Today I have turned 21.
I am working two days a week and playing DotA more than WoW. Where's John on b.net?

Anyway, got some class and drinking to do. ~.^

Hero of choice. Enjoying it very much.

Looking for another favorite hero to add to my collection of current 3.

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Chris's life in the last three months in a brief.cpy

Eminence broke up, reformed from the veterans and some dumb people. New guild is called LessQQMorePewPew.
Currently raiding Karazhan, now in the wake of our GM leaving the guild.
Dropped herbalism for tailoring. Becoming poor spending more on leveling to primal mooncloth mastery.
Grades holding while Russian history sucks monkey balls (aka not well).
Gained 10 lbs despite my light diet, eating more a little.
Playing dota a lot more, no longer a feeder. Holding my own with a few heroes. Choice among Viper, Luna, Silencer, Harbinger and Earthshaker.
No heating at my room in EIU, freezing daily.
Raiding becoming time-consuming, might take a break for Spring Vacation.
Recovered from strep throat last week, though trying to get back on a sleep schedule after sleeping in to beat it.
Many reports and essays due soon. Life sucks.
WoW scene losing its fun.
Looking for friends and fun.
LFG Life.

~ Chris

Well it's certainly been a while since I've updated, and it's been a bumpy and difficult semester, no thanks to my overappreciation for games and sleep and underappreciation for getting work done on time.

Fall 2006 is over and the year of 2006 is close to its end as well. I achieved very much and very little this year, and looking back now from where I stand it has not been a pleasant or proud year. I joined a full-time raiding guild in WoW to become what I'd always dreamed of becoming: a hardcore gamer. Enjoying the nightlife of being no more dedicated than the other addicts, I found a place among hardcore gamers who, with me helping, did some pretty awesome things together. The expansion is three weeks away and a new and challenging world lays before us.

In school I slacked off big-time, blaming my late work and lack of quality on my long work nights and periodic diseases as opposed to taking time off my gaming schedule. I lost inspiration and drive in my writing classes, and failed to realized when to quit early before a bad grade became permanent on my GPA. After finding myself in the hole a few weeks before finals, I failed to shake off my vices and fought an uphill battle against my already falling grades. Though sleep deprivation, hard work and some divine intervention, I managed not to fail any of my classes this semester. That's the good news.

The bad news is this has all come at a high price, all this fun and suffering. I've lost 20 pounds, developed more of a habit for needing sleep most of the day, and earned myself a 0.80 drop in my GPA from the previous year. I have one semester left to pick up my three-year cumulative GPA by 0.17 points or else I will be dropped from the Honors College. So the message is crystal clear: I fucked up this semester, and I have another 5 months to get it straightened out. The focus is grades, and less on working and playing after hours.

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So now that that's out of the way I can get back to my normal blogging antics. I have possibly three or four women online greatly attracted to me and I won't lie when I say it's both frightening and awesome at the same time. One lives in Utah and is 24, one in Indiana and is 33, and another is in Virginia and is 20. All gamers, all scaling back from playing WoW as much as they used to because it's become more demanding than real life - which defeats the purpose of games entirely.

Despite my tenure of bad grades plaguing my GPA, my parents are giving me the benefit of the doubt by allowing me to spend a week's vacation in Chicago with John Giovenco, my buddy-brother from our jr-high-highschool years. I leave the 30th to come back to EIU on the 7th.

.... I am told that John is holding a BIG get-together party at his place for the new year's and following days. This may be one of our last chances before the rigors of senior year set on. So I look forward to seeing as many of my old friends this winter! Oh, and I WONT be playing WoW during that time - my guild practices DOTA in between raids and I've become TONS better. We can have some nasty all-day-long/all-night-long DOTA parties too! I have to get to some chores today before my scheduled raid, but I love talking about DotA.

Currently my best heroes are:
1) Viper
2) Luna
3) Venomancer
4) Techies
5) Lich
6) Earthshaker

I'm playing around more and more with -arem so we can get ready for our get-together.

Well I haven't forgotten Jun or Cal yet - I'm busy despite this blasted 'vacation.' Cal, I know you're doing well and in getting exposed to a wonderful future in higher education - live it up and appreciate it while you can, for nothing good ever lasts nowadays. If I can help it, I will make it a point of mine to write more often and share more of our adventures through our fiction. Maybe that will cheer things up for the both of us - Silverheart is feeling rather defeated at the moment and could use a good friend.

Well it's time to get some lunch and to my chores - then I gotta call John for the details of my flight plans. Talk to everyone soon and hoping you're having a great Christmas!

Toodles.

Find me a home...

John, my parents made arrangements for me to pay you a visit in Hoffman Estates for winter break starting December 30th and going for a week. I'm really looking forward to visiting you if it's not too much trouble. Let me know if it's possible to pull off again and what your parents think, if it's a viable option.

In other news.... I have to go to class!

[Flarecore Leggings] + [Robes of the Guardian Saint] + [Gavel of Infinite Wisdom] + [Lei of the Lifegiver] + [Bindings of Transcendence] = ZOMGWTFPWNBBQSAUCE!!!

No joke. All happening this week. Hellz yeah.

Gingerbreak cookies ftw. I miss eggnog already - I think I'm going through withdrawl. EGGNOG!!!

Poopbuckets in a pita!

I've only just now been flagged for classs registration, thanks to the slow and inefficient process of getting a writing portfolio registered.... and two of my scheduled classes are FULL.

I'm going back to advising so see what they can cook up. I'm hating the system even more right now.

My parents just read the DEN article on my gaming addiction.

Sitting here at my computer desk at work, I listen to music from sold of my older games and I think back to the days I used to share with my friends back in Hoffman Estates.

Day after day, night after night, hours after school gets out playing Magic: The Gathering in the hallways and at John's house... Playing Phantasy Star Online at my house, at John's house, at Jameson's house, leveling characters we played together with for half a year... Four years of Super Bowl Sundays spent playing Magic in front of the TV... three years of LAN parties at John's, the house filled with video games like Mario Party 5, Star Ocean 3 and DOTA... Six years of birthday parties spent role-playing and playing Starcraft, Diablo and Wacraft on our spare hours... Arena Games, DMZ and more... Final Fantasy 7 and Valkyrie Profile at Jameson and Jimmy's... outdoor hotdog cookouts while playing basketball and Magic in the lukewarm breeze of spring... 10-minute walks to and from my house to deliver John's birthday presents to him personally... Final Fantasy Tactics Advance sleepovers mixed in with D&D campaign nights with Alyssa, Andy and the guys... seven years of an unrelentingly generous second life at John's home, a sanctuary for me to run and hide in when my parents were too much...

Christ... I wish I could have it all back. I miss you guys. I know I enjoyed and too advantage of every day of those seven years with you all, but it sucks that I'm no longer there to live it up with you.

I can never truly return home for long, and I miss you guys a lot.

~ Chris