Whatever Matt Feels Like Posting

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?!??!

Today, I accidentally wrote "Pro-Life" instead of "Pro-Test" as one of the sources for my research paper despite the fact that not only are hot-button issues such as abortion off-limits for the topic for our research papers, I would've avoided them even if they had been allowed. The last time I accidentally used the wrong word in a paper in a way that could've made things go badly if I hadn't noticed was over 3 years ago - and unlike that time, it was for a real paper (not just practice for the SAT) and someone else noticed it before I did (fortunately, it was pathvain_aelien who noticed rather than my teacher, but still).

And people still think I won't regress if my mind gets too full of creative vortexes? It's clearly already started!

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(x-posted to the_number_206)

So I was looking at the profiles of my teachers for the first semester of college, and as it turns out, the number of my English teacher's office is 206. Especially interesting is the fact that it should be my college English teacher, because so far, my high school English teacher is the only teacher that I've mentioned any of my findings involving 206 (and other numbers) to. Hmm...

Is this a coincidence? Answer with a 206-word essay.

Out of the exams I took today, I'm the most confident about the anatomy exam, since my teacher graded all of the exams before class ended and said I made an A+. I'm the second-most confident about the Bible exam since all four students were allowed to take it as a group, then history because although I only forgot the answers to two short-answer questions, I didn't have a lot of time to write the essay (though it didn't have to be five-paragraph).

Tomorrow is an English exam consisting of four essay questions. Blah.

Repost with flying colors

So I had a Spanish test today. (By the way, I have that kind of test every Thursday, most of the time. They aren't that long except for, like, the end of the semester.) My Spanish teacher had forgotten to put the Spanish word for "damsel" on the matching section, so she said to just omit it. Guess what I wrote next to the English word?

"In another castle test."

Heehee!

¡Gracias Mattio! ¡Pero su poste está en otro diario!

Yesterday, I was doing a section review in history class, and this happened:

HISTORY BOOK: The invasion of what country by the Soviet Union in 1979 potentially threatened the world's oil supplies in the Persian Gulf region?
ME: Wars limited to specific geographical areas.

I dunno how I could have misread the entire question. Yesterday, I would have bet you a statue of Waenya (for those of you new to my friendslist, she's this) made out of macaroni & cheese that the question was asking what limited wars are.

Fortunately, the other funny thing that happened today did not lower any of my grades in any way:

LYRICS TO SONG WE WERE SINGING IN CHAPEL: Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with chains that cannot be broken...
WHAT I THOUGHT MY BIBLE TEACHER WAS SAYING: Bind us together, Lord, bind us together with Lords that cannot be broken...

And yet the song also claims that there is only one Lord.

I accidentally fell asleep for nearly three hours after school. In other words, wasted the fact that I have no homework today. :(

Repost to specific geographical journals

WORST DAY EVER.

6:30 AM - 8:00 AM: My forgetfulness caught up with me, giving my mom a reason to nag for an hour before school.
10:35 AM - 11:25 AM: As if what my mom complained about in the car weren't enough, I forgot to bring my chemistry paper to school.
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM: Probably didn't do well on the essay on my reading test.
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM: Another hour of nagging.
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM: Way too much homework.
7:24 PM - Hurt knee.

Only two good things happened all day so far.
Number one: I treated myself to chocolate ice cream after finishing my homework.
Number two: One of the funniest things I've heard:

MY SPANISH TEACHER: Sillón.
KALEE (friend at school): Celine Dion!

Celine Dion was a chair! I mean, she was a singer chair! Er, maybe she was just a singer! Um, but she was still CELINE DION!!!


Burninate

I finished the final copy of my research paper. It was easy to do, since there were only a few corrections my teacher suggested. About time.

I also got my braces tightened yesterday. Ouch. Fortunately, my braces pulled a my wisdom teeth and only hurt that day. :)

By the way, there was something I was wondering. You see, on Ours Will You 1-Up, I currently censor not only actual cuss words found in backwards lyrics, but also things like bathroom humor, sexual implications (even without cuss words), and some euphemisms for cuss words. I came up with an idea for a feature to add in the redesign I am planning: clicking the last letter of a song title takes you to a version with only actual cusses censored (a trick I will actually mention on the site, so it's not a secret), but clicking any other letter takes you to a version like I have now. If I did that, would I have to mark Ours Will You 1-Up as containing adult content in the site settings or not? (@pathvain_aelien: I know "shizzle" means "real". I'm not talking about that.)

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