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So depressed right now. I don't think I'm gonna be able to sleep tonight because today I found out that yet another YouTube channel I'd found out about (thanks to Quidd) and kinda wanted to check out eventually is controversial - SSSniperWolf. And knowing about this makes me keep thinking about the Etika and cobanermani456 things again and worrying that I'll be hated for liking any of these channels, or wanting to see more of their videos (or any of their videos, as I haven't actually watched SSSniperWolf yet). Same thing with YouTube channels that became controversial before this year like PewdiePie and JonTron...

Are any of you going to dislike or judge me for wanting to see these channels? If not, please say so even if you feel like you'd be repeating something you've already said. I can't take this depression much longer...

Could someone more emotionally stable than me please research what these controversies are really all about and tell me what actually happened? (EDIT: I should clarify, I mean aside from the PewdiePie and JonTron ones as I think I know what those were about... but is it lame that I had no idea until I asked someone about those?) I've tried looking them up myself but didn't get far because a) it made me depressed easily and b) I know that I'm going to hear at least two sides to each story and not know which one is actually true, and be hated if I think the one that isn't true is true (which I'm told I have done already regarding cobanermani456).

(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 )

Well, I graduated yesterday!! (Okay, so it's 1:45 AM right now, so I guess now it's the day before yesterday?... It was December 12. That we know for sure.)

And I was so tired after the ceremony that on the way home, I could remember every new day I kept falling asleep and waking up - despite playing Super Smash Bros. 3DS to try and keep myself awake, so sometimes my character would end up standing there for a while until I woke up again. :)

And then I got home at 5 PM or so and pretty much went straight to bed - and stayed in bed until about 2 PM the next day. Yes, I was THAT tired after all the stress from this semester...


And guess what pathvain_aelien gave to me as a graduation gift that originally would've been a Christmas gift?

Dark Sky Island, the new Enya CD!!!

I'm listening to it for the second time right now :)


It still feels weird that there's a new Enya CD since so much has changed since the last time there was a new Enya CD with new songs... I mean, this is the first Enya CD with new songs since I started becoming active on LJ. It's the first Enya CD with new songs since this dream from 2009 or earlier (notice where I say "I never got to see what was on the other CD. I want it so badly."? I like to pretend that Dark Sky Island was the other CD in the dream, and that after nearly seven years, I'm finally getting to listen to it). It's even the first Enya CD with new songs since I designed Wænya, which was also nearly seven years ago! Which just goes to show how long I've been putting off all sorts of stuff...

And on the road are you and this entry

IT'S SPRING BREAK!!!! Now I can finally get the sleep I need to keep myself from missing or being late to most of my classes!

As you can probably tell, even though I don't have an English class this semester, this year has been so tough that I haven't had the chance to check LJ much. For a while, I was procrastinating checking my friends page because it seemed like the only reason I wouldn't be able to do my homework or finish the really long post I've been talking about. Though, now I've been done with that post since February and I'm only waiting for ellaina02 to get back to me about it (I wanted her and pathvain_aelien to proofread it to make sure it made sense), so procrastinating checking my friends page now is just force of habit. Rest assured, I'll start catching up on it soon!

At first, this semester was better than last semester - no essays, not much homework, and I got to all of my classes on time. But now, I just get worse and worse at all of these - especially getting to Computer Science on time, which is particularly bad because my instructor for that class will be my academic advisor starting next semester and thus I need to not get on her bad side. And I'm still not any closer to finishing my creative vortexes faster than I come up with them.

Happy belated birthday to ellaina02, hattaloveis18, arpoksai, haleydunphy, jessamort, littleevilone, venturia2010, spikeyannie, inever, dreadfulpenny81, unowncafe, adrianacecilia and ariadnechan! And happy current birthday to gt_814 and irish_ileana!

Tell everyone I'm back

(what I wanted to put for the music tag: "Dr. Mario - Chill (SSBB version), Super Mario Galaxy - Speedy Comet and Final Bowser, Enya - Cursum Perficio backwards, and Sarah McLachlan - Black all at once and in G Major")

I visited the college that I am the most interested in from Sunday to Monday, staying overnight in the dorm (like I'd done before at another college).

