The Other Great Divide

Just watching a video of Tabula Rasa. I've never been hugely interested in MMOs but this has actually piqued my interest. I'm also disappointed by the official cancellation of Metroid Dread, at least in 2D form.


I've been having some trouble coming up with post topics lately, even with things going on at school, which was my hope for picking things up after the holidays. Sure, interesting stuff does happen to me at school and at home, I just rarely think of it as something to write about. And sometimes I will think it's worth remembering at the time and in hindsight, it doesn't seem so good.

That hindsight tends to occur when I get home from school. Even with homework (which I still have to do some of tonight), I seem to draw a very clear mental line between home and school. At school, I'm compelled to work. I talk to various different people in my peer group and get annoyed at many others. Computers at school are for working and for complaining about when the filter blocks almost every damned website worth a damn.* If I'm going to play a game, it's very often a multiplayer one so that others can enjoy it.

At home, I have a much greater degree of control over what I do. I don't need to be annoyed by other people's music* since I can listen to my own, or watch a DVD. I can do anything I want to do on the computer, reading my comics, watching videos and using Google Image Search without having to use Klingon Google. If I talk to people at all, it'll be closer friends over some kind of IM or Skype, rather than the extended social group with whom I can hold a casual conversation at school.

For these reasons and others, I occasionally feel like school and home are two different lives. Obviously linked and deeply intertwined but nevertheless distinguished from one another by the way that I act and the things that I do.


Another thing that separates the two is the way that school drags on and on and time at home seems so very short in comparison. I swear I shall get some more of my Visual BASIC homework done tonight and some fiction written tomorrow. I have a plan to launch a blog-style thing where I update with short chunks of prose several times a week (possibly on the semi-traditional Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule) and maybe some other stuff on weekends.

Forcing myself to stick to a daily schedule here seems to have worked out well enough so I figure it's worth a try.

Now. I have to go do some work... and possibly read some comics and think up comedy sketch ideas. But mostly work.

And curses, I forgot to write that article for the MacTake that I meant to do. Meh. I'll just blame it on Skippy.






*Even some of the sites that teachers access for educational purposes are getting blocked. And I don't necessarily consider it “worth a damn”, but the MacTake is seemingly blocked as well.

**For reasons that you can probably surmise on your own, S Club 7 are now on my list of people whose parents I'm going to kill if and when I figure out time travel.