You need to break that switch. Roll out of bed in the morning and ROAR and rush through every thing that is thrown at you and at the end of the day collapse in blissful exhaustion. An epicurean existence is a fantastic thing, but it’s not an end in itself. You gotta have control of that switch. You’ve got to be able to charge into misery, leap flames, and stick your dick in almost anything to get the highlander prize, whatever it is to you. (hopefully it isn’t a gay sports car, because then you will have like 5 more movies to go through)

Doesn’t mean the switch always has to be flipped, that’s how you end up with a heart attack in your 40’s and 3 ex wives. But you definitely need total control over it so that you can blitz when the chips are down and you can obliterate things like this bullshit English thing you have to do. Life is not entirely about fun.

Life is about screaming gleeful defiance into the crashing wave of time before the sea of eternity sweeps you away into nothing. Because we are infinitely lucky we weren’t rocks, or hydrogen atoms spread across an inconceivable vastness. Because we’re stupid, irrelevant and stubborn. Because we are grit in the eye of God.

So quit being a pussy and do your fucking homework.”

1. Where did you meet?
I went with Ryan to meet a few of his then-girlfriend’s friends. After we pulled up and introduced ourselves to the three strange girls standing on the lawn, the first thing I did was poke Ryan and whisper, “Man… Alice is cute!” He looked at me and nodded solemnly.

2. What was the first thought that went through your head when you met?
“Man… Alice is cute!”

3. Do you remember what they were wearing?
I remember that she was wearing jeans (there was an ass contest), but not what shirt she was wearing. I’m going to take a wild guess on her Doors t-shirt.

4. Where was the first time you kissed this person?
The kitchen in my parents’ house, after I took her to see a night of pageant training in SF.

5. How did he/she ask you out?
She didn’t… and I didn’t either! The following Sunday (the kiss was on Wednesday night) in the car with a couple of friends, we kind of looked at each other and said “Hey… we’re probably dating now, aren’t we?” Y’know, since we’d been sleeping together and all. XD

6. Where did you go for your first date?
Dave and Buster’s for Rosa’s surprise welcome home from Japan party.

7.How long did you know this person before you became a couple?
Technically… what, a month and a half? I’d only seen her three times before, though.

8. Has this person ever proposed to you?
No… she claims we aren’t married.

9. Do you and this person have kids together?
Not yet.

10. Have you ever broken the law with this person?
Nothing big… speeding?

11. When was the first time you realized that you liked this person?
Pretty much the first night I met her. I wouldn’t have done anything about it, though, if it hadn’t been for Ryan’s and Danielle’s meddling….

12. Do you get along with any of the ex’s of your partners?
Apparently. XD

13. Do you trust him/her?
As much as I trust anybody….

14. Do you see your partner in your future?
Yes.

15. Whats the most expensive thing this person has given you?
Expensive… I think a season of House DVDs takes the prize, but I’m not sure. She’s a poor college student. Although she tried to get me a $150 cowboy hat for Christmas!

16. What is one thing he/she does that gets on your nerves?
Not like being submissive in bed. XD

17. What is the thing you do that gets on his/her nerves?
Pretend to be sad/hurt/angry/offended by something she says!

18. Where do you see each other in 15 years from now?
In a beautiful house with our kids… her going off every day to do big, important physics research, me staying at home writing, taking care of the kids, and working on my 47 project cars and motorcycles (it’ll be okay, because we’ll have 48 pets).

19. Will this person repost this?
Probably!

1) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
A. Yes!

2) What was your dream growing up?
A. You know, I don’t really know. Mostly I just played video games and didn’t think much. After about age 14 it was to be a singer.

3) What talent do you wish you had?
A. Enough patience to be able to practice things. XD I have a lot of talents that I’m pretty okay at, but I can’t make myself practice any one of them enough to actually be GOOD.

4) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
A. Some kind of nice beer… and I mean REAL beer, like Guinness or Newcastle or Tetley’s… or Caffrey’s, but then we’d be in Ireland.

5) Favorite vegetable?
A. Pee-tainting aspara-guys!

6) What was the last book you read?
A. The last book I finished was First Among Sequels.

7) What the most embarrassing thing you’re willing to admit?
A. What is this “embarrassing” you speak of? Seriously, I don’t get embarrassed by much.

Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
A. None. I have a massive master plan for a full-back series of tattoos, tucked away for the next time I get my heart broken… but it looks like that isn’t going to happen.

9) Worst Habit?
A. Probably procrastination. And leaving my hand on the shifter. Poor synchros….

10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
A. Probably! Although come to think of it, I don’t think I know what you look like.

11) What is your favorite sport?
A. Road racing.

12) Do you have a Negative or Optimistic attitude?
A. I mostly express pessimism, but I usually harbor a secret belief that everything’s just going to kind of work out nicely.

