Person.
For some reason, there’s a type of person that scares me. They manage to change my entire mood and life views just by talking to me about my day. They’re too optimistic. They make me optimistic. That’s scary. They act like life is always going to be fine all the time and never really show their uneasiness. I don’t know what to do or feel or how to act around them. Should I be pessimistic and balance them out? Should I go with their optimism? I don’t know. Maybe I should do both. They make me think about how I act, and what I think. Weird, huh? Anyway, I know that I’ve said this many many times before, but I sure haven’t said it here yet: I’m going to change! I want to not worry about things. I want to just be oblivious. Having said that, I realized why I’ve failed so many times before. It’s just how I am. Har har har. I can’t change who I am because it’s who I am. Uhm, okay. So why is optimism bad? Because when you’re optimistic and have high expectations, you’re very likely to be let down. When you’re pessimistic and expect the worst, things always aren’t that bad. Worrying unnecessarily allows you to feel deep relief when things work out, and prepare you for the worst at the same time. Unhealthy, I know. So the type of person I was talking about, they make me sad. It’s nice to know there aren’t very many people like that around. I lost my train of thought.
Work is getting better. I feel like I’m finally settling down into the job
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We got our final projects today for CS! We have to write a program to simulate a game of Yukon Solitaire. How exciting. It’s a partner project, so how lucky am I to be living with my partner? =P Google trip on Monday!!!! I said it already, but I’m still excited.
Today was funsies. CS, work, tennis, dinner, movie (21). Sad that I didn’t go play Canasta (join with me! http://canasta.pftq.com/), but I think today was pretty eventful. Tomorrow (or today, actually) will also be pretty busy… I think. Hmm, post office, running (ahh, I’m scared =[), laundry, homework (aka coding -.-). Ahahaha, speaking of post office, I’ve been ordering a lot of stuff online lately -.- Spending my paycheck before I even get paid :[. Oh well, gotta spend a little before I start saving, right? I decided that I’m not going home August 13 – August 25; I’m going to be working instead! 10am – 5pm. Fun stuff. I still haven’t decided what I want to do with the money I’m making. Probably save it to pay off loans later. Or uh… buy ice cream and apple juice. Yum.
I can’t wait for the school year to start! I can’t wait to play tennis, I can’t wait for Rotaract, and I really can’t wait for Math54! And Philosophy and CS61a…. if I get in.
Hello, I am Perlin! This site says I'm awesome, and I hope I can live up to its expectations =]




pftq
on August 7th, 2010
You are wrong. Even if you don’t meet the high expectations, you are still much better off than you started.
perlin
on August 8th, 2010
Naaaaawh! Then you feel like you’ve failed because you didn’t meet your expectations! But I suppose you are right. Even when I’m pessimistic I can’t help but hope for the best -.-
pftq
on August 9th, 2010
Getting part way to your expectations is not failure. Getting nowhere because you never started is though.
If you hope for the best even when you are pessimistic, then your expectations already exist regardless whether you reach for them or not.
perlin
on August 10th, 2010
=[ True. I admit defeat -.- I see what you mean, haha, and now change my mind =P
pftq
on August 13th, 2010
I’m just kidding – nothing I said actually makes sense. Don’t worry about it.
I don’t really like optomisim anyways.. but I don’t like pessimism either.