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Nov. 19th, 2011
Birthday Week in Review
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bethje's birthday on Tuesday, and my birthday yesterday, so it was a week of celebration! Okay, not really, although we did go out to eat at the Olive Garden on both days. Aside from that, we mostly just worked. Today is actually the first Saturday I've had off from work in a while, and Beth wanted me to come up with something to do, but I'm just not good at that. What DO couples go out and do together, aside from eat? Besides, I really needed to catch up on sleep, and it looks like Beth is still asleep. I've had a fair amount of weird dreams recently, including one that I was driving home from a long way away and someone kept messing with my luggage whenever I stopped. It turned out to just be a prank, though. There have also been a few that involved my going back to college, and those dreams are usually positive. For some reason, I have fairly rose-tinted memories of my college years, despite the fact that I was pretty depressed most of the time. I think it was just the first time when I felt like I was free, and that I did have friends I could talk to easily, even if I didn't all that much. And it's not an experience I could recapture, so I'm somewhat wistful for it. In some ways, I wish I could go back to that time knowing what I know now. In other ways, however, I really don't. I like my privacy, after all. Actually, I managed to get rid of my roommates for three out of the four years I lived in a dorm, but if it hadn't been a specialty floor I'm sure I would have gotten replacements. It was just another case of being lucky I was in the Honors College before they'd really worked out all the details, I guess.
For my birthday, I received two Oz books (Marin Elizabeth Xiques's Sweet Wishes from Oz and Annie Brzozowski's Pegasus in Oz), CDs by the Bonzo Dog Band and the Smiths, and some money that I still need to deposit. I also got an Amazon gift card from my sister, so I'll probably use that pretty soon. It's coming up on Christmas, and I often feel guilty getting things for myself around then, so I'll probably either use it in the next few days or wait until January. There are a few new albums I've been wanting, and my obsessive-compulsive mind likes to get such things in the year they come out, despite the fact it makes no difference in the long run.
Also, I might as well mention my progress in Dragon Quest IX, although there hasn't really been that much. I made it to Swinedimples Academy in the far north, and have started infiltrating Sir Sternivus Swinedimple's grave. Those Wight Priests with the instant death spells are getting on my nerves. The name of Swinedimples is obviously a play on Hogwarts, with "Sternivus" probably parodying Severus Snape (although of course he wasn't the founder of Hogwarts), but Swinedimples seems more like a stereotypical English public school (which is what they call private schools over there) than a school of magic. I think there was a mention that they teach magic there, but it isn't limited to that. According to this page, the original Japanese name for the school was Shion, meaning "Gratitude to Teacher." Most of the puns were brought in by the translators, and I have to say I'm in favor of this.
bethje's birthday on Tuesday, and my birthday yesterday, so it was a week of celebration! Okay, not really, although we did go out to eat at the Olive Garden on both days. Aside from that, we mostly just worked. Today is actually the first Saturday I've had off from work in a while, and Beth wanted me to come up with something to do, but I'm just not good at that. What DO couples go out and do together, aside from eat? Besides, I really needed to catch up on sleep, and it looks like Beth is still asleep. I've had a fair amount of weird dreams recently, including one that I was driving home from a long way away and someone kept messing with my luggage whenever I stopped. It turned out to just be a prank, though. There have also been a few that involved my going back to college, and those dreams are usually positive. For some reason, I have fairly rose-tinted memories of my college years, despite the fact that I was pretty depressed most of the time. I think it was just the first time when I felt like I was free, and that I did have friends I could talk to easily, even if I didn't all that much. And it's not an experience I could recapture, so I'm somewhat wistful for it. In some ways, I wish I could go back to that time knowing what I know now. In other ways, however, I really don't. I like my privacy, after all. Actually, I managed to get rid of my roommates for three out of the four years I lived in a dorm, but if it hadn't been a specialty floor I'm sure I would have gotten replacements. It was just another case of being lucky I was in the Honors College before they'd really worked out all the details, I guess.For my birthday, I received two Oz books (Marin Elizabeth Xiques's Sweet Wishes from Oz and Annie Brzozowski's Pegasus in Oz), CDs by the Bonzo Dog Band and the Smiths, and some money that I still need to deposit. I also got an Amazon gift card from my sister, so I'll probably use that pretty soon. It's coming up on Christmas, and I often feel guilty getting things for myself around then, so I'll probably either use it in the next few days or wait until January. There are a few new albums I've been wanting, and my obsessive-compulsive mind likes to get such things in the year they come out, despite the fact it makes no difference in the long run.
Also, I might as well mention my progress in Dragon Quest IX, although there hasn't really been that much. I made it to Swinedimples Academy in the far north, and have started infiltrating Sir Sternivus Swinedimple's grave. Those Wight Priests with the instant death spells are getting on my nerves. The name of Swinedimples is obviously a play on Hogwarts, with "Sternivus" probably parodying Severus Snape (although of course he wasn't the founder of Hogwarts), but Swinedimples seems more like a stereotypical English public school (which is what they call private schools over there) than a school of magic. I think there was a mention that they teach magic there, but it isn't limited to that. According to this page, the original Japanese name for the school was Shion, meaning "Gratitude to Teacher." Most of the puns were brought in by the translators, and I have to say I'm in favor of this.
