I’m pretty sure I’m not bipolar….

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     What is up with me and blogging these days?  I have so much I want to write about.  Why aren’t I blogging more?  I joined the Bay to Breakers (Finally) and had a blast.  I wanted to blog it, but I forgot.  It kinda just stuck that way.  Also, I finally got a job.  Again I didn’t blog about that either.  Such a momentous week, and none of it was recorded here.  whatever.  I’m rectifying one of those mistakes right now.

     As you may recall, I had a job interview for a game testing consultant position back in May 11.  Last Thursday, they had me go to Sega for a game testing interview.  That interview also went amazingly well.  How many job interviews can you think of start off with the question "So what games are you playing right now?"  I breezed through it, and later that day, I was informed that I got the position.  I start bright and early, emphasis on early, tomorrow.

    Here I stand (sit really) on the final minutes of my about-to-be-previous existance.  The little sphere or reality I’ve carved out for myself since my last job at the Department of Elections is about to come to an end.  A new one with so many unknown variables is about to start.  "How do I feel," I ask myself.  I’m a little bit scared.  I haven’t felt this in a while now.  I suppose that’s a good thing.  I hear change is good for you.  Guess we’ll find out soon enough.

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(The freakin’ Internet Explorer crashed before I finished this blog!   This is a rewrite of it)

     The world record people.  Not the beer people.  The story I’m about to tell you belongs in Guiness World record for the most messed up, screwed up, and just generally evil story…EVER!

     My friends and I were playing Golf on Wii Sports the other day.  We were on the last hole of the game, a very difficult course.  I managed to get the ball close to the green.  All I wanted was to get the ball as close as humanly possible to hole, and I knew it wasn’t going to be easy.  I had to contend with the very strong winds and the topography of the green itself.  I adjusted my aim for both relying only on sheer instinct and experience as guidance.  I made several practice swings to achieve the right power level for the hit.

     Finally, I made the hit.  The power was exactly where I wanted it to be.  The ball flew in the arc I had hoped it would.  It landed about a foot away from the hole.  It bounced.  It landed…into the hole.  "OH MY GOD!  I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!"  This unexpected twist came out of nowhere.  All I wanted was to land near the hole.  Instead it went in!  I couldn’t believe it!  It was too good to be true!  There is a God!!!….and then the ball bounced back out of the hole.

     Right before my very eyes, the ball jumped out of the hole as if dissatisfied with the accomodations.  "NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!"  As I scream in horror, my friends just started laughing.  I’ve never seen Lemon laugh so hard in my life.  All I could do was sit there with my hands clutching my forehead and shake my head in disbelief.  In the end, I had the best score for that course compared to everyone elses, but it could have been even better.  SSSSSIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHHH!

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     I don’t know why I go to these things.  All they do is make me feel like a total loser.  It’s like rejection letters from colleges or something except in person or every girl you’ve ever asked out and said no except all at the same time.  Yup, you guessed it.  I’m talking about job fairs.  Everytime I go to these things, I end up with a huge bruise on my ego, and it wasn’t even that big to begin with.  If I had a nickel for everytime I feel like a loser at these things, I wouldn’t even need a job.  Why am I even going to one of these things anyways?  To make connections?  I don’t think so.  To find a job?  Hah!  The best reason I can think of is like playing a lottery.  On some off chance that some company is looking for any simpleton to fill in their lowly position, I could be that simpleton!  Well, wish me luck.  I’m going this Friday, and you know what.  I might as well go see Pirates of the Caribbean while I’m at it.

208,

     My blog is turning into a weekly affair.  It’s not bad really.  I don’t have to rack my brain to come with something interresting everyday.

     So guess what I did today.  I went to a job interview.  How’s that for a change of pace?  Stranger yet is the job I’m trying to get.  It’s a video game tester job.  I’ve been avoiding this job like the plague ever since I heard about the horror stories of being one.  Your job is to try and break the game afterall.  It’s the equivalent of someone asking you to take a shower with broken glass instead of water.  I like playing video games, and I really don’t want some job to ruin that for me.  Unfortunately, these are desperate times, and you know what that calls for.  The funny thing is just how qualified I am for this job.  I realized that while I was sitting there being interviewed by this nice lady.  This feeling of being…competent for once is very alien to me.  Where can I get more of that?  Suffice it to say that the interview went very well.  Let’s hope I hear back from them.

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     Ages and ages ago, when I was still in SF, I stumbled upon an interesting music video.  It wasn’t on TV though.  I downloaded it off of the now defunct WinMX (a very Napster like program but don’t tell the Music Industry.  Like I said before, I’m really broke).  I don’t remember what the song was, but I remembered the video.  Well, not exactly that either.  I just remembered that it was basically a bunch of in-game movies from the Final Fantasy games cut and pasted together to the rhythm of the song.  From there, I went on an obsessive hunt for more homemade stitched together Final Fantasy music videos.  I found a lot of them on WinMX.  Some I liked, but a lot of them were no good at all, at least according to my sensibilities.  I can remember how I obsessively stay up into the wee hours of the night waiting for a certain video to download from a very, very slow host.  On occasion, I left the computer on over night just so a certain download of a very rare music video would be complete.  You see, sometimes I come across some videos that’s own by exactly one person.  If that person isn’t logged on, I can’t download it.  For some videos, I would watch the search result screens very closely for hours hoping that one rare video would show up.  Fortunately for me, this obsession died down around the time I moved here.  If only that was the end of the story.

     About 9 months ago, for some reason unbeknownst to me, I decided to go look at that new fangled website everyone raves about, YouTube.  Why?  Why did I do that?  I took a look around, and found a motherlode of these Final Fantasy music videos.  The firestorm was reignited with a vengence.  My first day on YouTube, I spent over 4 hours looking at all the different music videos.  Wanna see my stash?  For about a week afterwards, I would scour YouTube for more videos.  Thankfully, a certain amount of boredom sets in.  You can only see the final cutscene of Final Fantasy X so many times you know.  But Wait!  There’s more!

     About a couple of months back, my mom decided to focus her energy into photography.  She was always into it, but before, she also had a slight fascination with video cameras.  Now she wants to just deal with cameras which leaves a certain video camera idly gathering dust in the corner.  That is until I asked for it.  She gave me her camera, and I went giddy over the possibilities of what I can do with it.  You see, it can act as the bridge between my computer and my game consoles.  That’s right!  I dived into the world of making those Final Fantasy music videos.  Last week, I posted my first video, and this week, I posted another.  I don’t think I’m going to be able to stop this train.  Let’s see where it takes me.

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     I just had the kickest ass nap ever!  I feel like I can do anything!  It’s a good thing I woke up before dinner.  That way I’ll have enough time to blog today too, and not a moment to spare.  I nearly missed my 2 day break from blogging.  Wouldn’t want to miss that.  My readers are counting on me to be punctual.  So let’s see.  What happenned today?  What is today anyways?  Tuesday?  That’s odd.  I thought today’s Thursday?  Wait a minute…. How long have I been asleep?…..Oh crap.

     I can explain!  No really I can!  I took a nap on Thursday April 19.  I thought I was only out for a couple of hours, not 12 days!  Oh Whatever.  I’m sorry I didn’t blog for so long.  I kinda fell of the blogging wagon…hard.  I got used to not having to open up every night.  That coupled with the dwindling number of readers of my blog (down to 2) really disheartened me.  I really wish I could hear more feedback from my readers, aside from one of you.  Anyways, I shall continue to blog once again.  That’s a promise.