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

3.0 Tomorrow?!

I'm so happy! Finally, we will be receiving some new content. 3.0.2!! Yay! WoW Players Rejoice. Things should be looking up, new talents, no more bagspace for pets and mounts and a whole load of others. I'm intrigued to see how Blizzcon O8 went this year. Looking for to some really great podcasts coming down the pike :)

So I've got a couple of alts going right now
Souper [Pally] Level 22
Serenitic [Hunter] Level 46
Asclepia [Priest] Level 17
Zefyra [Warlock] Level 18

So those are just random things to keep me occupied, while I'm awaiting Lich King. I've been doing the fishing dailies lately and yesterday I find got the [Weather Beaten Journal] ! Woohoo, so now I have the FIND FISH. I'm really just leveling alts, and doing dailies, I almost completely gave up on raiding Karazhan and ZA, because it's completely futile to get gear for one month. If we haven't see Hyjal or Sunwell Plateau yet, we're probably not going between now and November 13th.

Alrighty, let me go..
time to read "The Libation Bearers"

Listening to:
Ctrl Alt WoW: Episode 84 "Another World in World of Warcraft"

Ryan

WoTLK Preparations

Well it's coming down the pike pretty soon now. I'm pretty pumped for the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion. I'm looking forward to bringing up a new class hopefully. My hunter is 46 currently, and I'm enjoying 2.4 leveling increase. When 3.0 hits, it's going to be a breeze through Outlands. I'm not sure if raiding is still a good idea. I'm going to head into Karazhan tonight, but I'm not exactly certain it's a good idea. But we'll see.
Received my epic flight form a few days ago and am now enjoying my Swift Blue Gryphon. And now, I really haveno gigantic money sink except for Serenitic's epic mount (900g). Hopefully, I'll have about 2k gold to march into Northrend with come 11-13-08 :). Speaking of 11-13, I already told my parents, that I'd be out of school the 13 and the 14th. Those are my "mental health days". Alrighty, let me run to BestBuy and get yet another headset, because my mom sucked up my last one into the vacuum. EPIC FAIL :(

Later Folks :)

Shea Goodbye..

So Sunday, I travelled to Shea for the last game with the Mets ever. It was actually quite sad. Seeing the final pitch, and final at bat. It dawned on me that we'll be having a last of the Burning Crusade goodbyes in WoW. The last ZA run, in which the loots will be useful, or the last time living in Lagrath. It's just slightly upsetting. As much as Azeroth has been deserted, now Outlands will just be that extra set back to level 80 and Northrend.

Also, you need to check out BIND POINT!
-It's such a fascinating community tool! You need to just check it out to see how cool it truly is.
If you see a "Ryan S." ..that's me :)

Later Gators

../sigh

Yuck, just yuck. Is about how I feel. I've never felt such a general disconnect in my life. It's so amazing how things have changed? More to come later. Just general VR issues, the first in my life to actually get me upset. But I'm completely out of touch with the rest of my guild.

Uh Oh :(

Too Much Work

I've been trying to get another toon to level 70. I have a 22 Paladin, an 18 Warlock, and 12 Rogue and 13 Priest, but I had been really focusing on my currently 45 hunter. I just can't seem to get into it again. Nothing I've been playing aside from my mage has been as fun. I mean I'm pretty spoiled I leveled to 70 with the super DPSer, and always had food and ports. I mean I'd love to try a healing class, but to me it's just taking too long. I'm gonna try and push my priest/paladin and maybe get my priest up to where she can really go uber leet shadow. I'm not exactly sure as of now. But we'll see. Aside from that, all I really do is log on for some dailies, and that's about it.

Home for Lunch with the Servers Down For Maintanence :(
-Ryan

Welcome

Aloha my friends! I'm a World of Warcraft player, high school senior, dancer, and felt it time to create a nifty little blog. Nothing earth shattering will be sprouting from this, so I hope nobody expects to have scientifically notable or correct. It's just stories and narratives of a teenage boy and his life within an MMORPG, as well as the trials and tribulations of high school and the tedious college selection process.

I play a level 70 Mage on the Staghelm Realm (US). I'm currently part of a wonderful guild known a Fidelis Amicus (FA) led by Elly of the Elunes Grace Podcast. It's truly a fantastic place to be, so if you're on Staghelm and are a good person, you should come on down. My personal WoW history dates to Christmas of 2004. I received WoW as a gift, and quickly installed. I played on and off until about December 2007, where I seriously hunkered down and took 1 character into outlands. Superfluous hit 70 in February of 2007, 1 year after most already hit 70. I've been working on a few alts, however it's been difficult to apply to college, and play WoW, especially on a decrepit laptop. So I've recently changed to a PC and really enjoying the game :). Back in full swing, and beginning to prepare for WoTLK. I listen to a wide variety of World of Warcraft and gaming podcasts.
Here's a few:
GFW Radio;Legendary Thread; WoWCast, World of Warcast, Analog Hole Gaming,
In The World, Casually Hardcore, and Ctrl Alt Wow. Just to name a few :) Well that's all for now I guess. I'm sure I'll be posting from time to time of our guilds achievements, or of random things that cross my mind. Thanks for Reading Hope to See you Again.

-Super