Saturday, January 16, 2010

I Fail At Life Itself, But That's O.K.: Tournament, Computer Breakthrough, Uneventful Day

It's been not too long, and already I feel like I can do this. I can update this every day without having an epic fail and forget. I'm going to stop tagging my posts as well. It's boring and obnoxious.

Anyways, I missed my Fit & Well seminar today. Looks like I'm going to get to spend the two weeks at the end of the semester that I would have gotten off in class. Gurf.

I slept well, though. I woke up at 1 P.M. with about 10-11 hours of sleep. Tell me that doesn't feel good! I woke up, decided it was too late for lunch, and played XBox. I'm really getting back into Star Wars: KOTOR and Halo 2.

Theo called me telling me my computer was almost done, so I went to his dorm and hung out for a couple hours while I waited for the last updates to download and install while I played around with the tablet (YES!!!! IT WORKS!!!!!!!). Then something happened, something sinister and horrible. The computer asked me to restart to install the new updates. So I hit restart. And it went back to being its broken and dumb self (it basically loops through startup procedures.) We both thought that it had something to do with the updates. I had premonitions about the problem being with the hard drive for a long time, which could be part of the problem, because it had trouble saving files from the updates, and now it's having problems looking for a boot file. Theo told me he had one he doesn't use anymore and was willing to put it in. Thank God for Theo, although I'm definitely paying him extra for that.

I then went to supper, and played in a Super Smash Brothers tournament. Yes, the original from the Nintendo 64. Not any of this new shit. We set up brackets and ended up having 30 people participate. I ended up in a 7-way tie for 10th out of 11th place. Yep, I got knocked out in the preliminaries. I probably would have ended up in 11th, if it weren't for one of the guys in our bracket pulling a no-show and forfeiting his position. I'm still happy I placed the way I did.

Afterwards, I got on one of the computers in the study lounge to do what I am doing now. Blogging. Blogging my life away to unsuspecting people. People who choose to read these things, and have a laugh, or comment on how average my life is. Just the usual. Oddly enough, I'm okay with that.

I leave you with a quote:

"Nothing is unachievable. Just set your mind to it. Practice. Re-learn, if necessary. You will eventually get it. Just don't stop. That's when you start falling backwards. That's when failure is inevitable. Persistence will achieve almost anything you want, if done the right way. You just have to have success in your mind."

Peace out, people.

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