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General Update

Work.

I am thinking about quitting work.

I just don’t have enough time to manage school, a portfolio, my hobbies( lolvideogames), AND work. But I’ve never quit a job before, so I’m nervous about doing it.

School.

Aside from that, everything has been going great. My classes this semester seem to be enjoyable and relevant, especially Linear Algebra. Which, by the way, sounds like a low-level math that would be easy… No. Matrices and vectors everywhere. My CS classes also are very interesting. Computer Architecture is more fascinating than I had anticipated.

Livestreams.

I’ve been practicing Livestreams, I think I’m getting a little better at it. The right combination seems to be me and my friend on Skype commenting on games I play. The problem is finding the right game that is popular enough to be interesting to a wide range of people, but not so popular that it’s been overdone.

Overall.

I like how my semester is going, I just need to manage my time better. And also decide on a Grad school. sigh.

The Return

Yes, I know, you thought I had abandoned this blog.

 

So here’s what I’ve been up to since September 2011:

- Got a job at my school, worked 20 hours a week

- Continued doing 18 hours worth of college coursework

- Lost the ability to keep up with my social life due to work/school

- Finished the semester with decent grades, and a raise.

- Somehow managed to work a few video games in (Sonic Adventure DX, Catherine, Sonic Generations — will speak more on such things later)

The Near Future.

Whew! So yeah, I’ve been EXTREMELY busy. Here are some projects I have in the work already for the new year:

- Record a Let’s Play. (I have already set up my computer to do it, now I just need to find the right game).

- Come up with ideas for a youtube channel. Reviews? Top 7s? Lets plays? My ramblings on random video game stories? Hmm..

- My job requires some time out of my life as well, and I have several projects I need to focus on there

- My portfolio for graduate school. Yes, I’ve decided to go to graduate school next Fall.

- Finish up my last semester of college with no surprises

- Continue being addicted to making alts on SWTOR ( ugh, my free time.)

To Wrap up.

So to end this first post of the new year, here’s a screenshot of my SWTOR character. You know, one of them. She’s a Twilek Jedi Sentinel.

Distant Worlds Houston

Here is a terrible quality picture of when my friends and I went to the Distant Worlds concert and Nobuo Uematsu showed up afterwards (He is in the middle, his translator on the left).

My favorite part was when someone asked what is his favorite color chocobo, and his response was:

“Black Chocobo…From Hell!”

Another question was:  “What is your favorite song that you’ve composed?”  – Aerith’s Theme

It was a really beautiful concert, my favorite song played was probably Battle on the Big Bridge.

Bleh.

I’ve been sick the last few days, sorry for the lack of updates! As soon as I can stand to be in front of a computer again I’ll get around to posting for reals.

Employed!

This Morning.

I was informed through e-mail that I’ve been hired by my school’s math department. Yay!

I’m  not entirely sure what i’ll be doing, something to do with maintaining software and hardware for them. I’ll find out more thursday when I start work.

I also scored 10/10 on my Cal II quiz, and finished my Logic lab with ease. Today is a good day

Picture of the Day:

My favorite Mario picture. Blue Yoshi makes me happy, and so do winged Koopas (Parakoopa).

Completely Random.

I decided to go back home today and relax until my night class at 6:30.

Homework.

Yeah i should get around to that. You know, eventually.

Games:

>Start up Amnesia

>Continue Chrono Trigger (DS)

Can’t wait until Resident Evil 4 HD comes out!

Projects

>Pick a Game to Review

>Take Photos of my campus and interesting locations around it

>Record my initial playthrough of Amnesia

>Clean my Room

>Create a Workout schedule

Picture of the Day:

Me relaxing in front of my computer! Exciting, I know:

(As you can see I have way too many plushies.)

This Weekend

Friends.

I wasn’t very productive this weekend, I didn’t get around to working out at all. I played a few video games, had fun with friends. I’m disappointed in myself for not doing more. I’ve been feeling claustrophobic when it comes to my friends–they expect to hang out with me everyday, for several hours. I really enjoy having some time to myself, but I find it hard to refuse their company. I was never very social in highschool, so the explosion of friends in college isn’t something I’m used to dealing with. I really need to set some boundaries with them. When someone else is around me, I don’t think about things that have to do with improving myself– I just think about socializing.

This Morning.

I had a job interview! I believe it went very well, they were talking about me as if they had already hired me. I had to take a few pre-hiring tests before I was able to get this interview, and apparently I set a record among applicants with my 106 WPM typing speed. This boosted my mood quite a bit, and I think it’s going to be a good week.

Plans.

Tommorow I’m going to the school gym to work out. I’m going to try to go every T/TH/F . We’ll see if this happens! If I have to explain my laziness to my blog, It might not happen so much, heh.

Is Misplacing Items a Form of Clumsiness?

The Bad.

I’m a rather clumsy person, I will walk into the corners of walls and hit the door on the way out of a room. I also tend to put something down, and completely forget where I put it. It could be right there in front of me, but I won’t see it for a few panicked minutes.

I noticed this morning my credit card was missing, the last time I used it was 11pm the night before. After I used it, I went straight home. I frantically searched all afternoon to no avail. Luckily my friends calmed me down and I gathered up the courage to call my parents and let them know I lost it.

And Then It Was Resolved.

My mom was very understanding and helped me fix the situation right away– Card deactivated, new one being sent. That was easy.

One thing I did realize out of the whole ordeal was I need to learn not to panic and handle situations like a mature adult would — exhaust all possible options, and calmly deal with the consequences if that fails. That’s all you really can do, isn’t it? Worrying and stressing doesn’t seem to help too much.

The Rest of the Evening.

My roommate is playing Dead Island, a new zombie game that just came out for the Xbox/PS3/PC. It’s cute how he gets scared so easily, but then again I don’t think video games are all that scary. Dead Island seems to have alot of mindless killing of zombies and not much else. Not really my type of game. A zombie game that focused on survival and stealth might be more interesting. Usually realism and games don’t go together extremely well, but I think in a zombie apocalypse situation the more realistic the game the better.