Blog Entries from NateSean

  1. Bitter Pills to Swallow

    There’s a way to accept it and there’s a way to reject it. If you ask for critique, someone will give it and it may not be a way you hope to hear. This is a bitter pill I’ve had to learn to swallow many times over the course of my childhood and adulthood. Just like you don’t have to read and comment on somebody’s post, I don’t have to read or respond to someone’s critique. While I’ve always tried to be grateful for any effort put into helping me improve my work, I’ve also had to learn to...
  2. Check out my Brain

    This is from the the first brain scan at MIT. I go for another one this Friday.
  3. Hell of a Weekend

    So, Thursday my leg began throbbing. It's a pain that's been coming and going for a while. Sometimes it hurt to put weight on it and when I moved it around some, the pain would go away so I chalked it up to muscle stiffness and ignored it until this past Thursday when it just wouldn't not go away. I hesitated to go to the emergency room, because I didn't want the pain to go away and to be considered a hypochondriac or worse, a malingerer since I lived at the Shelter. (To those of you...
  4. My mom is the proud parent of an MIT Lab Rat

    So, I particpated in a brain study yesterday, which took me into the bowels of one of the most prestigious universities in the country. Thus proving my point that the only way I could ever get into MIT is if I were a test subject there. It was just pen and paper testing yesterday, which I got paid for. But if I get invited back to do the rest of it I could get some cool pictures of my brain from the MRI and up to four hundred dollars. Thinking of trying to turn my brain into a T-shirt...
  5. Broad Generalizations

    I don't want to get too descriptive about where this post comes from, as it might give someone the wrong idea. But, the root of this issue has been a thorn in my side all my life really. One thing my mother always tried to beat into my skull (and when she wasn't using her hands, her constant nagging voice was just as painful) is that broad generalizations make you sound arrogant. Mind you, with her, there was no middle ground. Generalizations were wrong. Period. I feel I'm a bit...
  6. When My Dreams Become More Entertaining Than Stories

    It's time for me to write them down. I have a whole plot realized that could blossom to something more. Now I just have to shut up and write it out. Shouldn't be hard.
  7. Continuing this Debate...

    This is a respond to the funkybassmannik's post in the Why Did You Waste That On Fanfiction thread. Please note that my responses, presented below, are my opinion and nothing more. The droids are incredibly important to the Star Wars story, and yet there are no droids in Dune. The Droids are arguably important to the story. But since the story itself is wholly inconsistent, you can hardly call toy advertisements integral to the story. They were comic relief. Dune didn't need...
  8. Something I'd kill to be able to do again...

    From December 13th, 2003 Yup, Friday wasn't bad for a change. I've actually gotten to looking forward too Fridays now, mostly because of the chess club at the middle school. Last week I'd lost a Yu-Gi-Oh duel against one of the seventh graders, (Mr. Flight lets us play it at around 2:45) and this week I owed him a soda. As we were walking down to the soda machines he told me that one of his aspirations was to work in a video game company. I love it when the kids tell me their dreams...
  9. December 28th, 2005, from my Live Journal account

    Before now I don't think I could have ever appreciated the Chronicles of Narnia in film form. Queen of the Damned and the Harry Potter movies taught me not to nit pick at every little deviation from the book. Because when you do that, you fail to enjoy the true work of the director. And yet, if the director has any respect for the source material, he tries to show something of the author in the movie. I went to see The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe with guns blazing. This was my...
  10. The Morlock's Voice

    The city of Salem has a problem with the homeless shelter. Well, guess what Town of Salem, we don't like being homeless. The shop owners don't like "mall rats" hanging out in the mall. Those same shop owners hold seances and "cleansing rituals" for celebrities who make the slightest offensive remark towards "warlocks". Tell me it wasn't for publicity and try to keep a straight face as you do it. And the thing is, yes, there are people who are just lazy. They know they're getting three...
  11. Also...What are your thoughts on this?

    Every so often, someone will tell me a story. It's usually a stranger than fiction gem that they probably didn't think was so fantastic at the time it happened to them. For example, someone once told me about their experiences on someone's Ostrich farm. Well, they posted the thing on a forum and I thought, what a waste of a story. You should have written that thing up, polished it, and found a magazine to publish that in. Because I find stories like that really fascinating. Because...
  12. Excerpt from a story I may or may not continue.

    Somehow, his apartment wasn't what I imagined it would be. A deep cavern perhaps, maybe a solid floor, surrounded by a voidless mist like in the older Star Trek eipisodes. Instead, I was surprised to find myself standing in the third floor apartment of an old Victorian-style Maine house. "Would you care for anything to drink?" He called from the kitchen. "Coffee, soda, wine?" "Coffee's fine." I answered, feeling eerily calm given the events of this evening. "Cream and sugar?"...
  13. Guilty Confession, I liked the Twilight Saga

    All right, I don't want to turn this into a debate, but I'm going to go ahead and alienate myself here. I actually happened to like Twilight. I think the books were well written and the movies were excellently done. I like the idea of the vampires in this series because they are original. The diamond skin thin has never been done before. It makes me think that their origins are reptillian as certain species of reptile do have scales that glisten when they sweat. The only problem I have...
  14. Job Interview next week

    Don't congratulate me. That always seems to jinx me. But I do want to declare that I have a job interview coming up and it's for a store that I love to browse through as much as I enjoy occasionally buying things from. I know the stock there and I'm great at selling things. Two wonderful combinations. So wish me luck, just don't utter the phrase "congratulations", please.
  15. Yes, I owned a laptop

    I do get tired of people judging me. Yes I am homeless at the moment. At one point I did own a laptop, but it was a laptop I purchased when I was in my own apartment and had a better financial situation. I would have spent the three hundred dollars on it if I had bills to pay, or if groceries were an issue. It's dead now and I've been using the library computers for my dose of the Internet. The job office is patently useless for helping people actually find a jobs, so the library and...
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