A Life Update

It's mid-May of my senior year of High School, and I'm literally just getting up and going to school for the body time at this point. All my AP's are over with, I've paid my deposit to UAlbany, and I'm excited to be leaving, my grades are fine, as fine can be with the sudden outbreak of Senioritis running rampant around the halls. It's honestly a complete joke, a joke with an outstanding punchline, featuring caps, gowns and a diploma or two.

I recently have had a sudden binge into reading, with the musical and kickline ending, I've had some time to explore some more literature, well not a whole lot more, but more in general. I just returned Ayn Rand's The Anthem which I thoroughly enjoyed.

I am now reading Orson Scott Card's The Lost Boys. I've been a fan of Card's, since first reading Ender's Game back in 2002, though being a 12 year old seems to limit one's comprehension of the true scope of a work. The summary within the book jacket, discusses a child being "drawn into the computer game" which in some cases seems to parallel the life of some WoW players. Quoting WOWcast's Episode 18 entitled Addiction and the Media, like the old adage your mama always told you "Too much of a good thing, is certainly not a good thing."

It's more than astounding the social, and theoretical questions and discoveries occur within Blizzard's fantastical MMO. I was feeling rather worn out, and was irritated by the sudden mundane within Northrend, but now I'm more jazzed to play then I ever have been, to be a part of such an impromptu experiment of meta-physical social interaction is certainly cool.

Oh & Join FriendFeed. I've decided that after reading FriendFeed Gains Momentum, Thank You Twitter and some other tweets of torture, it seems like an interesting and viable option.
So import your Twitter Friends, and perhaps add me! Ryan S

NATIONAL HIGH KICK CHAMPIONS & ALL-AROUND CHAMPIONS!

Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving All! Hope you Enjoy your turkey, and all those yummy sides. This is just going to be a quick post, thanks to some nudging from my good ole cousin Steven..Hey There!. Anyways, I've gotten Superfluous up to 72, just about to ding 73. I did almost all of Borean Tundra, and I started doing a couple of quests in Howling Fjord. Overall, I'd say I like Howling Fjord much better, but I'm basing my opinion on the Borean Tundra, the night of Launch. However, I'm very excited to be seeing all this content. It's absolutely fantastic! I actually just got the Nothings Boring About Borean Achievement. Who knew 130 quests go by so quickly!? Anyways, just letting everyone know that I haven't been sucked into the blackhole or anything.

OH! Here's my final list of schools I'm applying to:

1)Emmanuel College, MA
2)Northeastern University
3)Boston University
4)SUNY Albany
5)SUNY Stony Brook Southampton
6)Adelphi University
7)SUNY Plattsburgh
8)New York University

-If anyone has any feedback in adding to my college selection process, please comment! :)

Hope you enjoyed Turkey Day!
Ciao! It's officially the start of the holiday season :)

Wrath of the Lich King=Perfectionnn

While I'm scanning the Auction House, I figured, I'd do my wrap of WoTLK. Well, if this didn't re-energize me for WoW, I'm pretty sure nothing else would have. I haven't played as much as I would have liked to, because of work and school related functions, but hopefully with Thanksgiving coming, I'll be able to explore a little bit more. Right now, I'm 71 & 1/2. It's amazing! I'm ecstatic! Borean Tundra is absolutely amazing! I'm so impressed with the complexity of the quests, and the variety of their objectives. Most of my T4 gear is still on, but who knows. :) I'll post some pics in here laterrrr


YAY WRATH! :)

A Whirlwind of College Applications

It's been quite a week, I've been going non-stop but I perform at my best when I am busy, and I learned a new kind of busy. Aside from the monotony of school work and the ever constant cycle of school itself, I had really messed up my college application process in a staggering way.

First off, I totally missed sign ups to retake them in November, so I decided since my mom and I fought about 20 minutes before this, to just register for the December ones. Except a funny thing happened, after I had payed with my debit card..OH RIGHT.. I'm away at the All-State Music Conference the weekend of the December SATs. WAY TO GO RYAN!! But I resolved that by simply speaking with my guidance counselor and I have to come back on Monday to see if I can take it as a walk in. We'll see how that pans out..

