Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Movie with friends when I should be working

Hey! Faith here. So I am currently watching a movie with my friends in my dorm. I'm supposed to be writing my counseling paper or doing something else productive. However, there were plans for a movie tonight and I was the only one out of the loop. That's alright though. I really like hanging out with my friends. It's my senior year so time with them is short.

So I got a short break to play Fallout 3 today. It's a really immersive game. You can really get into it and there's so much to do. Today I completed two assignments for some random supplies woman who asked me to be her research assistant/experiment. My first assignment was to go to a supermarket and see if I could find food and medicine. The entire landscape is ravaged due to a nuclear war and feral animals and raiders roam the wasteland and she wants me to go to the supermarket? Well, of course the food and medicine were all gone and the place was full of raiders. After being shot at by the raiders, finding out that my gun had absolutely no affect on them, and running out of the supermarket twice, I decided to go in using stealth to complete the mission. By the way, has anyone noticed how unrealistic it is that your enemies forget you when you walk out of the building and walk by in? I'm glad it works that way though, imagine if they chased me for a mile! I managed to collect some food from a fridge in some random room. All the shelves in the supermarket were either empty or full of empty, bent tin cans. When I returned to the supplies woman she was sad and concerned that raiders were in the place and she had put me in danger. I find that weird because she happens to live in a town where a common greeting would be "Tell someone who cares!"
My next assignment was to expose myself to radiation and accumulate 600 rads. I decided to stand in the radiated puddle in the middle of town between the undetonated atomic bomb and the preaching, atomic bomb worshiping cult leader. Needless to say, I've never been in that situation in a video game before. The supplies woman said she would take care of my radiation after she studied me. She made the cure herself but it had never been tested before. Lucky me. The cure worked amazingly, but I ended up with a mutation. My first thought was "Oh crap, now I have a third arm growing out of my chest or something" but the mutation isn't visible. In fact, it's useful. Now when I get radiation poisoning my limbs will automatically heal all damage. Weird but I'm not complaining.

Well after that I had to go to work. Tried to read and/study but didn't make much progress. When I got off work and made my way to the dorm I saw something both strange and unexpected and random. Four RA's were standing on the sidewalk. Two were wrapping the other two in toilet paper. Then the two wrapped RA's raced each other down the sidewalk where two other RA's unwound them. It had something to do with our dorm spring party/picnic/thing, though I don't know what. There was Domino's pizza and some other snacks in the lobby. Now I'm watching this movie with my friends. It's called French Kiss. It's weird, awkward, and oddly entertaining. lol. Anyway, I'm going to get off here.

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Faith_inpresentdarkness

First Post Ever

So I wanted to get on here and write my very first post. I starting reading blogs because of a crazy college paper assignment. Through that assignment I learned that you didn't have to sound intelligent or talk about anything in particular to have a blog that is enjoyable to read. That encouraged me to start my own blog and just write whatever I wanted to write. So here I am.

I wanted to take a post and explain a few things. First of all, my screen name: faithinpresentdarkness. I am also known as faithinthedarkness, but too many people took the name to mean that I have faith in darkness. The real meaning of the name is that I have faith while I'm in darkness. Hopefully this new name better conveys that meaning. The name carries several levels of meaning. First off, I am a Christian struggling to have faith in a dark world. I am also an abuse survivor relying on faith in the midst of the pain of healing. The URL for my blog is simplylifebyfaith. This also has two meanings. The blog is "Simply Life" and it is written "by faith (faithinpresentdarkness)." It also points to the Bible where Paul writes in Romans that "The righteous shall live by faith." Hence, simply life by faith. I hope I'm making sense.

I will conclude with a list of several but not all of the possible topics I will write about in this blog
  • God
  • psychology
  • video games
  • books
  • family friendly entertainment (ex. Disney)
  • counseling
  • Sexual abuse and rape
  • college/grad school
  • nerd culture
This is definately not an exhaustive list but I listed what I could think of so the reader has an idea of what I'm going to be talking about in this blog. I will close with a funny question that I am still trying to find the answer to: Do they make skin-colored bandaids for black people?

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