Useless.

The important stuff that goes on in my head never makes it onto this blog.

I'm sorry for instead typing the silly things I want to get out and onto a physical space so I don't need to keep them in my thoughts.

The good stuff, like the maelstrom of thoughts and ideas revolving around my pursuits as a hopeful zoologist, recently having been kicked up by actually doing some semblance of field work, stay inside. The important things that happen to me or the things I think about that are seriously pushing my life forward are rarely mentioned on this piece of internet. Sorry.

It's when I don't care about something anymore, or find its importance to be questionable that I type it here.

That being said, the Pokémon Tournament is in two weeks. Despite most of the other regionals having occurred already, the strategies being used have changed from stop to stop in a way that has yet to nullify anything I have planned in my party. This is good news, but I was sort of anticipating having to make a few changes as people adapted their teams to what happened at the regional the week before. However, I'll not be so overconfident to think that things may change between the stop in Dallas, this weekend, and the stop in Philly the following.

I'll make sure to think long and hard over that week about how people may change what they are doing with their teams to adapt to what kind of Pokémon won the week before. I'd hate to ultimately lose in battle because of a failure of imagination.

See? It's a video game. I know it's like the only one I play, and I'm going to a national tournament to play it competitively, but at the end of the day I don't need it. It's not taking my anywhere except maybe helping my critical thinking. Meh.

June 6th Tournament

Before I know it, June 6th will be here, and so will the tournament.

So this entry is for myself, to gather my plans into one list and to look at every day to try and sort out the issues.

Registration for the senior division begins at 8:30 AM at the Valley Forge Convention Center. I want to be there at 7, which means leaving as early as 5:30 to avoid any sort of traffic on the way there. I think it is best that everyone in my party is in one place the night before. I know Chinua will forfeit sleep, as he lives nocturnally, so he can be the alarm clock. Shit, I imagine a number of us won't even sleep at all, we may be better off leaving even earlier.

Rides are a pain, a number of people have expressed interest in going that drive and have access to a vehicle, but only one of them is a certainty so far.

Definite: Myself
Biggest
Julian
Jenna
Chinua
John

I'm going to get the word out to everyone interested into getting together sometime in the coming weeks to discuss the plans. This needs to go off without a hitch.

I find it to be a little curious that three major diseases US officials have done their best to keep out of the country out of fear of an epidemic have been Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu and Swine Flu. These three diseases find their origin in three animals we farm for food: cows, chickens and pigs.

Oh, the wonders of nature. Diseases try to grind down the overpopulation of our livestock while also trying to grind down our own overpopulation. Now that's multitasking!

We're going to ignore this sign, like every other one, and continue on our merry way to extinction. Might not be the next one, or even the one after that... eventually we're going to get fucked.

Einstein said something about doing something over and over and expecting the same results as being insane... You get lucky a bunch of times, modern medicine cures the epidemics nature hands you. You don't learn a lesson and overpopulation persists.

Next time it could be a strain of the AIDS virus that spreads like a cold. Or worse, if you can even imagine that.

Personally, I'm excited to see what happens.