Yeah, for the next, now nine days, I'll be active here. If only a tad due to the fact that my home computer's ostensibly had an aneurysm of some sort in my absence, and now runs at about half-speed. Java-based programs don't seem to work anymore as well, including Gmail's default layout, and facebook's messaging system.
My health and comfort completely plummets during these reprieves back to my home, though. Everything's very clean at MCTI, and everything's so horrifically filthy here. It's like I'm stepping into a third world country contained in a double-wide trailer. What this means is that my asthma and allergies freak the fuck out and I'm going to be completely miserable for the next couple days... and then, when my break is over, I'm going to be completely miserable on the transition BACK to MCTI, because I eventually acclimate to these wretched conditions, and I have to repeat this acclimation process except now with sterile environs.
I'm so much happier over there though, because there's nothing to do here in this trailer park in the middle of nowhere, and I hate absolutely everyone that lives in it, but over there I actually developed a social life, if you want to call it that, with great friends, a community that respects me, and plenty of things to do.
I watched alot of classic movies, like Dr. Strangelove, Call of Cthulhu, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and ALL of Band of Brothers. All ten fucking hours at my roommate's behest. (And he wants to get the Pacific, he's totally gushing over it).
My Ping Pong hobby has taken something of a decline though, because even though I'm getting better, I don't have very many people to practice with. The only two people better than me (as I'm about the 3rd best player in the whole building) are both preoccupied with their jobs and other things.
I do have somebody though, a guy that is very persistent at challenging me, but a tad dim and untalented. I used to take it easy on him since he simply doesn't know how to hold the paddle correctly, or how to stand right, and thus would make tons and tons of silly mistakes, and I'd beat him easily regardless of how much I handicapped myself.
However, through his tireless practice, he's actually gotten pretty good, and I'm very proud of him for that. He actually beat me fair and square about two times. At this point however, I decide to stop taking it easy on him, since now he's actually somewhat of a challenge, and now I have a somewhat good partner for legitimate practice. However, due to either girl troubles or class troubles, he's been troubled, and he simply can't get in the zone when he challenges me, and so of recent it would seemed he's been moving backwards in skill, and I've been beating him all too easily. I fear that me beating him so regularly has damaged his self-esteem, as he hasn't challenged me in a while, a crime I don't want to have committed. Also, I heard through the grapevine that he might have failed in his class and is getting 'graduated', where he's told to simply use the skills he's learned thus far, leave MCTI, and go get a job.
If this is what happens I'll be very unhappy, as I was still practicing the
Backhand sidespin flick, a difficult move that I was just finally get a grasp on, if only with topspin instead of sidespin.
I hope that I can recruit someone else into ping pong fanaticism, it's the only sport I'm really good at, and I enjoy the physical exertion.
How the hell did I just spiral off into a long tirade about ping pong?
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