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Oh joy. A whole new year starts today. I’ve talked about the new year celebration thing before at some point and that it annoys me, so I don’t feel all that obligated to talk about it again here. Though I will say that twice yesterday night I heard two different occasions where the fireworks sounded like gunshots. I really hope they were fireworks and not gunshots. If it was gunshots, I’m really hoping no one got hurt.

Anyway, last year wasn’t great with all the sh*t that went on, so I hope the upcoming year will be better. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the worst year in history to date, but I don’t think it was very good either. Also, on new year’s last year there were some attacks in Germany. It will probably be some time before I hear about something happening, but I really, really hope nothing did/does.

As for more personal stuff, most of what I have to say is about the old lady. She hasn’t done anything to bother me too much other than just wanting to chat instead of letting me work for her, but one of the topics she brought up kinda bothered me. She keeps telling me her grandson is something special. It’s not a surprise since I think it’s common for family members to think well of other family members, but the way she thinks of him being special gets to me a little bit. She said god touched her or talked to her via some sort of feeling, not words (because apparently god doesn’t talk to people with words like he did in the bible), then she said he was something special in god’s plan or something along those lines. I don’t know how she was supposed to distinguish her own feelings from what god gave her. Then she went on about how her grandchild acts and said that he’s different from other kids. From what she told me all I got was that he was a sweet kid and was well behaved. There are billions of children in the world. I can guarantee there are probably a few others out there who are nice and well behaved. She also wants to bring him into her church and teach him about churchy things and her religion, which I don’t particularly agree with, but his parents have the right to allow it if they want, so I said nothing on the matter to the old lady. While listening to her go on and on about this child, all I could think is that she might mess him up to some degree if she’s constantly telling him he’s special or that god has a plan for him. I would think it’s fine if she just holds that opinion of him and doesn’t tell him, or if they just kept it to personal levels of telling he’s special (as in “you’re grandma’s special grandson” ). Telling him could give him a way too big ego or make him think it’s fine to walk over others because he’s so important and special. He may be a sweetie now, but that could change if his family members do or say certain things to him, and that would very much suck.

Another topic the lady brought up briefly was about animals and how god apparently made them all wonderful and helpful to us humans. I asked her about the deadly ones, the two examples I used was the Portuguese Man ‘o War jelly fish, and this snail I learned about in highschool that has stabbed people in the foot on beaches and ended up killing them within seconds. She said she didn’t know about those animals. What I got from our little exchange is that she only looks at the stuff that agrees with her position. She also thinks prayer is more than a placebo, so her view of animals isn’t a surprise. I’ve also seen a huge lack of interest in learning about anything. She had two fighting fish in her shop once and I asked her about them and she said “I don’t know anything about them” and when I tried to tell her a little bit about them, she spoke over me like I wasn’t standing in front of her speaking. I really hope she doesn’t instill that enormous lack of interest in anything on earth into her grandson. The future is going to be built by young people, and to do that they need to grow up curious and willing and able to learn, explore, and make things. Stifling the mental growth of the young isn’t going to turn out well.

Also, I finally got my room mate to agree to help me find a job. We’re getting desperate for money, and the old lady isn’t very reliable, so he has no choice in the matter now. Sad it took this long for him to agree stare I’ll be applying online to various places and hopefully I will be able to make it to a job fair to maybe have better luck, I don’t know. Worth a try, I guess. Down side is that it’s been so long since I filled out an application that I’m not so sure as to what I should put on them. Whatever I think of seems to be a bad thing to say. I also don’t know how to talk to people very well, so interviews probably won’t go well... Damn it, I haven’t even done anything yet and I’m starting to feel terrible. Next topic!

I saw Suicide Squad yesterday. I’m not a fan of the comics, so I don’t know how close it is or isn’t to them, but I was bored for most of the movie. And the trailers lied about the Joker. From the trailers I thought he’d be part of the team and cause some havoc, but he wasn’t part of the team, and didn’t really do much of anything. The movie itself was slowly paced and boring for the first forty minutes to an hour. Maybe because they spent so much time introducing the characters, and then after that, the plot arrives. Why not plot first, then introduce the characters? Most of them didn’t have a thing to do with the plot reason they were gathered, so it would have turned out alright if they started small with the essential few that were involved, then introduced the others. There was also this one part where a guy hands a big bomb to the enchantress character and she pushes the activation button, gives it back, and poofs away. The bomb was set to two seconds. How did he manage to turn the thing off so fast that he wouldn’t die? Later it’s discovered that the bomb was left in the place they were in when the enchantress poofed away. Why? And why was I promised crazy villains forced to work for the government when they didn’t resist that much. They could have been a little more crazy, or resisted more than they did. Granted they did have mini bombs in their necks that would kill them at the press of a button, but something would have been nice. Monkey from the game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West resisted more during the course of the story. Oh, and apparently I was supposed to get the feeling that some of the characters were becoming friends as the story progressed. I didn’t in the slightest. At one point I turned to my room mate and asked him when exactly the characters became buddies, and he shrugged and shook his head. I guess he didn’t get it either. There were action scenes that were somewhat actiony though, so I guess they get a pat on the head for that?

That’s more than enough for this entry, I think. Off to bed for me because I have to get up early.

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