First and foremost, my most beautiful beloved girl:

So yeah, I actually have a good excuse this time.

Athens. Athens. … ATHENS.

Athens = Awesome. Athens = Busy. Athens = Test.

Test, that’s a good word to use. Not just for the foul daemons disguised by the image of a sheet of paper with Satan’s handwiting, hidden behind a Times New Roman font and formatted by means of a question/answer system. No. Not just for the temptations presented to me by vast opportunities to go out and have the best time of my life, and meet some of the most beautiful girls I have ever seen in my life, no. Not just the test of committing an act of mass-scale memorization, often dressed up and coined as “studying” when you are not so much pursuing knowledge as you are filling vast quantities of brain cells with temporary memory, which eventually leaks from the mind like poorly-written C++ code from the transistors of a DDR memory module. No. Not just the day-to-day pressure of waking up, making it to class on time (which involves this amazing and enthralling life-risking adventure some like to refer to as “driving”) coming home, studying, at some point (on ocassion) eating, taking care of Zelda, avoiding the requests of peers to “go out” (and by ‘go out’ they mean ‘get shithoused’ in a location other than where I was currently standing,) and all the while attempting to launch a business to finance the forementioned activities. Test. I guess I’ve been taking a lot of tests lately.

While on the topic of tests, I was thinking about starting a poll. The specifics need to be run-through with a fine-tooth comb, but so far the basic format is this.

Poll:

1. Can you drive (according to law) ?
2. Do you drive an uncessesarily large pick-up truck?
3. Do you belong to a sorority or fraternity?
4. Are you talking on your cell phone?
5. Did you see the car in front of you and/or beside you?
6. Can you please dislodge your front quarter panel from my ass?

Of course after this data is obtained we will need to follow common statistical procedure, which involves derivatives, standard deviation, and a lot of other shit that sounds technical for “basic algebra” and formulate some stipulations.

An example may be:

If you answered yes to questions 1 and 2 the following is true:
-You attend the University of Georgia.
-You’re drunk.

If you answered yes to questions 3 and 4:
-You weigh 30 more pounds than you should.
-Chicks/Dudes still dig you.
-(If male) You own 2 or more pink-collar t-shirts.
-(If female) You own 2 or more short frilly skirts.
-Yes, you did get really wasted last night. Now get off the phone.

If you answered yes to questions 5 and 6:
-I swear, I am going to purchase a solid aresenal of pool balls to throw at the next car that almost runs me off the road because they weren’t paying attention.
-Please apply pressure to the various lacerations on my body. Huh, whats that? Ohh, your boyfriend’s calling, yeah I’ll wait. Okay, yeah now that pool of blood, I think, is coming from my femoral artery, I think your “Princess” license plate might have severed it on it’s way through my door. Oh crap, I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean to get blood on your Abercrombie pants. What’s that? Oh yeah, you can go ahead, I’ve got a little while left to live, you can throw your cell phone on your car charger? It still works? That’s fantastic! Hey watch out for that pick-up truck! Whew, good thing he pulled over, he almost nailed you. Wait, oh he was at that frat party last night too! So if you wouldn’t mind… oh you’ve gotta be somewhere? Ah it’s okay, 911 should be here soon.

As I mentioned, I’m going to need to go back and touch up on a few things, but hopefully I’ll have it ready by football season. So yeah, there are a lot of bad drivers up here. Seems like everytime I see someone driving like crap, I look behind me and it’s some really hot, bleach-blonde girl talking on her cell phone. I’d give her car another 2 months before she wrecks it and has her parents buy her the newer model. It’s not that bad, I guess I’m just not used to driving around in a college town. It’s kind of like one of those side-scrolling video games, where you go from start to finish while dodging various incoming objects at different speeds and angles. I was always pretty good at those, so I should be alright.

So far I’m doing a pretty good job of staying on top of my school. Cail and I are about to arrange a practice schedule and hopefully start gig shopping pretty soon. Right now everything is just kind of crazy with the mass crowd, school starting, moving in, etc. Things should settle down here a little bit within the next week.

Also, we have the most badass pool in Athens. It’s so awesome, people bring kegs to decorate it with. Pool- good. Keg- good. Girls- good. Poolkegirls. I think that’s mentioned somewhere in the thesaurus under “awesomeness.”

Until next time,

“Tonight the best is yet to come.” - Our Lady Peace

I’ve still got a lot of stuff to do around here, but I’m moved in and I got my internet up and running last night, only to realize my domain name had expired. So we’re up and running, re-registered, and ready to go.

More to come later.

So yeah, you will be able to find my World of Warcraft hunter “Jethrai” on the Dark Iron server. Being at my parents house in all awaiting my move-in date for Athens, I’ve been playing quite a few video games as of late. I picked up Fifa 2005 and have been progressing through a season of that on the Xbox, I finally installed Planescape: Torment and Soulbringer and have just scratched the surface on those, I’m about half-way through Jade Empire, and I think I will actually have beaten (and completed the majority of quests) Morrowind, and the Tribunal and Bloodmoon expansions. Whew- that’s a lot of RPGs man. I’ve also been pwning n00bs in Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, which is far superior to that large amass of kiddies they called Battlefield 2.

I’m moving to Athens Friday, so that’s some pretty big news. I guess I’m going to have a lot to write about here pretty soon. Our apartment is pretty sweet and it has this huge-ass pool that looks like something you’d see in a Disney waterpark, and apparantly there are keg parties there just about every night (and cute ladies there about 24/7.)

I went to the emergency room last Friday (about 10 days ago.) Some crazy bastard swung a half-shattered beer bottle at my head and I blocked it with my arm right before he was jumped and beaten to the ground. When I say “blocked” that sounds like a good thing, but there were about five 2cm deep lacerations on my arm that needed stitches (wouldn’t stop bleeding.) Instead of using the traditional stitches, they used this form of medical super glue, which actually worked pretty well. So that was my fun last weekend.

Anyways, my World of Warcraft just finished patching, so I’m going off to go be a huge geek.
XP+200 LVL! *Jethrai has attained level 3 uber-geek!* “grats” “grats” ty

Until next time,

“Listen for the whisper of the life I left behind.”