So I was off from Gamespot for a total of 9 days.Reason being, I had a lot of personal issues in my life I wanted to deal with before coming back.I'm glad those are over and settled.Then I was further delayed, because I only have 1 working PC at the moment.And I still do.But better I come back now, and wait until that one's fixed, cause it can be quite a while before that's done with.I'll try to be as active as I can.All in all, I'm glad to be back.

One of the things that had me thinking for a while (2 weeks before I left GS) was whether or not I was truly ready for College.Not being in a school environment for a year takes some time to adjust to when you go back.I'm simply not ready for that again... yet.So I dropped my classes.I'll be going to College in the spring.For these 5 months, I'll be working... hopefully.I've already submitted applications to 4 locations.Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Duane Reade and CVS.I'm going to submit 2 more for Rite-Aid and Walgreens (again).And another for the dreaded... Gamestop (I don't hate the store, I just hear alot of bad work experiences).Hope I get one of those, because If I don't I have to do mandatory work experience (which you don't get paid for).

Here are the things I would like to buy, with a paycheck from work in order of personal priority.

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So, I'm back guys, what I miss?

I saw The Dark Knight on Saturday.To put it simply, it was friggin' amazing.A pretty epic movie indeed, and one of the best I've seen in a long time.Heath Ledger played a chilling Joker and THANK GOD there was no Katie Holmes in the film.Afterwards, we went to TGI Fridays.I had a Grilled Chicken Dinner.And this time the service wasn't terrible like it was last December.

Then the next day, I managed to get 2 new Nintendo DS games, since my DS was lacking in new games for a while.They are...

Overall, this game = Win.

Took a while to get used to the whole anime st^yle of the game.I hear this game has plenty of replayability, so I'll be playing it for a good while.

And...

And no, I couldn't find the first one.I'll have to get it sometime later on.And yeah, some of the voices are pretty bleh... but I've gotten used to it.There's much worse voice acting out there.*Cough* Mega Man X4 *Cough* Loving the game, and I love how difficult this game is at parts.Good thing it was developed by Inti Creates, the same people who brought us the excellent Mega Man Zero series for the GBA.

Got them both for... 25$ total.Yays! I also have a new Coffee Maker.It's this one:

Got it for around $47 at my local Target store.Overall, it's pretty simple to use.It makes much better tasting Coffee than Ol' Instant Coffee (DUH!) and it should come in handy once I start College in September.Hooray for new stuff!

I've learned something today.You can't keep a good guy down.After looking through various unions and old blog posts, I've pretty much set it in mind that I would miss this place too much.I can't leave you guys.I still have a lot of things to do, and leaving would possibly screw a lot of things up.

Even when College starts, I'll come here.I'll still even be in Unions.Hey, if plenty of people can do it, why can't I? What the hell was I thinking before? It's not like I'm going to have no more time at all.I just need to make it all the more manageable.I'll just have to cut down on unions and stay in the ones I post the most.I won't have to go crazy and make blogs every now and then.

Ryan's not going anywhere! Oh yeah, that and I'm finally seeing The Dark Knight today.In Manhattan. We even already have the tickets.Oh and join The UVFU.We need more members.And new affiliates.You can post there even if you're not a member.I'd appreciate it

My Profile is public once again.

That and my whole blog header pretty much says who I was in "another life".So, while about 80% of you already knew who I was, I'm just putting that up for the new friends I've made with this account.Yep, had another account.'Twas AsakuraHao2004.I'd just like to say something to you all.I apologize for the matter of which I left originally.I don't ever regret making this account, but the way I did it was just wrong by making it so over-dramatic.So, yeah... let's move on.

Why am I saying this? It's because I won't have much time in the future.Not only do I have to attend regular College classes, but I need to do 13 hours of additional work (paid work) each week to total 35 hours for the help I'm getting (money wise).I have a full day of clas.ses from 11AM-6PM on Monday and Wednesday and a 11AM-2PM day on Tuesday and Thursday, with a day off on Friday.I plan on doing the 13 hours of work on Friday (mostly) and on the weekend.Account that in with homework and whatnot, and I don't know If I'll be here all that often.Sad, really.But College is more important.

Life moves way too fast.For the entire week of the 24th to the 29th I have pre-college classes.That's also when the 13 hours of work starts kicking in, I believe.It's that week or the next one.I'm not too sure myself.

All in all, I don't know how much longer I'll be here or if time will permit me to do so.If you haven't already added me on these, go ahead and do so:

AIM - AsakuraHao2010 (Will be on this one more often)

MSN (WLM) - Zeromus1337@live.com

Steam - thatgato

I've been playing a lot of Counter-Strike: Source lately as well as Team Fortress 2 (PC).If you have steam, it'd be awesome to play with you guys.

I guess this is the year I start being more mature and finally growing up as a person.This blog feels a bit sad, but I may as well tell you all this now.I might have to leave unions and strictly become a blog person.But who knows if that's actually going to happen.We'll see what happens once College starts.

I'm going to try and reach 10K posts before College starts.4.5k left to go.This is most likely going to be my last blog for a while.

Some rather important changes have been going on with me lately, so time to blog.First off, my sleeping schedule is a bit off again.Since I start College September 8th, I've been trying to make the most out of my time.What does this mean? I sleep at 10PM... and wake up at 4AM.I'm preparing my body now so I can do this once College starts.Do any of you have an inverted schedule like this? All I'm doing is trying to make the most out of my time.The only downside, is that I feel slightly sleepy during the early afternoon.I begin College for all 4 days at 11AM, but I really want to get the most out of my time.Any one think what I'm doing is unhealthy? I'm going to be sleeping much later today to see which schedule fits me best though.

Lately, I've been playing handheld games (DS, PSP) more than my console ones.I honestly don't know why.The PSP takes the cake because of the "systems it can play".And yeah, RPG, I got Terranigma on it now.I'm letting my PSP charge completely first though.And the DS, because of all the DS games I haven't finished.Like Phantom Hourglass or Advance Wars: Day Of Ruin, (Which is pretty hard ) and Professor Layton (This one just flat out irritates me at times).I'm also trying to save money since I want to get the 2 ZX games and Castlevania DS games.Shouldn't be hard once I get my the money from my College checks... whenever the hell they end up arriving. >_> I should open a bank account for them.

Oh yeah, one more thing.The UVFU (Ultimate Videogame Franchises Union) is approaching it's 1 year anniversary.It'll be one year old on September 20th, 2008.I'd appreciate if you can post there... you don't have to join the union though.Anyone can post there, even if they're not a recruit and have joined the union.I'm trying to make it accessible for everyone.So, I'd appreciate it if you can go and post there! Once again, you don't have to join the union to post there.