| Back at my second home |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|01:24 am] |
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Yep. As of many hours ago, I am finally back at my dorm room. Should be interesting to see how things go this semester, but really I can't wait for it to be over even though it's just started. I have my eyes set straight on graduation. I can't afford to stumble or gently caress up, literally. This is my last semester here regardless of if I graduate or not.
Tomorrow starts the first day of classes. No looking back.
You are The Magician
Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.
Eleoquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.
The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.
What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out. |
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| Been a while... |
[Jan. 20th, 2008|03:52 pm] |
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About 24 weeks according to the front page. Eh, hasn't really been too much going on, really.
Next sunday, I return to school for my final semester. Psyched, yet at the same time not really looking forward to it too much. I really want to graduate and be done with school, but at the same time, I like being home and not really having to worry about too much except finding a job (and hopefully just keeping the job after I get one). Hoping to find some way of making some money when I get back to school at least.
Another reason I'm not looking forward to going back is dealing with the 4th dimension. When I took on the role of president at this club, everything was great. The members were motivated to act, we had fun, and did stuff.
Now, the members hardly want to do crap. I mention things we should do and they're like "Yes, we should do that", and then nothing happens. Our membership continues to raise for a week or so with our promotional table, then immediately drops off back to known friends. It feels like I'd have to literally whip them to get them to do anything..It doesn't help that we usually get 2 or 3 people, including myself, coming in for the movie night every week. And it doesn't makes sense, because we have at least over 70 people on the mailing list that still attend the damn school.
Dunno..Just feel like dropping myself as president. They need to elect a new one anyway after this semester so it doesn't really matter much to me. Plus, it would give me more free time and I wouldn't have to keep missing House.
Lets see...what else..Got Guitar Hero 3 for Wii. Plenty of fun but hard mode kicks my ass because I can figure out the finger placement for the 5th fret. Need to get back into playing pokemon so I can build up my levels more. Everyone else seems to be surpassing me apparently. Monster Hunter and City of Heroes/Villains have been sapping up most of my attention though (which also created a giant backlog of manga that I need to read).
Guess that's it..Been thinking about what I want to do after school, but I guess I'll go with what I can. Relationship wise...Heh. Guess I'll figure something out. Only I can do something to change my situation, so I just gotta go out and do it.
And now for something completely different.
Click here to feed me a Rare Candy!
Get your own at PokePlushies! |
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| Something feels...Off. |
[Aug. 3rd, 2007|11:30 pm] |
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I've been getting this strange feeling lately that something doesn't quite feel...right.
I haven't a single clue what it is or where this feeling is coming from, but it's starting to get to me. I don't know if it has anything to do with the winding down from Otakon over the last week, but things just really feel...different.
If I had to place it somewhere, I can only assume it's just the "downs" from all of the built up excitement over Otakon. At least I hope that's it.
Anyway, the planning stages for next year's costume has already begun. Crystal and I have been planning cosplay from Gurren Lagann. Tentatively, I decided on Time-Skip Rossiu. That was before I saw episode 18, though. Now...not so much. Instead, I think I might try for Viral or Time-Skip Simon. Both of which will be requiring a lot more working out than I did for Mori. In fact, By this time next year, I want to ensure that I actually have some Abs to be proud of, damnit!
In other news, finally saw the Transformers movie today. I gotta say I was almost, but not quite undisappointed. It wasn't a bad movie. Just wasn't a good Transformers movie. Way too much focus on the Humans and not the giant robots beating the shit out of each other. Oh well, here's hoping they'll do better on the sequel.
While I was off in Transformers, my mom, my sister, and my niece were in the Bratz movie. Goes without saying that my mom came out of that movie absolutely loathing it. My niece loved it, of course. Then again, she buys into those retarded toys as well, so I'm not too surprised.
Ah well. All that's left is to start getting ready for school. Starts back up on the 26th. |
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[Jul. 22nd, 2007|05:41 pm] |
I have returned from Otakon exhausted and slightly poorer, but wiser.
Obtained:
1. Steven Blum's Autograph
2. Vic Mignogna and Aaron Dismuke autographs
3. Master Grade Freedom Gundam Model Kit
4. Bio Ptera Zoid model kit
5. Final Fantasy VIII Guardian Force figure of Odin
6. Ouendan 2 and Super Robot Wars W
7. Fliptop mod for Slim PS2
8. Haruhi Suzumiya Limited Vol 2
9. Outlaw Star complete collection
10. Afro Samurai Season 1 Director's Cut
11. Yakitate!! Japan Manga vol 1-4
12. Cromartie High Manga vol 8-11
13. Kingdom Hearts 2 Manga vol 1
14. Jojo's Bizaare Adventure Manga vol 8
Number of pictures taken: 0
Numbers of pictures present in: ~30
Number of times of mistaken costume: 1**.