Secondly, I totally didn't do any application nonsense until about 25 minutes ago. Well that's totally exaggerating. I did my SUNY (State University of New York) Applications online, and am just waiting for the go-ahead to send them and pay for them. I started the supplemental applications for them. I did half of my NYU Application, but stopped at the essay, which I started at around 12:30AM. Oh yeah, and I just started my Emmanuel, Northeastern and BU Applications..splendid

Thirdly, I had completed my resume about 3 weeks ago, but thanks to having my computer no hooked up to a printer I emailed it to my new one. This new one, has shiny new Microsoft Word. It has all the settings that I don't know how to work, and so copying and pasting my resume, which originally resulted in a perfectly engineered and well spaced 2 pager, into a monstrous 4 page disaster of a resume after I pasted it. EPIC FAIL. So fiddling with it for the past 3 weeks, tonight I simple click the "NO SPACES" Mode or whatever, and POOF! Perfectly "Re-Engineered". I just showed the world how stupid I am with that. So Much relief :)

For the rest of my week however I didn't really do much. I haven't really played WoW, partially because I feel simply lost in Azeroth except for Hallows End, and the other reason is my dad jacked my internet cable to play Call of Duty 4 on the XBOX 360 Live. Joy. A 47 year old playing with my brothers 14 year old friends, makes for quite a time. One quick anecdote, yesterday my dad was setting up his little gaming home with the folding chair near the TV for the usual hour long stint of cursing and getting WTF-pwned by 5 year olds, when suddenly I hear him let out a yell, and with a giant thud, my father fell over backwards with a broken folding chair. It was probably the closest I came to actually believing Karma, HAHAHA.

The one thing I did in particular this week was the 46th Annual Newsday Marching Band Festival. Basically, it's where all the schools on Long Island make a yearly pilgrimage to Hofstra Stadium to partake in a giant performance of their halftime shows. 3 nights of school bands, luckily we only go for 1. However, New York weather on the 23 of October seemed more like the 23 of December. It was pretty friggin chilly out there. I mean kicking wasn't bad, it was the sitting in the wind-swept bleachers that made the water in your eyes freeze.


Here's one more shot of us being pretty beastly, see if you can guess who I am :)


If you'd like to actually watch our band routine extravaganza, feel free to go to the Newsday Marching Band Website & search good old Bethpage.

Later Kids, It's a little late for me
-Ryan

3.0 Patch

Well I did finish reading some good old Aeschylus last night, at around 2:30AM. LOL. So this afternoon, I came home during my lunch period to find my house unusually dark. All the appliances flashing. I figured we'd had an outage, because they are doing crazy roadwork up the block, which explains the mega gas leak, we had in our school today. :/ Anywho, so I turn on my decrepit hand-me-down gaming rig with on 37GB of memory (yeah time for an extra hard drive! If anyone has any cheap suggestions :]), I boot it up, and loading the patch, it says that I don't have enough space, even though I had already rid everything and have a 6.5G open after WoW and it's behemoth patches are in place. GRRR. Anyhow, I'm downloading the patch now, and things seem to be going as planned...blah blah Installing it, should take...FOREVER :(. Later Folks, Gonna sit here and Cry, while everyone else is playing with talent trees. lol


Later Gators

A Contradiction but with a Smile

So I had my whole family over for dinner tonight, after my family's big wedding yesterday, and it was quite a time. So I decided I'd just log on for a second to check an auction or two, when Ragin asks "Gruuls?". So to go against my current stance of "raiding is futile", I decided to come along. High King Maulgar was 2-shotted, when I've never seen him go down. It was a real treat. What get's even better is this...He happened to drop some T4 Shoulders for us Mages :). YAY! I had had the [Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders] which had been useful when I was specced frost, about 4 monthes ago. I had just never seemed to get any thing of use. So yeah../rolled a 96. So I just equipped my [Pauldrons of the Aldor]. What a fantastic time. We got Gruul to 4% I think, but we couldn't make that stupid guy go down. Thanks to the Tireless, for letting Fidelis Amicus and myself tag along on such a fantastic raid :)


Time for finish reading the Libation Bearers..wish me luck