.: T R U L S :.

Just writing in here (since I forgot to :o) that I'm leaving FF for good.  Had enough of the game, had a lot of great times, but have a lot of things going on in RL lately and no real desire to play.  Harry (Onorok) is taking over my account and switching the pword, and then it's his to do with.  No coming back :)

I love all you guys, and keep updating your journals because they're fun as hell to read.  I like going back through this one from time to time and seeing my journey to 75bst and other awesome goals I finally hit with endgame and with friends.

Time to head out to the most famous strip club in Montreal tonight, then going back to NYC on Saturday, and starting my summer internship on Monday.

Goodbye FF, thanks!

Nick

Tagged by both elko_welko and ono_valefor....so FINE, I'll do one :E

1.  I grew up in Brooklyn but moved to Paris when I was 4.  I was there for 4 years, went to an international school where i was a tiny minority.  My best friends were from Cameroon, Bahrain, Iran, Zimbabwe, Thailand, and Malaysia.  Names were....Shalanyuy, Paopong, Neetibut, Fidel, A'laa, Faris, Vishal.
2.  When I was 9 years old I was fishing, shirtless (oh baby, oh baby) off a rock cluster out in Long Island, casting for Bluefish.  I brought the pole over my head, the lure hooked into my upper back, and then...I whipped the rod forward trying to cast, and ended up slicing a cut in my back that would've made the emoest of emo kids cringe.
3.  I used to be OCD about balancing things.  If my right hand bumped my knee, I'd have to bump the other knee with my left.  Then since the right started the 1-2, I'd have to start the same thing with the left.  But then since THAT pattern was started in a right-left; left-right fashion, I'd have to redo it.  It'd go on and on.
4.  When I was 16 with all of my friends, we hired a stripper for my friend's birthday (lord knows how) who brought a friend along for free, and had two somewhat attractive women writhing and doing all kinds of ridiculous things to each other for a night.  In front of 16 year olds.  Oh, and the birthday guy got so hammered that he ended up getting spanked, and tossing one of the stripper's salads.  On video.  Biggest.  Blackmail.  Ever.
5.  I hated online games and still have no clue why I got into Final Fantasy, but on a school trip to Japan a couple years ago my friend and I saw the FFXI demo playing in a little computer shop and thought "oh, that looks kinda neat.  When we get home maybe we'll try it out."  Ended up being a pretty monumental thought.
6. The entire reason I had arthroscopic (sp) knee surgery was because of doing a jump while skiing, then trying to make my friend laugh by falling in a funny way.  I ended up tearing my ACL, MCL, and lateral meniscus.  I'm a retard.





In other news, I haven't been on FF at all recently, and don't have much of a desire to.  Being back home is too much fun and there's enough going on to always keep me occupied.

And.....goddamn high school girls are tempting.  And trouble.  And hot.  And tempting.  I went and visited my school yesterday, and a huge group of the seniors came running up saying hi (I found out later they, last week, were passing around pictures of when I got the piercings/tattoos), and told me they wanted me to come to their slumber party (as in, I'm the only non female there) next saturday/sunday night.  Jesus almighty.

Can't wait for Harry + Concord Dawn.  It's going to be rad.

My friend wants me to try coke this weekend.

I'm seeing the Da Vinci Code tonight.

I found a $200 check i never cashed and just got back $146 from the government so I'm no longer semi-broke thank god.


Aaaaand....that's about all that's happened in the past couple weeks or so.

fuck fucking finals

1 left tomorrow morning

HOME FREE TUESDAY


Drivin back down to DC on the 26th for ono_valefor's live set with Concord Dawn, probably bringin a friend from back home as well

my brain is fried, and i still have a few more hours of studying to do

:(

Sacrarium next Wednesday.  Woo!

According to the latest KER (Karma Exchange Rate), a 17,600,000gil deficit in Haub +1 attempts translates into a 1/1 attempt on...






