silveradept | *gasp* Had Fun - Someone call the Republicans...

...in all seriousness, I worked out the stir-craziness on this day off thing. First things first, I put

greyweirdo's CD in the mail today. Then, there was some shopping, where I probably bought more books than I should have, and some arcade with

blacktigr and

sporklord which was loads of fun. Played some air hockey, where I managed to beat BT in both of our games, 7-6 and 7-5, and then Ng at about 7-5. But then BT got her form back and beat Ng 7-2. So I think I got lucky. There was some DDR (they need to make those panels bigger for my feet, sorry. I miss a lot of those notes because I plant the middle of my foot on the area, but that means both toes and heels are on the panels raised slightly above the arrows. I don't like having to use toes and heels for my steps.) and some Parapara (which I failed on the second song in Hard Freestyle *hangs head in shame*) and such. Plus, in one of those air hockey games, I think I bruised my knuckle a bit. You play hard, that's for sure.

Then I went to dinner with

mai_li and her little penguin. We chatted, but mostly it was the little penguin who kept the attention of both of us throughout the meal and wander in the mall afterward. Mai-Li also gifted me with four-leaf clover in laminate, so hopefully my Luck score will go up enough that it can cover for my low DEX, CHA, and WIS. All of this with enough time to comfortably write up an LJ entry before going to bed. didn't hurt that I also dropped a paycheck into the bank today, too. And the next paycheck should be good. And I got the night off of umpiring. Lots of lucky things all happening at once. So suffering through last week pays dividends, plus my stir-crazy status is healed. Although now I have to start looking for a job to replace my current one, since that one will vaporize at the end of the month.

Somebody takes their job a little too seriously, as we find out that one of the Daleks has been abducted. They're waiting for instructions from The Doctor, so hopefully there won't be another Dalek torture scene. Short-circuiting across a gap (see if you can follow me), the autopsy tells us that Michael Shiavo was correct. Not that it will be any comfort to those who fought on what is now apparently the losing side of that battle - they're already planning their next move.

In The Future, it may very well be that we all have our own hamster wheels to live in. Of course, it might also have Teddy Ruxpin, too. So far, the future's not looking so bright, ya?

Is it tragic, that even though I'm trying to keep myself on the positive side, I still find Piro to be an accurate description of my character? Especially today, with the line "I've watched enough anime to know how to sound like a perfect loser in Japanese." Kimiko's replies, much like many others, of "You are not a loser, Piro-san" and "Why do you say these things about yourself?" go unanswered. The statement is Kimiko's opinion, and I've waxed poetically about the disjoint between viewing ourselves internally versus viewing other people externally. As bad as it sounds, telling Piro he's not a loser is, well, ineffective, because he knows that you don't see what he does. For all his talents, he has his faults - the ones he tries to cover up when he's around other people. That they still shine through, in his opinion, is an indicator of how serious they are. The question she asks may not have a short answer, but it can probably be summed up in the first couple reactions he (I?) would have to it. The first reaction to "Why do you say that?" is "Because it's true." See above and elsewhere, re: disjoint of vision. But if she can successfully deconstruct that concept enough that he has to hedge on it being always true all the time, she'll run into the second line of defense, which sounds similar. It shifts from "Because it's true." to "Because there's nothing to prove it wrong." This loops into the disjoint of vision argument, as well, but from a different perspective. If Kimiko's persistent enough (and uses Erika as a battering ram against Piro's defenses), she might be able to put Piro in a position where he realizes on his own that his virtues are stronger and his faults weaker than he thinks.

Because, ultimately, Piro has to change his perceptions to accept Kimiko's statement. And it's probably rather funny that those of us out in the narrator's perspective are frothing at the mouth saying "Go for it, lummox! She likes you!" Because we see all the signs. At the same time, there are probably people out in the narrator's perspective of my existence going, "Why does he say those things about himself? Can't he see the signs?"

The sad part is, we can't. Or we explain them away as something else - fate, luck, interference, someone else. And that we're actively looking for something that proves our view, not yours. It's going to take a lot of frying pans (or lap-pours, Piro's apparent equivalent) to fix that problem. Maybe if Kimiko asks him out and doesn't take no for an answer...