Archive for December, 2000

Friday, December 8th, 2000

Okay, so I officially win my first eBay auction. I got Romancing Saga 3 for $10.50. I’m excited. I’ve alwas been curious about the Romancing Saga series… After Saga Frontier for the Playstation, however, I didn’t dare spend $40 on a Super Famicom cartridge, though. I found out that Romancing Saga 3 isn’t like Saga Frontier, though. It seems to use the Free Scenario System to help guide one of many lead characters through the same story line. Also, it uses the system to allow you to get the different characters to join you. I looked at a list of playable characters and it was freakin’ huge. This game should prove interesting for at least a few hours. More importantly, I’ve wanted to continue collection Super Famicom (the Japanese Super NES) games for some time, but at $50-$70 a crack, I decided against it. Looks like I can go ahead with this now. :)

I find myself falling more and more back into gaming. It’s strange. I played Final Fantasy IX last night for what was supposed to be an hour. It turned into like three. I’m fairly close to the end of the game too. It’s a good game. I’d say it might be more linnear than Final Fantasy VIII, but it’s still way better. Me gusta/J’aime/Suki desu.

I also downloaded Secret of Mana MP3s last night. I wasn’t going to, but I found them on Hotline and thought, “What the hell?” After listening to two or three I think I was glad I had downloaded them. I got Angel’s Fear (title theme), Star of Darkness(darker flight theme), Give Love It’s Rightful (Mana Fortress theme), This Sole Wish (strange), and Prayer of the Arctic Circle (battle with the Mana Beast). While the synth isn’t that great, it does bring back memories, and that’s what it’s all about, right? Sort of like the Legend of Zelda song Nic made me download. (”Link, fill up your hearts!”).

I read more psychology last night. I think I’m getting close to done with the reading assignments. I know I’m more than half done at this point, anyway. I have to have it all ready by Tuesday. Shouldn’t be too hard. I also went Christmas shopping last night. I’m all done with my siblings, and that’s good. I can probably get out of going by “discussing” gifts for mom and dad with the respective other parent. Thing is, next week is finals. I’ll be like doing mad amounts of calculus next week. And once I’m done with finals on Thursday, I go back to work on Friday. Speaking of, I have to go to that place tonight. Only five hours though, so it shouldn’t be too bad.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2000

Okay, so I slept a little late today and then I got outside and thr roads were a little less than ideal. I’m still at school, but it took about five extra minutes. In any case, I walked into Com Sci and I sat down and the guy I talk to in that class (who I coincidentally found out I have every class with) says, “You just missed TA evaluations, but don’t worry, yuo still get to evaluate Owen.” lol So we did the Owen evaluations like, “Uhm… Neutral sound good for that one? ‘The classroom situation was adequate.’ Of course it was, I got to sit in the back and not pay attention! ‘I learned from this course.’ Disagree.” lol

I went and had lunch after that and when I left the Memorial Union I saw Omar and Mahesh outside. Mahesh was like walking around the bus stop and Omar was by the fountain doing something with snowballs. I was like, “Whatever,” and just kept walking. It’d have been awckward anyways.

Looking at the calendar I need to fix my archives. I think I’ll save that task for next week when I’m avoiding studying for my finals. Not that I’m not studying now, because I am. I read a psych assignment last night. I was quite proud because when I started I didn’t intend to finish. Then I was like, “Whoa. That’s the end. Okay.”

Speaking of the date I have to finish my Christmas list tonight. There are more CDs on there than anything else. Christmas is prime time to acquire import CDs because I don’t have to pay (and they’re pretty expensive). I’m asking for a rolling chair, among other things, too. I like those. They rule. My list is fairly long, I hope my parents realize that I don’t expect it all by any means. I figure the longer and more complete the list the less likely I am to know what I’m getting. It’s kinda boring to open up a gift from someone when you already know what’s inside. Maybe I’m crazy.

Hah. My last two entries have opened up with “Hola todos.” Yes, I too use MSN Instant Messenger service. Oh wait, no I don’t. :P

I got my calculus test back yesterday. Grrr. I got 4 / 12 right (that’s 33%) and he added 10% to all of the tests. So that helped a little. I’m borderline B now. So unless I do awesome on the final I’m going to get a C. Grrrrrrr. What’s really annoying about that is that I looked at some of my work afterwards and it was right. Like on one I didn’t fill in the right circle, but I had the answer exactly as it appeared on the test. On at least two others I had the answer right to the point that all I had to know was that ln 1 = 0! If I had changed those, I would have had the right answers too! This would have given me a freaking B on the test. It was something like 30% I could have gained. Needless to say, I’m pissed because I’ll probably get a C in the course when I really have a B’s worth of understanding. That is, unless I do awesome on the final (yeah right). Dammit, dammit, dammit.

Anyways, I think it’s time to publish this.