Adult life can be so complicated... Oh, to be a child again, when life was so much simpler, and everyone was less complex .. No, that's complete garbage. :) I think life as a child, at least for me, was a lot stranger than life now. I recently have been listening to old tapes I made when I was much younger, in the car and using an old walkman I've had for a long time. They're strange. When I was young, I used to only listen to classical music, or at least that's the impression I liked to give. I'd have secret tapes that I made off of the radio, containing popular music that I liked. Eurythmics, and .. well, just popular songs. I was always deeply ashamed of those tapes, and I hid them and stuff. Why? Well, I would guess now it was because my father really liked classical music, and I really liked it as well. However, I thought it was the best kind of music, and I remember that my relatives were kind of proud that I liked it. I really did like it (and do today), but I reacted oddly to that approval -- I made it the only music I publically liked, hence the hiding of the popular tapes. I made tapes of videogame music too, as I recently have rediscovered. It took me many years to get over that odd, self-repression, and once I did, I began exploring the vast world of popular music in earnest, although I still, to this day, have traces of that old repression, deep in my personality. I think kids can be more complex than adults, and can interpret things in really weird ways sometimes. I'm glad that I've changed the way I see things in that regard now. The old tapes are pretty funny though.

Current music: Final Fantasy 2: Zemus theme

Anyhow, my cube bookshelves are disassembled, the couch is apart, my car is clean, and the garbage is all taken out. After doing the cleaning, I went to my normal evening haunt, Upper Starbucks. I finished the Shawshenk redemption that's in the main Apt Pupil book, and am now much of the way through Apt Pupil itself. The details are a bit different than in the movie, and amusingly, Apt Pupil and Shawshenk redemption have some mild plot ties to each other, something completely absent in each movie. Also, there was a girl at Starbucks who lifted her head and smiled at me when I went by to use the restroom. Later, as the place was closing, she stopped at a table behind me to zip up her bag, and said hello. Yay.

It's kind of nice that people arn't ignoring me as I'd expect them to. Maybe it's the nice haircut or something. I'm also chatting through email with two people who I haven't met yet.

Hmm... did I have anything more to say? I don't remember, so I'll guess no.