First off, I love Arizona tea. Preferably green tea with ginseng and honey, but the kind with Georgia peaches is pretty good too. That being said, I hit the local Walgreens for my ahem weekly fix, and just cracked up in the middle of the store. See, there's this guy (and no, there really wasn't another way to start that sentence, no matter how cliche it sounds) and he works the register. In the past, I've gotten away with a light amount of flirting--yes, I am actually capable of that sort of thing--as he checks me out. This time however, I walked in and he was wandering around the store whistling. This in and of itself isn't a huge deal, I mean, people whistle right? But then I realized what he was whistling. The Legend of Zelda theme song. One, holy nerd alert. And two, I have realized and had pointed out to me that I'm like, twice the nerd he is for recognizing the song and where it came from, as well as playing the game in general. :] Maybe it's a sign. He could father my children and they'd all grow up knowing the joys of gamership. Then again, it might mean the opposite: stay as far from him as possible because your kids will end up as total weirdos. I'd vote for the first, if he didn't have a jew-fro. That just settles it.
As you guys know, I get migraines. They fluctuate as to the amount and severity, but they're always there, and have been for a little over three years now. It was brought to my attention the other day that I'm a party pooper. And yes, that exact phrase was used. First off, I'd like to take the opportunity to say that while I'm definitely not the most mature person on the planet....Seriously, party pooper? We left the fifth grade a while ago, it's time to let it go. Secondly, and in my defense, how am I to not be said party pooper? I mean, I'm both lactose and gluten free (for the most part) and that makes hanging out difficult. I abhor mornings and avoid them with a fervor that might be called religious, which sucks when all my friends have to work at night. And I rarely sleep normal hours, not because I choose to, but because I'm both a predisposed night owl, and waking up in the early morning just sucks eggs. It usually means a migraine. On top of all these things there's the fact that I just like being by myself. I don't need a drugee's amount of social interaction to survive. Roll all this together, and I guess you get a party pooper. I just kind of wish that these were things I could change, but I know I can't. And I'm waiting for everyone else to accept that.
Last but not least, I will address the issue of TCG's. That is, Trading Card Games. Aka, Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, etc. I get mocked relentlessly for having played these when I was younger, and even revisiting them nowadays. What I can't understand, is why it matters? I mean, take a look at Pokemon. Even ingoring the ridiculous longevity of the games, since when have games of strategy gone out of style? Sure, it sounds stupid, collecting monsters and battling your way across a parallel world-like continent, but it takes an amount of smarts that most people don't realize. You have to have the patience to train for hours on end, the memory to recall names, evolutionary levels and locations, and the brainpower to plan a team, then fight adaptively. All in all, it's pretty hardcore. So why do people scoff at a game where you learn to do all these things? Yes, I agree, the names are so dumb it's not even funny. I mean Ekans? That took so little imagination, a five year old could figure out it was snake backwards. But the thing is, at what point did we grow out of it? At what point did we sit down and think, why the heck did I like that game? I'd like to say never, that once played it's always loved. And while that may be true for some people, there are a heck of a lot who've lost they're touch with these games. Finally, I'd like to add, that all those people who always have and always will dislike such games are usually the kids whose parents were too cheap or too strict to let them come into their household. So those poor kids grew up playing games like Cops and Robbers, discovering that mocking the kids who played video games was easier than admitting they hated to be left out. But that's just me.
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