Got Wisdom Teeth Pulled And Other Things

I Feel Really Bad

So the past two days have been really just hell for me (even though today the pain has subsided to my greatest relief). The first day I had trouble swallowing and eating anything, but I felt (for the most part) okay. That brings us to day two, where my mouth and throat are horrid, but swallowing and eating is not too much of a hassle to attempt at regular intervals.

Ah the joys of having your wisdom teeth pulled.

School Officially Not Coming Back

For once I was looking forward to the upcoming school year and now... it's kind of going to be late. School definitely won't start on the planned September 2nd, and who knows how long it will be delayed.

So uhm. Yeah. That is all I have to say on the subject. I don't really have an opinion on this whole teacher strike thing. I'd love to see a resolution (just because people arguing isn't pretty and/or pleasant) sometime soon, but until then the only learning I'll be doing is off Imgur and occasionally reddit.

Gosh Kevin When Are You Starting That Anime Thingy?

WAIT GOOD NEWS. Started brainstorming name ideas (round of applause ensues). None of them have really caught my eye yet, but maybe something will come along. I looked up some stories about people who started anime blogs and most of them actually quit blogging or something just didn't work out.

Worth giving it a try though.

Ending It Off With A Recommendation

I finished this book called Winger by Andrew Smith a while ago and planned to write up a bit about it on this blog. Essentially it's a look into the life of 14 year old Ryan Dean "Winger" West. For me it was a great read (not sure if that's just because it was the first book I read this summer or what). If you guys are interested you should definitely look more into it. Winger is part comedy, drama, and sob-story, and such is also the life of the main character. I don't want to hype it up anymore than I already may have (just in case if it fails to meet your expectations), so I'll start concluding this post.

Glad you stuck around another post. I'm a 7 today (largely thanks to the wisdom teeth extraction).

"Maybe life is random, but I doubt it." - Steven Tyler

Little Things (Updates Basically)

If This Was An Anime Episode, It'd Be The Filler One

Nope, I have not started the anime blog project yet (essentially a review site for anime, manga, and possibly VNs that I had planned to start up with two friends). It somehow slipped my mind. I guess when you do crazy things with crazy people you end up forgetting the other things you set out to do. But there IS HOPE.

I'm actually in a Skype call with one of the aforementioned friends and in a Facebook chat with the other one. So hopefully something gets figured out by the end of the night? I'm kind of bad at these things, but hey, you never get good at the things that you don't try.

I slipped in a picture of Ayase (from OreImo) because I felt that this was too empty.

Arguments

Little bit of back story before I delve into this topic.

Maybe an hour-ish ago I was in a heated fight (verbal fight mind you) with my brother. I won't go into details, but we just had different mindsets. There are two main things that I'm going to touch on: a) the fact that I haven't had a fight this bad with my brother in a while, and b) arguments are ugly in their own way.

I always assumed that siblings got along better as they aged. There were also plain examples in front of me. That's not to say that my brother and I don't get along. Actually, if anything we get along really well. So it kind of came as a shock that he would argue on something like this. To me, it was weird because he has never said anything about anything else before.

Arguments are ugly because they feature two conflicting opinions. The problem is that you usually do not understand the opposition's point of view. You get blinded so much from the right of your argument that you don't really see anything right in the other argument.

However these are just my thoughts and they may be (probably are) just that.

That's It For August 29, 2014

Eyes are getting tired. I've been on the computer all day. Probably not the best for me. I'm getting my wisdom teeth removed tomorrow (>.< oh no) and I am super anxious. Not sure what to expect at all. Wish me luck.

Thanks for reading buddy. Here's my godly number of the day and a little quote.

Today I'm an 8. Same old stuff.

"In order to obtain the impossible, one most attempt the absurd." - Miguel de Cervantes

Big Ol' #400

How Do I Write This Post?

It's almost been two years since I started this blog, and there have definitely been

ups

and

downs.

