Well, challenges are here.

Before going into the regular post, I'll first say this: Trees.

Trees are the topic of this "challenge." A drawing of trees, in cartoon form, realistic, cubist, whatever. One lonely tree or an entire forest, put a tree in there.

Again, the rules are to send me a picture of your drawing. I'll judge them all. The deadline is this day next week, so May 19th.

Book I'll be reading: Waiting for the Barbarians.

Come on, everyone.

Challenges. They effin crazy.

Another night consequence of those from last week. Staying up, sleepless for hours, just to semi-complete an assignment that I turn in late for Graphic Design. It's not that I didn't like the class, it's that I have issues. Procrastination issues to be exact.

I have always had them, all my life. And now they came back to bite me, making me feel pretty darn bad. Dude, you know what sucks? You impeding yourself from being awesome. That's one of the worst feelings anyone can have. Sitting there, looking at the disaster that is your room, saying "Geez dude. How? How did you get this far?" To put the cherry on top, after I turned in my portfolio, I come back home to sleep; in my desk, I find a sheet I had to turn in with it that pointed which work I had redone. That's when my lifeless body fell on the bed. Shit.

Anyway, I have plans to rework on myself this summer. Giving myself goddamn challenges. This is an idea I have had for a while and YOU can participate. I will be posting weekly sort-of-challenges for drawing, reading, writing, etc. You can partake on those. Submit to me your drawings or piece of writings, or whatever we come up with and at the end of the week I'll evaluate them all and draw a winner. I'll be fair and post all the work so you can tell me wether you agree or disagree. To whomever wins, I'll buy you some food, mission burrito or something. We'll figure it out.

So, it goes like this. I post theme or challenge, e.g, this week we are drawing fountains. Then you go, draw a fountain any way you like, submit it to me and after a day or two I will post the results.

I'll also be reading a book or two per week. I'll post here which and you can read them also. By the end of the week, we can them discuss them.

More information on this tomorrow.

Share a joint?

People will do anything to have fun. Have fun therefore doesn’t have a definition. I proceed on explaining. Now that I’m in college people will do anything, e.g. party, sex, WoW, drugs, weed, drawing ponies, alcohol, videogames, torturing dogs (I’m looking at you Michael Vick) and so on to have a good time.  Actually, I didn’t discover that in college but college seemed to be more appropriate in the context. Anyhow, people just want to have fun (girls, you got competition) but in their fun parties, they forget that not all people share the same preference over activities and hobbies.

As a college student, I have been thrown into, yet, another stereotype. The one that gets drunk and vomits while wearing nothing other than boxers, dignity was also left in the closet, standing on a trash can or bipolar chair (the kind of chair that, when you want to, it won’t fall over and there’s no way to telling when that is) and crying “She doesn’t love me” or “Just a city boy.” If you continued that last quote, you might not want to drive tonight. True, college students ALL share several things, like lack of time and money. If a college student tells you he got plenty of money, you might be his/her/its date, and you are also responsible for their Doritos diet.

But there are different ways of having a good time; some of those don’t even involve leaving your room. Trading card games, videogames, anime, reading, masturbating; you get the idea, but some people look down onto those kinds of activities. Ok, there might be a problem if you masturbate all day long, a medical and psychological one, but all the other activities are fine. I prefer some of those to partying/raving/getting drunk. In the next paragraph I’ll explain why. Oh the suspense.

I felt stupid on the only rave I have taken part in. Everyone was at least on one narcotic, or drunk, moving to the beat of a song that never ended throughout the whole night. Notice I don’t use the word dancing because if what people do there is considered dancing, then masturbating is a form of art that people should get paid for doing.  To put it in layman’s terms, you pretend to swap a bee that is constantly going to your crotch. Oh look, now it is on top of your head. Back to your crotch! Congratulations, now you can rave. (That was the guide for men. Women, look up in google lap dance and do it to a ghost.) If that didn’t make you feel stupid and wasn’t pointless, figure out when the next rave is going to be in your area. Was it fun for me? Somewhat, I got to spend some time with my friends, but I didn’t enjoy it like I do with other things.

Another thing worth pointing out is how people dress for these events. Guys wear whatever jacket contains their weed, and girls wear almost nothing, but enough to not be seen naked. To make this point clear, they wear revealing panties, but about two or three because who knows what will happen if someone sees their privates. Or wear transparent bras and put tape on top of their nipples in the form of an X that pretty much says “I still think I have dignity.”

Young adults are supposed to do these things though because a lot of people think it’s a universally shared enjoyment. I have something to say to those people: You know, put down the joint for a sec, some people like school and learning. They also don’t think cops are party poopers and are glad laws are in place. Don’t feel like you need to introduce something to someone else because you absolutely love it. Get to know the person, know what they like and dislike, and most important of all, know their personalities before you start suggesting or obligating them to try something. People that prefer slow dates to hooking up are not weird. People who like D&D better than “your mom” jokes are just you in another dimension.

TL;DR: Look at yourself in the mirror, then look at someone else. See the difference?

Everyone is not perfect.

BELIEVE IN YOUR DREAMS. ONE DAY THEY'LL BECOME TRUE.

Everyone should reassess your dreams now.