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    Got an invite for Google+ from W88 and now I have joined. O.o Which I find surprising for me, when I think about how I felt so apathetic about joining another social network whose sole purpose was to connect people so they can talk (as opposed to connecting people so they can talk about art or play vidjya games together).

    And noooo I didn’t join just because it’s not Facebook. >:o Well…maybe I did. But mainly because Google+ claims to actually care about our privacy (even though Facebook said pretty much the same thing before turning to the Dark Side of the Force). If I feel like I can trust Google to not screw us over, then maybe I will stay.

    (Despite what the comic said, I actually might be able to get my dad to switch. Mom…I don’t know yet…)

    Edit: That being said, I might not be that active on it. I just wanted to test out the features and see what it was like, since people seem to be going crazy over it.

  • Super Backflip!

    One of Steam’s summer sale achievements was to upload a video to Youtube and connect it to our Steam profile. Since I didn’t have any video game-related videos, I downloaded Fraps and shot one while playing Champions Online.

    Speaking of MMOs, I’ve said in the past that I’ve grown apathetic about MMOs, but there are two I’ve been playing recently.

    I like Spiral Knights because it’s a lot less grindy than most MMOs. Champions Online can feel a bit grindy, if you’re soloing, but it makes up for it by being fun to run around in (if you have the acrobatic travel power or something similar). You can also go to Canada or the Southwest Desert and fight zombies! :O

    Upcoming MMOs like The Old Republic I’m following the news of, but after a few gameplay videos recently, people are calling it a WoW clone. I’ve never playing WoW, but if it’s like Runescape, I might be underwhelmed. :/

    Edit: Bennyhillified!

  • Dream: Back to School!

    I had one of these dreams, where my old college was combined with my old middle school and the local high school. (I seem to have a lot of these…)

    And since I didn’t actually have to switch schools when migrating to college (either I went to high school here or I skipped it entirely somehow), I managed to keep my old locker. And was one of the few college students here who had a locker. >:D I used it store my books and other stuff.

    (Although several times, I forgot I even had it, so when I couldn’t find my book because it was in said locker, I panicked and bought another book, when…yeah.)

    One day, I was late for math. I couldn’t find my book, and asked Mr. Giantpaper if he knew where it was. He went to see if I left it in me car, and went to check my locker. And since I was late, I had trouble opening the lock (as in, I remembered the combination, but kept missing the second number and had to start over about two or three times). Eventually, I got fed up and just spun it around all crazy like, angrily, until it opened on its own. Surprised, I opened the door and checked the contents to make sure this was indeed my locker. Yup, it had all my Spanish books from the previous semester (two of them were the same exact one written by my teacher and the third had a holographic cover that was written by Shigeru Miyamoto).

    I didn’t find my math book, so I went to the parking lot by the nearby park to see if it was in my car. I saw my float I made for the upcoming Christmas parade that was starting soon. It was a cheap one, with an oversized cardboard ornament shaped like a Christmas tree propped onto it, covered with lights. I got inside and drove it to the school entrance, when I changed my mind, thinking ‘nah, this is stupid’, and drove it back to the parking lot.

    The end.

  • A Potentially Awkward Gender Reveal Dream

    In this one, I had a doctor appointment. The doctor was a pretty female doctor, who for some reason, thought I was a guy and kept flirting with me. O.o (Which also weirded me out, because while I know there are people whose genders tend to be ambiguous, I thought it was pretty obvious I was a girl.)

    Just before the exam, I needed to take a shower, according to office policy,  since I haven’t taken one in a few days. The doctor, still thinking I was a he led me to the men’s showers. It was a building on someone’s lawn, and the pastor from our church was giving a sermon across the street. I looked around and saw several rolls of towels on a metal rack and took one. Then I remembered that I was in the wrong shower and left.

    The female shower area was much more well-furnished, purple, orange and green walls and matching armchairs. The towels (also in rolls) were on this shiny, wooden table. In the actual shower, I noticed that the building was a lot smaller than I remembered (only about…two feet tall). It was also inflatable, as opposed to being made of concrete–so inflated that the walls took up most of the interior. Tired of being squished in there, I tried to use dream magic to either make me think the building was larger or that I was a lot smaller. It worked for a little while after a few minutes, then slowly started to shrink again.

    I became fed up and busted  through the roof and yelled about how it felt like being in a dollhouse in here (with extra hamminess for effect). Then I grabbed one of the shower items, turned and left. Then had to turn around when I remembered I left my stuff in front of the building.

    The end.