Good Job, Bruce.

I applied to my first ever real-live (part-time) job today! I'm still not entirely sure whether or not I'll have the time for it what with school and Batman: Arkham City, but I finally decided that if I didn't take the plunge and give it a go, then I'd never have any money for my entire undergrad. So wish me luck!

Something that's been bugging me lately: poorly written textbooks. They cost so much money, and involve so much work, to have to cause so much pain as well? Now that I'm in my  second year of university (I'm in my second year of university!) I've been exposed to enough good and bad textbooks to know that the fifth edition of Vertebrates: Comparative Anatomy, Function, Evolution doesn't need to be the walls of text made of up of endless pages of big, dry terms that it is. It could be exciting. It could have colour! They could even plan out the formatting so that some of the figures and diagrams are on the same page that they're referenced on.

Sometimes I feel like I should be on Facebook more. I like the idea of being able to look back on these undergrad years when I'm livin' it up at 45 (totally gonna be livin' it up at 45) and see exactly who I was. In saying this, I'd like to mention that every time I go on Google+ and see how pretty/cool it is, I desperately wish people used it. So come on, people! Get on Google+! It's like totally super more prettier than Facebook!

Aaaand speaking of life updates, I went to the Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Godessess concert at the Sony Centre in Toronto last Saturday, and it was totally boss. I got this entirely cute blue dress for it over the summer; it had little butterflies on it. Pictures will be happening at some point. Back to the concert, not only did we get three encores (screw Montreal!), but the awesome Irish conductor used the WIND WAKER to conduct the wind waker songs. My friend and I spent most of the show trying to find an alleged Groose cosplayer mentioned on Twitter, whom we eventually spotted at the bottom of the escalator. After fighting through hoards of fans to get at him we were way too obvious about how excited we were to finally find him and I made the brilliant move of telling him we'd been talking about him on Twitter. I'd post the picture of the guy (t'was a grand cosplay), but I think I freaked him out enough already. Also I got hundreds of hits on streetpass, for realz. You can't really see it, but everyone in that picture is sitting there on their 3DS.

The Vapors = Walking to School in the Morning

Every time I find some new music, I go through the compulsory few days (weeks) of "OMFG THIS IS ALL I EVER WANT TO LISTEN TO. EVER." before I revert back to normal and add the new stuff to the list of things I listen to. The problem is that listening to music is probably the easiest thing in the world to multi task with. Everyone has songs and such that remind you of other things, but it sucks when you get stuck with a reminder that you really don't want to be reminded of.

Take Billy Talent. Anything and everything Billy Talent immediately brings my mind to FFX. Specifically, Mt. Gagazet. Trying to get up that damn hill with that ungodly encounter rate. Sadly, Pendulum's The Island - Pt. 1(Dawn) fell victim to Tokyo Mew Mew. Owl City's Fireflies makes me think of that one guy I really liked who really wasn't interested. The Beatles' Your Mother Should Know is waking up at 5:30 in Grade 11. Gorillaz's On Melancholy Hill is now the dreaded song of treadmills.

It's like any song that you set as an alarm clock, at first it's all "waking up wont be so painful if I'm listening to this!" then you reach the inevitable stage where every time you hear the song you cringe and think it's morning. Lonely Rolling Star from Katamari STILL makes me paranoid that my phone's going off, and I changed that a few years ago. I suppose the only way to avoid this is to either do nothing when listening to music, or only do really cool things. Make sure you're listening to a good song when you do something awesome.

Otherside by The Red Hot Chili Peppers (one of my favourite songs) has always made me think of Dollhouse. I wasn't watching Dollhouse while listening to it, it just really seems to fit. Less the lyrics and more the sound. Because of that, The Other Side by Pendulum (another favourite) makes me think of Dollhouse as well. This isn't a bad connection or anything, I've just always wondered about it. I think all songs named with something about other sides are automatically awesome.

It's like television and movies and everything. I think children must enjoy watching stuff so much more than we do because they don't have the nagging voice in the back of their mind "I KNOW that guy from somewhere! I'm sure of it!" for the whole thing.