You may be thinking I've gone insane by the title of this post. Nope. It's just the imitations of the noises that have been burned into my head from playing the Sims for the Gamecube.

All I wanted to do was get through Get a Life mode. Then the raging party effect came. I threw one raging one, but I couldn't get anyone to move out with me. Now I've got someone up to a good level of friendship, and I even did the cheat codes so I could get all the awesome stuff for it. I've got the TV on, two stereos (one inside, one out), the drink bar, the beverage cooler, the hot tub, the basket ball hoop, the VR goggles, at least 3 plates of food, balloons. Every time I throw it, I first get everyone to eat, then take them outside to the hot tub. Yet I can't get it to throw another frigging raging party! Everyone always leaves and the cops fine me every frigging time! ARGH! What am I doing wrong? I've completed every goal for the level, hell, I've even got enough for job lvl 6. I've got the person  I want to move in with, Leon, up to around 90 in friendship, he's even at the heart stage. I just can't get the thing to let me throw a raging party! I've been playing this literally all weekend. I was planning on playing Xenosaga, but this ate up all of my time. Can someone, for the love of god, help me before I start talking like the Sims?

In other, non game related news, I've been doing a lot of preliminary work on college hunting this week. We went to a college fair at a local college, saw at least two dozen out of hundreds there, and found some really nice ones. I've wanted to go to NYC for college for the longest time, and we were looking at placed like Fordham, Manhattan, and others in the vicinity. I think it'd be really cool if me and one of my other friends were able to go to college together, at Manhattan most likely because of the profession she's choosing. I'd like to have at least one friend with me when I'm starting someplace new.

We also picked up the SAT study guide book, the "official one." I'm not paying 500 dollars to take a course when I can just as easily use this 20 dollar book and still make great grades. I've always been good at Standardized testing, so I'm not as worried as you might think I should be. I didn't even study really for the PSATs last year, and I still got an 1160. Hopefully the PSAT this year can show me about the range I'm looking for on the SATs. If I can only bring up that math grade a tad, then I'll be really happy!

I also picked up a copy of Weird NJ vol 2. As a native New Jersian, I love knowing all these weird facts about my state and looking for them whenever I'm driving around. If your state has been done in book form by the Marks already, pick up a copy. You'll probably find some interesting things about your state that you never knew before. If not, pick up Weird US, you'll probably find a small section on your state as well in there.

Cheerio!

~Nighthawk~