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Seeing as how it’s been a while since I posted anything, I figured I would update this blog to remember things later on. Or something.

I haven’t said much because I haven’t been online all that much. When I’m not at work I’m normally playing video games or doing something with Mal, and it’s now a rarity to even see me on AIM. I know that’ll change when I get back to school, but it’s weird right now to think I’m not online very often.

Work has been going pretty good. The economy has definitely affected business, but there’s been $100+ nights (rare, but they’ve happened). It’s cool to think you can walk in at 4:30pm and walk out 5 hours later with over a hundred bucks in your pocket. The job is pretty easy and is mostly just being someone’s personal servant for 40 minutes (something some folks like to take advantage of).

I had a huge list of video games to play and beat this summer, but I also wanted Mal to play some of my favorites. She’s beaten Gears of War and Halo 3, Portal, New Super Mario Bros, and we’re almost finished with the first Phoenix Wright game. I normally don’t juggle so many games at once, but here’s my ‘now playing’ list: Fable 2, Gears of War 2, Phoenix Wright, Chrono Trigger DS, Pokémon Leaf Green, Sonic Unleashed, and a handful of other DS games. Tomorrow I’m going to pick up Wii Sports Resort, even though it’s mostly for my father.

Despite juggling so many games at once, I’m doing a pretty good job of keeping up with the stories of all of them. There’s a few other RPGs that I’d really like to start, but I know I can’t handle any more right now. I’m nearing the end of Phoenix Wright, then I’ll probably devote a good bit of attention to Fable 2. I’m also having Mal play through Half-Life 2, since that should really be a requirement for anyone who loves video games at all.

But, besides work and video games, there hasn’t been much going on. I had a Halo party for my high school graduating class again (it normally happens about twice a year or so), but I’m assuming that would fall under video games. Even so, the summer hasn’t seemed dull or boring at all, and I’m enjoying it to the fullest, especially since I’ve got Mal with me.

So there’s my update, internet. Keep on the lookout for more of that weekly Ninten Speaks stuff, since that’s the most you’ll be getting of Stephen Georg online until school starts. (And oh yeah, I also just released a new song about EarthBound—you can listen/download it here, but I’m sure it’ll show up on my site in another day or so).

February 2009 is coming to a close and we’ll soon be entering March. With March comes spring, and the end of cold weather. Unfortunately, living in Georgia and having a girlfriend in Wisconsin keeps me from ever being able to say anything about how cold it is. “I froze to death because it was 55º today” will only get a “55º isn’t cold!” out of her. It’s been nice as of late, though. 70º today here… she’s battling a winter snow storm.

Things in Stephen-land™ have been up and down I guess. I’ll try and backtrack to February 1st (my last big blog update) and remember things that happened after that.

Looking at it now, I had stated I wasn’t writing for Tree From My Youth. That has changed. When I originally wrote that, the cast was having some issues coming up with a solid time to write the script (it’s written collaboratively), and the time they eventually chose was a morning to afternoon, something I definitely cannot do. Seeing as how I was screwed in that department, I started thinking about how nice it would be to not have to write for another year, so I decided not to. It was less than a week later, though, that I was approached to come back. The writing times changed and I reconsidered. As of now, TFMY has released one episode and written the second. The first episode wasn’t so bad, but writing the second made me realize how much I hated writing FaB (I don’t think the actual writing was an issue, but working with others is something I’ve always had a problem with—I prefer to work on projects alone). Even so, I’ve decided to keep at it. Tree From My Youth is something that I feel needs to be brought into this world, and I’m going to have my hand in it in some form. It’s going to be a rough road, though, especially with some of the hard-nuts I have to work with *shudders*.

The more I think about that the more aggravated I get, so I’ll move on to something more cheerful.

This past Friday my Xbox 360 encountered hardware failure, also known as the “red ring of death”. I was in the middle of playing Call of Duty 4 with the folks from Starmen.net when my game froze. I restarted and it froze again. After freezing one more time, the box wouldn’t even come on. Bam. Red ring of death. It’s free to fix, but I’m out of a 360 for a few weeks. A minor inconvenience, I reckon. We’ve been playing a lot of Super NES games since then (my original xbox is modded so we have a ton of emulators), and I guess it’s a nice change.