Thanks Harry      :)

We tried Ouryu with a standard pt, but being RDM-less really hurt us and he wiped the floor with us. DF's doing a great job of uniting together for this CoP movement and we're getting a BLM crew to run us through it this Tuesday. After that we're all joining together as one big team of 15+ people to move forward as a unit, all helping each other out to get sea and finish this challenging expansion. It really touches me that everyone is coming together and making sacrifices to help their friends for a common goal, and having a great attitude about it the entire time. Makes me happy to be in DF.


In worse news

Tried haubergeon +1 synths #17 and 18 tonight with the money from the 2 peacock charms...and 1 NQ and another break :( That puts me at 15NQ 3 breaks total, I am now down 17.63 million gil on all the attempts, which is nearly enough to just buy the fucking thing off the AH now. It's pretty damn disheartening. I shouldn't let it get to me because it's a videogame, but 17.6million is a lot of time, effort, and planning, and it just keeps getting snapped away like it never existed. I'm frustrated on it. And also just because I'm only really doing it for the white box; the extra stats won't make my BST superman or anything, I just want it for it being somewhat rare, expensive, and impressive. So stressing over all of this for an item that's 80% e-penis :-\

In non closet nerd world news

All my work is done for the semester. Spent the last 2 days cranking out a 20 page paper on a structural analysis of the Reichstag's Dome. As things stand out I have a finals on the 11th, 12th, and 15th, and my parents are drivin down on the 16th to get me back home.

I've been going to the gym very intensely recently and am really back into it full force now. This summer I'm going to come up with a strict new workout plan and diet. Goals right now for the end of the summer is to go from 155 --> 170esque gradually, #1 priority staying lean as possible and increasing flexibility. Most guys who go on a bulking phase do it too fast and try for too much weight, and end up looking like football players or powerlifters with poor posture and having lost a lot of their core definition from the bulking. I've gotten really interested in all the body weight methods, and will have a lot of focus on pullup methods and variations (there are a fuckton of ways to do pullups of all kinds and it can get pretty crazy). Start working towards one armed chinup sets by the end of the summer and should hopefully be able to do 2-3 sets of the marine corps test amount (20 in a min for the corps i think, so i'd be doing 2-3 sets of 20). I've been working on pullups and L-chinups now (legs straight out perpendicular) and can knock out 3 sets of 10 fairly easily per day, so if I keep at that routine and slowly start to add on the # of reps, I'll start to see some great things. Want to increase bench to to around 225->260 if I'm getting to 170, but will be doing equal work on back so i don't get all chested and hunch forward. Knee still hurts from surgery so I need to start slowly again on my leg stuff. I don't want to come across as bulky or at all, and if I do it right I should see significant strength gains, and physique wise really get my body to a new level. It needs to be 15 pounds added of pure raw lean muscle. I think the key to eating for is is 4-5 meals a day, no sodas/sweets, balance my midday meals accordingly (chicken, tuna, organic bread, egg whites, yogurt, veggies, fruit, etc) and eat a good breakfast. I'll be at home so I can use the kitchen to prepare my own meals the way I need them.

Time to start planning my excel charts

I landed an internship this summer which is rad as all getout, working for a new company in NYC dealing with the recent issue of instituting a national ID card as is done in Europe and other places around teh world. So I won't be makin copies all summer, I'll actually be fully involved in the project and traveling a bit, as well as getting paid 300 a week and given a myriad of opportunities to meet people and start networking for when I graduate in a few years and go job hunting. 300 a week is great, especially considering a lot of interns don't even get paid. So it's something to look forward to. A 9-5 like that, along with a daily gym commitment is a great thing to have as it gives me structure and purpose each day, instead of pulling bad habits in the summer and staying up till 6am, sleeping till 2pm, feeling lethargic all day long and just lounging doing nothing. Having a job and gym routine keeps me on my toes, gives me more energy, and lets me get more sleep.

and yet again fuck you FFXI for continually zapping away my D. Ingots :mad: