They should make an RTS with 'guano' as a main resource

2004-08-26 | 8:44 p.m.

And the Lord did say
"Behold, ye angels! The young one, possesses a new bass guitar,
which he shall use for naught but good and rocking out!"
And as it was written, so shall it be done.

Yes, you core group of loyal, yet disinterested readers (read: nobody is even paying attention), I have returned from a long hiatus (read: I felt like updating this with paltry daily events was becoming trite and was, frankly, too shallow) to announce my possession of a stylish, sexy new Peavey Milestone IV bass guitar. I have naught but ambition at this point, and it is somehow fitting that the creation of music, rather than the mental ingestion of it, be the new high point of my days.

One thing I miss the most is the small community of diaryland folk who avidly supported proper grammar and pretentious writing in diary entries. They were a good lot, and though I myself was never cool enough to be part of that lot, I still respected them and liked to pretend they gived a damn about me. To that end, every time I update this thing, I feel like I'm writing an entry in an old tome from a forgotten age ("The Age of the English Language," we called it). Simply put, I feel old. Perhaps this is all a byproduct of the realization that, in 12 days, my senior year of high school will begin, and I will be on the road to adulthood. That thought is frightening. A year from now, I will be starting college life. A year from now, I'll essentially be saying goodbye to my friends (and to 95% of them, there will be no more friendship... some of you may know what I mean, and some may not). In addition to that, summertime is waning (perhaps an odd formulation of a thought, but this entire thing so far is stream-of-consciousness, so go with it) and I once again feel as if I have not accomplished anything. Sure, I had the internship (which I am still not done with) and did some stage crew (which I have not learned much in over the summer); I have gotten a laptop computer (no new desktop built, though... eh...) and a bass guitar (I still have to learn how to play) and even experienced tender emotions (have not panned out yet because I'm a coward). No summer homework done, though. Maybe that is the thorn in my side.

At any rate, the Taste of Polonia is coming up Labor Day Weekend. I urge all of you who read this (read: whoever stumbles on this thing and is from Chicago) to e-mail me so we can all arrange a fun group experience with Polish food (it can be damn tasty, you skeptical mofos).

I guess that beyond that, there's only "what I've been doing this summer" (this includes slacking off, working, seeing friends and other sundry activities) and "what I'm feeling" (I am pining and the rest is covered above). Wow, this stream-of-consciousness method is much more efficient! Look at that! What could have made this entry several paragraphs longer has been turned into nothing! Stream-of-consciousness you are an awesome method of writing down thoughts.

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