Also, since the last update I released a new video. For my class we had to create a Film Noir-style video in groups of 4, so myself and 3 others produced Mystery Dick. It was written by Pat Leonard, with some basic foundational ideas stemming from all 4 of us. The great thing about not being the writer is that if someone hates it you can always say “yeah, well I didn’t write it”, heheh (sorry Pat!). I did a majority of the cinematography and directing, and all of the editing (which is all I really wanted to do in the first place). It’s not my finest work and the comedy is definitely not for everyone (I’ve been hesitant to post it on the front page of the site, especially since there’s been other content to fill it), but if you’ve got the 13 minutes, maybe you’ll like it.

Today marks the completion of week 8 out of 10 for this quarter. 2 more weeks and I’m out of here! This quarter has gone quite swimmingly and I plan on finishing strong. I’m most astonished at how well I’ve done in Math: after taking three exams I’ve managed two 95s and a 98. I always thought that I sucked in math (and honestly I still think that), but I’m realizing it was probably more of the fact I didn’t pay attention (hey, it was boring).

More importantly, I’m 2 weeks away from spring break, which means 2 weeks from Mallory. It will have been just about 3 months from when I had last seen her, and I’m ready for another visit—I miss her terribly. I talk to her everyday on Skype and we video chat all the time which has helped an immense amount. I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been with just telephones, or even before that. Long-distance relationships are definitely more successful these days because of technology, so I’m thankful for that. Another thing to note is that in 10 days we’ll be celebrating our one year anniversary. It’s crazy to think that it’s already been a year. I’m more in love with her than ever, though, so I’d say things are definitely working out. Here’s to another wonderful year with a wonderful woman :)

The last thing I’ll update with is that I’ve decided on a good summer project: building a Hackintosh. For those uninformed, a hackintosh is a Mac built with PC components. Basically, imagine getting a Mac Pro, but instead of paying $7500 you only pay $1500. The process has become incredibly easy (you can even use a retail DVD of Leopard now), so now’s definitely the time. Not only will I have the most incredible Mac on the block, but also the most incredible PC. It’s something that excites the geek in me, heheh.

More later if I think of it.

Cue Simon and Garfunkel, please.

Well, that’s it. I’m finished. As I type this, I’m sitting in my old office chair in the office of my house. Being home feels amazing, and while I love SCAD to death and wouldn’t mind being with my friends at school again, it’s nice to finally chill out and take a break.

Projects, projects, projects. For my final in Advanced Computer Art Applications, we had to create a web site and incorporate Flash in some way. I figured now would be a perfect time to finish the domain I purchased 9 months ago, StephenGeorg.com. So I did! The domain isn’t up at the moment since I’m having some problems with my server (Dreamhost is on this, no worries), but you can view the same site at my backup located here.

For Drawing 2 we had to do this. Not really much to say about that.

And for Speech I gave a critique of Crooked A’s. She thought the speech was great and gave me a 96, which ended up being the highest score I had gotten in the class so far.

I’m unsure of my grades, but I’m pretty sure I wound up with an A and two B’s. I should know within the next few days, hopefully.

Last update I mentioned wanting to buy Fallout 3… so I did. I think I put in about 12 hours or so on it, but I haven’t played it in about a week or so. Dan borrowed it and put in about 15 hours in two days or so—he actually gave it back to me at one point but then re-borrowed it again later that night. He’s addicted, so I’m assuming by this point he’s probably purchased the game. Even Alex bought the game, and he beat it around the 45 hour mark, just in time for him to go pick up the new WoW expansion. Crazy addict.

We’ve also started on the Fobbies are Borange comic. So far a team of four artists have been assembled and are currently working toward the ultimate goal of recreating the entire series in comic format. It’s a massive undertaking—I’m suspecting that it will take a few years, honestly. One page down. Thousands to go.

