Day 31: In my personal opinion, sociopaths are EXTREMELY awesome

Before you all start freaking out and saying OMFG KATRINA WTF WHY DO YOU THINK SERIAL KILLERS ARE AWESOME I would like to make one thing clear: The only serial killer I think is awesome is Dexter. HA.

But seriously, the word 'sociopath' carries a looooot of badass. A sociopath is not someone who goes around killing everyone to get what they want. (That's probably a psychopath. :D) A sociopath is basically someone that has no concern for the rules society has decided upon; they'll commit a crime if they want to, because they don't give a crap if society has decided it is unacceptable or immoral. Basically, they're badass. Psychopaths, on the other hand, are scary as crap. They are physically incapable of feeling affection for people, are masters at manipulating people, and every single thing they do serves one purpose: looking out for number one. If they want you to lose credibility with your boss so they will get promoted over you, they'll poison you so you look like you're drunk. (A psychopath did this in an episode of House.) If you've discovered a dirty secret of theirs and are threatening to take it to the police, they'll just kill you. They cannot feel any empathy at all. Basically, while both are badass, sociopaths can form actual relationships with people, while any relationship a psychopath has was created to either make it easier for them to get what they want or to maintain an image of normalcy.

Now for a few of my favorite (sadly, fictional) sociopaths!

1. Max Keenan, from Bones

Aw man, I LOVE this guy. He's funny, and charming, and he does anything he can to protect his family. In Witness Protection for years, when he and his wife were found by the people hunting them, they ran away from their children without even saying goodbye. This ripped his children apart, but the alternative would have been exposing them to the hit men trying to kill them (who succeeded in murdering his wife), which was far worse. He let himself be arrested, facing the death penalty, instead of abandoning his daughter again. Most notably, he is a serial killer (w00t!), but he only kills when he is protecting his family. He's badass.

2. Sherlock Holmes, from Sherlock

This guy is my IDOL. For those of you who know Freakishly Smart Person - so pretty much everyone reading this xD - imagine him on cocaine. But more arrogant, and constantly talking, and with a gun that he shoots at the wall when he's bored. This guy gets some truly epic lines - he complains about having to breath because "breathing's boring," and when accused of being a psychopath, he replies, "I'm not a psychopath, I'm a sociopath. Do your research," not offended in the slightest - just annoyed that they were wrong. He also insults people a LOT. "Shut up." "I didn't say anything!" "You're thinking. It's annoying." Lol. He also kicks ass... Chinese circus performers/smugglers/murderers? Don't stand a chance. Serial killer who's been shot and won't tell you the name of the person who sent them to you? He'll be dead soon anyway, so it doesn't matter if you torture him a little. Plus, he's devilishly attractive. :D

3. Dexter, from Dexter

Okay, so this guy is a sociopath AND a psychopath, but seriously. THIS GUY KICKS SO MUCH ASS. He's the world's most epic serial killer, slaughtering three people in the first two episodes. He killed his own brother, too, slitting his throat. However, because of the world's best foster dad, he only kills people that he knows are killers themselves, and have escaped the law or remain undiscovered (his brother was a serial killer too). He is SUCH a badass. While the show has a bit more boob than I'm comfortable with, I TOTALLY recommend to everyone reading this - as long as you don't mind a little (okay, a LOT of) blood.

So that's the post for today. And, guess what? It's my 31st! That means I've been doing this for about a month. The last time I attempted to do something every day, I failed a few days after the one-month mark. Let's hope this lasts longer! It's already gone on way longer than I thought it would, so yay!

As a side note, one of my life's goals is to become best friends with a sociopath. Don't ask me why. Since according to Colombian Rice Eater there's no way that Freakishly Smart Person is one (DAMN IT), that leaves Singing Actor And SGU Fan. WHY MUST YOU HATE ME SO? THIS IS ONE OF MY LIFE'S GOALS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE!

I'm normal.

Day 26: German food orgies are awesome

Before post is posted: I just found out that Singing Actor And SGU Fan has a blog! OMG EXCITING MUCH?!?!?!

Anyways.

So last night I had a sleepover at Bean's house, on her acreage. It's pretty pwnage. Sailor Moon Fan Who Is Epic At Drawing was supposed to be there too, but had to work unexpectedly. Pity. There was this German-person-food-orgy-and-bonfire-party-thing that night, for Easter, and OMG. There was SO MUCH FOOD. Of course, I totally pigged out and ate enough for at least two different meals, but OMG IT WAS SO GOOOOD. This really delicious, tender steak kebab. This awesome chicken wrapped with proscuitto ham. This STRAWBERRY CAKE OMG. And of course there was beer, but obviously I had none. EW GROSS SICK DISGUSTING AW YUCK