At one time I thought about shutting down the blog for my own selfish reasons, but I deterred myself from doing so and ended up with... this. Over the years there have been significant changes to the blog, but I think that only reflects in how much the writer has changed. To me my writing style opened up and I changed the blog design numerous times. So I wanted to take the opportunity of this 400th post to thank you guys from the bottom of my heart.























Just kidding. Let's get started shall we?

TOPIC NUMBER ONE

To be the very most brutally honest with you, I wanted to do one of those Q&A things where you can learn a bit more about myself, but then I realized something.

My "fanbase" isn't big enough to do that. At best there would be one or two of you guys willing to submit any questions. Of course there are my other friends who would ask me "inappropriate" stuff that I would never put on my blog (and those friends are awesome), but hey, there's a reason why ***** is censored here.

So I decided to do the next best thing that there was to a Q&A session: STORY TIME WITH KEVIN.

The Toilet Change

If you've known me for a while, you probably know the infamous story of the toilet change.

Flash back to grade seven. I'm a social prepubescent pre-teen packing up for the end of the day. My friend (let's call him Jonathan) walks up to me with his intense swagger and says, "Hey Kevin, can you help me with something? I'm too tall for it." I stand up next to him and at best he's probably an inch or less taller me. Actually, I might have been taller.

Extremely confused, he leads me down the boys washroom (you're thinking the wrong thing) and does his business in one of the urinals. He instructs me to walk into one of the stalls and tells me to look inside the toiler.

Now, at this point, I didn't know what to expect. Maybe it was going to be some intense BL. Maybe it was going to be a turd floating in the bowl. Maybe it would be the cool ass blue toilet water as seen on iCarly. Maybe it would be... change?

Yes. The toilet was filled with coins. Quarters, a few loonies, dimes everywhere. I didn't believe it. I walk out of the stall and confront my friend with a slight grin on my face, "What is this?" Jonathan tells me that it's exactly what it is: money in a toilet. He then asked me to pick it up out of the toilet.

I abruptly declined and said that we should just bring gloves the next day. Then I realized: it was Friday. It was either now or never. After some haggling and another few friends coming along (one of whom had brought along a tablet to record) we decided to volunteer me to get the money out.

Yes grade seven Kevin was not exactly the brightest.

I happened to have a cut on my thumb at the time as well, and looking back at it, the call I made was extremely stupid. But hey, I did it. After taking a few deep breaths I mustered up the courage and dipped my hand in. I tried to gather as many coins as I could in one go, but I ended up feeling even more and more gross as I fished around the bowl.

After many hand dips and laughter, I managed to collect our loot. We had clogged up a nearby sink with paper towels and washed the coins there. Once we had finished that we walked out of the washroom and counted up exactly how much the coins amounted to.

A glorious $8.00.

Something around that.

However that's not all. I ended up splitting the money between the four of us that were present at the time. Because of the change not splitting evenly I ended up getting a few more cents (for being the one WHO ACTUALLY GOT THE MONEY OUT).

To this day, I wonder why.

I wonder WHY THE HELL I SPLIT THE MONEY.

This is my go to story when I need to get close to somebody new. It's humiliating and opens myself up. I hope that you've enjoyed the (re)telling of this story.

You Probably Know This Already, But I'm Stupid

I have new motivation to work more on the anime blog that I've been talking about lately. And while we're still in the realms of Japanese culture I may as well state the fact that I ACTUALLY FINISHED A ROUTE IN REWRITE. Rewrite is a visual novel developed by Key and it was recommended by a friend. I started it sometime in the winter and never finished. BUT TODAY, TODAY I DID SOMETHING. I FINISHED KOTORI'S ROUTE. WHAT A DAY TO BE ALIVE.

That's about it for any possible projects that I have going on. Then anime blog is a bit more doable (TO ALL THOSE SCIMATICS HONOUR KIDS AT ALPHA, YOU KNOW WHAT'S UP) since I have the resources and friends to help me out. I have stopped work on the AMV because... I saw some other ones and decided that if I was really going to invest the time into an AMV I might as well do a really good one.

Lights Out

I feel like this was a really bad milestone post, and it is. I didn't plan it well enough and I doubt that you guys even care much that it is. But the one good thing I can take out from this is that I now know to start planning around 15ish posts beforehand. My apologies for the lack of any good stuff here.

