Does Anybody Know What Time It Is? Does Anybody Really Care?

Oh me oh my, look at the time.  It's 2:30 in the morning on a Tuesday.  Gosh, I sure hope I have nothing going on later today... oh that's right, I have class at 9:30.  Silly me, always so forgetful.

Argh.  For the second - no, make that third - straight night, I've kept some odd hours.  Two nights ago it oddly was because I was writing an entry for this blog that I've withheld from publishing for the time being, simply because the time's not right.  Last night, it was thanks to a poor drink choice after work on my part.  Mountain Dew + Closing shift + Gene = a late night where I get kinda giggly.  Like I said in a previous post, not really into the whole alcohol thing.  People try to sell me on it, tell me, "You're not gonna have a good time unless you drink."  Horsefeathers!  I made it 21 years and 3 days of my life before I had an alcoholic beverage, and though it can be fun, I've also seen what it can do to people when they aren't being careful about it, both good and bad.  And in some cases... oh gosh, I'm just not a big fan of booze, let's leave it at that, mmkay?
And now we get to tonight.  Tonight, I went to my friend Derrick's house.  We've got Mizzou and Rolla kids home for spring break this week, and tonight was the first night that we've been able to get a sizable group together to experiment with the new Pokemon games.  I mean, after all folks, we are the generation that Pokemon was introduced to, and so why should I not buy the new game.  Unfortunately for myself, I also have a life outside of the Pokemon world, and so I was the furthest behind of anybody at this little gathering; I haven't beaten the Elite 4, but my friends John, Derek, and Andrew have.  Pretty much knew that my guys would be grossly underlevel here, but as everybody knows, you can't turn down a challenge from another trainer!  Meanwhile, our host and our other friend Matt, busied themselves with NHL 11, not wanting to partake in the battling (actually, they didn't buy the game, though they seemed really interested in the battles lol). 

The new infrared battling system is really fun, though.  We were able to split off into teams of 2 and do double battles, so I teamed up with Andrew against Derek and John.  Plus, the game makes everybody's Pokemon lv 50, so it would seem like the playing field would be level, right?  WRONG.  The only stats that changed are the level and HP, everything else stayed the same.  Therefore, my severely underleveled team didn't stand a chance, and coupled with the fact that our opponents had unlocked the National Pokedex and had transferred over their strong Pokemon from previous versions, we got smoked.  Seriously, dude, how is my lv 40 going to fairly compete with a lv 100?  Not fair.  We did win one battle though; we were almost down for the count (I'd lost all 3 of my team, and Andrew was down to 1, while the others had 3 total left), but one of them decided to use Explosion, just to be douchy.  Unfortunately for them, just before the Explosion, Andrew's Pokemon used Double Team, and evaded the hit.  Both of their active Poke's KO'd, and Andrew OHKO'd their last guy, and we won.  But like I said, every other game we got smoked.

Anyway, after that, we chilled for a couple hours - tried a different take on the pokemon card game than I've ever tried before - and then I came home, and now I'm writing this for all you fine people (who probably total less than 10, but I really don't care how many people read this just because I enjoy writing it :]).  And so in a few hours, I'm going to wake up and be all groggy, but you know what?  It was worth it.  Got to hang out with some friends who I've regrettably not been able to do much with recently (schedules, school and all), and for once get my mind off of more troubling matters.  Which is good, because there are good thoughts and bad thoughts.  Everybody has them, and well, despite what some of you may think, what with me preferring to take a backseat for the past month or so... I have thoughts too, you know.

I'm Back!!!

Or am I?  I'm sorta breaking my hiatus here, but it's not like anybody really reads this blog anyway... so, well I'm not sure where to take this right now.  But I just felt like typing something that wasn't for a class or anything.  Artistic expression may be a good word for it?  Anyway, this post really isn't going to say much.  And now I've already talked in a circle, so I'll close.  I have thoughts too, you know :)