Would You Kindly

Decent race, time was right around where I expected it to be. Felt really good on the first mile and easily ran it in under 6 minutes, but after that I lost a lot of steam, especially going up the opening hill for the second time. A good starting point, I'm satisfied with it. dHat sucked major wang and I sorta wish I'd had enough gas in the tank to catch him and beat him, but he's probably not going to be pulling ahead much by Thursday, so I can just take another stab at the whole beating him thing then.

I spent a good 5 or 6 hours this afternoon playing BioShock. I thought that I was already nearing the end of it, and then all of a sudden there's a boatload of additional things to do. A delicious surprise, really, though I ought to have seen it coming, I just didn't, being so engrossed in the game and whatnot. I'm moderately terrified by the prospect of playing through it again, but it'll be enjoyable. I wish that the two story lines would diverge sooner, but apparently only the ending is any different. If things split when you confront Ryan, then it would truly be a delicious experience, but the twist was delightful nonetheless. Of course I was caught off guard by it, but not entirely. There were enough allusions to Atlas by Ryan and others that I knew there had to be something more to him, I just didn't know exactly what it was. Fun, nonetheless.

Between BioShock and trolling through various Wikipedia articles, I'm feeling rather philosophical, and I think I might spend some time hammering out all of the bases that I want to cover with LiZ ed.2 before I forget all of them. It's turning into a depressingly large project, but I suppose that's to be expected. I still have no idea when I'm going to get around to writing it, but it could be a long time. The Warzone Project is officially dead, by the way. Not enough juice, nor planning, something that I'll have to keep in mind for LiZ.

I'm rather disappointed with myself. I'm slipping back into my Edgewood shell much more rapidly than I thought I would, but I guess that just hammers home the point: either you adapt, or you don't have any friends, and I'm a little too outgoing to be contented with the latter situation. Basically, I desperately need to finish that WCATY-Edgewood essay now before every last shred of my mopey emo-ness wears off. But it's not like I'm back to sophomore year entirely. My preppy tolerance has gone down, or at least I think it has. My dating standards have certainly risen, but that's really not a good thing for me. Very bad, actually; I might have to do something about that.

I have quite a bit of work that I need to do over the next two days, but I'll live. First I must finish BioShock, crank out those LiZ thoughts, and perhaps even play some Halo. For some reason I have a hankering to go back and revisit it, for whatever reason. I don't know why, but I'm terrified that I might actually end up buying Halo 3 after all.

- Veracity Out -
"hey, mrs. potter, won't you talk to me?"