Anyway, I should probably not talk about too much about the whole fitness thing. A couple of beers recently loosened a friend's tongue sufficiently for him to tell me off over the whole body transformation thing. Apparently, it's made me a complete douchenozzle, and his words were that while I've always been someone who's been completely arrogant (and I quote verbatim here) "very difficult to be friends with", apparently it's become infinitely worse since I lost the weight. This was understandably something of a shock to me, but I'm trying to not let it bother me. Truth is, you can make new friends. Also, I did a bit of digging, and it seems that this is a fairly common issue among people who lose a lot of weight. When you're the funny, joking fat guy in a group, that's your role. If you decide to change that role, things can go sour. Ce la vie.
Anyway, on to somewhat more lighthearted topics. I had a superb Valentine's Day, and an even better birthday. In the past, it's always been a massive downer to share my birthday with Valentine's Day, but this year it worked out pretty well. I ended up giving gifts to all the pretty girls I know, which went well (many of them gave me things back), and I got some absolutely amazing birthday presents, including two of the books I most wanted to read, namely, Machine of Death and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Thank you so much - you know who you are!
Speaking of zombies, I'm looking forward to Dead Island in the biggest way since watching the epic teaser below:
What an awesome video! I love how conflicted I was after watching it for the first time. The music, the composition, everything about it is brilliant. What a unique way of presenting the zombie apocalypse. In a genre that I thought was starting to feel stifled and unoriginal, they've found a hook and presented it well. I can't wait.