My schedule before I left school got a little off track. Alex and myself (who decided to take the same classes this quarter) finished our finals on Monday night, even though we couldn’t leave until Thursday afternoon. Tuesday night, in a fit of awesome (or stupid), we decided (along with Taylor) to stay up all night. That Wednesday morning we went to breakfast (one of the only times we got breakfast that quarter) then off to our 11 am class where we presented our websites. We got back around 2pm and I slept from then till about 4pm. So for those keeping track, I woke up Tuesday at 9:45am and it is now 4pm on Wednesday, with 2 hours of sleep. Anyway, at 5pm we had speech class, so we went to that then came back later. By 8pm I was about dead, so I lied down again, waking up at 10pm. When I woke up I got on Skype to talk to Mal a bit. Time passed quick—suddenly it was 11:52pm and I realized I had missed my opportunity to get some food at the last place on campus to close (the sub shop closes at midnight). ‘Crap’, I thought. Eventually, about 1:30am or so, Alex awoke as well. His car was having problems, Ian needed something printed, and I was starving. So we decided to take a trip to Kinkos/WalMart at 2am.

It was freezing, good lord. It was about 27 °F, which is unbearably cold to a southern boy. (Really, you can’t comprehend the pain that winter weather causes me). Ian used his magical French powers to get the car working again and we headed off to Kinkos.

The problem with Alex’s car was this: apparently his fan was continuing to run when he shut off his car, which killed his battery. Ian jumped his car and took out the fan plug. When we got to Kinkos (about 20 minutes away), Alex kept driving around to continue to recharge the battery. As we left, though, Ian looked up and saw that the temperature gauge was right on H, so he jumped out of the car and quickly put the fan plug back in. The car cooled down and everyone cheered.

Anyway. When we got to WalMart, Dan and myself headed for Subway (open 24 hours!) while Taylor, Alex and Ian went to buy some crap. The lady ahead of Dan and me was taking forever (and not just because there’s only one person working at 2:30am). Apparently she was getting subs for more than just herself: she had a list of 8 subs or so. By the time she had finished, the rest of our group was back and waiting for us. We finally got our subs and left. When we got back to the dorm it was about 3:30am. By the time I went to bed that night it was 4:45am, leaving me with 5 hours of sleep.

Quick recap: woke up Tuesday morning at 9:45am. It is now Thursday morning, 9:45am. I’ve had two 2 hour naps and a 5 hour sleep session. So in 48 hours I’ve slept 9. Not bad, not bad.

Thursday is the day I’m supposed to be finishing up, so I get back from my last class of the year then get started on packing up all of my stuff. My parents and myself don’t leave out until about 7:30pm or so, and embark on the long journey home. I’d say I slept about an hour in the car. When we got back home it was 12:30am. Being the person I am, I got sidetracked and got on Skype. To make a long story short, I went to bed at 8am. So let’s recap:

• Wake up Tuesday 9:45am
• Slept Wednesday 2pm
• Woke up Wednesday 4pm (2 hours)
• Slept Wednesday 8pm
• Woke up Wednesday 10pm (4 hours)
• Slept Thursday 4:45am
• Woke up Thursday 9:45am (9 hours)
• Got an hour of sleep on the road (10 hours)
• Slept Friday 8am

I was up for over 70 hours with 10 hours of sleep. Hmm. I should really not do that. Ever. Ever. Again.

My sleep schedule is all off wack again because of this. I went to bed last night at 11am and woke up today at 6:30pm. I plan on getting this fixed tonight by going to bed around 11pm or so. Unfortunately that means I will have only been up for 4½ hours before I head off to bed, so I may not be able to fall asleep. Oh well, we’ll hope for the best.

To wrap all of this up, I’ll mention again my trip to Wisconsin coming up on December 21st. It’s crazy to think it’s only 29 days away. I’m sure I’ll have all sorts of pictures to post here, so keep on the lookout :)

(and ps: hire me to do stuff since I need money D:)

Haven’t updated in about a week, so I guess I should take the time to update folks on what’s going on. Let me go grab Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler.

