Employed until Dec. 31. Huh.

Will have to pay $60 more a month on school loans

Will have to pay $15 more a month on car insurance

Will be unemployed on Thanksgiving

Had knowledge of unemployment months ago

Sought jobs; failed miserably (still trying)

Trying so very hard not to spend money; failing miserably (see above)

Should I remain unemployed, writing novel. Fuck yeah.

The exams seemed to go pretty good. I received a 186 and 184 for my Reading and Math portions. I believe that's out of 210, and PA requires a minimum of 130 to be considered teaching material, so yay! It will be two more weeks until I hear back about the rest. I think I did okay, but the Writing has me a little worried.

I felt proud about those results. Hopefully I didn't fuck up the numbers or anything.

I have been granted a one month's reprieve at my job.

Still planning on taking my Praxis exams, though.

Wrapping up the last two weeks at my current job. I'd rather stay than go, but them's the cards were dealt to me.

I'm pretty sure it's when you're fingering a chick and insert a plasmid pinky somewhere.

Spoilers!

The good ending of Bioshock nearly brought a tear to my eye. The fantastic visual at the end of the opening movie, where a Big Daddy reaches out a gloved hand to a Little Sister; who tentatively reaches back, is paid homage through a series of CG vignettes. The last scene, coupled with the in-game taunts of the antagonist and the final words of Tennenbaum, hits at the right emotions. Had there been more of an emotional involvement throughout the game it might have succeeded in making me shed an actual tear. If they ever succeed in a First Person Shooter capable of granting me such emotional passage, then those creators have done some of the finest game design for that genre.

Beat. Got a 1000/1000 gamerscore, which for that game is actually impressive, what with an optional version of the final boss more powerful than everything else in the game. Review halfway done and forthcoming.

Playing Bioshock and Mass Effect right now. It's like being sandwiched between two fantastic games, slathered with the mayo of geekiness and topped with the dill of nerditidy. Yeah.

Don't know why I'm getting so much gaming in now. Come November, I'll have all the time in the world to play games. What with no job and all.

So close to the end of Last Remnant. So close.

That is all.

Now that I totally have a 9 - 5 job, which abandoned skill should I try to fuck around with? I used to be decent at writing, but my head is also filled with giant robots to be drawn.

I totally didn't fuck up the two columns I wrote today! Woot!

So today I wrote a column, then accidentally hit 'back' and deleted it when I went to open a new tab.

So then I re-wrote the column, and then went to open a a bookmark in a new tab. So of course I left clicked instead of right clicked, thus deleting the column.

Then I was all unprofessional and said fuck it.

I have a 9-5 job. I start at the end of the month.

Yay!

Excessive food spending and video games are my wallet's weakness. I'm trying to cut out the food spending since it adds to my less-than-Grecian physique, but I really need to do something about my other habit.

Although along those lines, FFIV: After is pretty sweet.

I graduated today, laughing my ass off at the speeches about how my life was about to begin when I'm 29, married, and still have to go back to a shitty job I initially regarded as a temporary line of work four years ago.

At least it's one step in the right direction. And I'll take whatever steps I can to achieve a better life.

It died, according to its pedigree. Not in the standard way with 3/4ths of it's circle flashing red, but rather with an error deriving all viewers of video.

Verily, it is blind and suffering.

But at a pace I can't match.

Any ideas on how to kick yourself in the ass to get change around one's life?

See that lovable face in my userpic? That adorable beast died a few years ago. I told myself if I ever get another cat it will be the same breed (Cymric or Manx) as her, since it's one of the most affectionate and fun breeds out there. I can't get a cat right now since my wife and I live with two other people. Everyone in my family knows this. Plus I have a senior cat of my own.

Yet, it doesn't stop my mom from going to the trouble of ripping out a section of the wanted ads and handing me the part with a phone number and pointing excitedly to the breed being given away for free.

I thought it was funny.

I remember playing this game at the local Turkey Hill as a kid. You'd fly around, mining for bombs and destroy pieces of this space demon god some aliens were trying to resurrect. In the end it was pointless; Sinistar would eventually be reborn with a hiss of "I live" and then rape you with his face.

It's like the perfect analogy for life.

Again at Land, ho.