amazingadrian

My suspicion seems to have been correct: My Associate's Degree is completely worthless in Anderson right now. The other day I was able to meet with a representative from the South Carolina Work Commission, and she was unable to find me anything that I was qualified for. This is the exact same situation that happened last time I tried going through a temp agency (years ago, when I was still new to the area), and what originally led me to go to college.

It's just a bad string of circumstances that has completely derailed my life. I feel like I have no purpose now, nor do I have much hope of finding a real job anytime soon. If I could enlist, I would do it in a heartbeat...but they'll never take me with my disability.

Speaking of which, my left ear is totally blocked. Mom says I'll have to go to a doctor; she's afraid it might be an infection. I really don't know how I'm going to pay for that though. I suppose it could be worse.

Things came to a head regarding my room today. We got one of the dressers up, and then the parents got all upset when I took the opportunity to clear out my closet since I now had a place to store my clothes. I've spent most of the afternoon fighting with them, but that's all right; my room is now mostly done. I don't know why it is they choose to procrastinate so much regarding things of such importance (hello? comfort at home?), but I've got most of my stuff situated so I can live comfortably now, so I'm washing my hands of it. They can take however many years to get themselves unpacked as they want.

So things have been rather crazy over here lately. Between commitments in Second Life and the real world, I've been hella busy; although I think I am going to cut back on the former some. I did grab some more free music though; My first Halloween on livejournal, I shared some free music by these artists, but they have since put out some new albums. Antipode has released Superscape as well as an EP, while Doug The Eagle has released his Three Little Pigs album. Haven't had much of an opportunity to listen to them yet though.  I also had a freind introduce me to Doctor Steel, which seems really curious. (I'm sure scltspider  would get a kick out of it, though!)

On top of all this, I'm trying to get back into forum rp, especially in the Gaming Guardians, and possibly in ceg_lylat  too. We shall see.

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Now playing: Neal Schon - My Past Life
via FoxyTunes    

A dog in Berlin found a batch of unused American hand grenades from World War 2. A fortituous find considering that the anniversary of D-Day was only recently. Authorities where able to defuse the grenades successfully.

In 1994, a confused woman was found wandering a New Jersey shopping mall. Now, 15 years later, they finally know who she is.

It turns out that going to the gym can be a threat to your health! The vast majority of personal trainers are untrained themselves, face no peer review in order to enter the profession, and are often shortchanged by gyms trying to save money.

It went pretty well, I think. Managed to get a ride into Greenville due to ColdFox's (lil_red_foxie?) efforts. Timber and Seaweed were great hosts. We had pizza and talked about games and movies over television. It felt good to get out there and hang with folks. I was surprised how at ease I felt, especially considering that most of these were people I had never met in any context at all. My only complaint was that I felt a little milked for gas money when I offered, but it's ok. I think I can get around that in the future by not mentioning how much I'm carrying.
Weekend was slow otherwise. Had a nice Halloween; a simple party with the postsecondary students. There was fun dramuh, a silly impersonation act, free food...When I saw their impersonation of me though, I realized that I really need to learn more sign language. Dammit, I need to use what I know. Didn't get any visitors, in spite of having more neighborhood kids this year. I guess they figured the apartment complex was so small they all went elsewhere. Wasn't expecting very many anyways.

In the spirit of Halloween, I do have some goodies to share with you all, in the form of some free CD's. These artists all release their music under the creative commons lisence, so downloads are encouraged rather than frowned upon. Haven't listened to all of these myself yet, but I thought I would share them at least.

Doug The Eagle - The first one I ever found. I found this guy through the Gaming Guardians. He's the one that based a song off of the comic. I don't think he ever participated in the roleplay, but there is no doubt that he's a fan. He also wrote a song based on Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (second album), and seems to be a furry musician in general. They are out there, but rare. As of this writing he's three albums out.

Antipode - From what I can gather, this guy puts together tracks of wildly varying genre styles onto one album. Seems largely an experimental thing for him. I haven't had a chance to listen to this one yet. Found it through what's left of vgmix.

8bitpeoples - A collection of artists who deal primarily in chiptunes...that is, raw video game music. These guys compose and program (I guess you can't really call it 'performing') tunes that would have been at home on the NES. And if you were a gamer at the time, like me, you'll remember that some of those old games had some pretty inspired tracks.  Don't overlook them just because they're outdated; these guys are still in business!