Post by Malum on Oct 1, 2007 13:49:01 GMT -5
Let's go through an average day in the life of Malum. Exciting? No, not really.
First, I wake up in this cozy room of mine. Let's take a look at the first things I see when I wake up.
My bed, complete with drool spot, is usually the first thing I see, because I tend to wake up on my stomach, though I never remember going to sleep in that position. I must move around a lot.
My Yorkshire Terrier, Nicky, likes to join me in the mornings before I wake up.
[Note: Picture is left intentionally dark to protect Nicky Nickel's identity]
The next thing I see (other than the inside of my eyelids for thirty minutes) is my table. I usually look at my alarm clock to see what time it is. If it's later than 7:30, I redouble my efforts to get up. And yes, that's a picture of my sister and I when we were little. My mom has the final say in how I decorate my room and she wanted that picture there.
I often take a few second to admire the really cool sword on my wall. It's not sharp, but pointy enough to kill you.
My computer is an HP Uber Edition, as I call it. It's my first computer, it replaced the family computer in my room when it finally crashed, after seven years of torturing me with it's slowness and tendency to erase random files.
I then get out of bed and put on my bathrobe. I love my bathrobe.
My Jackalope is always staring at me.
Here's my bookshelf. Again, my mom is the arbiter of my room decor and won't let me get rid of some of the crap on it so I have room for all my books. But, she did let me put my McFarlane's Alien vs Predator figures up top. See them? Cool huh? I also used to have a transformer on there but some idiot broke him.
This is my electric guitar. My pastor is giving me lessons. Yes, it's pink.
More dead animals.
Telescope!
So, after putting on my bathrobe I move on to the bathroom. Where I pee.
I walk down the hall to the kitchen, where I eat Poptarts. Always.
Sometimes I take a shower after that. We have a really awesome shower.
If I'm not really lazy I'll brush my teeth, put on deodorant, and shave after this. As you can see, I use Colgate toothpaste and shaving cream, and Degree for Men deodorant. I don't really like the smell of Axe or any of those more popular deodorants. They just don't do it for me like Degree.
If I have time I'll go sit on the couch for awhile after this. Usually my mother will join me with her coffee and we'll have a little chat.
If I plan on doing anything that day I'll get dressed. I have two doors into my closet, which is unnecessarily large.
I first look through my pants...
...and then my shirts
Oh, here's some cool things that can be found in my closet...
My old MechWarrior figures. It's a clix game using dice and the dials at the feet of the figures. I really got into it at one point (spend loads of money) but it got a bit boring when I kept loosing because of bad luck!
A Jawa and Ronto! This is a classic Star Wars figure I plan on selling one day when it's worth money.
My friend Min and I had some money and we were at Wal*Mart so we decided to buy something. We found this ugly sonofa-gun. It's a Star Wars clone trooper from Clone Wars, the cartoon. This is possibly the ugliest toy I have ever seen. But, I've noticed that some of the stupidest looking things sell for the most money years later. So, we bought it.
McFarlane's Dragons! The coolest toys on Earth! I'm keeping them in their boxes until the day I have my own room so I can put them up for inspiration. I don't want them to get hurt. I have most of Collection 2 and a little bit from the other collections. At one point I was going to buy them all, but at 12 bucks a figure they're pretty expensive.
This is my random basket of junk. I have the dismantled pieces of Shockblast, the Decepticon from the old Transformers cartoon. He turns into a Mazda RX 8, really cool car.
I spy an elf. Can you find him in my basket?
Here's my paintball gun. Tippmann 98 Custom. Pretty neat, eh? Beside it there is my airsoft gun. It's not very good. I lose, a lot.
I won this football in 6th grade in a random drawing. Every time you read a book you got your name in the bucket. I read, a lot. So I won and got really good seats at the game, and even got to go down on the field during half-time. It was the first thing I ever won, and will probably be the last.
And that's my closet. Let's move on.
If I'm not working, I'll look something like this:
Let's take a closer look, shall we?
I'm lazy, so I don't like to fix my hair unless I'm working.
So I wear my fedora.
