Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

(music tag should be: Snippets of Mario, Kid Icarus, SSB, BtVS, Enya, Dido, Céline Dion, Sarah McLachlan, Moya Brennan, Matchbox 20, Rascal Flatts, & Savage Garden music thrown together randomly in Audacity)

This has been kind of a disappointing April Fools' Day because:

1) Homestar Runner didn't update at all today, even though they did for April Fools' Day 2014, 2015, and 2016, and April Fools and Halloween are almost the only times they ever update nowadays.
2) I don't think many people noticed my April Fools prank at all.

For reference, my April Fools prank was this entry; however, when I first posted it (on March 31 in my time zone, but late enough that it was April 1 already for some of you), it was an exact copy of my first entry. Then I waited a few minutes or so and changed it to a copy of a different past entry in the same way... then changed it to another after a few more minutes, and so on - basically, if I was at my computer, I'd change the entry anywhere from once an hour to once every few minutes. (At first. I gradually updated it less and less often because it seemed like no one was noticing...)

By "exact copy", that means including the subject line, repost button, userpic, tags, mood, music, location... basically, everything except the timestamp, the comments, and friends-only status [though, of course, the only friends-only entries I used were ones that probably would've been fine being public]. And anything that I intended to change each time but accidentally forgot sometimes. Though if I used an entry I'd posted in _dreams_, autism, or asperger, I added a notice saying that it was cross-posted (even though I don't think copying a community entry to my own journal years later for April Fools' Day actually counts as cross-posting).

I chose the entries semi-randomly, sometimes by going to my Calendar for random years and months and picking a random entry I'd feel comfortable posting again, and sometimes by just putting in notable entries that I remember and wanted to include in this prank at some point. Some entries were used more than once.

And just to mess with your heads even more, I thought it might be fun to come up with a hypothetical FUTURE entry and add it into the mix! That's what the 2023 year in review is for. It ended up being my favorite thing about this prank, so I left that one up significantly longer than any other single entry.


Now that April Fools' Day is over, all the entries I ended up using are listed below for posterity. (Don't expect the repost buttons to work correctly, though...)


( The entries that you could've sworn that you'd seen already and/or that they said something completely different a few minutes ago, in order of their first use in this prank )

Right now, I'm unsure of whether I should go ahead and go to college in fall 2011 like I'd planned, sit out for a semester, or sit out for a year (though if I sit out, I'll have to get a part-time job instead).

Reasons I should go ahead and go to college:
- I'd have at least 3 years and 11 months to rid my mind of creative tumors before I get a job, whereas if I wait a semester or a year and get a part-time job first, I could end up having to finish them all up today.
- I've already decided a schedule of classes, and what seems like a pretty easy schedule (for me) at that; there are 2 math classes, a computer class, freshman English, and some sort of "intro to college" class (I think it's called Campus Connect or something like that). In fact, this means that freeing my mind of creative tumors before college might not be as important as freeing my mind of them before getting a job.
- My family has already paid money for it (both for college itself and for stuff for my dorm).
- The college I plan to go to has an autism support program, and while I didn't get into it due to the waiting list, the professors are apparently used to autistic students.
- The HAS (High School Aerospace Scholars for those that are new or new-ish here) camp was the closest thing to a job that I've had so far, and I made a fool of myself there way more often than I did in high school (which, of course, is the closest thing I've had to college).

Reasons I should wait a semester or year:
- If I go to college this fall, I'll only have 2 months to get rid of all my creative tumors before college, but if I wait a semester I'll have 6 months and if I wait a year I'll have 14 months.
- Considering that I'll have an English class and that the Campus Connect class or whatever it's called <pun intended="false">has</pun> essays, my schedule might pull a HAS and turn out to have 2 difficult essays every 2 weeks or something even though I was told that the essays will be easy and infrequent.

So...

Poll #1755898 I don't know what to do with my life!

Should I go to college now, or wait a semester or a year?

Go to college now! Your inner Enya-dressed-as-Mario wants you to be more optimistic!
Don't go to college yet! Get a part-time job for a semester!
Don't go to college yet! Get a part-time job for a year!
Have a poll option that doesn't have every sentence end with an exclamation point!

Stuck between this journal and...well...your journal

I'm not sure if the person who made the 2009 version of this has made a 2010 one yet, but I decided I might as well make it anyway:

Go to your Calendar and find the first entry for each month of 2010. Post the first line of it in your journal, and that's your "Year In Review".

← 2009 2011 →

( minced for depth )

Fill out your year in review

Tomorrow I leave for JSC! Hopefully it's way harder to make a fool of myself there than it is at Camp El Tesoro and Camp Summit...

Deploy the your-journal lander

Now I'm done with all of my homework for this weekend. Yay! That didn't take long. Longer than pathvain_aelien's estimate of an hour and 45 minutes, but still not long.

Also, yet another profile name change. (When you have a generic username like mine, you feel obligated to at least change your profile name a lot.) Y'see, I wrote my informal essay over the frustration I had been having with my HAS project, and instead of "I couldn't get the converter to convert dates consistently", I put "I couldn't get the converter to consist dates consistently". So my new profile name is "I can't consist consistently." :)

Consist to your journal consistently

Guess who managed to hack into his mom's computer at age 2, yet can't write an interactive Earth-Mars calendar program in Visual Basic at age 16? :(

Post to your planet

I finally submitted my last HAS assignment aside from the final project! Yay!!

Now to get on with my other homework this weekend...

Colonize Mars

Yesterday and today I got to stay home from school because I have a fever (at least I think it's a fever). Since yesterday I was going to be on a college visit anyway, I had already done all of my homework that day. I didn't get so lucky today, though; I've read The Turtle for English class, written down some history terms, and done some math, but I still have to start working on the HAS essay today. And despite this assignment being odd-numbered, it looks like I'm gonna have to design something again (but not draw it). :(

EDIT: Now that I look at the assignment again, the essay actually doesn't seem too hard because one of the things I can write about is timekeeping on Mars, which interests me and thus should be easy for me to talk about. Yay?

Spread the fever

I had such a bad and tiring day that I had a whole post complaining about it and accidentally posted it in goodbandnames! Good thing I deleted it. No wonder the only tag that would automatically be suggested while I typed was "author cancelled". Who used that tag in that community though? Maybe I'm so tired that I can't even remember what tag(s) were being suggested...

*checks "Post to" field*

Matt1993? Good.

Anyways, to recap:

Today-
Homework: some anatomy, some math, reviewed for HAS quiz that I can't take yet

Tomorrow-
Homework: outline (has to be done entirely tomorrow), HAS essay and graphic

Day after-
Junior ring ceremony and going to Incredible Pizza, so I can't really work on anything

Thursday through Sunday (assuming no apocalypse) - HAS essay and graphic

I get the feeling it's not just a coincidence that the research paper outline is due on my dream's second apocalypse prediction.

Accidentally post to a community

I'm finally done with all of the homework that's due after (or during, in the case of HAS stuff) Spring Break! Yay! Now I get to finally enjoy it!

Random quiz:

You Sometimes Know When Someone's Lying

You can spot a liar if the liar slips up, but you're not always aware of other people's dishonesty. Eventually a liar will reveal himself, and you usually will figure out if you've been lied to. However, someone could be duping you without you knowing it. So watch out for the telltale signs of lying!

I'm mad at the maker of this quiz for including a question about what amount of eye contact signifies a liar. The first autistic person he/she meets will punch him/her in the face.

Punch quiz maker in the face