Just Be Reasonable

I remember falling,
I remember marching,
Like a one man army,
Through the blaze
I know
I'm coughing,
I believe in something,
I don't want to remember falling,
For your lies.

One Man Army - Our Lady Peace


Oh hey there.

For the first time I didn't forget about this thing, and I wasn't too busy to write here, I just didn't feel like it. I feel like these are getting stale -- it's just me telling you what I've been doing. As much as I'd like to believe you do, I'm sure you don't care that much about my day-to-day life. I'll still tell you about it, but not unless there's some additional specific thing I want to talk about as well, like today. For the forseeable future this blog will be filled with Quotes, Links, and Rants posts. Hell, I almost just made this one a "rant".

Anyway, my summer has been good so far. My sister graduated last week, which still completely astounds me. It does not make sense that she is older than me, it does not make sense that she is about to go to college....nothing seems to make sense anymore. Like, how at every graduation, where you have to sit through eleventy billion names, it is always absurdly hot. Ruined the whole thing.

Everything about the heat sucks. Hot weather has zero redeeming qualities. There's the unbelievably and intrusively bright sun, the extreme sweating, the lack of air conditioning in my apartment, the inability to sleep at night, the Miami basketball team -- it is all dreadful. Go away, heat, nobody likes you.

I went to see a couple movies, a shocking change from the previous few months. I've joked lately about how you can probably name any movie that has come out the past 2 or 3 years and there's a very good chance I haven't seen it. Avatar? Nope. Black Swan? Nope. Toy Story 3? Nope. Bridesmaids? Thor? Inception? Fast Five? None of them. I'm not making some sort of statement; I just don't go to the movies that often. I didn't even see Hangover until last Saturday, and that was only because I was going to see Hangover 2 on Monday.

I was able to spend some time with my dad. Had a nice chat with him at the graduation, then was at his house this past weekend. It had been quite a while since I had seen him. He had been out of a job for a while (until today, full time sales position at a Dodge Chrysler place, hoo-rah) and couldn't afford to come down here from Los Banos and get us. I've had my issues in the past with my parents' divorce and going to see him but it really is awesome to know that you have somebody who cares about you so much. Everything he does is for me and my sisters, and you couldn't ask for much more from a parent.

So enough of that feel-good rainbows and sunshiney ponies stuff.

I was talking to a friend who recently was dumped by his girlfriend. It's a whole thing but what it comes down to is there was a failure to communicate and it ended up with (I think) him being used. Now, herein lies the connection to the title of this post...we have to be reasonable toward each other, you know? It's part of the reason I try to stay away from relationships in high school. In high school especially, people just don't talk. They don't communicate their feelings or their intentions, and it all seems like it's more for show than anything else. Speaking generally, of course. There are exceptions.

How is that fair to anybody, though? We learn to talk when we're at a very young age, and unless we're stricken with a disease or some condition, we don't ever really forget. How hard is it to just talk to people? How hard is it to say what you're feeling and to be honest with people? It's one of the few things that truly infuriates me. So many problems can be solved with simple communication, but for whatever reason people aren't able to do it. Oh well.

Don't have too much on the schedule until July. I'll be hanging around and staying low-key for the next week or so. I keep saying it, but soon I will go take the permit test and start driving. Soon.

Video:

I'll go ahead and share some of The Black Keys with you. Does anybody make cooler music? Like, not really exotic or intricate or anything...it's just like, if you're listening to them while you're walking down the street, you'll start walking like you're a boss or something. I don't know. Sort of reminiscent of the White Stripes. Enjoy!