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11/19/2004 Archived Entry: "I'm With Paul Simon on this one..."
Have A Good Time by Paul Simon, Oct 1975
Yesterday it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life's a mess
But I'm having a good time
Oo, I've been loving and loving and loving
I'm exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says "Ah, what the hell"
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Paranoia strikes deep in the heartland
But I think it's all overdone
Exaggerating this and exaggerating that
They don't have no fun
I don't believe what I read in the papers
They're just out to capture my dime
I ain't worrying
And I ain't scurrying;
I'm having a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time
Maybe I'm laughing my way to disaster
Maybe my race has been run
Maybe I'm blind to the fate of mankind
But what can be done?
So God bless the goods we was given
And God bless the U. S. of A.
And God bless our standard of livin'
Let's keep it that way
And we'll all have a good time
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Amen, to that! I think that sums up my views as of today, too. I spent my birthday yesterday drawing and playing iRO. It was nice to have a day to myself out of all this madness. I got a nice bouquet of white roses and junk food, what more could I have wanted?
It's Friday, too! Imagine that, this month isn't quite so sucky afterall. I mean, yeah, it's soggy and miserable outside, but that's what happens when winter's around the corner. The world hasn't ended and things are still moving along.
I'm kind of miffed that Illinois shot down stem cell research, but I think that's because of religious standpoints. Just wait until one of them needs an organ transplant, is what I say. If they knew how many men, women, and children desperately needed organ transplants, then maybe they wouldn't be walking around with horse blinders on. They fail to see the long term and go hoppin' up and down on the short term. How sad that they'd sooner kill you for wanting to advance humanity as a species instead of working to save lives and improve life in the process.
And I used to wonder why Ray Bradbury's "Martian Chronicles" was so morose...
What can I do but speak about it, though? You can't wave a hand and say "Let's get this to work." and then everyone would cooperate. You can't say "Get a clue." and watch the lights come on in heads where the automated messages were always on. So all I can do is just talk about it and feel people both hate and love me.
*sigh* So now I'm twenty-five years old... Okay. It's not the end of the world as I know it, but it makes me seem older than I want to be. Well out of my teens and closer to my thirties. I don't feel twenty-five, I still feel nineteen. When I was nineteen I had started college, now I'm married and thinking about family. I feel different in places, but the whole of me never really changed. I still feel empty in places, too, as though some things haven't fallen into place yet. Now I'm wondering if that feeling always stays or goes away.
Tomorrow I finally get to go paint the stained glass for the windows. It'll be nice to see them all set up. They came out different than I expected, then again I really didn't know what to expect. I still kind of feel in the dark about it. I'm not upset or anything, but it's like they asked me to make something and then wonder why it wasn't the way it needed to be. I don't feel like I've made anything, at all.
In iRO News...
My skin entry for the skin contest I tried didn't get picked, but I've been using it ever since I made it. I think I made it more lovingly than the other contestants made theirs, but the winners were kind of neat skins except that I tried them once and didn't like the contrast against the game. Stand-alone the skins are cute, but they didn't seem to integrate with the colors in-game, at all. I stayed soft and pastel, like the game colors and the chosen skins were either high-tech styled or the colors were too sharp. I'm not just being biased here. LoL! I seriously didn't like the way the winning skins looked against the game sprites.
Anyway, this new contest is something I think is extremely awesome. We get to create card illustrations for new monster cards! Excellent! And what's even better is the amount of entries you can do is unlimited AND the winning illustrations will be permanent. How awesome is that?! So I'm going to be doing some drawing this weekend. Woohoo!