Only 100 more posts until #500. I can be a 9 for you tonight, and I've got nice reason to be a 9. Yes, it has been a pretty standard day, but looking at my future, Skyping with friends, just completely relaxing, and writing up this post has deserved a 9. Goodnight to you.

And for anybody who's been reading this blog for a while: a fan favourite.

"We live only to regret, but that doesn't mean we should live in sorrow." - Kevin Zou

Thanks to everybody who's been there from me since Day 1.

A Few Things

School

I had a hard time deciding whether I really wanted to write a fleshed out post with little paragraphs about each thing or if I wanted to focus on the one big topic I had in hand and throw all the other bits together into the end.

Yeah, I ended up deciding to write the full post.

School is coming back. Unlike other summers, this one didn't pass by quick. It was slow and "tortured" me. You see, without school I have nothing. I actually don't hang out with friends as much as you may or may not think. Now with school arriving soon my interactions with others with increase exponentially and with that also my overall happiness.

tl:dr school makes me happy in a roundabout way

Wisdom Teeth

Apparently I'm getting them removed next month. I don't know how I should feel about this (wow I've been saying that lot lately).

Touchy Topic

Not touchy... more like... "thoughtful"? Hell, it's probably not even a topic. It's just me musing about things that I'll never be satisfied with. Not even that. It's just a childish thought:

I've always wanted to know what people are thinking.

Have you ever been in a situation where you're talking to somebody, and hell yeah you really want to talk to that person, but then you're not sure if he/she wants to talk to you?

It happens a lot to me, with various people. Emotions are hard for me to read in person, let alone talking online. So that's the reason why I very often ask the question: "Do you want to talk?" I feel like while it is really awkward and can end extremely badly (a.k.a "No."), it helps a lot.

I'm thinking too much into this.

Erm, later then ^^

I'm an 8 tonight. SAO was okay, nothing really happens besides (so I'm just gonna go ahead and call SPOILERS right here because some people consider even the tiniest things to be spoilers) some incest, a absurdly small amount of screentime for Asuna (finally), and hype for the huge BoB tournament that will undoubtedly take up a few episodes. Looking forward to watching Rail Wars (although last week's episode was just cringe worthy the whole way) after I finish this post. Maybe I'll muster the will to drag myself through Mahouka as well. Who knows? Miracles happen. Anyhow that's what I have for you today. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

tl:dr: school stuff, wisdom teeth getting yanked soon, and Kevin being Kevin

"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize that I should have been more specific." - Lily Tomlin

Lately These Have Been My Thoughts

Novel? (Here We Go Again, Sorry Guys)

This notion will probably blow away sometime in the next bit. Occasionally I accidentally say something deep and meaningful and then I'm suggested to write a novel. When this happens I usually put a little blog bit on it just to let you know what's going on with the novel. Not once have I actually started any of those novels. I believe that I'm too inexperienced and naive to write something like a serious novel. That never really stopped anybody though, so who knows?

I have the feeling that I've contradicted myself several times in the span of one paragraph.

Anime Blog Thingy

"Wow Kevin actually remembered about this!"

Hell yeah I have. Of course that doesn't mean that I have started working on the site or anything, but I'm trying to get some foundations up. I've found a partner-in-crime who has agreed to take on this project with me and I'll try to sketch up some fundamentals during the next few days. Might release a preview of logos and such on this site, but probably not (it'd be cool to keep it a secret).

Still need to think of a name...

This Has Been A Blob of Text Brought To You By Kevin

Alright, I'm gonna close off this post here. Kind of a skimpy post, but I'm honestly tired of typing from the last two posts and Planing 10 (which thank god is finally over). How's your day been? It's been mostly the same for me. Decided to catch up with Hanayamata (friend recommended it), so I've been watching that throughout the day. Still gotta watch a handful of random OVAs.

Robin Williams passed away yesterday. O Captain! My Captain! Goodbye.

I'm an 8 this entry. Until the next time you hear from me.

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams