Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2016. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

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January 2016

https://ghostsingles.com/

February 2016

You'd think that given how easy it probably is to misunderstand my previous entry, I would've posted again as soon as I thought of something else to post about. But nope, somehow I let an easily-misunderstood entry be the newest one for a month minus a few hours.

[Great. I have to link to an easily-misunderstood entry AGAIN - and one that's now even MORE easily-misunderstood since some of you aren't familiar with the sort of stuff I worried about almost constantly from November 2011 to November 2015 {and to a lesser extent, after that}.]

March 2016

Lately I've just had SO MUCH to do that not only do I not get much time to relax, but whenever I do get to take a break, it's usually not actually that relaxing because I still end up thinking about the stuff that has to get done soon.

April 2016

I just looked at the interests in my profile for the first time in a while and...

WHOA. It's WAY outdated.

May 2016

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/05/05/cannes-film-festival-100-years-movie

June 2016

Poll #2047590 Name the first 10 famous people you can think of whose first name is Matt or Matthew. (If you can't think of ten, that's okay - I doubt it would be easy to think of that many. Just list as many as you can.)

July 2016

Happy Fourth of July!! :-)

August 2016

So about a week and a half ago, I was so stressed out, I was stressed in!... or something.

September 2016

My birthdate appears at the 65,167th digit of pi! Where is yours?

October 2016

[the entry begins with a video called "Super Mario Kart with 101 players!", then the next line is...]

I'm trying not to overuse this phrase too much nowadays, but HOLY WHOLE HAND DEALER.

November 2016

Explanation to those who are new here: I decided a couple of years ago that I'd start revisiting every quiz/survey I've posted on LJ five years later to see how things have changed. But then I procrastinated so long that I'm having to do some of them seven years later instead.

December 2016

[the entry begins with a video called "SNES Code Injection - Flappy Bird in SMW", then the next line is...]

I don't think that's what they mean by shell sort. ;)

Earlier today, I had what is probably the best idea I've ever had since... something that was a very good idea.

I've had this same journal style ("Pale Yellows" recolored to have a black background with the colors that the letters and digits in "matt1993" have in my synesthesia) since before the Forbidden Comment Threads - about 0;139 BFCTE, to be precise - long after I eventually discovered that seeing red and green text on a black background all the time started to hurt my eyes after a while. Before that, beginning at some point in 2009, it was "Pale Yellows" recolored with tetradic colors, which made it yellow, purple, blue, and bluish-green, if I remember correctly - and the entries had black text on a white background. And even further back, it was "Pale Yellows" with no changes to the colors. I know I changed the font at some point but I don't exactly remember when.

Anyway, even though I knew that the synesthesia version (at least the way I'd implemented it) started to hurt my eyes after a while and has probably been hurting your eyes for even longer than that (unless you're relatively new here), I put off changing it again for a REALLY long time. I don't really remember why.

Well, now I have a second reason to change it: I'm considering changing it back to the unmodified (palette-wise) version of Pale Yellows! It would hopefully feel like a new beginning or a return to the good old days in 2009 when my journal was actually interesting and not just a whole bunch of "It's been 3½ years and what happened in asperger still makes me feel like every word I say will be seen as racist, sexist, and homophobic..." entries! (speaking of, I feel that it's important to show you guys the newest reason I have for feeling that way... [EDIT IN 2019: Well, apparently the video is no longer there (probably for good reason), and the closest thing I could find to an archive of it is this (and I'd completely even forgotten what video I was talking about until I saw the title and was like "oh yeah, that thing"), so I guess I'll reluctantly have to describe it: ( though I'm cutting it because this was supposed to be a positive entry )

]) And I never did finish updating all of the images that are broken now that Ours Will You 1-Up is nope more - maybe seeing my old journal style will help motivate me to work on it!

I haven't changed it yet, though. I just feel the need to give you guys some sort of heads up that my journal might suddenly have a "new" style. :)

EDIT: Forgot to mention (in case anyone is like "Aw, but I liked how you worked your synesthesia into your journal style!"): It's possible that later on, I will find some other way to work my synesthesia's colors for "matt1993" into my journal style, but I will still take care to avoid having light text on dark backgrounds. My CS professors have made it all too clear to me that it's hard to read. :)


In other news, despite getting Tomodachi Life for my birthday last year, it wasn't until this month that I started getting really addicted to it. I'm saying this because the first step to finding a solution is admitting that I have a problem, so I will: My problem is that Enya probably still has feelings for Mario even though he's with Peach, and Zelda probably still has feelings for Strong Sad even though he's with Dido. LOL

STRONG SAD AND DIDO ARE DATING?!??!

Bill of Rights for people who post religious topics on the Internet

Touching video about the lack of Internet etiquette

EDIT IN 2018: Well, not only did I have to go to archive.org and replace the broken links with links to the archived versions, the video doesn't show up even in the archive of the second one, but I went to the source code to find it:



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I'm about to leave for my 2.9ble 2.8ble date!

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Well, due to some hole in the fabric of space and time, I passed the essay portion of the COMPASS. Hole in the fabric of space and time, you and I are gonna get along just fine!

Also, since I just now found out about this survey:

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name:	Matt Aaron
Birthday:	July 14, 1993
Birthplace:	Fort Worth
Current Location:	Fort Worth
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Brown
Height:	5'10" last time I checked.
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Right
Your Heritage:	I don't really remember, but I think I am part German.
The Shoes You Wore Today:	Athletic Works
Your Weakness:	Essays
Your Fears:	Essays
Your Perfect Pizza:	Pepperoni. Only kind of pizza I like.
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Not to say anything that I wind up regretting later in life
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	I don't really know what my MOST overused phrase is, but the only phrases I overuse are backwards music-related phrases.
Thoughts First Waking Up:	ANOTHER school day?!
Your Best Physical Feature:	The mustache I've been having to shave and will eventually let grow
Your Bedtime:	10:30 PM
Your Most Missed Memory:	Every summer I ever had
Pepsi or Coke:	Water
MacDonalds or Burger King:	MacDonalds. Except I spell it "McDonalds". Does that make me weird?
Single or Group Dates:	I've only been on single dates
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	Water
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Can I use a lifeline?
Do you Smoke:	Definitely no. I'm only 15 anyway.
Do you Swear:	Holy whole hand dealer no, but I use backwards music-related substitutes a whole cattle-notin' lot.
Do you Sing:	Sometimes, but not often
Do you Shower Daily:	Not daily. About 5 days a week.
Have you Been in Love:	*sigh* Yes.
Do you want to go to College:	Yes
Do you want to get Married:	Very yes
Do you belive in yourself:	No, I don't "be live" in myself
Do you get Motion Sickness:	No
Do you think you are Attractive:	I'd be more attractive if I could keep my mustache.
Are you a Health Freak:	No, but I have freaky health.
Do you get along with your Parents:	Sometimes.
Do you like Thunderstorms:	No, they remind me of the power going out, which reminds me of my computer not working, which reminds me of TORTURE!!!
Do you play an Instrument:	I used to play the piano, but I'm out of practice.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you Smoked:	No, I'm only 15.
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	No, I'm-- Why do I even bother?
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	No, not in the past month.
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	No, I rarely go to malls.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	No, I don't eat the boxes.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	Ew no.
In the past month have you been on Stage:	I help out with Face to Face concerts, so technically yeah, sort of.
In the past month have you been Dumped:	No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	Why would I go skinny dipping in the winter? I don't skinny dip anyway.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	No, why would I?
Ever been Drunk:	No
Ever been called a Tease:	I don't know what that would mean, so no.
Ever been Beaten up:	Yes, in second grade. And maybe other grades around that time, I don't remember.
Ever Shoplifted:	Nah.
How do you want to Die:	I want to die while listening to backwards music.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	A computer or a math.
What country would you most like to Visit:	I dunno. Probably England or Ireland.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color:
Favourite Hair Color:
Short or Long Hair:
Height:
Weight:
Best Clothing Style:
Number of Drugs I have taken:
Number of CDs I own:
Number of Piercings:
Number of Tattoos:
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	10⁵⁷
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Take This Surv-- oh wait, the survey itself already said that.