So I got down. A bunch of bad shit happened all at once. First came the family stress, then came the realization that I'm leaving all my best friends, then Camp Texas (which sucked, pretty much) made me question the fact that I'm going to the biggest party school in the country. Then Quakecon got to a rocky start and I started to wonder if I had even lost my touch with gaming. Needless to say, I was a little puzzled at how absolutely everything could be going wrong.
Then Quakecon got better as the first day came to a close. I found some damn cool new games that I'll be playing once they come out, so my faith in the game has returned. I've still got to try Doom3, which will hopefully come tomorrow. Then the really big deal was talking to my good friend Sophie. Not the Soph linked at right, but a girl actually named Sophie from Albequerque who's going to UT. I hadn't gotten to really talk to her in a really long time just because of the craziness that's been in my life - honestly, for close to a week I had flat forgotten her. But, as always, it was so great to talk to a like-minded chica. She's really a lot smarter/nicer/more my type than I had gotten the impression of at orientation. And that made everything come back to me - the reasons why I was so excited to go to Austin. Sophie reminded me that I'm not entirely surrounded by booze-crazed Greeks who could care less about the good they're doing themselves by actually going to college. So I'm calmed back down. The happiness kind of put me back to neutral on the whole going to school thing, and that's exactly the kind of shape I need to be in heading in.