Bean is really funny. I quite enjoy how funny she is. I also love her fluffeh little kitty cat and her adorable, huggy little bro. Let's call him... Bean's Adorable Huggy Little Brother. She was on Facebook for like a freakin' hour last night, talking to Singing Actor And SGU Fan about his (devilishly attractive) new hat and to Colombian Rice Eater about narwal rape and how they're gonna sell me as a sex slave. WTF? A little perspective for you there. xD So I wrote in her journal about what a poopface she was being and then drew a picture of me burning her alive. I then drew five more pages of me gleefully killing & injuring her in different ways. YAY The faces were quite beautiful, believe me. We plan on showing them to Sailor Moon Fan Who Is Epic At Drawing soon so she can enjoy how smart I am. YAY

GOD DAMMIT I NEED FACEBOOK. (Singing Actor And SGU Fan has no cell phone, and emailing him would be... creepy. Same goes for a lot of people I don't talk to enough. BLARG)

Day 12: I'm volunteering, and it's surprisingly fun (and awesome, of course)

So yesterday, I had to get up at 7:30 in the morning to be somewhere at 9:00. (I guess since I got Friday off, I had to get up as if it was a school day on Saturday. xD) Me and my mother, who I shall call Moomoo (since that's what I call her in real life... seriously! xD), were volunteering at this book sale thing from 9:00 until 1:30 (although we stayed for like... an hour and a half afterwards... because we were looking at books ourselves. xD). It's a fundraiser for the Symphony - actually, it's for the one that we went to go see LAST Saturday. Basically what happens is that people bring a shitload of secondhand books, records, and CDs, which volunteers then sort and sell. We take up this gigantic space in the mall. I've been going since about Grade Four, but this is my first year volunteering. I'm doing it again next Saturday, only we'll be working the "relief shift" - we take over people's jobs so they can have breaks.

Ever since the first year I volunteered, I've always headed straight for the "Handicrafts" section. It's actually pretty funny, because there are all these old ladies clustered around these quilting magazines, and then this punk (and extremely gorgeous, I might add) teenager struts over and starts leafing through the books with a purpose, and a mad gleam in her eye. I look for the sewing books - the ones with patterns and instructions and PRETTY PICTURES OMG on how to make stuffed animals/dolls. Pretty much nobody knows that I like this stuff, but I LOVE making stuffed animals. I have boxes absolutely full of fabric, odd socks, old tights, and sewing supplies stacked up in my room. Honestly, if I decided one day to get rid of it all, half of the stuff lying around in my room would be gone. IT WOULD BE SO CLEAN!!! I even have an entire bookshelf devoted to books I've picked up over the years, almost exclusively from the Symphony book sale, on making these stuffed beastlings.

One of the most fun things about volunteering was seeing the different people looking at books. There were old ladies with fanny packs (which was seriously the first time I have EVER seen anyone wear a fanny pack, not including Freakishly Smart Person's very attractive costume for One Acts), families, little ADORABLE children, and an unsettling number of old ladies picking up VERY steamy-looking romance novels. -_o There was this one guy who bought 3 boxes of books, one at a time, because he's the owner of a second-hand book store. It's actually a rather clever way to stock up for cheap, when you think about it. Also, I saw someone I KNOW picking up books after my shift was done... or rather, he saw me. DUN DUN DUUUUN

So there I was, flipping through the boxes of books under the Handicraft table, when I hear... A VOICE. It said...

"Hey!" OH THE DRAMA! XD So I looked up and who do I see but Singing Actor And SGU Fan! He was holding a few books, and I smiled and said, "Nice shirt!" (We were actually wearing the same one - the t-shirt we got from the musical in the fall. XD) We had a short chat and he showed me the books he had - all rather old-looking, you know the type... plain covers, look leather-bound-ish, gilt print, no pictures. They actually contained several essays that we'd read in English a little while ago, plus a couple pieces written by Hobbes and Locke, two dudes that we were learning about in history a few months ago. If you're buying books that contain things that you've read (or read ABOUT) in school, you know you're doing it right! (Oh, and he offered to buy 1984 off of me if I had it - I didn't - so if any of you are looking to get rid of a copy you own you should give it to him.) I'm actually surprised that he wasn't loading up on cookbooks, as he's a rather big fan of cooking. Oh, and he had a few books on philosophy, including one by Marcus Aurelius. (He was a Roman emperor, once upon a time. xD) OTL Oh sweetie, you're such a nerd... I wonder if he often visits the book sale?

IN BRIEF: Volunteering allows you to see old ladies wearing fanny packs and buying steamy romance novels, and run into people you know in real life, so you should do it.

Day 10: My friends have some WICKED awesome talent

So I watched my school's one-act plays for the third time today. When they were first playing a couple weeks ago, I went on the first day, and my respect for pretty much all of the actors went totally through the roof. Freakishly Smart Person, who is one of those people - you know, the ones that are epicly smart, play five instruments, and good at EVERYTHING - was one of the stars in one called A Little Box of Oblivion. My thoughts about 5 minutes into his being onstage?

