sugardeath

It was light out when I started playing. Went dark. And then it was light again. What am I doing with myself?

…Bioware makes some of the most immersive RPGs. I am just sad that Mass Effect doesn’t have the same D&D feel that KOTOR did. Sure, the elements are still there behind the scenes, but I’d rather have direct control over where my stat points go each level. If I want to up Charisma to help my Intimidate and Charm skills, I should be able to. I was allowed to do this in KOTOR. Some of you may remember my post from last summer where I stated that I lied straight-face to the Jedi Counsel and they believed me. I want to feel like I have the same type of control in Mass Effect. The stuttering and load times, elevators all over the place, and texture pop-in kinda also knock the game. Other than that, though, this game is amazing.

I have an interview for a part-time position as a software tester tomorrow at 9AM. Kickass. It’ll be somewhere between twenty and thirty hours a week at ten dollars an hour. Awesome.

Casey interviewed for the position earlier today and says the interview is more of a test and that supposedly we are the only two that have applied so far. Pretty cool.

I am excited. The dude understands that we’re students and will be flexible with our hours as such. I hope the interview goes well and that I get the job.

Dear Anthony,

Our system has noticed what seems to be a large amount of “backup/non-web”
content on your account (#90604), mostly on user “swads”
on the web server “baht”.

Some of that content specifically is in /home/swads/Casexy
(although there may be more in other locations as well.)

Unfortunately, our terms of service (http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html) state:

The customer agrees to make use of DreamHost Web Hosting servers
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It’s about 100GB total being taken up… Screw that.

Post-exam sickness is like res-sickness. Where instead of 75% or so less HP and MP for whatever minutes, I have 0% drive to do anything of import (which is different than the pre-exam period, how?). I am avoiding my email, I am avoiding my grades, I am even avoiding this here journal. I sleep the worst hours: Thursday night I woke up at 10PM. I went to bed at about 2 or 3AM Saturday morning. I woke up 10PM Saturday night. Napped from 4:30PM to 6:30PM. I am going to sleep soon, maybe. It is 4AM. I have two slices of Giordanno’s spinach pizza in my fridge. I am tempted to heat one of them up. At 4AM. I can blast my music as loud as I want because there are only three other people on the floor, none are anywhere near my room. I am. It is 4AM. I am freezing. I can’t explain it. I need to work out. This avoiding of email and grades and such is actually more of a fear of what could be awaiting me. What could possibly be in my email? There is currently a conversation in the e2 catbox involving TheDeadGuy and his apparent two degrees of separate from Shakira, Daphne Zuniga, Jim Henson, Che, and Prince. Neat. That is much more interesting than this tired feeling I’m getting. I’d even rather start doing a ton (hah) of sets of push-ups than go to sleep. Maybe I will. Maybe it’ll get me tired enough.