It's come to my attention that out of my incoming graduate class, I'm probably on the high end of debt incurred, thanks to
a) out-of-state tuition
b) little funding from UCSD
I'm going to start working ASAP to remedy this situation, or else I'll be repaying loans until I'm 36. Expect Blake to be very very busy sometime soon.
Still, that won't be all that bad. I signed up for this gig partially to be busy. Life as a writer in Texas was too slow to be sustainable. And now that I'm here, I've eased into having less of a life. Upon my arrival, going out three nights a week was the norm. Now, some four months later, I got back from hitching a ride across town for the sake of a free Chipotle burrito. I really don't feel that bad about the decline in activity, which makes it OK for me to marginally become a little bit more of a loser by working anywhere between 5-20 hours a week.
These days, I get my gaming once a week via CO-OP. It's the only game-related show I watch religiously, and that's saying a lot. It's six guys getting really deep about the games they review, and they're consistent about it. They'll cover everything, from AAA releases during release week to indie games and iPhone stuff. And there's some little sketches and banter, too, which keeps you from being overwhelmed with Gaming Information and lets you 'get to know the guys' in the same sense that Top Gear fans know about the hosts of that show. Give it a whirl; it's better than the rest of Youtube's Top-Gear-Wannabe gaming flotsam, and a thousand times more interesting than hearing pro bloggers mouth-breathe into a Skype call for an hour. (Unless you're Robert Ashley - if you're him, you can talk in your awesome stoner voice all day.)