Let’s see, what’s happened recently that’s really important… oh yeah, that presidential thing. Obama beat out McCain in electoral votes badly. But seriously… did people actually suspect McCain was going to win? I called this a month or so before it happened. I never doubted once that Obama would lose, I knew he had the support of a majority of the country. Personally, I absolutely hate (read: hate) politics and prefer not to get involved, and I would’ve stayed out of it if it wasn’t for a new underlying, unspoken rule. If you don’t vote, there are some people that straight-up hate you. Really! I can’t quite understand the logic here—I know it’s a ‘privilege’, an ‘honor’, and that I should exercise my right to vote, but what if I just don’t want to? Oh, I know I could take the time to find out about the candidates, but I just don’t care. I don’t think that makes me selfish, I just choose to be uninformed because when it’s all said and done I can stand back and continue to not care like I did in the first place. That doesn’t make me stupid, irresponsible or any other word synonymous with ‘careless’ or ‘dumb’. It’s my choice, darn it. But this election employed the ‘if you don’t vote, some of your friends will hate you’ rule. Bullcrap.

So, I registered to vote. Barely. I dropped it in the mailbox at 3pm the day it was due. I figured ‘you know, if I don’t get it in time, so be it’. But it came, and I had registered to vote. Since my roommate Alex had pressured me into it thus far, I decided I would even bother to watch the debates and read up on issues. I didn’t do this very often, but since he was watching, I had to anyway. My mindset was still mostly ‘I don’t care’, but I did come to some conclusions, not really enough to pull me strongly in either direction. When November 4th rolled around, I voted regardless, if only to be able to tell ‘those people’ that I voted. The people that would hate me if I didn’t. Hey, you people! You suck! Stop forcing me to care!

So yeah, I voted. At least when people ask I can be like ‘yeah, I voted’. If they ask who I voted for I just tell them it’s none of their business. The wise ones leave me alone after that.

Aside from the political crap (you have no idea how thankful I am that I can turn on the TV without hearing ‘socialism’ or ‘90% of the time’), everything has been going pretty great. School is finally winding down (I’ll be heading home this time 2 weeks from now, and won’t be back till January 5th), and soon I’ll be with Mal again. School hasn’t actually given me all that much trouble this quarter, except maybe the Maya project (no grade yet, but I’m expecting a big fat C- on that one). I showed my animation on Monday, though (a few posts down from this one) and it was met with overall positive responses (and one ‘awww’ from some girl who apparently liked Yoshi). We started to do gesture sketches the other day (drawing naked folks, for the uninformed) and I think I did alright, which is odd since I’ve never been able to really accurately draw a human body. Apparently the only thing I’ve ever really had a problem with was clothes, because once they come off I’m a drawing machine. Sort of. I’m also really comfortable around naked folks (and also being naked myself… but that’s another story), so no odd experiences here, expect maybe for the one male model who was like, “any requests? Need a particular pose? How about the Guitar Hero?” then proceeded to act like he was playing a guitar. Amidst my giggling like a schoolgirl at the video game reference, I accurately depicted his penis. Ah, the wonders of art school.

Speaking of video games, I’d be a complete liar if I didn’t say I wanted to say some things, so I will. Fallout 3. Good lord, it looks so fun. Looks. I chose not to buy it yet (Alex is already 40 hours into the game) since I was concerned that if I did, schoolwork wouldn’t get done. Well, that was definitely a good decision since last weekend was madness in terms of workload. But this weekend, however, the load is much, much lighter. It definitely makes me want to buy the game. Mallory has advised against it, saying that while this weekend may be easy, I might be screwed next week, and I’m already so darn close to the end. I know this, but maaaaan do I want to play it! I’m still on Chapter 4 of Mother 3, too, so maybe I’ll do the game a great justice by choosing it over Fallout.

Another random tidbit: apparently I’ve been being a good, responsible adult with my credit, since they recently raised my credit limit. Score! Now to go out and buy a new TV!

…that was a joke.

