After tonight's class, I have the rest of the week off!!!!!

My first sizeable vacation since the summer.

Now that night class tonight is going to go by . :(

Thanks guys :D

Weighed in just beneath 214 today.

And I'm happy where I am. The belly that was bothering has receded which is what I was aiming for. Now I'll focus on keeping it down and staying in shape in general.

When I started, I was 241-243, so I think I've made some strides.

But I've been feeling generally better since I got rid of snacks in my diet and drank all water save for Orange Juice in the morning. So I'm going to keep that up since it's good for the long run anyway.

Does anyone know how to take people off your "Friend of" list?

Some strip club added everyone with a location set as Baltimore to their friends list. I really don't want to be associated with that.

Or should I just contact LJ staff or something and report this?

Stolen from [info]mirai_noah (if that doesn't work, HOW DO I LJ!?!??!?!?!?!?!??????????)

Three names I go by:
1. Luigi
2. Lu
3. fate

Three Jobs I have had in my life:
1. debate coach
2. lab assistant
3. adjunct speech instructor

Three Places I have lived:
1. Baltimore
2. D:
3. D:


Three Favorite drinks:
1. Water
2. Tea
3. Orange Juice

Three Things I've Done This Week:
1. Spent all day in class
2. played Star Ocean 2
3. went to eye doctor

Three places I have been:
1. Pennsylvania
2. Corfu, Greece
3. D:

Three of my favorite foods:
1. Pizza
2. Steak
3. A burger with Deli mustard

Three Things I am looking forward to:
1. Dragon Quest VI DS
2. Dragon Quest VI DS
3. Dragon Quest VI DS

:D

Three of my favorite clothing items:
1. pair of worn jeans
2. dark blue frame reading glasses (prescription)
3. my brown weave leather belt

Three places I would like to go:
1. NY State (not NYC...)
2. Italy
3. dunno...

Three things that will make me cry:
1. EPIC MANLY SACRIFICES
2. Super adorably sweet love stories, seriously, I'm such a softy for that..
3. Onions

Three things that will make me angry:
1. Condescending
2. backstabbing/betrayl (happened 1 time too many already...)
3. idiots

Three "perfect dates":
1. Nice dinner at a classy restaurant
2. Holding on a cold night
3. Uh, I dunno, as long as she's happy ^^

Three favorite pets:
1. dogs
2. turtles
3. that's all...

Couldn't get to sleep last night because of noises nextdoor. When I finally do get to sleep my mother wakes up very ill and we had to go to the Emergency Room...

She's back home now and is fine. Seems something she ate yesterday gave her a bad attack of pain in her abdomen. But jeez was it is a scare.

Stressed out, tired, all that stuff...

Good thing I took care of all my work on Friday...

The Lunar PSP remake. Famitsu opened up the second page...

http://www.famitsu.com/sp/091019_lunar/02.html

The new scenario!! With playable heroes and Dragonmaster Dyne. Awesome.

I played the demo a few days ago off the Japanese PSN. Gameplay and all is intact, even with the new look.

Ok, to get the life part out of the way.

Dear morning Instructor,

It's great that you know 4 languages, it's great you're a very qualified man. However, this does not entitle you to not show up on days you make schedules for, without informing a single student, or the department staff so they can put an absentee form on the door. We don't like waiting in the room 40 minutes just to realize you aren't showing up.

Sincerely,

An Annoyed Student.

Got the call (well, the message actually, I was outside), two main problems that led to this were:

Thermostat is completely screwed. Will be replaced.
Something about radiator pressure, he was talking fast and I couldn't make it out

On top of this:

rear brakes were significantly worn, and they found faulty wiring (???)

Thankfully, the insurance is going to cover these things (except the brakes)

standing out in the cold rain a lot today, car started overheating and smoking a lot.

It's at Mr. Tire now, my father picked me up.

what a day

right shoulder button on my DS is dead. And the warranty is way past gone...

Damn, damn, damn.

Don't you just love instructors who believe they are living gods because they have PhDs?

I do. I absolutely love being talked down too.

NEW USERPICS!!!!!1

Well, still trying to find a 6th.

Yesterday was all kinds of nasty. Really rough day for me. Feeling better now, though. You'd be amazed what a nice long walk can do for you in nice Fall coolness.

Anyway, we have a new oven now. Electric. My mother's not too fond of it because she can't fully read english and hence the manual won't serve her much use, so I'll have to help out a bit when it comes to the digital panel.

CO alarm went off... we left the house.

Fire dept came, dropped the houss' level to 0, turned on the oven and it spiked to 75. Bad oven

My mother had slightly elevated CO levels, but not seriously high. Mine was 5-6, not bad. Brother's was normal.

I am really fucking scared/on edge right now. I keep worrying it'll go up again, but it's not possible as long as the oven is off...

On the left, Filia from Slayers.

On the right, Reis from Final Fantasy Tactics.

They... are eerily alike. Obviously they look alike, with Reis' hair being a little darker. Topping that off they are both "dragonkin". Reis was a dragon for a time, and is still able to use dragonbreath. Filia is a dragon also... but she uses a mace instead.

I really wish Reis could use maces too.

Just a random thing I noticed :P

My instructor this morning said that there is no room in the work market anymore for english-only speaking white men.

Did they have to wait until my LAST semester to tell me this? :|

I've never been more disappointed in the gaming community than I am now.

Namely, in the TF2 community.

Valve introduced a grind system that allows people to obtain items by playing. This was easily exploited by idle servers, where people would idle 24/7 and get all the items. This is akin to using farm bots in WoW, Diablo II, etc.

So, Valve took action. If you spent time on an idle server, your items were all revoked. Topping it off, players who did not participate in this were rewarded with a "halo" over their head. Now, remember... Valve could have (and should have) banned them outright for cheating, but they didn't.

However, they don't see that. Rather, they are acting like the biggest idiots I've ever seen.

Here's some classics I saw on Gamefaqs:

"don't heal people with halos they are casual retards" (playing the game = casual, not playing the game = hardcore. Hell yes I love that mentality)
"this is like segregation in america" (LOL)
"if I see someone with a halo on my server I will ban them"
"I just let my eighth halofriend burn to death, feels good man"
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/genmessage.php?board=437678&topic=51207588 <--- poetry/song about anguish on not having the halo
"I wish I had a halo. So I could make a video of me deleting it."
"I'm uninstalling the game now. The only emotion I associate with it is anger."
"Same here.
Also, every Halofag is permabanned on my server."
"Communities are beeing torn apart, Haloers and Haloless are like Russians VS Americans"

and the best one... *drumroll*

"this is like segregation in america"

I'm never playing TF2 again (though in all fairness I quit once it started going down the MMORPG route". It's community is officially the worst FPS fanbase ever. That's right, even the Halo fanbase is more tolerable.

damn today has been crap so far.

The enrollment at my school went up 3x this semester. As such, there was no parking at all. I had to dive around for 45 minutes before I could find a spot, making me late for class and probably leaving a horrible first impression with the instructor.

Topping it off on the way home a retard behind me started beeping me like hell and went around me promptly flipping me off and yelling obscenities because I was going "too slow". FYI, I was actually going 6 mph over the posted limit, this guy was going about 75-80.

The day is not over yet, I have another big class tonight (4 hours). I hope things are better

But they should be as night classes are typically less popular than day ones.

The first 10 episodes of Soul Eater are streaming on Funi's video section

http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=236

If you haven't seen it, it's a great show and quickly became one of my favorite anime series. Check out episode 7 especially, where my favorite character was introduced :)

Volume 12 of Soul Eater's R2 release... Arachne gets a cover!