Check out the Bloggies

Yeah, so there's awards for these things, and they're called Bloggies.

How cute.

Head over to Blogger and they're linked from the front page. There's some really cool stuff on those awards, from really good reading to really funny stuff to really good photography for sale. The really cool award is the "best new trend" award (not the exact name, but that's the gist of it). The winner is the Friday Five (which can now be found at aroon's) and has some other cool ideas if you're wanting to explain just how your quirky little personality works.

I feel grrrrrreeeeeeeeeat

Does anyone else feel a great joy when you switch from heating to AC (or the other way around)? The AC just came on for the first time in this house this week and it's like summer's just around the corner all of the sudden. Works the same way in fall - the heater comes on and it's like Christmastime out of nowhere.

Also: incoming UT kids: the parking department is a bunch of bitches. If you look up "UT sucks" on Google, that's the only valid complaint you'll find amidst the A&M/OU hicks who are capable of making shitty "UT SUCKS!!!!!@@!@!@@#@!$" pages on Geocities.
BUT!
I feel great today because they dismissed my $50 ticket.

And: tonight is my second time to go see Four Day Weekend - let's hope I don't get a flat tire this time.

Console party tonight, I'll see you guys for some you-know-what at you-know-where later on tonight.

School time

So I think I've figured out my plan for my degree. I'm going to major in P2 (just P2, probably not a double) and triple-minor in Spanish, Japanese, and perhaps Chinese.

Why, you say? Well, for Spanish, I'm good at it and already know it pretty well, and it not only comes in handy but can boost the career, especially in Texas and California (which are the likely places where I'll end up). Japanese is mostly for me - I really want to find out about the Japanese gaming life and knowing the language is kind of important. If I go into the industry, I can be one of the guys that travels over there fairly often, which would be really fun (I think). Chinese is mostly to appease all the outside pressures, but I don't mind learning another language. Mandarin is growing by leaps and bounds in the business world (since China's an emerging market) and moreover the government is desperately in need of people who can understand it, especially in the realm of national security. So it's kind of a fallback job security kind of thing. Anyway, it's another language to learn, which I like a lot.

I'm just happy I can go without declaring a second major. That would mean I'd have to write a bitchass thesis in 3 years instead of writing something really cool.

More Spring Break

So Blogger says it's Friday morning, which means I went over a week without updating. Bad me, slap on wrist, etc. etc. So here are some thoughts from over the break:

Know what I said about playing through Twin Snakes? Haven't made an ounce of progress. I first started my game over pretty early on since I didn't pick up enough items (tip: if you're going to play this on anything besides easy, explore every nook and cranny you can find) and ever since then I've been too tired to play since I can only play at night to not have this humongous glare on the TV screen. But man oh man, is the 5.1 surround beautiful. Audiophiles *cougharooncough* should totally pick this up just for the sake of the sound effects and music. It's truly amazing.

I've finally managed to catch up a little in SSB. Gus threw a great tournament on Wednesday night (which was followed by an equally great St. Patty's bash at Thomas's, cheers to him) and... after being up 3-1, I blew it. Killed once and two stupid deaths from not handling the controller right. And that was in the first round. How sad.

Went back to Pei Wei, cause it's just that good. The Mandarin Kung Pao isn't quite as good as the Pei-Wei Spicy or the Honey Glazed stuff. Importantly, I was wrong about the prices being lower - it's still pretty steep for a college student, $20 for two.

And how about the irony gods, eh? I went and had coffee a little while ago with a chick named Monica, who went to Oakridge but was class of '99 (she graduated when I was in 8th grade). We met up at the Oakridge choir reunion back in the fall, we've been emailing since January and we finally got to hang out in person just now. And... wow. She's quite the impressive little girl. Hopefully her acting career won't take off too much, or I'll never see her again and that would make me a sad panda. Here I thought I'd have to get as far away from Oakridge as possible to really start living my life the way I wanted to - turns out doing the exact opposite let me do what I want: let my jaw hit the floor.

But overall, I'm quite the happy panda. This break is a great experience.