My mom and I both get headaches from the sun. Mine are a little worse than hers so I often wear my sunglasses. They also make me feel secure. I can watch people without them knowing that I'm watching them. I like to watch people, they're interesting. And as a writer, I have to write about different kinds of people all the time. This is easier when I have someone to base my characters off of.
This is my trench coat. I like it a lot. I got it for ten dollars at the Goodwill Store. It keeps me warm up here in windy Montana. Are you starting to realize why people stare at me funny?
I like black. It's a good color. I like white too, but black is better. So, I usually wear black t-shirts under my coat. This one is one of my favorites. It's the Deceptacon symbol from Transformers. I got it at Hot Topic.
This is my "rail-road spike" as many people call it. It's fun to see people try to figure out what it is. Most everyone who sees it thinks it's my defense against vampires. Those who know I like werewolves say I like to live on the edge, because it appears to be silver.
In truth, it's a representation of the nail which held Jesus on the cross. Scary, huh?
Loose boxers. Life is better when you're comfy.
To keep my jeans up, a belt.
I like blue jeans. These are my baggy blue jeans I usually wear. They've comfy and have lots of pockets. Why do I need lots of pockets you ask? Let's take a look...
This is almost always in my pocket. It's a palm pilot I got as a gift from Elizabeth who got it as a gift from a rich friend. It's not the best, but I use it all the time. It's pretty ugly, but I love it.
Here's my wallet chain. I would show you the inside of my wallet but it's pretty boring. Just a dollar or two and my ID. Of course, this whole thing is pretty boring I guess...
I like quarters. And dough nuts. Mmm...
The key to my 94 Mazda truck. I don't have a key chain, so I usually attach it to my wallet chain.
This is my flashdrive. It has everything on it. My books, my stories, Stratega, the Spore Game, random pictures. Everything. Therefore, I keep it with me wherever I go. I figure that if I leave it at home it's more likely to be destroyed, but if I keep it with me, the only way it will get destroyed or taken is if it's pried from my cold, dead hands, which then it won't matter too much.
l
Since I'm somewhat paranoid, I keep my butterfly knife with me as well. I'm teaching myself how to look cool using it over the internet. I know all of the basic tricks and most of the intermediate. This way, I can put on a show for someone before I stab them.
To grab all this junk from my pockets, I use my hand. Neat, huh? Over my hand I wear comfortable, warm, leather gloves. I look scary but am warm, and that's all that matters.
I wear my watch everywhere except in the shower. I check it every five minutes. I'm kind of twitchy like that. When I don't know the time I feel weird... like I'm lost and don't know how to get home.
Moving on down. These are my socks. Unlike my boxers they're tight. I don't like loose socks, it drives my crazy.
And finally, my combat boots. Sexy, no? With these steel toed bad-boys my kicking power is increased by 4 and my sexiness by 5. I don't care if you have the helm of protection, my boots have armor piercing. You're screwed.
And that's how I dress on a non-working day. Though I do like variety, and sometimes take the Rambo approach, with camoflauge pants, green shirt, red bandanna around my arm and combat boots, still. I love my boots...
Once I'm dressed, I start school. No bus and annoying liberal teachers for me, no sir. I homeschool. Yup, I take correspondence and internet courses using Keystone National High School.
I start at 8:00 or 8:30, depending on how much work I have to get done.
I sit right down at this here desk:
and stare at this picture while I do my work.
I usually start off with Math, because I hate it, and want it out of the way.
Then, English, because it's fun.
Then Biology
and finally "American Government", which is really "American Propaganda Class".
Each class takes me about an hour to finish each day. So somewhere in there I need to eat lunch. Usually if I'm working that day I'll eat at home. I like those frozen burritos, they're really good.
If I'm lucky me mum will let me have a coke. Coco Cola Cherry is my favorite. But, as with most pop, I think it tastes better in the glass. Yes, I know, I'm picky.
While eating I like to watch either Modern Marvels on the History channel or Star Trek on Spike TV. Yes, I know, I'm a nerd.
jadzia.co.uk/epguides/ST-TNG/ST-TNG.jpg
Then I have only one more class left. My favorite. Latin. It's online and a lot more interactive than the correspondence classes. It's difficult, confusing. But I think I'm figuring it out pretty well.