13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
A. …try to get out? Why, what would you do? o_O

14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
A. Heh… There’re quite a few candidates for this position… but everything that’s happened in my life has made me the person I am now, so whatever. Let’s just say the prime candidate involves the death of a loved one wrecking my life for ten years, shall we?

15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
A. I’m extremely uncomfortable pooping unless I’m completely and totally naked.

16) Do you have any pets?
A. Yep! Two cats, a plethora of little freshwater fish… hopefully in a year there’ll be a puppy and a third cat.

17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
A. I’d probably ask you what was going on… and then we’d play video games.

18) What was your first impression of me? (hmmm…careful!)
A. “Oh hey, a person Alice met on LiveJournal who shares a lot of her interests.” …since, y’know, that’s what she told me about you.

19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
A. Neither?

20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
A. Un-ugly! Just kidding. Probably I’d make my face less round… I don’t like perpetually looking like I’m 15. Height might be nice too, but maybe it wouldn’t be.

21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
A. I’d probably be your conscientious crime partner, though leaning more towards the conscience.

22) What color eyes do you have?
A. Dark brown… when I was a kid I was convinced they were black.

23) Ever been arrested?
A. Twice, both times voluntary surrender, meaning I went down to the station on my own time to be printed, paid bail, and went home.

24) Bottle or can soda?
A. Don’t really care.

25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
A. Probably toss it in my savings account. $10k isn’t enough to really do anything amazing with.

27) What’s your favorite place to hang at?
A. Home? I’m a big homebody. I also like racetracks.

28) Do you believe in ghosts?
A. Yes, although apparently this belief doesn’t fit with most of the rest of my personality.

29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
A. Too many! Play video games, drive, ride, sing, watch movies or TV shows on DVD, read, hug Alice.

30) Do you swear a lot?
A. Depends on the company… but usually yes.

31) Biggest pet peeve?
A. Quite a few! Misused apostrophes and turn signals are among the top.

32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
A. Verbose.

33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
A. Yes!

35) Do you believe in God?
A. No, but I’m open to the idea of a higher power.

36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you?
A. Does this count?

Ten things that recently made me happy, in no particular order:

1. Odin Sphere, Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition, Disgaea PSP, and House: Season 2 showing up in the mail today
2. Top Gear, Bike, and Classic Motorsports being bought at Borders on Saturday
3. Good games of Forza 2 and Team Fortress 2 with Ryan and James on Sunday
4. The awesome beef stew Alice and I made yesterday in our slow cooker
5. Two dumbasses getting kicked out of my school for doing something monumentally stupid
6. Kissing sleepy Alice goodbye this morning
7. Seeing Alice when she came home this afternoon
8. Aston Martin Vantage RS concept!
9. Sasha Grey
10. Alice’s mouth

Also, this post’s title would have been even better if I was talking to my niece.

I messed around a bit with Trackmania United… it’s just as fun as the previous games, especially in platform mode, although it’s still frustrating at times.  I’m also not sure I like the new, shiny graphical design… I liked it better when it was a little more cartoony, and when it was a vaguely top-down view, like old arcade racing games.  Ah well… it still feels like it’ll be a nice time-killer.

I had no time to really do anything today, aside from Alice, but we did plan out about a week’s worth of meals and go grocery shopping.  I’m trying to get us into the habit of planning ahead on food, and doing the whole week’s worth of food shopping in one go, instead of spread out over five or so trips in the course of the week.  Must save time, so that I can spend it playing video games!  Or something.

Next I have to start going to the gym again regularly… which I say every few months or so.  Let’s see if I can get myself to actually do it this time.

Ryan and I just finished our first full game of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, and it was pretty epic.  After our ignominious defeat the other night against three AI of varying difficulties on Seton’s Clutch, this time we went up against two Easy AI to give ourselves a chance to re-acclimate to the game.  I played as the Seraphim, and worked primarily on not getting stuck in expansion brainlock… meaning I pushed myself to keep building and expanding at all times, and never sit back and just watch what was going on.  I think I succeeded, for the most part, at least in building sheer numbers of buildings and units, but my teching up was pretty slow, so I can’t really say I was instrumental in our victory.  Ryan did most of the work of keeping the enemy hordes at bay while we built up our production capabilities, though I can say that my T2 fighter-bombers did a fine job of removing enemy ships that were bombarding our firebases from out of range.  My forces also sealed the deal, when I threw 150 or so T2 land units and around 100 fighter-bombers in behind a T4 Experimental Bomber (otherwise known as the WTF Bomber), supported by four battleships for coastal bombardment.  While I followed that with two more Experimental Bombers to clean up, we had time to mess around and build and play with some of the new experimentals in the expansion pack.  The game was finally ended, appropriately, with a shot from the Experimental Strategic Missile Launcher, a super-nuke, right on the bow of a submerged nuclear submarine that had been taking potshots at our shields for the last half of the game.  Woo!