Total number of hours spent in lines: 10 (13 if counting camping around for line to start for event)
Total number of anime actually watched at convention: 8
Overall, decent experience. Line handling for autograph sessions were essentially a clusterfuck of "who can race to the front of the line spot first?", which then involved standing in long periods of time within 3 inches of unshowered, sweat covered people. If it wasn't for me carrying around a small bottle of cologne as an emergency, things would have been unbearable.
**Went as: 
Mistaken for: 
Yeah... |
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| Less than 3 weeks!! |
[Jul. 2nd, 2007|08:47 pm] |
I love this feeling...The excitement and anticipation of an anime convention. My jacket is being worked on by one of my step-aunts, and I recently ordered a tie (that wasn't an ouran tie. The one mentioned before I canceled the order) that could be made into a matching tie once I get a hold of the ribbon from Velg. On top of that, I picked up a Honey doll seeing as the person in our group who was going to be Honey changed their mind and is now going for Renge. Still going to be figuring out how to set it up to have it sit on my shoulder without damaging the jacket.
I still have more preparations to do. Need to make sure I have some comfortable dress shoes. I'm sure I have some in the closet somewhere, and I need to get my hair cut and straightened.
I've also managed to lose a few pounds. Nothing drastic, but just a lot of working out with the help of Pump It Up and some controlled eating habits have helped. Now, just need to take care of the abs and arms and I should be set, but not sure how much I can work on within 3 weeks. |
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[Jun. 29th, 2007|10:46 pm] |
Your Score: Orpheus 33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 100% Emotiveness, 100% Perceptiveness 
You are an artist, an aesthete, a sensitive, and someone who has never really let go of that childlike innocence. To you, all of life has a sense of wonder in it, and the story of Orpheus was written about someone just like you.
When the Argo passed the island of the Sirens, Orpheus played a song more beautiful than the Sirens to prevent the crew from becoming enticed. When his wife died, he ventured into the underworld to charm Hades but, in his naivete, he looked back becoming trapped there.
You can capture your unique world view and relate it to others with the skill of a master storyteller. Your sensitivity and creativity make you a treasure to the human race, but your thin-skinned nature and innocence can cause you a lot of disenchantment and pain. What's doubly unfortunate is that, if you try to lose those traits, you never will, and everyone will be able to tell that you're putting up an artificial shell to prevent yourself from being hurt.
Famous people like you: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Mr. Rogers, Melville, Nick Tosches
Stay clear of: Icarus, Hermes, Atlas
Mr. Rodgers? Awesome. |
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| The pieces are nearly in place. |
[Jun. 29th, 2007|04:58 am] |
Well, by some kind of strange fortune, my school sent me a refund check for $100. I don't know why, considering how tight fisted the school can be for anything good, but I had no plans on looking this gift horse in the mouth.
The money was rather promptly spent in a period of two days: Wednesday and 10 minutes ago.
On Wednesday, I went out an retrieved everything necessary to build the jacket for the costume: Fabric, buttons, thread and a pattern. I also couldn't resist picking up Resident Evil 4 for the Wii since it came out at a pleasantly discounted price this week. I'm half regretting it and half not. The regret is because that was potential spending money for perhaps a movie or something. The...non-regret is just from how much this game kicks so much ass. Seems a bit more difficult than I last remember when playing it on the gamecube, but still just as awesome.
As for today's purchase, I realized i completely forgot to retrieve materials for the tie, and seeing as I didn't want to overburden whoever would be sewing this (since I don't know how to sew and I don't want to learn using those damn overpriced costume materials), I ordered a tie online, making sure to purchase the most closely matching tie that could be found.
Just hoping it'll be done before Otakon. Only 3 weeks away at this point. |
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| Dying for some work here |
[Jun. 18th, 2007|09:18 pm] |
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Week 5 into the summer vacation and still no work. It's pissing me off that this stupid agency can't find me a job. I'm even more at a lost that none of my applications to other places seem to be getting anywhere. Of everywhere I've applied so far, I've had no callbacks.It's gotten me concerned that those internships I've done in the government have made me mostly unhireable with my lack of experience in retail and public work. So while it paid, well I was given no guarantee of being able to return and little experience for actual work among people.
