friday at last! another week (week 7/10 to be exact) bites the dust at school. this was definitely the worst one so far.. i’d been doing really well this quarter until this week, haha. oh, well, just gotta bounce back in the 3 remaining weeks before finals. i find myself caring less and less about getting perfect grades.. the cost of that feeling of achievement doesn’t seem to be worth it. i think i maintain an above-average level of okay-ness pretty effortlessly, and my happiness meter stays fuller. is that bad?

charles is an advocate of always striving for the best, but i often find that path to stray closer to feelings of depression than anything else. it’s strange because i’m such a perfectionist in so many areas but completely apathetic in other ways.. and i find myself jumping between those two states even when the same conditions are involved. i guess i’m one for extremes. one minute i’ll care intensely about my grades, the next i won’t care at all (given i’m not truly failing); one minute i’ll have decided to dedicate my entire existence to one video game but i’ll be completely over it by tomorrow. not to worry.. of course there are things that i’ll always care about. not every feeling, person or object can be fully replaced by something else.

i spent pretty much all afternoon (and well into the night) playing lost in blue 2 on my ds. i never managed to finish the first lost in blue game because after a while it’s like.. you’re hungry again?! i just fed you! and you almost always leave one of the characters in a cave and even if you leave food and water behind for him/her to consume, the character will inevitably starve until you go back and do some force-feeding. i got frustrated with it, if you can’t tell however, that doesn’t mean i didn’t get sucked into playing the second one. it’s still frustrating because there’s this one cave you have to live in but the things you need to do and the places you need to get to are so far away from the cave you have to start and end every day at and the characters get tired so quickly. why am i still playing? i don’t really know. i might just be THAT bored. it’s my evasive-studying technique. if i’m really into something else, then i don’t have to study for my 9 chapter test on monday! haha. anyway, this version of the game has a 2-player mode that i’m dying to try out with someone. any takers?

since blog posts that have no pictures are insanely boring, i’ll leave you with this. man, i miss pokémon so much. there’s this guy in my class who didn’t know what pokémon was this week. it made me sad.. but i’m glad i was of some educational use.