Important Life Lessons (Or Not)

Some things I learned today:

No matter what I do, my grandma will never be able to grasp the concept that when I have headphones on I am listening to music, and thus am not able to hear anything she says. We will never be able to stop having conversations that follow this general script.

Grandma: blah blah blah
Me: *notices her mouth moving silently and takes off headphones* Huh? 
Grandma: *is obviously annoyed at my inattention* blah blah blah

Geting bashed on the head by a falling curtain rod is painful. Also, it is almost impossible to put a curtain rod back up without standing on the bed; you just end up looking like a spaz. 

Even when you pair it with yaoi in an amv, which should make anything good, rap is still annoying and stupid. So are songs from The Sound of Music.

Cloud getting tentacle!snuggles from Sephiroth and Zack sounds bizarre, creepy, perverted, and just flat out icky, but is actually quite adorable. Really.

Nothing I write will ever end up as short as I think it is going to be. Ever. Just not happening.

Trying to use a knife that is up-side down is both a) ineffective and b) quite painful and bloody. Neither of which is really a good thing.

Why Practicing The Occult In Front of Small Children is a Good Thing

So, when I spent the night at Envy's on Friday, Alyssa and I were talking about, I don't know, something, and the topic got onto comparative oracles, and eventually we decided it would be fun to hook up and have her do a tarot reading for me and me do an I Ching reading for her, and both of us do one for Envy, our token Christian. So that was what we did today - we went to the park and blatantly practiced the occult in front of tiny cute children. And then we got Chinese food. But really it was fun, and the reading I got was, well, very interesting.

She did two readings for me, actually, one to a question I asked and one that was just a three card past-present-future. They both said about the same thing, which I thought was interesting, and it seemed like an answer to my question, which I thought was more so. Basically, my question was if this first semester of college will be a positive experience. Both my readings said, pretty much, that I've been through some major changes, but right now I'm really strong and in a very good place, ready to seize opportunities and what not. And both said for the future, I have challenges ahead of me, mostly caused by my own fear, self-limitations, inability to take risks, etc. However, I do have the strength to break out, take a dive, whatever, and the rewards are worth it once I do. This, to me, sounds about spot on for the situation I'm in right now - about to leave for college, nervous about being on my own and having to define my life from now on, but I think it will all work out good in the end. I'm pretty happy with how the reading turned out. 

On a completely unrelated and irrelevant note, after three (THREE!!!) weeks of desperate attempts and aborted downloads, I FINALLY have successfully downloaded Vanilla. That sort of thing really ought to be celebrated.