Summer Love

Since the beginning of summer it's been a long steady climb toward not sucking. Until recently.  But nothing can derail me from attending college so regardless of what obstacles arise, I am essentially unstoppable.

The Good:

• I found a far superior guide to self-improvement written by Anonymous.  Amazing that it didn't circulate its way around to me sooner.  Here's the link.
• I finally got some time spent with T-Rad after he was forced on more important adventures.  We saw the Last Airbender (terrible fucking movie, not even good to make fun of since every sentence in the movie is just exposition) and played RE4 and watched The Lost Skeleton and did a bunch of other shit like drive all the way to Parchment and back and eat at Denny's.
• Went to DCI Kalamazoo with a sweet girl, who shall be referred to as... something.  Nothing really merits a distinct nickname yet.  Anyway, it was an awesome time.  Easily the best drum corps event I've attended (other than World Championship Finals, of course) and she seemed to enjoy herself as well.
• Bought Kid A, and finally understand why people are so obsessed with Radiohead.  Absolutely fantastic album.
• Made lots of good on the list I made in "The Movies", and Grizzly Man and Almost Famous are probably now two of my favorite movies ever.  
• I can now officially say that I've done chatroulette with two other guys, in speedos.
• Went to some kids awesome lake house in Delton and fucked shit up.  Seriously, the kid has his own lake.  Freaking boss.  I went kayaking, did flips off of a floating dock, made waves, perfected the art of the body kayak, and, most importantly, played a download-only game for the PS3 called "Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars", which may be the best game ever made.  It's soccer.  With cars.
• Found a partner to attend the August 25th Coheed & Cambria/Porcupine Tree concert in Grand Rapids.  It's only fitting that it was this kid (known as No Problem) because he provided me tickets to see Obama at his own special graduation ceremony.  (I am so jealous, by the way.)

The Bad:

• Awkward dissolution of friendships continues as I don't see any friends for long periods of time.  I am also afraid of having a party at my own house despite the fact that I like my house and that everybody is urging me to.  
• Still haven't been invited to go/gone out to the beach with any friends.  I went out there once to pick up my dad after he rode the Kal-Haven trail  with my Colorado-dwelling uncle (if you couldn't figure it out intuitively, people who live in the mountains are insanely good at biking) and saw a bunch of friends who had gone together.  How much more awkward does it get?
• I realized people I trusted don't trust me enough to tell me anything I couldn't figure out by intuition.  This is intentionally vague.
• Experienced a gross invasion of privacy and breach of confidentiality on Formspring.  Also intentionally vague.
• I'm completely lethargic and never feel like bothering to do anything.  However, that's just a psychological thing.  Probably the result of me seeking refuge from the bad through apathy.  Not that I know anything about how that works.  

I honestly can't tell you a point in posting this.  I've been too lazy to bother with posting anything else, maybe?  Once the last two sections of "The Bad" blow over I'll post about them, assuming they don't get - wait for it... ugly.  Also, I was hoping to post some movie reviews after I see Inception, just because I anticipate that being good.