What kind of hot girl?

A while back (and thus my second-to-last entry here) I wrote about how facebook was advertising dating sites where I could meet men, and christian women. A few minutes ago, I was given an ad for "hot white girls." Now, while I've got nothing against white women, um...

I said I wouldn't want to date a woman who signed up for a dating site specifically for "Christian" singles. And that goes double for the ones who sign up for a dating site specifically for "white" singles. Hell, it goes triple.

Double is reserved for when I see a website for "Conservative/Republican" singles.

A Few Things

1. So, I started my first job a couple weeks ago. It's not as soul-crushing as I was worried it'd be. And given my expenses over this summer, it's pretty good pay. The thing is, I'm working at a country store, otherwise known as "a supermarket for rural Maine." Pretty much the only thing that's depressing about it are the people who come in to buy lottery tickets. According to a study that was quoted to my class by a college professor a while back, Mainers have an absurd belief in the ability of the lottery to get them any money. And it is shocking to see how many people actually do buy lottery tickets in absurd amounts. It's doubly shocking how many people will win small sums of money, usually under ten dollars, and use all of that money to buy more lottery tickets. Quite often, they'll buy more lottery tickets than they won money for. I'd argue that I've seen more people lose more money on the lottery than on their cigarette addictions.
2. Also, in regards to my work, I had a dream a couple of nights ago where I was working the register at the store, and it was pitch-black, except for a small square of light where the window was. I could vaguely see an approximation of the workstation in the dark. I started walking around to find a lightswitch. At some point in here, I actually woke up, but didn't realize it. I'd apparently been sleepwalking in my room. Or, rather, sleep-standing, since my dream-reality hadn't given me any reason to move.
3. I'm kind of shocked at the amount of people who have been combing through Barack Obama's life for any hint of racism against white people. I'm not a fan of racism, but I guarantee none of these people have been nearly so careful about disowning any politician with connections to white racism.
4. I'm also kind of shocked at the amount of feminists who are acting like Hilary Clinton was their last shot ever at having a woman president. Now, I've occasionally fretted that the world was going to end in 2012, in more impressionable days, but, honestly, if the Obama presidency goes well, there should at least be space in the history books for at least one more full, two-term presidency after him. Probably more than that, even. Way more than that. Speaking as the son of a strong, female politician (albeit local), I know that there is still plenty of room for a strong female politician to make a stand on the national stage, but I just felt right about Obama. Hell, my mom even felt right about Obama.

Ads

So, I'm on my facebook account, and there's always an ad to the left showing something. Quite often, it is some kind of dating service.

Occasionally, it also shows an advertisement for some way to watch Bleach, so I think it must be something designed to customize itself to what's on my profile.

Then again, more often than not, when it shows a dating service, it's for gay people, accompanied by a shirtless guy. Which actually doesn't strike me as completely out of step, considering that a key part of my profile is that I go to Emerson.

What makes me think "this is completely wrong" is the new dating service that's been showing up lately for Christian singles. Yes, it shows a woman, which is accurate, but damn it if they didn't mess up the second-biggest thing I don't want; a woman who would go to a Christian dating site. I don't mind Christians themselves, there are plenty of good ones. I just don't like the ones who feel that they can't go on anonymous internet dates without putting their faith first and foremost.

I'm actually more comfortable around a shirtless dude.

I wish

I wish that, every time I opened a door, there was a better-than-zero chance that it wouldn't open to the right place. Like, if I opened the door to my bedroom, there was a slim chance that the other side would not be my bedroom, but somewhere else.

And I'm not talking just on Earth, either. I'm talking some kind of multiversal mix-up, where I'd end up with a door to, say, a bathroom in some universe where cats grew to be the dominant species.

Okay, maybe not precisely that, but the idea is that I could end up in completely alien worlds just by opening the same goddamn door I've opened twenty times today. Of course, it wouldn't be huge odds. I mean, considering how many doors there are everywhere, in order to go anywhere, it'd have to be something like a 0.1% chance, but that's good enough odds for it to happen at least a couple of times a month, if you think about just how many doors one opens in a single day.

There would have to be a few caveats to this ability, mind you. For instance, the connection would have to be reset if I closed the door. Leaving open portals between universes could end up being very bad, and it would be very inconvenient for the people who want to use the door normally.

For another, there would have to be a method of getting back to one's home universe. Maybe not to the specific spot that the person first left, at least without some serious work. It shouldn't be too easy, seeing as whoever uses this ability has to go through the doorway and close it before they end up losing that initial portal. But it's still possible to do that and not know what you're doing, so it shouldn't be impossible for all but the most dedicated.

There would probably also have to be some kind of separation rule between the multiverses, so someone wouldn't be constantly meeting alternate-reality versions of themselves, and also because I wish this precisely because I don't want to end up in a reality that could be mistaken for this one. However, it obviously can't be a completely different universe where, say, no one uses doors.

Which brings me to how the doors open, because obviously, you can't have a door open on one side that has a massive size discrepancy with the door on the other side. Like, a massive city gate vs. a closet door. So when the door is opened, it has to match size and shape with the door on the other side. However, they shouldn't have to match position, because that would make it impossible to find a way home. Because you're not only matching latitude and longitude, but also altitude. Matching door size and shape is actually much better, as it's a lot easier to judge whether a particular door will lead toward or away from a particular world.

Okay, so I'm a little weird, but this has been in my head for a little while. It kind of ties in with other stuff I've been thinking about, too, which never helps when I get a weird idea. Plus, this idea is literally the best thing that's happened to me for the past few days. Kind of a cross between me being a shithead, and shit falling on me from afar.

Okay, mostly just me being a shithead. And that always makes me feel like shit.

Brawling

So I've got Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and I really want to play it right now, but my tv is in use.

Granted, I did play it for like six straight hours earlier today, but it's just not enough.

I'm not sure what I should be doing next. I haven't even done the Subspace Emissary bit, though I'd like to see how many characters I can unlock without that, and then I can go in and take care of that.

I've also got only a few more custom stages to make before I've got all the stage builder parts. And the one I really want is in that final set. But I've got some awesome stages. A couple aren't terribly remarkable, though they have potential.

By the way

I don't know if anyone's actually read this, but I forgot to mention something cool that happened last Thursday.

Basically, I've got a Comedy writing class, which is basically like a primer in how to do a sketch comedy show. Anyway, I've basically been trying really hard in this class because I really feel like it's something I need to do for myself.

Now, the thing is, not everyone can have one of their own sketches in the final show, because that would be too cluttered, though obviously everyone's expected to do a little work on something or other. But only a few sketches can actually be picked.

So, anyway, one of the first selections, by overwhelming votes, was one that I'd written. And I have to say, it's pretty damn good.

I've also apparently been the first person definitively cast in a particular role. I mean, I know who I want to cast in the one I wrote, and a couple of the other sketches have consistently been read well by volunteers, but I'm the only one that has unanimously been cast by the entire class in a particular sketch.

I need to keep reminding myself of this because right now it's the best thing I've got going for me.

Surprisingly

I have no regrets about how drunk I got last night.

Seriously, it was probably the happiest I've been to be sitting around doing nothing in quite a long time. I'm not sure when that last time was, but I know I've occasionally enjoyed sitting at home, alone, doing absolutely nothing, while completely sober.

Just not a lot lately.

Anyway, I managed to get past the problem in my story that I was rambling about last night. Right now, it's all about the order of events that I've got to work on. I don't quite know how I'm going to get my characters from point A to point B (point A being a plot point that should be coming up eventually, and B being the final confrontation).