Although the first day was pretty good, the second day ruined it for me. It all started when the fire alarm went off at 12:30 AM for no reason. Once I realized that it wasn't just imagination, I was hit with the realization that I hadn't quite memorized the fire escape route, so my plan was to just run through random hallways on the floor I was on until I either found the elevator (because I hadn't remembered "oh yeah, I can't use the elevator during a fire or fire drill" yet) or someone who knew where it was. Fortunately, this was actually much sooner than I expected - I heard some guy's voice so I followed him down the stairs and outside the building. Even though there wasn't a fire - the fire alarm came on by accident - it was clear from right then that I wouldn't get anywhere near enough sleep that night, since breakfast was at 7 and I hadn't even fallen asleep once yet. Especially since, in my no-common-sense hurry to get out of my room, I forgot to take my room key with me and ended up having to borrow the master key. Which I accidentally used to open the door to the room next to mine at first.

And, as expected, I briefly woke up and went back to sleep several times starting at 6, eventually becoming awake enough to get up at around 7:30 or 8. By then, my roommate was already gone, and only a few people were downstairs, none of whom knew where to go either. I ended up missing breakfast completely - and I thought I was late that one time at Camp El Tesoro when I got to breakfast just a few minutes before it was over! Throughout the rest of the day, I also got separated from my group and ended up lost 3 more times. :(

The lack of common sense apparently didn't end after the trip was over, either - I somehow managed to post even more comments in asperger that I ended up regretting despite the fact that:

A) I didn't even mention a cure for autism this time, and
B) I had a feeling it would happen just like I knew this, this, and the fact that I probably haven't heard from Schrödinger's Enya in awhile because I acted like the paparazzi countless times would.

Will I ever say anything that I won't end up regretting? :'(

Speaking of those comments in asperger, people there have pointed out that "creative tumors" isn't a good term for, well, creative tumors because it's kinda unpleasant-sounding, but I can't think of anything better. Do any of you have any ideas?

Things that won't work for a renaming of creative tumors:
- daydreaming (that would imply that I am creative enough to come up with these ideas almost constantly, rather than every now and then randomly)
- creative spasms (saying "4 or 5 years ago, the most creative spasms I had at once was four" implies that I thought about four ideas at the same time, when really I mean to say that four ideas kinda took turns distracting me)

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If you had to eat the same breakfast everyday for a year (and it would be prepared and served to you), what would you choose?

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Either brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts or macaroni & cheese, because Pop-Tarts wouldn't be much different because I almost always have Pop-Tarts for breakfast anyway, while macaroni & cheese is my favorite food period. I guess it'd depend on how normal I decide I want my breakfast to be. :)

Crazy reposting!

Here is all the homework I had to do today:

- a chapter review for Economics
- some Physics problems
- yet another paper to write for Spanish
- citing another source for the Research Paper of the Apocalypse
- writing a note from said source

This wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have ALL OF THESE ON THE SAME DAY. Ugh. I'm finally done, but now it's 9:31 PM and I'm so tired that I might as well go to bed even though it's not my bedtime yet. :(

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Rise and shine
What's the first thing you do when you wake up?

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Stay in bed for at least two more hours :P

zzzzzzzzz...

For a while, I had gotten better at making new LJ userpics as opposed to procrastinating making them. I made one new userpic on Thursday, three on Saturday, one on Sunday, and what I think is a new record - FIFTEEN yesterday!

But then, apparently I flipped back to being a procrastinator, because pretty much all I did the rest of the day yesterday was play Data Worm on Facebook, read random pages on the Homestar Runner Wiki, and reading random stuff on Gadzillion Things. The only other eventful thing I did was watching part of the eclipse last night with pathvain_aelien and Stephen.

I think I set another new personal record today, as well - I didn't get up until 2:22 PM because I was so tired. :(

Collect this entry and post it to your journal

I stayed in bed until 2 PM today. Wow.

EDIT: I just realized this was my 400th post.

Sleep through reposting