And as much as I love the idea of sitting at home and doing nothing but playing video games all day, all play and no work makes Damien go..something something...
Go crazy?
Don't mind if I do!
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[Jun. 17th, 2007|12:34 am] |
Okay, I took the thing again and with very minimum changes to my original answers (2 actually)
The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
It looks like some of the answers will count towards two choices, kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don't quiz. They could really set it up better. |
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[Jun. 14th, 2007|11:08 pm] |
The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
*coughs*
What?
What? |
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| Tomorrow....is a day! Maybe....yeah, it is. |
[Jun. 10th, 2007|08:48 am] |
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Another weekend passes and things go by slowly. I'm still "out of work" in that I'm annoyingly waiting for the temp company to finally contact me. I was told once more to give them a call Monday to see if they have anything for me. I'm making this the last Monday I wait though, as I can't just sit around by my cell phone waiting for any kind of call. I've picked up a few applications to a few businesses at Arundel Mills and and will be doing some other applying as part of a Plan B.
The rest of my time has been spent with City of Villains, because what else am I gonna do? I've been trying to get out and exercise a bit as well so I can be in some kind of non round-ish shape, but the motivation to actually do it just comes and goes as it pleases. If I can get my sleep schedule perfected, I'd probably be able to get everything settled exercise wise.
My playing in CoV though has not been without its rewards.
I've managed to obtain the rarest "Wings" piece available in the game: Tech Wings.
So far, pretty effin' awesome. In the "Black Market", they go for at least 12 mill, so if it wasn't for the Super Group another villain of mine belonged to combined with being able to sell a very rare costume recipe for big bucks, I'd probably been impossible for my character to get that.
So awesome
Ah well. Gonna try and go out for a run before it gets too hot then shower up and maybe find something to do.
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| Job GET! |
[May. 30th, 2007|12:56 pm] |
As of today, I'm officially a summer hire for a Temp staffing agency, making in the area between 12 and 15 bucks an hour. Pretty much, they'll find work for me where necessary and I"ll get paid based on my work at that place every week or for however long they need me to work there, then I move on to the next job.
Hells yeah!
Everything went pretty smoothly. I met my supervisor at the agency, watched the "Employee training video" and took a small computer skill test for Excel, Word and just Typing skill. At most, it took maybe 30 minutes.
They said they'd get back to me soon when they find something for me. If nothing comes up, then I contact them on Monday, but so far everything seems like it'll be loads better than the bureaucratic bull of government work.
Secrest, out! |
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| Who needs sleep? |
[May. 28th, 2007|02:12 am] |
I do I guess.
I'm hoping to start work soon and here I am messing up my sleep schedule. Ah well. I hope to work on that during this week at least.
Speaking of work, I finished updating my Resume. No longer looks like a 15 year old crapped it out on Notepad. Just in time too, since my Aunt referred me to this place she works at that's hiring and they pay pretty damn good for someone with my writing skills. Should be good money for Otakon if I'm hired. Worse comes to worse, I've got some emergency cash sitting around just in case.
Still little costume preparation unfortunately. Got the patch, still need to get the tie, and the blazer hasn't been made yet. Got at least a month though so hopefully there's time.
On that note
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[Apr. 22nd, 2007|01:27 pm] |
Been getting into City of Heroes again now that I have a little bit more available time. The papers aren't coming in as much as they were, and I only have one final for the end of the semester so things are calming down. I finally reached friggin level 50 after 1 year and 3 months of play, so I finally have access to the two Epic superpower sets: The Peacebringer and the Warshade. Can't wait to try them out. Though I'm also getting drawn more towards City of Villains as well to start getting my other characters up.
Preparations need to be made for Otakon. Our hotel came under new ownership, and thankfully the reservation is still in place. Tomorrow, I need to see if we can get a bigger room so we're not suck with 1 bed. All that's left is to make sure I have money for the convention, which is practically ensured thanks to a summer internship I got into again, and the costume. I'll be playing Mori from Ouran High School Host Club, and that sort of cosplay is fairly simple. All you need is dress pants, a dress shirt, the tie and the emblem. The only thing that needs to be made is the blazer, which is simple enough. Just need to wait for Velg to pick out the color so we'll all be synchronized.
