Same Old, Same Old

Well, I am off to another wonderful day of life. I will be working 3-10 today, so there goes pretty much my whole day, as usual. I wanted to go see the movie Dodgeball yesterday, but that didn't work out. I usually go to see movies with my sister and her boyfriend, but those assholes already went to see Dodgeball on Monday. They both knew I wanted to go see it, but they couldn't wait until I had a day off. Oh well, I guess I'll have to find someone else to go see it with. The thing with movies is you can't go see them by yourself, it is very similar to a restaurant in that regard. I mean, you can go see a movie or go to a restaurant by yourself, but it just feels weird, to me at least.

I still want to see the movie Saved, preferably with Ryan because we were suppose to go see it last week, but that doesn't seem likely, at least anytime soon. I work today, tomorrow, and Friday. Then on Saturday I have my sister's graduation party, so I will be busy all day. During the rest of the week, I work Sunday, but I am off Monday, so possibly then. Then I work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. I hate working the 3-11 shift, but that is the only one available to me at my job. I also hate my job, but who doesn't? Work is work, I guess, but I'm tired of it already. I guess I should be grateful that I have a job, but I just wish it was a job that wasn't the same shit every single day. Oh well, this job motivates me to finish college, so that I can stay out of dead-end jobs like 7-11.

While you're here, why don't you check out my latest definition at urbandictionary.com: Bater Hater
Check out all my other definitions there too, I submit under the pseudonym of IAMSODOT.

Since I have time, I will tell you the story of why I use the name, IAMSODOT. Back in the day, during my high school years, I spent every Saturday at my friend Donnie's house. Our mutual friend Jason would often be there, usually eating everything in sight. Back then, we were big into a computer game called Team Fortress Classic, but I was never very good at it. Jason was slightly better than me, and Donnie was pretty good. For those of you who don't know, TFC is a Half-Life mod, and for those of you who don't know what Half-Life is, it is a first person shooter game. TFC is also a FPS, but it differs substantially from Half-Life. TFC is more team oriented, as the name implies. Instead of running around and killing everything that moves, you actually have a greater purpose in TFC. On certain maps, you capture the flag. On other maps, you try to move a flag to a certain location, while the other team defends that location, trying to stop you from reaching it. On the vast majority of maps you picked one of nine classes to play, but there were also certain maps that were sniper-only maps. These maps were our favorite, and this is where my story begins.

In TFC, there are groups called clans, which give you a unique status and also a clan tag. Clans are a close association of people, who often team up to go against other clans in clan matches. In order to get into a good clan, you have to meet certain requirements or pass a test that they give you.

Jason and I were never really that serious about the game, but Donnie was and he soon caught the eye of a sniper-only clan, known as the Dot Clan. The clan leader gave him a test, and he passed it with flying colors. He was then allowed into the clan and given the name [ . ] DonCat, which was the clan tag. After that, he thought he was hot shit, so we always tried to knock him down a few notches. When he first starting bringing up that he was in the Dot Clan, we would just ignore him. That is, until he started bringing it up a lot. He thought he was better than us, and he probably was, but we weren't going to let him think that. So whenever he mentioned the Dot Clan, we would say things to him like, "Look at me, I'm in the Dot Clan" or we would recite the Dot Clan motto, which was "Simply the Best." In addition to that, whenever we killed anyone in TFC, we would say "Dot" just to piss Donnie off.

It was fun times, that is until Jason and I got Donnie kicked out of the Dot Clan. We really didn't do anythig wrong, all we did was go on the Dot server and harassed a few clan members. Some may call it harassment, but I suspect that the Dot members were just jealous of our mad skillz. Oh, and it might also have something to do with the fact that we went on Donnie's ICQ and fucked around with a few choice Dot members, but it was all in good fun. Like I said, we really didn't do anything that bad, but the leader of Dot was not amused. Our antics, despite the fact that they were absolutely hilarious, got Donnie kicked out of the Dot Clan. Nevertheless, the process of getting him kicked out was almost as fun as hassling Donnie, but we still felt bad about it. We apologized to him, and he got over it.

Soon after Donnie's premature departure from the Dot Clan, I felt the need to create an AOL screename, in remembrance of the good times and the bad. This couldn't be just any screename, it had to also poke a little fun at Donnie. I carefully deliberate my options, and soon came up with the screename of IAMSODOT. That is my story and I'm sticking to it!

Well that is it for my story. I hope you were mildly entertained by it. Oh, and before I forget, I would just like to thank Ryan for putting in the code for my links bar. He is the fucking man, and he deserves mad props. Anyways, I am off to work, so until next time, Mahalo.