So uh, it has been quite awhile hasn't it? I've been a little busy for the past few months so I might as well give you all the low down on what I've been doing. To put it short: School. I was finalizing a bunch of grades and getting ready for the finals which I took last week. I just checked the semester grades today and according to the ones online, I reached both my semester and year goals. So for now, everything is all good and looking a lot easier next year when I apply for college. I can finally relax a bit during the summer.

First thing's first. Remember that 5 facts thing waaay back? Well it's here. Thanks to riceball and also bulletsword a little bit after for tagging me and I'm sorry that I haven't posted this up until now. Anyways here it is:

1. I am addicted to Lipton Green Tea. Every single day, since the beginning of the school year, I have drunk a bottle of tea during one of my free periods. My locker is filled with empty bottles. It's good stuff.

2. I have horrible time management skills and I tend to procrastinate a lot. Lately I've been trying to fix this but a decline in homework due to impending finals hasn't really helped that…

3. I have an unhealthy fear of bugs. I just can't get near them. Any kind….Having a bug come next to me or land on me is one of the few times I ever cuss. It is comparable to Winston Smith's fear of rats…

4. The winter makes me happy. I love it when there the sun is covered by the clouds and it's chilly outside. It just makes me…happy. Also there are no bugs…

5. I take a heavy interest in politics and the current state of our nation. Politically I'm a conservative so it shouldn't be surprising that I think Barack Obama's policies are scary as hell. I'm for Ron Paul and I find it unfortunate that he wasn't able to get the nomination. I guess there's always Bob Barr for us conservatives…

Since my last blog I've been doing some gaming here and there:

Now. Mass Effect. I was able to borrow this from a friend and I've logged about 23 hours of gameplay so far. I was expecting a lot from this game because I had enjoyed Bioware's RPG's in the past like KOTOR and Jade Empire; however, I've found the game to be highly disappointing. The story so far is uninteresting, and probably only 8 hours of my total playtime were devoted towards the actual story arc. All the others were from mindless traveling on a stupid land rover and doing crappy sidequests. This game is also kind of confused as to whether it wants to be an RPG or an action shooter. It sacrifices the in depth RPG aspects for lackluster shooting and "powers". Because you have a gun and the game is based on shooting, you can basically go through the whole game without leveling up once. For the first 10 levels I didn't upgrade any of my stats because I didn't know you could do that and the game was still not that hard. I am doing it on casual right now but I don't expect it to be too much harder on the other difficulties (unless the developers made it so that the AI just get hacking abilities like CoD4's AI).

I also got Ikaruga. I've beaten the game and now I'm going for 200 achivement points on it. I have two achievements left. One is beat level 3 with an A ranking and the other is complete the game without using a continue. It's not easy.

I also picked up GTA IV about a week after its release. I have to say that the game does grow on you and does start becoming "fun" after a good 10-15 hours of playing, but I still can't really say that I really love the game.

So in all of this time anime for me has slowed down a good amount. Much of this is thanks to Romeo X Juliet's horribly boring story. This could have easily been a 6 episode OVA but no, they had to drag it out, defame the original Romeo and Juliet, and waste my life. Avoid this anime at all costs. Don't let the OP fool you, whether you are an action junkie or a romance junkie this will bore the hell out of you. *shudders* Oh, and on a side note, for the OP, the people jacked an American song and threw a Japanese translation over the lyrics. Hooray for Japanese creativity.

Uh, let's see, Gundam00 finished awhile ago. It was great. Not as good as Code Geass but still a standout. I'm watching R2 right now and for now it's good, but it is going to need to get a lot better for it to compare to the first season.

Against my better judgment, I started watching Bleach. As of now I've drilled through all available episodes that I could get my hands on. While this show is interesting, it definitely should not have been dragged out 175 episodes. In each episode there is a ton of pointless crap that just doesn't need to be in there. One thing I will give props to is the amount of diverse characters in the show. Though not necessarily deep, there is a lot of variety in the characters which makes it easy to pick and choose favorites. I'm a fan of Mayuri (that scientist captain ..not sure how you spell the name) and of course Yachiru among others.

Another thing, thanks to Jwallace for helping me with a troubling computer problem that infected my computer due to my own stupidity.

I will be heading on a trip in Florida for the next few days. I am not sure if I will be able to comment, respond, etc. on GS. Anyways, thanks for reading and until next time.