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Chronicles of 7th Grade: The Bug's Life
Jun. 13th, 2009 04:13 amThe first Co7G entry is significant because me, Dad, Brian, Marie, and Matthew had gone to see a certain movie that we had been planning on seeing for weeks beforehand. The rest of the week's entries are short enough to go with it, and I should also note that this is where Grandma Barbara leaves.
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Next game: Super Mario Bros. 2
Back to the present.
Received: Kanon, disk 3
Mom brought Marie home yesterday as she came home from work. Brian then drove me to Dr. Perret's office, where we both had an appointment each on the same day. I went first, while he read some book in the car.
For most of my session, I spoke to him about the "right" way to live, which I believe depends on how one defines it for themselves. For me, it's just to enjoy it as much as possible, because it's not like I'm actually gonna regret anything when I'm dead. Sometimes, Dad says that I'm wasting my life away by playing video games so much, but to me, video games is exactly what life is all about. Now, I can understand him getting upset about me gaming when I've got schoolwork to take care of, and I know that the world doesn't owe me a living, but I remember one time, when I was playing Pokemon Pearl during winter break, when I have no schoolwork to deal with, and he ranted about how the decades will go by before I wake up and realize I've gamed my whole life away. Well, fine. In fact, gaming is exactly one reason why I wish not to get married or raise kids. I don't wanna be bothered to fix or clean things up or have to help some ten-year-old solve algebra problems when I'm off from work, or even think up some weekend activities; I just want to have as little human contact as possible while I watch my Pokemon level up. Not a healthy lifestyle? So be it.
At Jake's request, I also managed to spend the last fifteen minutes of my session discussing the dispute he and I had that led us to stop discussing Parasitic Trio. Jake has a handful of qualms with it, but his main gripe is that, despite what the word "Legendary" implies, it is possible for a non-legendary to compete with a legendary. I wasn't expecting Dr. Perret to be able to understand anything about Pokemon or fanfiction, but he said that this is like David and Goliath: Naturally, one would expect that Goliath (or equivalently, the Legendary Pokemon in question) would win, but it is possible for anyone else to have some kind of advantage over him. (Even though I did explain such an argument, Jake still refuses to buy it. Oh well.)
That concluded my session. Brian drove me over to OfficeMax to buy some colored pencils, before having his session. I got a pack of 72, paid for it, and strode over to Borders across the parking lot. Over there, I read the first few chapters of the Haruhi manga, and the first chapter of Mao-chan. I paid for the latter, and then waited outside for Brian.
Coming home, I found out online that there actually is an anime version of Mao-chan, and put it right on my Netflix queue despite the negative reviews it got.
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Next game: Super Mario Bros. 2
Back to the present.
Received: Kanon, disk 3
Mom brought Marie home yesterday as she came home from work. Brian then drove me to Dr. Perret's office, where we both had an appointment each on the same day. I went first, while he read some book in the car.
For most of my session, I spoke to him about the "right" way to live, which I believe depends on how one defines it for themselves. For me, it's just to enjoy it as much as possible, because it's not like I'm actually gonna regret anything when I'm dead. Sometimes, Dad says that I'm wasting my life away by playing video games so much, but to me, video games is exactly what life is all about. Now, I can understand him getting upset about me gaming when I've got schoolwork to take care of, and I know that the world doesn't owe me a living, but I remember one time, when I was playing Pokemon Pearl during winter break, when I have no schoolwork to deal with, and he ranted about how the decades will go by before I wake up and realize I've gamed my whole life away. Well, fine. In fact, gaming is exactly one reason why I wish not to get married or raise kids. I don't wanna be bothered to fix or clean things up or have to help some ten-year-old solve algebra problems when I'm off from work, or even think up some weekend activities; I just want to have as little human contact as possible while I watch my Pokemon level up. Not a healthy lifestyle? So be it.
At Jake's request, I also managed to spend the last fifteen minutes of my session discussing the dispute he and I had that led us to stop discussing Parasitic Trio. Jake has a handful of qualms with it, but his main gripe is that, despite what the word "Legendary" implies, it is possible for a non-legendary to compete with a legendary. I wasn't expecting Dr. Perret to be able to understand anything about Pokemon or fanfiction, but he said that this is like David and Goliath: Naturally, one would expect that Goliath (or equivalently, the Legendary Pokemon in question) would win, but it is possible for anyone else to have some kind of advantage over him. (Even though I did explain such an argument, Jake still refuses to buy it. Oh well.)
That concluded my session. Brian drove me over to OfficeMax to buy some colored pencils, before having his session. I got a pack of 72, paid for it, and strode over to Borders across the parking lot. Over there, I read the first few chapters of the Haruhi manga, and the first chapter of Mao-chan. I paid for the latter, and then waited outside for Brian.
Coming home, I found out online that there actually is an anime version of Mao-chan, and put it right on my Netflix queue despite the negative reviews it got.