Weekend Update and the Nature of Happiness (and fuck you, Chicken Little)

[40cakes]

Okay kids, 320 entries back and I only made it to Saturday morning. If anyone died, broke up, got married, fucked, made perfect poundcake, cured cancer, released a new album, got engaged to a furry, wrote essays about how fictional twins screwing each other is creator intent, or otherwise had a bitchin' disco time, give me a head's up, kthx?

There was lots of sleeping this weekend. Normally that isn't good, but I've been so stressed and busy and out all week that it's good to just lie back and drool all over myself and someone else. This was like a return to college studentdom weekend, as we slept till 2, ate bad food at innapropriate times, watched cartoons and anime and Japanese horror movies, played video games, and hung out at Rutgers. Dude, fucking huge dorm rooms. What the fuck.


Spent some time idly wondering if my life would be different if I had gone to Rutgers over Rowan. I doubt the former would've given me full tuition if I had applied, and that was my main reason for going to Rowan. At Rowan I met Susan, who was the reason I met rob and the reason I got into RTF. If I had gone to Rutgers, would I be some miserable psych grad student right now? Still in debt over my head? Would I have met some fine upstanding Christian male who also rejected premarital sex, but blowjobs don't count? Would I be married? With CHILDREN? Would I still be a small-town closed-minded bint? Pondering, pondering.

It's less of a wistful pondering and more of curiousity. I'm pretty damn happy at this point in time, and that's good. My job is lovely, my boyfriend is splendid, I live with jaina, I've got a Netflix sub, life is beautiful. But am I happy due to my circumstances, or because I choose to be happy? I think we are constantly provided with choices in life, and I choose happiness when the option is offered. I know it seems naive to be an eternal optimist, and to try to find the good things in everything, and to find guilty pleasures in things I know are crap. So call me naive. I can guarantee you'll do so with a smile on my face.

Also, I'm wearing bright orange nail polish, and if you're gonna wear that, you have to wear it with attitude, seriously.

Comments

[pinkscotch.livejournal.com]

how did you know i got engaged to a furry?!

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

I'm psychic.

In other news I forgot to mention, that dead Muppet is still there.

[pinkscotch.livejournal.com]

omg!!! you have to go get your picture taken with it or something!!!! seriously!!!!

I thought of you on my ride into work today. I found myself looking for fun things, like dead muppets.

[f-o-n-y.livejournal.com]

i fucked a few times.

there, you're all caught up now.

[pinkscotch.livejournal.com]

whoa, who?!

[f-o-n-y.livejournal.com]

ummmmm. the boy i'm seeing.

[pinkscotch.livejournal.com]

good.

was it good?

[f-o-n-y.livejournal.com]

it's always good!

My entire weekend, in a nutshell.

[k-diddy.livejournal.com]

I have a new dog, so of course I posted a picture.

Beware of the cute. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/k_diddy/748298.html#cutid1)

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Me, too! *high fives*

Re: My entire weekend, in a nutshell.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE PUPPY!

[lalieth.livejournal.com]

wrote essays about how fictional twins screwing each other is creator intent

Hahaha. Oh man.


I'm still working on the perfect poundcake. I'll let you know. Sadly, there was no fucking.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

We made perfect poundcake in 11th grade Chemistry, based on a recipe that used metric measurements for everything and was created in a lab environment. We had American Standard measuring equipment and a Home Ec classroom.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

If I had gone to Rutgers, would I be some miserable psych grad student right now? Still in debt over my head? Would I have met some fine upstanding Christian male who also rejected premarital sex, but blowjobs don't count?

I went to RU and I met my (atheist) husband, got a full ride, have no college-related debt, and went on to have an Ivy pay me to attend it. You would have done fine by Rutgers, and them by you. Motivation counts for far more than university, though there is a limit.

[pyrobovaphiliac.livejournal.com]

... bad_sex ...

[f-o-n-y.livejournal.com]

well, i meant mine in particular. haha.

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

A sad girl in orange nail polish would be very depressing.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

And not just any orange nail polish - this is like safety cone orange. I think it gives off radiation and it's awesome.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Yes but you're far smarter than me :p And mostly just wondering if I'd be the same person if not for the people I've met, yanno? Because I went to Rowan, I befriended Allison, who got me into anime, and through that got me into fanfic and through that met y'all. Psychology wasn't turning out like I'd expected it, and if I hadn't been friends with Susan, would I have stuck with it and been miserable, or would I have pursued television or something creative eventually anyway? Just an idle ponderance, not anything like, "Sigh, I wish I had gone to that state school! Then life would be DIFFERENT!"

[grandlarseny.livejournal.com]

::raises hand:: Bitchin' disco time, right here.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Whoooooo! Get down with yo' bad self!

[arafel.livejournal.com]

I'm smarter than you? I'm not sure about that - never confuse stubborn with smart, and it's the former that got me through grad student, not the latter. Don't sell yourself short because of how you perceive yourself - it may not be the way things actually are.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tehriah/]

Ah, college bliss. I slept till 2, watched anime, played videogames, and ate nothing but popcorn, Milky Ways, and Nerds for two days straight. Homework? Who said anything about homework? >.>

BTW, I totally cured cancer. Dude. Totally.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Whew. Glad someone finally has. That stuff was getting serious.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

You're not familiar with the idea that God frowns upon premarital vaginal intercourse, but oral and manual sex don't count? Or the idea that I, at any point in my life, wasn't a raging nymphomaniac?

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

XD See, that's my point! 2005 Casey is definitely a different person than 1999 Casey and I wonder how much of that change would have happened had I not gone to the college I did. Or would I have been changed even moreso, and participated in naked hot tub pot-smoking orgies? The world may never know.

[nothingjerk.livejournal.com]

so you are the reason my hair has been falling out.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

You're damn right I am. It's only supposed to affect me, so I can leave a trail in case I get lost.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

Aahhh. Well, I'm lazy, then :D

[irenak.livejournal.com]

I'm moving...up the road. But still moving. Happy about the moving.

Also, hi. I'm alive. Or maybe a zombie. I get those two confused sometimes.

[fadingembers.livejournal.com]

A zombie would explain your bleeding heart, you filthy liberal!

Uh, I mean, yay for Irenak! I did see your catch-up post you made just now, after all :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_tehriah/]

Oh, like you wouldn't believe. Do you know how many people it killed every year? Not to mention lab rats and monkeys. That shit was getting REALLY serious--almost as deadly dihydrogen oxide, you know.

[irenak.livejournal.com]

A zombie would explain your bleeding heart, you filthy liberal!

You wouldn't believe the dry-cleaning bills for the stains.

Re: My entire weekend, in a nutshell.

[k-diddy.livejournal.com]

And I didn't even have to sell my soul for her! I am truly the luckiest girl in the world. Hee.