Than I declare you beyond awesome. Seriously, you should check your memory, it may be working at overclocked levels.

I guess there's only one word I can say to justify my two month-long absence from here, and it's pretty straightforward and self-explanatory: University.

It kicked off with September, and since I chose a more-or-less technical faculty focused on computers and IT, the studies were pretty intense from the beginning, and subjects like informatics and algorithmic basics were genuinely tough to adapt to. And then there was all that peripheral stuff like advanced physics and English classes. We even got Theology. Which is, you know, weird given the faculty.

And then there was this crazy-ass plan for us to have up to seven "repute tests" every semester, which add up every student's scores, which, in return, are necessary to successfully transit semesters and attend even more tests. The first of such testing runs starts tomorrow, and I've really been going out of my way to not screw this one up as fails can seriously damage my scores and such.

So yeah, starting from the studies and ending with them, it's been a hell of a month, but I decided to hop back here and let you guys know I'm still kicking.

Now for something gaming-related, as a birthday gift I got a new rig more-or-less up to today's standards, and managed to finally set it up after weeks of "benchmark-mode", when I'd simply install game after game and test the performance. It houses a Q9500 pocessor along with 2 gigs of RAM at 1333Mhz each and a GTX465, a giant step forward from my previous piece of crap. I haven't had much time to enjoy it though, but I managed to catch some sweet FPS-reinforced moments from Crysis and similar heavy artillery, and the new computer delivered just fine.

As it is of this day, I'm a bit off the gaming current and I've been mainly playing War for Cybertron or some of the newer DLCs for Mass Effect 2 whenever I got the time, (by the way, I got a review for the former up on GS at last - it had to go through weeks of revising and stuff) so I guess I'll work myself in bit by bit and peek in here from time to time as well. The tests, starting tomorrow, will stretch over the whole week, so don't expect much activity from me in that period. I will try to somehow show signs of life, however.