed this month. Sorry for being a failure.

And that is all.

Goodnight.

WOTD: Supplementary adj. supplying what is lacking; serving as a supplement; additional n. a supplementary person or thing

I’m sorry that I did not properly update yesterday, and that I’m not properly updating tonight. And that I haven’t even established what a proper update is. I’ve been awake over 56 hours in the past three days and only slept about ten or so, maybe less.

Pennsylvania was a lot of fun. I might try to go there next year, instead of somewhere as drastic as Hawaii (which I was told by someone wasn’t as exciting as it sounds) or California (where I might catch on fire during an earthquake) or Arizona (where even a cold day is hotter than summer is here). But we’ll see.

I have a massive headache right now.

Probably from the lack of sleep and prolonged time staring at screens.

Goodnight.

No post for today (yesterday).

Sorry, I fail.

Night.

WOTD: motley adj. 1. of many colors or patches of color 2. wearing many-colored garments 3. having or composed of many different or clsahing elements; heterogeneous
n. 1. cloth of mixed colors 2. a garment of various colors worn by a clown or jester 3. [rare] a fool or jester 4. a combination of diverse or clashing elements

Before I start telling you about Toothpaste For Dinner I give you FreeRice. This is a vocabulary game where you have to get the definition of a word and it moves you up to the next level every time you get three right in a row. Also, for every word you get right the website donates 10 grains of rice to the United Nations. There are 50 levels altogether, I’m currently hanging out around level 35.

Anyway, Toothpaste For Dinner, this was the first webcomic I started reading. That happened back in tenth grade. I have been checking it daily pretty much ever since then. It is another somewhat stickfigurish artistic webcomic, but they’re not really stick figures… they’re more, blobby, I’d say. The comic is drawn by Drew and was started back in 2002. It is updated daily. It touches on politics, modern events, music, school, every day life, and just some completely random stuff. And now because I’m going to continue to be lazy with my blog and my life, some of my favorites:

toothpastefordinner.com

Why I love this one? Isn’t it obvious, I’m lazy and a procrastinator, and an official member Do Your Homework in the Five Minutes Before Your Class It’s Due in Begins.

toothpastefordinner.com

Because math makes me smile (when I don’t have to do it, although sometimes I do miss it) and Keanu Reaves makes me laugh. Even though the title of the movie has nothing to do with anything in the movie, the first Matrix was good at least.

toothpastefordinner.com

I love this one because I actually have to do this at my job, I actually printed this out and it is hung up on the wall at customer service (out of sight to the customers though, sorry). I do have to admit that they’ve gotten better and made it so almost all of the warranties are actually less expensive than the product now. But still, some of it is fairly outrageous.

toothpastefordinner.com

I want a job where I can play solitaire all day someday… Just kidding, I don’t really like solitaire at all.

And that is that folks, take a look around Toothpaste For Dinner, but make sure you have some time first because it has been called “The most addictive comic on the web.”

WOTD: blaspheme vt.1. to speak irreverently or profanely of or to (God or sacred things) 2. to curse or revile

It’s crazy how sometimes life is beautiful, sometimes it’s terrible, other times it’s boring, and sometimes you just don’t know what it is.
I usually just don’t know.

Today I fell in love for a couple minutes, but to no avail.

Tomorrow is Portrait of the Webcomic. I haven’t decided which one I’m going to do yet. I also don’t have any idea when I’m going to have time to update this.

My schedule tomorrow:

Wake up at 5:30am.
Gym at 6:00am.
Home at 7:00am, shower, breakfast, (blog post, I guess).
Leave for school at 8:15am.
Home from school at 1:30pm.
Work at 2:00pm.
Home at 11:00pm.
Leave for Pennsylvania as soon as I’m ready for that.
PA approximately 3:ooam?

And why am I going to PA? To visit an old friend and play some Starcraft, a game that we could play perfectly well with each other with him in PA and me here in New York. But hey, it’s just not the same if you can’t yell at them from the same room.

I almost took a nap today. But as I was falling asleep a song came on my dad’s playlist that made me all nostalgic and not-so-sleepy any more. I don’t even know what the song is called, or who it’s by. But it makes me feel nostalgic just the same.

I’m incredibly boring, I’m very sorry about that.

I watched The Office tonight (of course), it wasn’t as good as it usually is, but it was still good just the same.

Wait, let me check… nope, still boring.

Goodnight.

WOTD: moon-eyed adj. having the eyes wide open, as from fright or wonder

So I have twelve minutes before it’s tomorrow, and I am a terrible blogger.  I write about nothing that anyone would ever care about, and I have trouble caring about my writing. Instead of trying to write something deserving to be written I just write because I want to post something every day… which is kind of silly, if you ask me. (Which you didn’t, but I did, and I said it was silly.) So why am I still writing here, you might ask. I don’t know, really, probably just because I said I would.

Awesome website: www.thinkgeek.com.

And another: Nerds with too much time on their hands

I am exhausted and I’ve really got nothing to say, I apologize for that.

Goodnight, I will leave you with a haiku I wrote in eleventh grade:

it’s raining hard out
the tennis courts are flooding
we’re all gonna die