Because I care, dammit.

How Goes Your...

• Schooling/Career:
  I'm currently a sophomore at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, on my third major of Computer Science, after dropping Psychology and Pre-Medicine, respectively. I still love Psychology as an interest, but I can't see myself in such a career. Same goes for Pre-med, especially when I discovered how much I hate Chemistry classes. I'm currently unemployed right now because the job market here is absolute :bou::bou::bou::bou:... but I'd love to work at a bookstore or a pet store as a side-job with college.
  
• Love life:
  Single and hating every second of it.
  
• Hobbies:
  blah blah blah anime, manga, video games, computer/internet stuff, forums etc etc etc I think all of my hobbies are pretty obvious...
  
• Gaming:
  I'm a huge fan of shmups/scrolling arcade shooters, some RPGs, and some puzzle games as well. Maybe the occasional fighting game too. I love independent/doujin games, as well.
  
• Etc:
  i'm kind of considering taking up gardening as a spring/summer activity :| i like flowers

Schooling/Career: I currently posses a BA in World Religions with a minor in East Asian Cultural Studies, since the whole JET thing didn't pan out I am quite at a lose for what I should do. Either apply to another company for a similar position which requires more money from me, thus I have to wait until I am more financially stable to do so, or go back to school. Were I to follow the latter, I am torn between returning to university to upgrade/get a second degree since I slacked off to much to enter a MA program directly. In this vein of though, I am looking pursuing a degree in philosophy where my MA would deal with both philosophy and religion; currently I am interested in the idea of ecstasy and the experience of the divine and how that relates to experiencing both the self and other. My other option would be going to get a certificate to be a Pastry Chef. :s I'M TORN! :(

Current job: cook at a pub and wanting to quit, if you are a LJ friend, you know why.

Love life: Not too sure, between certain things going on in my life right now and such I haven't shared a bed with my boyfriend in a month and we see each other sporadically.

Hobbies: Reading and hanging with my friends. Interest in learning to play piano has arise again, but nothing is currently being done about it.

Gaming: A bit of Fable: TLC lately, finished ACII a few weeks ago. Not too sure what I want to play next, sorta waiting for FFXIII to come out.

Etc: Going to Toronto in May for Anime North. I know, I'm a total geek but it will be with good friends so it will be an awesome time! :D

Schooling/Career: I lost my job last year and I'm still unemployed ;). I hope to find something ok in not too long. It should have "something to do with computers".

Love life: I've been living with my girlfriend for three years now. Things are going ok.

Hobbies: I have an interest in martial arts, and I'm currently practicing Kyokushinkai karate. I also have an interest in drawing, but can't get myself to becomeing good at it.

Gaming: Currently playing through the incredibly poorly written game of Star Ocean 4 International, as well as Radiata Stories, and maybe I'll get back to playing Ninja Gaiden Sigma again soon. That game sure is hard.

Etc: If getting a job goes well, I'll be joining my friends on a trip to Japan in late summer.

How Goes Your...
Schooling/Career: First semester of university starts on Tuesday. Felt like it's taken forever to get to this point. I can't even find myself a casual job so career is out of the question.

Love life: Non-existent! I hope to meet a cute girl at uni soon~

Hobbies: I guess athletics is my hobby. Doing well, March plays host to QLAA State Champs in Townsville and QA National Champs in Sydney. Looking for EoFFers to room with for a couple days in Sydney if possible :p

Gaming: Going alright I guess. No money to fund any new purchases, so I'm going down my list of games to try and knock them all over completely.

Etc: I landed my first somersault yesterday. At the beach, ran down this little bit of hill and then flipped off a little sand platform I made. I almost landed a couple of freestanding ones, but my run-in ones were perfect

Schooling/Career:
I'm currently studying for a Masters in Strategic Studies. It's interesting, but there are two problems. First, Masters are supposed to be two year affairs - England generally does them in one and I wasn't rich enough to do a part-time course over two years. The problem is that it's really hard to actually keep up if you didn't do the same exact thing at undergrad (I did International Relations and Politics) so it's just daunting and annoying. The second problem is that I do not like UoR very much at all. I am sick and tired of seeing feedback like "Excellent essay, well written, original thought is clear, convincing arguments... not enough sources, you get a crappy grade". If it's that great I didn't need any more sources, guys. :|

Love life:
Oh man Rye ttly does this thing with her~

Hobbies:
Reading doesn't happen much because I have to read so much for classes that I'm just sick of it most of the time. I have been reading some Turtledove though, Jess got me In The Presence of Mine Enemies last weekend. Writing is basically not happening at all, the most I manage is a few pages of revision of what I did last summer.