Once that's done, I merrily skip along to my e-mail. I usually don't have any so it doesn't take any time to check. Then, I go from the bottom up on my favorites list. Here are some of the places I visit.
xSpore.com, my favorite Spore recourse on the internet. It just takes a quick check to see if there are any updates or not.
Star Trek New Frontiers is next. Normally I'll reply to the role play, check to see if my Spore Game on there needs to be updated, and then look for anything else I should respond to.
Our beloved OoskaBoards is next. I think you all pretty much know what I do here.
Then comes on of my favorite stops, Ctrl-alt-delete, the webcomic! It's funny, it makes my day better. You should check it out sometime.
I hate to admit it, but I go to gaiaonline.com next. I absolutely loathe the layout of the site and over 99% of all the people there. As I search through the forum I see about one person per week who I don't passionately hate. And there's a lot of people on that site. I use it mainly for an occasionally role play and to recruit for OoskaBoards.
Next is Vampirefreaks. It's basically myspace for goths and emos. It's not all that great itself, because there are so many posers and snobs on it. But I occasionally meet someone interesting.
Then there's myspace. I hate it almost as much as Gaia. But, people message me on it sometimes so I check up on it once a day. More so if I'm really bored.
By this time Elizabeth has gotten out of school and called me. So it's about 3:15.
While we talk I'm not allowed to listen to music, which makes me sad. So, I focus on working on various projects on OoskaBoards and for myself. For some reason, I have trouble writing and talking on the phone at the same time, so I don't get to work on any of my stories or Teoamn very often.
Sometimes I'll go over to her house after school, or pick her up from school. On Thursdays I pick her and a friend of mine up and we go to bible study. Then I drop them off and go to guitar lessons with my pastor.
Occasionally, Elizabeth will not call me or I will tell her I need time alone to write. When this happens, I crank up the music...
...and write.
Either way we'll end up talking on the phone until about 10:00 PM. I don't really like to talk on the phone but she does. So we do.
By this time I have a little time to read before bed.
Then, I get to bed preferably by 11, but often by midnight.
So there you have it. A detailed rant on an average day in the life of Malum.
First, I wake up in this cozy room of mine. Let's take a look at the first things I see when I wake up.
My bed, complete with drool spot, is usually the first thing I see, because I tend to wake up on my stomach, though I never remember going to sleep in that position. I must move around a lot.
My Yorkshire Terrier, Nicky, likes to join me in the mornings before I wake up.
[Note: Picture is left intentionally dark to protect Nicky Nickel's identity]
The next thing I see (other than the inside of my eyelids for thirty minutes) is my table. I usually look at my alarm clock to see what time it is. If it's later than 7:30, I redouble my efforts to get up. And yes, that's a picture of my sister and I when we were little. My mom has the final say in how I decorate my room and she wanted that picture there.
I often take a few second to admire the really cool sword on my wall. It's not sharp, but pointy enough to kill you.
My computer is an HP Uber Edition, as I call it. It's my first computer, it replaced the family computer in my room when it finally crashed, after seven years of torturing me with it's slowness and tendency to erase random files.
I then get out of bed and put on my bathrobe. I love my bathrobe.
My Jackalope is always staring at me.
Here's my bookshelf. Again, my mom is the arbiter of my room decor and won't let me get rid of some of the crap on it so I have room for all my books. But, she did let me put my McFarlane's Alien vs Predator figures up top. See them? Cool huh? I also used to have a transformer on there but some idiot broke him.
This is my electric guitar. My pastor is giving me lessons. Yes, it's pink.
More dead animals.
Telescope!
So, after putting on my bathrobe I move on to the bathroom. Where I pee.
I walk down the hall to the kitchen, where I eat Poptarts. Always.
Sometimes I take a shower after that. We have a really awesome shower.
If I'm not really lazy I'll brush my teeth, put on deodorant, and shave after this. As you can see, I use Colgate toothpaste and shaving cream, and Degree for Men deodorant. I don't really like the smell of Axe or any of those more popular deodorants. They just don't do it for me like Degree.
If I have time I'll go sit on the couch for awhile after this. Usually my mother will join me with her coffee and we'll have a little chat.
