(I apologize for any spelling errors, I do not have an English spellchecker)

Being away from FFXI for over two months now (I'm on vacation in Sweden), I have grown a stronger sense or realization as to what really made the game fun and not fun.

Fun- The Community: Simply put, FFXI has the best community of any MMORPG. Sure you have your village ( Read more... )

It seems like no matter how socially distraught one person is, they can constantly talk about the weather until their head explodes.

I have grown to achieve a certain mental clarity here in Sweden. So many things have just became so clear to me and I have come to several realizations ( Read more... )

I have recently attended the Roskilde Festival, the largest festival in Northern Europe and the second largest festival in the world.

http://www.semmog.org/roskilde/roskilde2006.html

Read all about it here:

http://www.semmog.org/hultsfred/hultsfred2006.html

-Begin training in Brazilan Jiu-Jitsu (or something similar)
-Learn the Chinese language
-Get 2 if not 3 jobs and save a ton of money
-Buy a 4 channel mixer and a microphone
-Work extensively on my vocal and piano techniques

and finally...

-Save as much money as possible to move to New York City

After living in Sweden for almost two weeks now and turning on my "social butterfly" aspect of my personality, I have learned and experienced many things about the Swedish culture so far. Many of these things I will draw comparsions about towards American culture, seeing as it is truly the only culture I have a strong grasp of after living there ( Read more... )

First off, I got to try out these bad boys for a little while:


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Brief update

FFXI: lots of junk has happened. got diabolos. SMN AF2 bracers. found a stable and reliable way to make money. finally hit 75 also.

RL: feels really, really weird to be all done with school. hoepfully going to sweden in feb.. going to apply to a couple of law schools also. hope i get into at least one.. /crosses fingers