Dan recently came into the good fortune of an xbox 360 as well (for a super awesome cheapo price). Speaking of which, I decided that for my persuasive speech, I’d talk about how much better the xbox 360 is than the PlayStation 3. I started doing research and realized that I had to completely go against everything I believed… the PlayStation 3 is a better long-term investment than the xbox 360. There, I said it. And it’s true! Right this second, the games on 360 seem like gifts from the gods. However, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, illuminated by the PlayStation 3. And while I don’t know how long it will take to get to the end of that tunnel, I know that the winner of the console war is the PS3. And I don’t have one :(

That’s it for now. I’m just waiting for the school year to end, so I can continue to wait for December 21st. I’ll be with Mal again in 45 days, and I can’t wait. And I’ll be out of here in 14! Woohoo!

Every 7+ days I write my brain down here. It’s that time again!

Under the 40 day mark for the trip to Wisconsin, and only 29 days left on the chain (how long until the end of school). I’m getting really excited, but as usual I’ll keep that to a minimum in the blog.

But good lord am I excited.

Anyway, in terms of schoolwork everything seems to be getting gradually easier… or harder… or something. Preproduction has taken a turn for the better, and it seems we’ve dropped all assignments to work solely on the final project, which luckily seems to be very easy, if a bit time consuming. 3D seems to be looking up a bit since the professor seemed very interested in my design for the latest project, but who knows what I’ll end up getting. With some luck I could pull up the grade in her class to a ‘B’, which could give me some padding in case I do bad in Art History (albeit some hardcore studying should keep me afloat just fine). Overall school this quarter, as I’ve stated before, has been much easier than the past two, even if my grades haven’t been quite as good. I’ve still got 4 weeks to fix stuff, so I’ll be working on doing that.

One of the biggest video game releases of the year, Grand Theft Auto IV, just came out, so we went and picked it up the other day. I’ve only had about 45 minutes with the game, but I really like it. I’ve seen a ton of the game already, though, with Alex and Ian at the helm of the controller on a daily basis. I’ll play it a bit more when I get a chance, but I’m sure I won’t delve fully into the game until later this summer.

On a final note, I should probably mention the PK Tube’n. It’s the ‘last leg of the Siege’ and is composed of releasing a ridiculous amount of YouTube videos upon the internet, all related to EB on the VC, or bringing M3 to America. It’s a really great idea, but what is attracting me (besides the fact that it’s a video contest) are the prizes: I need that darn air freshener. I’ll be putting my plan into action tomorrow, hopefully, and maybe have something ready to watch on Saturday or something. We’ll see what happens :D

By now it’s become a regular thing to update once a week, so I’m going to assume now is the time to update this thing seeing as how it’s been one week since the last update.

Not a whole lot going on at the moment. We’ve completed 4 weeks of school and it feels like I really haven’t done all that much. Probably because I haven’t. Looking at it now, I’ve had two 3D projects, an art history test, and one Preproduction assignment. In 4 weeks. That’s fairly ridiculous. Albeit when I do have to do work it usually takes a while, it’s all been really easy (which is awesome). Now if only I could appease my 3D professor (what the heck is wrong with my wire skate?)

After Mallory purchased a Nintendo DS and Animal Crossing, it was pretty obvious that I needed to start a new file as well. I requested my parents mail me the game and it showed up a few days later. I’ve never played the game online before, and it really changed my opinion of the game quite a bit. I usually leave my gate open, so if you’d like to visit, feel free to stop by (albeit you’ll probably have to let me know when you’re coming since I only play a little everyday). I’m Stephen in Savannah, 0344-9532-9865.

I also went ahead and sent Mallory something she needed (or something I wanted her to have), a webcam. I have one built into the Macbook so she could already see me, but now we can see each other! It’s almost like being in the same room! …Well, almost. I talk to her for a good amount of time every day (^-^), and now that I can see her, I just devote an entire screen for the video. Dual monitors rock!

The time remaining until my departure for Wisconsin has fallen under the 50 day mark. Everyday is one day closer, and every night it’s even harder to say goodbye. Honestly I had no idea it was even possible to feel like this, to have so much love for one person. There’s been quite a few times I could’ve swore my heart was going to explode, heheh. I’ve gotten pretty close already, so seeing her in June could push me over the limit. At least if I die in an airport everyone will know what happened to me.

