man, i haven’t blogged in a long time, i was going to last night and then i did, and then it got consumed by the blog monster. needless to say i was pissed and defeated, pitted up against a monster that i have no way of fighting…damn you blog monster…i can’t even remember the exact things i may have said, but it was probably irrelevant to most, relevant to a few (funny how that works). plus, ben’s page has been down for what seems like half a week or so, frustrating me further. again, the defenslessness….

but shit, there’s been alot of going’s on around here. the cali trip was rad, if not packed with stuff to do, loads of driving, and money flying out the window, but it was definatly an awesome experience. damn spring break is only a week though. i mean, our summer is like 3 weeks longer than everyone elses, and our winter break is about 3 weeks long, why the hell do they only have a one week break after the shortest and hardest quarter of the school year? bass ackwards this school is. i just left school and already i’m back to spending at least 6 hours at school a day with at least 2 hours of reading/homework to do. i’ve already got tests next week. jebus h., merry, and joe-seph (hee hee, look as i unmercifully poke fun at their names, i’m so clever) screw school, i’m here at school now, prepping for labs i have to do tomrrow, then i’ll read so i’ll be ready for a couple days from now, then i’ll do problems so i’m ready for next week. and the beat goes on…..

ok, for those of you who read this that are not in bellingham (basically just ben) here are some other rather large updates:

1. I cut my hair back down to it’s “crazy sticking in random directions” motif

2. I injured my ankle fairly badly (not terribly, but enough to have to crutch for a couple of days, and do some physical therapy for the next month), and am yet agian rehabilitating something in the lower half of my body.

i cut my hair on a spur of the moment kind of thing because i had been building up to it. i kept wanting to cut my hair, but then laziness and the fact that i’d spent almost a year growing it out kept deterring me. so on one of those contemplative sunday mornings (hangover and sudden sobriety induced, of course) and i realized that if i was gonna get rid of my hair, i had to do it right then. pretty much ruin it, by trying to cut it myself. this succeeded very well, because i butchered my head (although it did look rad with a mini-mullet in the back) and it pushed me to go riding to have it re-done by the greatest professional that super cuts had to offer, and as usual they didn’t dissappoint.

i found out that i’m not cut out for long hair unfortunatly (oooh, rad pun). i’m sure i looked fine (not like it terribly mattered to me) but man it got annoying. when your hair is long, you really notice all the strands that fall out of your head. i mean i’m sure i lose hair now, but it’s small and they float away like gentle wisps on the wind. long hair falls in your lap, on your keyboard, it gets everywhere. so i guess the annoyance factor finally outweighed the suave, stylish factor (in other words, the lazy factor). also the fact that it rebelled against me and whipped me in the eye put me on bad terms with it though.

so i hurt myself…again….basically, i can kiss extreme sports good bye. i can go snowboarding, but i can’t be jumping around. I can bike, but not street BMX. hell, i can’t even run without my knee feeling like shit for a couple weeks afterwards. i finally work myself up from a video game playing, dorito munching, 12 pack of coke a day drinking, lard ass to the stunning testament of masculinity i am today. i enjoy this for about a year, and then it gets taken away.

i could be bitter, but then again, it seems pretty futile. i just need some nanomachines that i could spray on my knee and ankle, and then those would go to work, splicing genes, activating proteins, and just rebuilding my knee and ankle from the inside. i mean, your body puts itself into positions that are pretty much a dead end. why the hell shouldn’t your body be able to make a limited repair of your tendons and cartilidge? hmmm, maybe it does though and i am just ignorant to the fact, but i remember that if cartilidge tears, that’s it, it’s torn for good. dammit, why couldn’t i have broken a bone or something.

whine, whine, whine….

well, ok that phase is passed, it’s kinda entertaining to read yourself whining, much more satisfying than just yelling about it, because i don’t remember half the things i yell most of the time, but now i got it in hard copy. that may or may not be a good thing.

i read ben’s idea of going to malls and dressing up as apostles, and frankly, this is one of the most genius ideas i have ever heard. i may be biased (because i tend to be a large proponent of ben’s ideas) but offering salvation and teaching kids the true meaning of christmas would be a pretty large joke. and if ben got in trouble for impersonating jesus? i would call that a badge of honor right there.

anything else up in my head right now that’s dying to get out? oh yeah, video games are awesome. this year just flung me headlong back into playing role-playing games again. i haven’t had one for a couple of days, and it’s driving me nuts. it’s like a movie/book. you play/read for a bit, then put it down and you can come back later and resume it. other games are fun, but i’m in it for the role-playing. i kinda connect it to the discovery of anime (or as i call them now, “cartoons”. it just makes things easier when talking to others) because they’re basically the same thing. i mean, it’s all japanese in the end.

so yeah, it’s almost 2, and i told myself i’d finish some stuff before 4:30 rolls around, and this could take some hours, so back to the grind, thank you for your time, tune in sometime later for more of ryan’s adventures of the inane nature!