If I plan on doing anything that day I'll get dressed. I have two doors into my closet, which is unnecessarily large.
I first look through my pants...
...and then my shirts
Oh, here's some cool things that can be found in my closet...
My old MechWarrior figures. It's a clix game using dice and the dials at the feet of the figures. I really got into it at one point (spend loads of money) but it got a bit boring when I kept loosing because of bad luck!
A Jawa and Ronto! This is a classic Star Wars figure I plan on selling one day when it's worth money.
My friend Min and I had some money and we were at Wal*Mart so we decided to buy something. We found this ugly sonofa-gun. It's a Star Wars clone trooper from Clone Wars, the cartoon. This is possibly the ugliest toy I have ever seen. But, I've noticed that some of the stupidest looking things sell for the most money years later. So, we bought it.
McFarlane's Dragons! The coolest toys on Earth! I'm keeping them in their boxes until the day I have my own room so I can put them up for inspiration. I don't want them to get hurt. I have most of Collection 2 and a little bit from the other collections. At one point I was going to buy them all, but at 12 bucks a figure they're pretty expensive.
This is my random basket of junk. I have the dismantled pieces of Shockblast, the Decepticon from the old Transformers cartoon. He turns into a Mazda RX 8, really cool car.
I spy an elf. Can you find him in my basket?
Here's my paintball gun. Tippmann 98 Custom. Pretty neat, eh? Beside it there is my airsoft gun. It's not very good. I lose, a lot.
I won this football in 6th grade in a random drawing. Every time you read a book you got your name in the bucket. I read, a lot. So I won and got really good seats at the game, and even got to go down on the field during half-time. It was the first thing I ever won, and will probably be the last.
And that's my closet. Let's move on.
If I'm not working, I'll look something like this:
Let's take a closer look, shall we?
I'm lazy, so I don't like to fix my hair unless I'm working.
So I wear my fedora.
My mom and I both get headaches from the sun. Mine are a little worse than hers so I often wear my sunglasses. They also make me feel secure. I can watch people without them knowing that I'm watching them. I like to watch people, they're interesting. And as a writer, I have to write about different kinds of people all the time. This is easier when I have someone to base my characters off of.
This is my trench coat. I like it a lot. I got it for ten dollars at the Goodwill Store. It keeps me warm up here in windy Montana. Are you starting to realize why people stare at me funny?
I like black. It's a good color. I like white too, but black is better. So, I usually wear black t-shirts under my coat. This one is one of my favorites. It's the Deceptacon symbol from Transformers. I got it at Hot Topic.
This is my "rail-road spike" as many people call it. It's fun to see people try to figure out what it is. Most everyone who sees it thinks it's my defense against vampires. Those who know I like werewolves say I like to live on the edge, because it appears to be silver.
In truth, it's a representation of the nail which held Jesus on the cross. Scary, huh?
Loose boxers. Life is better when you're comfy.
To keep my jeans up, a belt.
I like blue jeans. These are my baggy blue jeans I usually wear. They've comfy and have lots of pockets. Why do I need lots of pockets you ask? Let's take a look...
This is almost always in my pocket. It's a palm pilot I got as a gift from Elizabeth who got it as a gift from a rich friend. It's not the best, but I use it all the time. It's pretty ugly, but I love it.
Here's my wallet chain. I would show you the inside of my wallet but it's pretty boring. Just a dollar or two and my ID. Of course, this whole thing is pretty boring I guess...
I like quarters. And dough nuts. Mmm...
The key to my 94 Mazda truck. I don't have a key chain, so I usually attach it to my wallet chain.
This is my flashdrive. It has everything on it. My books, my stories, Stratega, the Spore Game, random pictures. Everything. Therefore, I keep it with me wherever I go. I figure that if I leave it at home it's more likely to be destroyed, but if I keep it with me, the only way it will get destroyed or taken is if it's pried from my cold, dead hands, which then it won't matter too much.
l
Since I'm somewhat paranoid, I keep my butterfly knife with me as well. I'm teaching myself how to look cool using it over the internet. I know all of the basic tricks and most of the intermediate. This way, I can put on a show for someone before I stab them.