I started writing this post very early in the day and just went back to finish the end now. I finish my day talking to Mallory though, and after typing the above paragraph I simply can’t think of anything else to say. There aren’t any words left in my head except three simple ones, and quite honestly the readers of this blog shouldn’t be bothered with my relationship status, so I’ll save everyone reading this the time. There are no more thoughts left in this head of mine for tonight, maybe you’ll get more next time :)

And so the plague passes us by. From what I can tell, Alex and myself are healed (due to the magic that is Amoxicillin*!). The weekend has come and gone, and I’ve gotten a few things done. For starters, I finished the basics of my 3D project, aka “Make wire clothing for ‘insert reason here’”. I’m attempting to create a roller-skate, and so far I’ve gotten the shoe part done. If you’d like, there’s a little video on Vimeo that shows a bit of the work-in-progress, so you can check that out if you’d like.

Beyond that, not much happened, actually. We took a trip to WalMart the other night to grab some random stuff (I also had to pick something up for a certain someone) at 2 or 3 in the morning (which, coincidentally is the absolute best time to go shopping, as to avoid the hustle and bustle of the earlier shopping hours). I still have to pick up a box in order to ship said item, something which completely slipped my mind when I was actually at the WalMart. Silly me.

Alex, Taylor, Dan and myself competed in a Super Smash Bros. Brawl tourney that the student center was hosting Saturday night. We had been practicing up quite a bit so our chances were pretty good. I got as far as round three before I was killed by a ridiculously good Diddy Kong player (banana throw banana throw banana throw dodge banana throw), and Alex made it to round four where he had to fight the same Diddy Kong, which resulted in crash and burn of the competition. We didn’t win but we had a good time, and it’s awesome when people are cheering for Lucas. For good measure, I wore an EarthBound shirt to the tournament and had people comment on it probably 3 or 4 times. Too bad I didn’t have a Mother 3 shirt :\

We have an Art History test approaching fast (and by fast I mean on Tuesday morning). Now, we haven’t studied yet, but I’m leaving my entire day open tomorrow just to study for what will easily be the biggest test we’ve taken at SCAD thus far. We have to memorize 103 different pictures (despite the fact that only 10 of them will appear on the test) as well as learn a barrel full of vocabulary words and random facts about old pieces of art. This is our first Art History test this quarter, which is surprising considering that we’re into the 4th week now. What sucks is that we have 5 tests a quarter, and with only 10 weeks of school, we’re going to be pumping out tests almost every single week. It’s a well-known fact that the first 5 weeks are the easy-going times, while the last 5 are usually living hell. I’m not going to go out on that limb particularly for this quarter, though, since I feel like this is the easiest quarter thus far (albeit my grades probably don’t show that—thanks a lot, Fichtinger [was my spoon sculpture really that bad? heheh]). I really haven’t had a whole lot of work yet, but we’re getting to the breaking point where it should start any time now. Aaaaaany time now. Still waiting. But it’s coming, trust me. In the mean time, I’ll be waiting for my parents to ship my copy of Animal Crossing: Wild World that’s been on the shelf for quite a while.

Of course before I stop I should mention the other half of this post’s title. Alex is still playing World of Warcraft. He knows he’s getting too deep into it again, and has actually said something already about his playing habits. He knows his limits, so I’m assuming he’ll stop soon enough. If not, well, that’s his loss I guess, heheheh.

*Yes, I am a doctor. I write my own prescriptions and all of them are for amoxicillin. Am I wrong in thinking that it can cure everything? Mallory thinks so… and she’s probably right, heheh.

I can’t remember now if I mentioned it in my last post, but both Alex and myself have been very sick as of late, with what seem to be cold-like symptoms (coughing, sore throat, and a bit of mucus coming up every once-in-a-while). I think I’m finally getting over it, but Alex seems to be treading along his merry sick path, and while traveling he seems to have started taking crack. WoW crack. For some reason he started playing World of Warcraft again in the last few days, and although he has put parental controls on for himself, I can’t help but think this is a bad idea. I’m not a fan of WoW in the least bit, and I know for him it can easily become as addicting as it once was. He assures me he has a grip on it at the moment, and hopefully he does: this quarter is the home stretch for our first year of college. Don’t want to screw it up now.

