Moving Out
Everything new, as well as everything old, will now move to my new LJ. This will stay here, though, until FlatFace.Net and Blogger start being on good terms again.

And, of course, this will be the one post that isn't transferred over to LiveJournal. Makes it kinda special, eh? ;p

Return to Castle Wolfenstein School
Well, crap. School's started back, and I have been assigned heavy loads of work far in advance. I don't like having that kind of stuff hanging over my head, but I like doing it even less. I know I should start on it early, and I'm going to try, but with that, the constant translating, and the play, I'm going to be lucky to get through this.

But, right now, what I want to do more than anything else is write. And not a paper. I want to get back into the Starmen.Net interactive fiction community. It has probably been a full year since I've participated in and IF, and even longer since I have regularly. But, for some reason, I'm still considered among the elite by those who've written with me, and I want to go back and defend my title. If you want to read some of what I've written in the past, check out Tryst and some of the other Anthadd gaidens in the Fanfic section. You'll probably be able to tell which posts are mine, although they aren't marked (and I haven't written in all the gaidens, either).

On this note, I should get the Ian to play EarthBound, as she would be a great boon to the IF board. There aren't many writers there, and fewer good ones.

Repost
Just to be sure everyone sees it, I'm reposting the info for the party here.

Everybody meet at my house around 2:30. We'll hang out here until my dad's ready, then head out there. We'll stay the night there (there'll be one more bed than last time, plus an air mattress, even though I was the only one who didn't sleep on the furniture last time), and depart around 11 or noon. Regardless of how the driving arrangements shake out, everybody's welcome to come back to my house afterwards, just like last time.

I'm also trying to catch Z up on SoM, so we can do that without confusing him. Sure, he won't get a lot of our jokes, but at least he'll understand what's going on in the game.

Mushboom gets whacked! That is wack!

Bob
Friday was the best day I've had in quite some time. Went to Adam's, where we seem to do everything. Exchanged presents — got cool stuff, and people seemed to like what I gave 'em. n_n Watched anime (RahXephon is quite good). Shotokan sold their arcades. :( The others already described it a bit better, so I won't go too much in detail. But I hung the scroll over my piano. :D

Yesterday got a really late start. Didn't really do anything for most of the day, but went over to Uncle Bob's house to hang out with my cousin Brandon. Turned into an overnighter, and I couldn't get out of there until too late to go to Helen's thing today. :( Sorry Helen, I wanted to come. I feel kinda weird around that half of the family without my dad around... Don't get me wrong, they're great people. I'm just not used to being around them by myself.

I start driver's ed tomorrow. That should be...interesting. I've been driving in my grandmother's car for the last week or so. Her Camry handles really nice, don't have to worry so much about accelerating, breaking, turning and all that stuff as I would in, say, my mom's old Civic. Of course, I'd have to learn to drive a standard before I could drive that.

I want to do more stuff with everybody, but I don't know when I'll be able to. Driver's ed gets in the way of starting early every day but Sundays. Christmas will take up two or three days this week. Can't stay out late on weekdays cuz my mom has to go to work. Dorris is busy Friday, so no SoM on that day (though other stuff could still happen). Saturday evening might work...I just don't want to wait until the 31st to do stuff. But it looks like I may have to...

Well, that's all for me. Lemme know if y'all are free at any time and want to go do something, I'll be there in a heartbeat, if I can.

Over and out.

Like Ents Through Isengard
Holy crap, The Two Towers was friggin' awesome! Ents are the greatest fantasy creatures ever invented. They did an excellent job with Gollum, too, and I felt the tears welling in my eyes in the scene with Theodin at his son's grave. It was that good.

Two days until the Christmas party, and only one gift has arrived. -_- But I think all of them but Dorris' have shipped, so...sorry Dorris! It looks like you'll have to wait until New Year's to get it. :(

I really want to play more Secret of Mana before Helen and Dorris ship out. I mean, we gotta have at least three of us together to play it any farther, and we can't bring anyone new in without confusing them greatly (which is why the New Year's party probably wouldn't be a good time for it). Plus, Kim and I are in the middle of FF6 anyway, and too many RPGs at once can get pretty confusing. Speaking of which, it's still at the Opera scene, Kim. That's really the scene ya gotta see in the game (not that the rest of it isn't good, too). When's your next seven-hour day? :D We could probably get to the halfway point in the game in that time. You too, Helen. You still haven't caught up with her yet. ;p

One more thing: if you don't want to learn Sakura Saku, try Cruel Angel's Thesis or What'cha Gonna Do. ^_^

No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition Midterm Exams!
I really don't want to work or study right now. But, at the same time, I'm bored as all hell. But what can I expect on the week of midterms? I just wish someone I want to talk to would come online...

Last night I ordered the last of the gifts for the party. With a little luck, they'll all be in by by Friday. If any aren't, I'll give 'em to ya at the New Year's party.

...Which I should really make an announcement about. I'm hosting the New Year's party at my dad's house this year. It'll probably start at around 7pm, and break up late the next morning. If you can't stay the whole night, I understand. But I know how dangerous the roads can be after midnight on New Year's Day, so I'd really feel better if everybody stayed. And, even though it's my birthday, this isn't really a birthday party. NO GIFTS NECESSARY! My dad might have a cake or something, though, but don't worry about bringing anything...unless you really want to. ;3

I'll post the party announcement again on the main blog so everyone will see it. It needs some new material, anyway. :p

Dead At 21
I finished the paper last night...1720-someodd words. The thesis wasn't that great, but what can ya do?

But now, I've got too much work ahead of me. Catching up on Latin translation (and the upcoming Latin term paper), seventy pages of Physics WebAss, doing college applications...it's all too much pressure; it's more than I can take. -Michael Stipe

Plus, I already feel like I'm losing my friends — as in becoming distant, I mean, not not being friends anymore; and about me dying, I mean, not be giving them Fernando Valenzuela baseball cards. I've felt that way since the beginning of the year, what with all last year's seniors gone, and Helen leaving in January...then I go off to college next year. All this work just seems to be separating me further and further from everybody, and it's not going to get any better over Christmas break. *sigh* I think this spring is just going to be a slow decline of my spirits (not that the rest of the year has been any different).

I guess I just want to do more while I still can.