To grab all this junk from my pockets, I use my hand. Neat, huh? Over my hand I wear comfortable, warm, leather gloves. I look scary but am warm, and that's all that matters.
I wear my watch everywhere except in the shower. I check it every five minutes. I'm kind of twitchy like that. When I don't know the time I feel weird... like I'm lost and don't know how to get home.
Moving on down. These are my socks. Unlike my boxers they're tight. I don't like loose socks, it drives my crazy.
And finally, my combat boots. Sexy, no? With these steel toed bad-boys my kicking power is increased by 4 and my sexiness by 5. I don't care if you have the helm of protection, my boots have armor piercing. You're screwed.
And that's how I dress on a non-working day. Though I do like variety, and sometimes take the Rambo approach, with camoflauge pants, green shirt, red bandanna around my arm and combat boots, still. I love my boots...
Once I'm dressed, I start school. No bus and annoying liberal teachers for me, no sir. I homeschool. Yup, I take correspondence and internet courses using Keystone National High School.
I start at 8:00 or 8:30, depending on how much work I have to get done.
I sit right down at this here desk:
and stare at this picture while I do my work.
I usually start off with Math, because I hate it, and want it out of the way.
Then, English, because it's fun.
Then Biology
and finally "American Government", which is really "American Propaganda Class".
Each class takes me about an hour to finish each day. So somewhere in there I need to eat lunch. Usually if I'm working that day I'll eat at home. I like those frozen burritos, they're really good.
If I'm lucky me mum will let me have a coke. Coco Cola Cherry is my favorite. But, as with most pop, I think it tastes better in the glass. Yes, I know, I'm picky.
While eating I like to watch either Modern Marvels on the History channel or Star Trek on Spike TV. Yes, I know, I'm a nerd.
jadzia.co.uk/epguides/ST-TNG/ST-TNG.jpg
Then I have only one more class left. My favorite. Latin. It's online and a lot more interactive than the correspondence classes. It's difficult, confusing. But I think I'm figuring it out pretty well.
Once that's done, I merrily skip along to my e-mail. I usually don't have any so it doesn't take any time to check. Then, I go from the bottom up on my favorites list. Here are some of the places I visit.
xSpore.com, my favorite Spore recourse on the internet. It just takes a quick check to see if there are any updates or not.
Star Trek New Frontiers is next. Normally I'll reply to the role play, check to see if my Spore Game on there needs to be updated, and then look for anything else I should respond to.
Our beloved OoskaBoards is next. I think you all pretty much know what I do here.
Then comes on of my favorite stops, Ctrl-alt-delete, the webcomic! It's funny, it makes my day better. You should check it out sometime.
I hate to admit it, but I go to gaiaonline.com next. I absolutely loathe the layout of the site and over 99% of all the people there. As I search through the forum I see about one person per week who I don't passionately hate. And there's a lot of people on that site. I use it mainly for an occasionally role play and to recruit for OoskaBoards.
Next is Vampirefreaks. It's basically myspace for goths and emos. It's not all that great itself, because there are so many posers and snobs on it. But I occasionally meet someone interesting.
Then there's myspace. I hate it almost as much as Gaia. But, people message me on it sometimes so I check up on it once a day. More so if I'm really bored.
By this time Elizabeth has gotten out of school and called me. So it's about 3:15.
While we talk I'm not allowed to listen to music, which makes me sad. So, I focus on working on various projects on OoskaBoards and for myself. For some reason, I have trouble writing and talking on the phone at the same time, so I don't get to work on any of my stories or Teoamn very often.
Sometimes I'll go over to her house after school, or pick her up from school. On Thursdays I pick her and a friend of mine up and we go to bible study. Then I drop them off and go to guitar lessons with my pastor.
Occasionally, Elizabeth will not call me or I will tell her I need time alone to write. When this happens, I crank up the music...
...and write.
Either way we'll end up talking on the phone until about 10:00 PM. I don't really like to talk on the phone but she does. So we do.
By this time I have a little time to read before bed.
Then, I get to bed preferably by 11, but often by midnight.
So there you have it. A detailed rant on an average day in the life of Malum.