And speaking of Otakon, friggin' Steven Blum is going to be there. I need to bring something I can have him autograph.
Today, Pokemon finally hit stores, and damn Nintendo for releasing it on a Sunday. Busses don't run on Sunday! A few of us are stuck here on campus trying to find people with cars who are willing to take us up to the mall, but so far no luck. Ah well. I guess I could wait one day. |
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| Huh. This is a first. |
[Jan. 5th, 2007|07:13 pm] |
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For the first time ever, I think I may be sick of winter break.
I've given up on winter break job hunting and have focused on applying for summer jobs instead. Usual government work that I've been doing the past few summers. I've been bored to tears sitting here doing nothing. Well, not exactly nothing. Been doing some jogging and working out at least as much as I could, but I'm kinda getting bored with video games seeing as there's just nothing else to do.
I really do want school to start again so I can hang out with my friends, or at least have more to do than just sit around. Reading through the Dark Elf Trilogy has helped a little but as time drags on, I just can't find the motivation to do anything right now. It's a struggle to find something to keep myself occupied so I don't end up a lazy mess.
Hell..Just kinda half-assing this post as I speak. Ugh. I need interaction with people. I need something different, damnit. I'd kill to be able to hang out with someone right now. |
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| Damn you 2007 |
[Dec. 31st, 2006|10:12 pm] |
So another year comes to an end. Not looking forward to it really because from the looks of things, I still need an additional year for school, making it a total of 6 years spent in friggin' college. Lesson learned far too late: Never go right into college. Take care of your junk in community college first. Maybe I could just take care of my major related stuff first at Frostburg and finish out everything else at PGCC with a job on the side.
There are a few things I look forward to. The approach of summer and Otakon of course which seems to be coming earlier and earlier every year. New opportunities for happiness abound as well.
Anyway, this can't be a post about the new year without the typical resolutions. Perhaps this time I'll actually hold myself to all of them.
1. Concentrate harder on school to get a higher GPA than just average. Technically this past semester I would have reached a 3 if it wasn't for the one class that I got a CS in (Continued study for those who haven't had the pleasure). All because the teacher wouldn't accept my writing style.
2. Fix my sleep schedule all year round. It's fun to stay up late at college, but it wreaks hell on me when it comes to classes. I probably would have done better than C in one of my classes if I didn't have a bunch of sleep related absences ^_^;
3. Cut down on gaming related spending. I might reduce my spending to the 5 to 15 bucks for Virtual Console games on my Wii once the selection becomes bigger. It'd be a lot cheaper in the long run while waiting for major releases. Better scenario would be to just stop buying altogether unless I find a job during school. Either way, I need to keep my spending towards food and other essentials.
4. Perversions and the ending of them. Should be no surprise to people that I have a bit of a dirty mind at times which I make sure to keep restrained at least. It's to be expected. I'm a young male exposed to the world of sex so it's only natural that my thoughts often be drawn in that direction, but I'm starting to realize it that if I'm not having it, there is no point in thinking about it. In other words, I think I'm starting to get bored with thinking about it and the collection I have, though I guess 4 movies isn't really much of a collection though.
5. Further build my confidence. Much to my annoyance, I still find I lack confidence in a few things. It wasn't easy getting to a point where I could forget about what people would think about me (To an extent. Doesn't mean I go about with absolutely no tact and letting lose about whatever at any time. Just means a person's opinions about me don't carry any weight with me). However, I still lack some confidence in communicating things to people. Running the anime club has certainly been helping, but on the one-to-one level, I hesitate and delay to the point where I just don't get it out at all.
6. Finish my gaming backlog. Keeping in line with not buying any new games, I seriously need to finish the games I currently have. I have a crap ton of PS2, Gamecube and DS games I have yet to reach the end in, let alone finish off entirely. Thankfully there's only one game coming out next year that I'm so far looking forward to, so I'm not concerned at the moment with buying anything more.
7. Learn to sew and cook. The latter is obvious, but I want to learn to sew so I can worry about making my own costumes and not have to rely on family for such work.
8. Read more. It's probably sad that, as an English major, I don't feel compelled to read more. Literature classes tend to scare you off of reading pretty easily seeing as you're not reading for enjoyment but because you want to pass a course. I recently got pulled into The Dark Elf Trilogy and I'm gonna start hunting down other books like Snow Crash and others I've heard to be interesting.
That list will probably change as the year moves on, but that's what I got so far. Less than two hours remaining for us East Coasters. |
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