Gaming:
Gaming is just about going okay though. It's suffering because I can't play stuff online (Connection is pure :bou::bou::bou::bou: if you attempt that, I literally had a better connection with dial-up many years ago) but it's not bad.

Etc:
I should just about get out of college without being bankrupt. How not-bankrupt depends on how much the landlady takes out of my security deposit on the house :/ Ideally I'd get back my full £400 on account of my not destroying anything, but the house is that old that things are just falling apart and she's probably going to blame us for that :(

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Originally Posted by Moon Rabbits

You'll have a PhD at ... what, 22? D: !!!??

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Wait, what, I totally got things confused here >.> Uh, it's not a PhD but but a BA... So yeah, some difference. xD I can see why Shlup got all excited now! Translating education stuff can be so confusing. :(

*dies*

I still vote we call him Doc Rantzien. It has a nice ring to it.

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Originally Posted by Miriel

• Love life: Approaching 4.5 years with Del Murder and still going on strong. Not gonna give everything away, but lets just say we had a conversation today that involved the word "Tiffany's" that left me grinning like an idiot. :jess:

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@Monda - I can't wait until you move in over there, so I can take my tour of California trip and visit you guys and Shlup. I want visit everyone at Disney World! Will Del and Miriel come too?

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Love life: Been dating the same person for three years, five months. I'm not sure if that is a good or bad thing but I like it.

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If you like it then I'm gonna go with 'good thing.'

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I'm going with that too. FOR NOW:cool:

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I love kitties and hate bunnies.

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Okay, Lamonda.

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Bunnies suck. They eat everything in sight and try to bite your hands off. They're adorable though so I can forgive them ;_;

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Etc: I want to go to Europe this summer.

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I wanna go next summer. Put it off for a year so we can randomly cross paths in Berlin or some :bou::bou::bou::bou:!

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Deal. You'll be the one in the octopus costume, right?

How Goes Your...

Schooling/Career:
I just started a new job. I work for RSA, a huge insurance group. I'm working in the commerical motor department. I've been in training for the past week and my brain is going into overload. so much to learn! We also have brands in other countries, for example Johnson Insurance in Canada and Codan in Denmark.

Love life:
I'm in a relationship. My boyfriend is lovely to me. I'm happy!

Hobbies:
I don't have a lot of time for many hobbies as I'm always working. The majority of my free time is spent socialising, and catching up with friends.

Gaming:
I can't remember the last time I played a game? Perhaps I will soon.

Etc:
I'm starting to save up for my own flat. I hope to have enough money for the deposit, and various other things I will need within the next few months. fingers crossed!

Career: Seems alright. I might be getting shifted around either between companies or between contracts soon as the role I fill in my company for this specific client is being taken on by the client. I figure this means I have choices on where I go, which I'm grateful for. I'd prefer carrying on as normal (and that might happen yet), but regardless of what happens I can rest assured that I will remain paid what I am currently paid and that's good enough for me. My colleagues and I get along great and my bosses all appreciate me so it's all good there.
Love life: Nothing wrong with this. :D Danielle and I have settled properly now, I think, and maybe I'll have to start thinking about a ring by the end of the year... we'll see. Danielle has got herself a career job recently so our financial almost-problems have turned into something much better, and I think we'll be in a very good position in about four month's time to really think about the future in a very sensible way. If not earlier!
Hobbies: Gaming, TV, watching sport, but not much really beyond that at the moment. Time is something we don't have a lot of but I hope that when we have the money for holidays (basically some time after Danielle has settled in her job, don't want to take holidays too early, obviously), more adventures will be had!
Gaming: Left4Dead and Mass Effect 2 have dominated our gaming time lately, but I'm very much looking forward to buying a bunch of new games. :D So many good games are coming out this year...
Etc: etc.

