Swing is a constant reminder of how stuck inside my own head I am. I need to face it, and learn to let go. Lucky me, there's a free event at the RSC tonight that's open to the public, meaning there will be a lot of new people there, and therefore there will be less pressure to dance well ( Read more... )

I am alcohol right now, but somehow I can still do rubik's cubes in 47 seconds and pull 11x combos in Tetris attack and pwn the shit out of plebs. I am, however, having to abuse the backspace key to type this ( Read more... )

WHEN I GET SAD, I STOP BEING SAD AND BE AWESOME AGAIN. TRUE STORY.

I've been taking swing dancing lessons all semseter, but I've been avoiding the actual events until I "get good." But lessons aren't where you get good, the actual dance floor is where the real learning happens ( Read more... )

*SHATTER*

"... Dude... that was fucking awesome!"

*footsteps* "What happened?"

"We got a window!"

"Are you fucking serious?"

"YEAH! WE GOT A WINDOW!"

"Are you fucking serious?"

"YEAH! WIN-DOW! WIN-DOW! WIN-DOW! YEAH!"

"Are you fucking serious? ... Hi, I'm Francisco, and I'm a fucking retard ( Read more... )

I downloaded Spore today. After I got out of class, I ate lunch, then I played it for 8 hours straight. No food, no water, maybe one bathroom break. And I didn't even notice. Once I realized this, I deleted it.

If I find some way to harness the power of my obsessive drive, to focus that hard on things I want to get done, I could become ( Read more... )

I watched 300 this morning for the first time in at least 6 months. I'm feeling motivated again. After watching it, I put on my work jeans, walked outside, grabbed my sledgehammer, and with my dog beside me, went for a run through the woods. We ran circles around the house, into the woods, past swamps and fallen trees ( Read more... )

Ok, so, I worked out almost every day for the first week of the summer, then spent the rest of it regressing. Starting today, I'm imposing a bit more structure. Nothing major, but hopefully enough to get me motivated and more with it ( Read more... )

I think it's time I made a brief list of goals. In no particular order ( Read more... )

In one of my classes this semester we learned about various flaws in perception. One of them was the Fundamental Attribution Error. This is when a person tends to attribute their shortcomings too heavily to their environment, and take far too much credit for things that they accomplish. So they complain about circumstance or bad luck when they ( Read more... )