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Graduation! (No, Not Mine!)

Jason — Mon, 14 May 2007 12:59:57 +0000

Yesterday I went to my friend Jason's college graduation ceremony. 2…hours…long! While it was slightly uncomfortable sitting there for that long (I was numb halfway into it), it was worth it. I met him during my first year of college and seeing everything he's struggled through since then…it was nice to see one more hurdle behind him.

I ended up sticking around for most of the day. We went out in search of Army of Darkness later which was hard to find. I eventually found a copy used in FYE and snatched it up immediately. Definitely worth the purchase price. Wassy also bought the last two volumes of the Chobits Manga which I was in favor of since I could see how it ended finally. We went back to their place and watched Army of Darkness which was so awesomely bad, it defies description.

After that we went out to a celebratory dinner at Outback, and then I returned home so that I could step on my glasses and completly ruin the frame. Sigh. I need to go about getting a replacement pair sometime this week. That's something that I definitely didn't need to spend money on right now.

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But…But…It's APRIL!

Jason — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:04:37 +0000

I woke up this fine morning to the sound of howling wind. Then I looked out my front window:

This isn’t happening…this isn’t happening

It's April 16th! Snow should have stopped in March! April showers bring May flowers, not snowstorms! Sigh.

Anyway…spent the weekend doing fun and relaxing things. Went over to a friends place on saturday to watch The Prestige which I had rented through netflix. It's a very good, and very confusing movie. Just when you think you've got it figured out, they throw something else at you which changes things completely. Highly recommended. Although I didn't even realize Hugh Jackman or David Bowie were in it until it was pointed out to me.

After that, more anime, a stop at IHOP for dinner and then…more anime. Chobits is turning out to be very interesting. Awesome art and a fairly thought provoking story

Sunday was more relaxation. I started the process of cycling my aquarium in preparation for sticking some fish in there. I then played Final Fantasy 7 almost all day, finishing Disc 1 before calling it a night. It's a really good game so far.

My only complaint is that it leaves you hanging an awful lot as far as giving you some direction as to where you're supposed to go next. At this one point, for example, your party is all bent on rescuing this certain other member of the party that's gone missing.

"Let's go find her!" They say. And then it drops you out to the world map with no idea where to start looking. I had to look at a walkthrough in order to figure out that I had to go to the far northern continent, practically halfway around the world from where I was when they decided to look for her. A little direction would have been nice. Heck, I would have settled for "we should start looking north." They didn't even need to mention it was on a different continent.

I was going to run up to school today during my lunch break to try and work out some of my scheduling problems, but I think I'll have to put that off until tomorrow due to the weather conditions right now. Sigh.

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I'm Not Participating!!

Jason — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:43:23 +0000

The fish browsing went well yesterday. I think I've settled on doing a 20 gallon tank which is (hopefully) 24 inches wide since that's exactly how much width I have on my counter thingy seperating my "living room" from the "kitchen" here. I also got to see what a betta looks like in an actual big tank since they had them in with other fish.

After the browsing, Wassy and I went back to my place where she further corrupted me with Anime and Manga. Chobits is pretty cool. At dinner (we met up with Jason since he was done with working on his large papers) we discussed her reality warping effects. Ever since coming into contact with her all of my hobbies have pretty much changed around completley. Went from a hardcore PC gamer to a console gamer, going from hating cats to possibly wanted one (as long as it was a calm, boring cat)…hating anime to enjoying some of it. She leave chaos behind here I tell you! Dinner also featured the absolute largest piece of cheesecake that I've ever seen in my entire life.

As far as the title of the post goes, it's…snowing. In April. I've decided that I'm not going to participate in winter anymore. It's April…it should be over. So I'm just not participating.

Plans for today include reading some stuff dead people wrote for my Western Civ class and going over to my Grandmothers to hang out with the family due to today being Easter. That's pretty much the only thing Easter means to me these days…a chance to hang out with the family.

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