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* Etc: Just had a poker night with my friends. I love whiskey and cigars. I think I should've been born in the 60's.

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Sounds like any given night at my house with BJ and his work buddies.

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I should visit. :p

Schooling/Career: I don't care how much people hate me for hiding this, but I can't tell you about it.

Love life: Non-existant. Though on Friday I'll be heading to this party with my sister and her friends. There's this one Filipino girl there who I'm hoping I'll actually have the courage to talk to this time. It's a bit strange, seeing how she's probably a lot shyer than me, but that's what I like about her (especially the shy expression on her sweet little face). :love:

She's also got a good singing voice (though she's too shy to sing loud enough for others to hear), she's usually always helping out during parties and other stuff while everyone else is enjoying themselves (and I always find myself helping her out), it's easy to make her laugh and hard to get her upset (I've never actually seen her upset though), and I like the way she scrubs those dishes.

...well that last part is more of an inside joke among my cousins and siblings.

Hobbies: I don't really have any that I can do right now (it's winter after all), besides gaming. I should probably at least make one snow tunnel before winter's over though.

Gaming: New Super Mario Bros. Wii (trying to max out my score, seeing how I've done everything else), Fire Emblem Binding Blade, Dragon Quest V DS, Legendary Starfy Trilogy, and Final Fantasy Gaiden.

Yesterday I actually went to a friend's house with some other friends (all of them except for one I knew since Elementary). We had an awesome time playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

It was a lot of fun, though I regret telling them some things they used against me and everyone else like picking up and throwing others and using Yoshis to swallow and spit out others, though I guess killing each other, both accidentally and purposely, was part of the fun. I'm also really suprised that they all survived (as in didn't run out of lives in Free For All Mode) up to the first Fireball Bro in World 9-7. That's considered to be the hardest level in the whole game.

As for Brawl, I was stuck with using only the Wii Remote for most of it, though I did quite decently. My friend whose house I went to still thinks every character I use is annoying, but not cheap. Well I guess it was the losing or getting comboed part that he found annoying. Everyone was a bit out of shape with Smash Bros.

Etc: I have no idea what the future has in store, but I'm hoping I'll be able to make it through it all.

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Originally Posted by Shoeberto

I started playing Indigo Prophecy, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Lost Planet. Gaming is about the biggest thing for me to do to unwind.

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You should get rubah to join you in playing that. It's insanely fun multiplayer, and she really needs to find something to do to wind down from all of her engineering classes and tutoring.

Oh, I'll gladly help. ^^


How Goes Your...

• Schooling/Career: I'm currently a freshman at a high school that closely resembles a jail. I'm getting all As except for World History (my teacher's insane), Honors Bio (hard) and LA Honors (almost have an A).
• Love life: Ehh...like I said, some guy likes me probably, I don't like him back. I want to ask out my crush, whom I've known since I was 5...but he goes to a different high school and probably doesn't like me back. And all his friends are pretty girls.
• Hobbies: I like to speak in Latin when I'm bored. I'm also currently attempting to write a novel about myself as a war general.
• Gaming: Currently playing FFX-2 (ugh) and Nostalgia DS.
• Etc: Latin for "and others". ^^
  

Schooling/Career: I'm currently in my first year of Sixth Form, I'm doing Health and Social Care and Art, both are going well I think. :p I have a part time job in New Look, which I love, I just wish I could have more hours at the moment. The money is great though! And the discount. :}

Love life: No boyfriend at the moment, someone soon would be nice though. :p

Hobbies: I never know what to say when people ask me about my hobbies. I guess I could say shopping is one. xD Other than that, socialising and a bit of video gaming.

Gaming: Umm, I'm about half way through FFVII on my PSP, I'm just finishing off Super Mario Bros Wii. I'm also playing Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days annnd Shadow Hearts Covenant. I haven't really had a lot of time recently though, but those are the games I keep going to when I do. Oh and I'm also looking forward to buying a PS3 and FFXIII. :D

Etc: I can't wait to get paid on Friday! I haven't spent hardly any money since like the beginning of January as I'm saving for a PS3, so hopefully after I have brought that I will have some money left over as there are clothes in New Look begging for me to buy them! :p