In other news, I recently picked up a box of envelopes as well as some stamps to send letters off to Mallory. We’re going to send one every week, to make the next two months go by faster (June is visiting time!). I also assembled the paper chain using the construction paper she included in her last card. 53 school days remaining as of right now, but that number will drastically decrease soon enough. Weeks go by fast here at SCAD (partly due to the 4 day work week), and I suspect summer will arrive before I even realize it.

And summer holds quite a few notable events. First and foremost, the most important event is obviously meeting Mallory in early to mid June, followed by the Starmen.net Convention, which I believe is going to be in early July. Since school doesn’t start until mid September, I should have from mid July until then to work (and probably work really, really hard). What I recently realized (and sucks) is that I won’t get back to Myrtle Beach until May 29, and by then most jobs (or at least all of the good ones) will be nabbed up, so I’m going to need to do some creative thinking in terms of work this summer. I’ll of course be doing video, graphics, and site work on the side, but I need a stronger income this summer, especially with all the traveling I’ll be doing early on. I have two companies that want me for an internship, which I would love to do (if it pays), but I didn’t check on either of them over spring break, and I’m not sure what to tell them in terms of when I would start (and up until now I wasn’t sure of the con dates, so there was really nothing I could do anyway). If I have any head on my shoulders, I’ll try and contact the two places in the very near future, and hopefully find out some stuff.

All things on the class-related front look clear; smooth sailing here, at least for a few more days. I have a 3D project that will be due next Wednesday where I have to make clothing out of wire. I just experimented with the wire today and my god is it hard to use. Holy crap. Trying to make a cube that was maybe 3 to 4 inches tall took me 30 to 45 minutes. I can only imagine how time consuming it’s going to be trying to make an entire jacket, or a hat, or something similar. And yet that’s the assignment. It’s also becoming clear that 3D is dangerous, to some small extent. I think all three of us burned ourselves with the hot glue gun in the first project, and now on the first day of project two, Alex cut two of his fingers on the scrap wire. In his defense, the freshly cut wire really is ridiculously sharp. Ian didn’t attend class today because he didn’t have his tools, even though we went out last night and bought supplies for him. Hmm….

Lessee, what else. Video-game wise I haven’t been much into anything. I’ve been playing Brawl on and off, and I play with Lucas almost religiously now. We haven’t had smash balls on for almost 2 weeks now, since it’s ‘cheating’ to use Lucas when they’re on, heheh. I’ve also played a bit of Guitar Hero 2 every once-in-a-while, and each time I do I end up breaking previous records, which is a plus, I guess. It’s a fun game, but it’d be nice to play GH3 to hear the new songs or something. I plan on picking it up if I could nab it for under 20 bucks on eBay or something. Ian is still surprisingly pounding away at Dark Cloud 2, though now he’s not sure if he got the picture of the flower or not (Mallory informed me that without the picture it’s actually impossible to beat the game). If he didn’t, looks like he’s not going to beat it after all. He wants to play Windwaker but I didn’t bring it this quarter. I told him if he beats EarthBound that I’d ask mom to mail me Windwaker. He seems into the idea, so that sounds cool. I wanted him to play it the first quarter, but after 10 minutes or so he was sidetracked and never came back to it. I’ve had a hankering to play Super Mario RPG lately, actually, so maybe I’ll find enough time to run through that.

Mallory and myself went through Donkey Kong Country in about 2 days, beat K. Rool last night. It was her first time through the game; she was quite happy about it and I’m very proud of her :) I also got through it in probably my fastest time, right around 2 hours. I’m going to say that’s it due to talking to her while playing, as hearing her voice apparently makes me play better, heheh. I wouldn’t mind playing through DKC2 either, since it’s been quite a while since I touched that one. We could definitely pass on the third game, though, since that’s always marked as the ugly duckling of the series (unless you’re counting DK64, which is soooo different). Despite whatever game we play, I do look forward to playing again soon, and even more to when we can play in the same room :D (As a side note, since I’m thinking about it, we played Chess the other night online and she beat me :P In my defense, it was a very close game, but eventually Yahoo wasn’t highlighting my available moves because I simply didn’t have any more, heheh).

