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 :)