Respect +10

He's normally this suuuper quiet guy, but not in a shy way, even though he is (according to Colombian Rice Eater) a little bit shy. More in a... "You foolish humans are so far below my intellect that I shall not speak to you, as much of what I say will be incomprehensible to your puny minds anyway," kind of way. However, I shall probably post a blog entry purely about him one day (as is the case with many of my classmates and friends), so I won't talk too too much about him at the moment. Anyways, his performance was freakin' OUTSTANDING. His character was utterly bizarre (he was never named, but was listed as "Neuro" in the program), and this quiet guy pulled it off perfectly. It's like he was BORN for the role. Jumping up and down, screaming, wiggling his behind as he sat down, making chicken noises, and last (but most CERTAINLY not least), a very sexy British accent. (Boys, keep this in mind: A British accent, more than pretty much any other accent in the world, adds instant attractiveness to EVERYONE.) Another friend of mine, let's call her Soccer Playing Curry Lover, was in it as well. Her character was called "Doom." She wore black lipstick and a super-thick pair of glasses with tape wrapped around them, played with a Rubik's Cube, licked garbage, and had a completely legit-sounding Indian accent. (Lolwut I put "brown accent" first. The rest of you Advancies are an awful influence on me. xD) I never even knew that Soccer Playing Curry Lover could act before I saw this, and I was totally blown away. Man, that girl has talent. WHY MUST EVERYONE I KNOW BE SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING?!?!

Another one of the plays, called Don't Fear the Reaper, is a day in the life of the Grim Reaper: the day he gets fired. Besides the performances, which I'll fawn over in a moment, the play was MASTERFULLY written. There are a few scenes, and each one gradually reveals a little more of the Reaper. The first scene, we just see him onstage, looking very unsettling and like Death. In the second scene, he actually talks a little, and you can see he has a bit of an ego about being Death. "Steve, I am the Omega. I am..." (here he turns to face the audience) "... Death."
"Just five more minutes, Grandma!" xD
Anyways, in the third scene, he actually gets called in to have a conversation with God, who's apparently not a big fan of the compassion he's been showing to the recently departed. This leads to him getting fired, and replaced by Jeremy, a.k.a. Bug Death. Death, now called Bill, isn't too thrilled about being replaced, and proceeds to run away as fast as he can with the scythe, leading to some rather unfortunate consequences.

On to the performances! Man oh man, these were all really epic. The married couple at the beginning was really well-chosen, and I think my favorite part would have to be the sexy pose they struck, with the husband in his underwear and the wife in a very sexy housecoat and nightgown-lingerie-thingy, right before the husband went out to try to destroy Death. All the lights but the spotlight were turned off, and they somehow managed to keep their faces straight while the entire auditorium clapped, cheered, and whistled. xD The fantastically mediocre Steve was played very adorably by someone we shall call... Curly-Haired Spock Fan! :D Didn't know he could act either. His performance knocked my boxer shorts off. Steve was SO CUTE! We also had a very sexy Satan, a very prim and proper God (who appeared to be working on some anger issues), an extremely Asian Donny Destiny (a game show host where 'contestants' decide whether they're going to heaven or hell xD), and a very loving and naive Conception (as in the woman that goes "here's a soul, you get a soul, your child gets a soul, RAINBOW UNICORNS AND GREAT BIG LOVE HUGS FOR EVERYONE!"). Jeremy was played in a marvellously nasal voice by Singing Actor And SGU Fan, who is known on the blog of World Champion Pacer as a-certain-someone-I-dislike, I believe. I knew that this dude loved acting before, but I didn't know he was this good until this play. BRAVO MY FRIENDS!

The third awesome play was called Black Comedy. The main character, Brindsley, was played by My Smexy Friend. (Better name is in the works, I promise. >3<;) Anyways, it slowly becomes apparent that contrary to the image of him presented at the beginning of the play, he is actually the biggest man-ho in existence. Carol, his girlfriend of six weeks, who he has recently become engaged to, has no idea that he's still kind-of-sort-of going out with his girlfriend of four years, Cleah (or however her name is spelled). (Man oh man, that sentence sure is grammatically correct! :D) Furthermore, once a man named Harold enters, it becomes painfully apparent that he has also enjoyed... very friendly encounters with our dear Brindsley. xD Dear lord,I never would have imagined that they could fit that much innuendo into such a short period of time! Of course, all the suggestive comments made by Harold were made that much better by the fact that My Smexy Friend really IS gay. XD He did a very good job at being a frazzled man finally stumbling over every singly tripwire that his lies had set up over the last month or so, and my friend Disturbingly Intelligent Person did a FANTASTIC job of yelling at him for the whole play, which is rather the opposite of his personality, as he's rather shy. I LOVED watching him act like this! It's such a treat to see people acting in ways that they never would in real life.

IN BRIEF: My friends have insane talent, I am SO looking forward to One Acts next year, I'm totally auditioning for One Acts next year, and Freakishly Smart Person looks very attractive in a fanny pack. LOVE!