Hmm…. I think I’m done writing now. I’m in the middle of brainstorming more ideas for this wire clothing project, and then later I’ll have to do some reading in my books (which finally came today). This is week 3 and it’ll be over before I know it, moving on to only 7 weeks remaining, woo-hoo!

Haha, amazing. Apparently the last entry was at the end of February. Shortly after that a lot started to change, and as such March was entirely skipped. I’ll try to go back and recap on what’s been going on.

Looking at my last post, it seems I was playing Oblivion. I ended up putting about 33 hours into the game then stopping. Finals came and I couldn’t devote the time to the game (I hadn’t started the main quest yet… seriously). Since that time Super Smash Bros. Brawl has surfaced on the grid, and that’s predominantly what we play in the dorm. I’m a Lucas user, of course. He seems ridiculously powerful, but I love to use him. In the second quarter we didn’t have the Wii since Alex’s brother was borrowing it to play the only good games on Wii such as Galaxy and Twilight Princess, but now it’s back, solely for Brawl. We started a game of Mario Party 8 the other night, but we only got about 8 turns in before it was a unanimous “this game sucks” and we put Brawl back in.

Second quarter finished up. I managed two A’s and a B (darn you Art History finaaaal!). For my final video project I created what is probably the funniest video I’ve made yet, Crooked A’s. It’s about a fake SCAD policy that says if a roommate dies, the other roommates get straight A’s for the quarter (apparently this rumor originated from a movie made a while back called Dead Man on Campus). Anyway, Alex and myself are trying to kill Ian but our plans keep failing and we end up doing in our friends instead. Check it out on Vimeo right here. There’s also a link on that page (I think the bottom right corner) to download the full quality version (which I’d recommend since it’s… awesome…er).

A few days ago (we’re in the second week of third quarter now, by the way) Nick had to leave to go back home to Virginia. He had some problems getting some loans in time and had to head back. However, he plans on taking a summer quarter and rejoining us for next year. I look forward to having you on-board with us again, Mr. Earl. It’s truly a lonelier dorm without hearing you say “I should really get on that homework” every night. Good luck this summer.

Now on to what is really the meat of this post. I have a habit of waiting 7 to 12 days before posting in this blog, but for some reason it never came up, and then I became so pre-occupied with March it just never happened. So what could have possibly been keeping me so busy in the month?

Well, as a precursor to what I’m about to say, let me say that I’ve never really liked the idea of blogs. Livejournal, xanga, or anything related to that. When I created this blog, it was seriously for the sole purpose of reminding myself in the future what happened in the past, and if people were in any way interested in reading about it, then so be it. For that purpose, I’m going to keep my excitement down to a bare minimum, if possible.

*ahem*

WOOOOOOOOOO YEEEEAAAAAHHHH AAAAAWWWEEEESSOOOOOOMMMEEEEE OH MAN I LOVE LIFE YEEEAAAAHHH BOOOOYEEEE!!!!!

That was honestly bare minimum for how I’ve felt in the past month. Any more than that and I’d have to record a sound file of myself screaming for you, and we all know how that goes (or maybe we don’t, but I need a way to write around me actually having to do that).

The simplistic answer to all of my bizarre behavior is that I’m in love with a girl by the name of Mallory. An unknown force (and 2 of Cupid’s arrows) have united us, although distance keeps us apart (she currently resides in Wisconsin). We finally admitted to one another our feelings about a month ago (after an apparent long time of pining previously), and we’re both extremely happy. Really happy. Third quarter is here and holding me back, but I’ll be on my way up in June to spend a week with her. This is obviously the minimal answer (but as I’ve stated previously, I’m not going to overdo it), and if you’d really like to hear me babble on like an idiot about how absolutely wonderful she is (or how incredibly in love I am), please feel free to email or call. This experience has changed my life, though, and I’m happier than I’ve ever been :)

Aaaand that’s all you get for now. Just know that I’m extremely satisfied with life and you can expect to hear more as I choose to divulge it (divulge; this is a very general blog about the general things going on in my head and life, mostly for my purposes later; if you want to know more about something I can probably develop on what I’ve written here in a more private conversation).