It started off shitty because I went to the train station and realized that I had forgotten my backpack which had my paper that was due for my night class. I tried ditching my first class to go to the computer lab to redo my paper but Blackboard was down so I couldn’t do shit. I went to my class, which was a lot of fun for the professor because he likes listening to himself. Then my day got better because I went out to eat with my friends. At that point, I just decided to ditch class. After lunch we went and smoked hookah, and then decided to go eat around 6:00. At 6:15 my friend sends me a text message asking if I heard about the bomb threat. Bomb threat? Turns out my school received a bomb threat so all night classes in my building got canceled! Sweet! After an awesome dinner at Wildfire, I came home and waiting for me was a little brown Amazon.com box. Inside it? Grand Turismo 5: Prologue. Fuck yeah!

Sorry, people like this sick fuck need to be guillotined in public.

Today as I got off the Library L station I walked right into a set for the television show E.R. I didn’t see any actors because the crew was still setting up, but I did walk by those chairs that the stars sit in. It was pretty cool to see each actor’s name embroidered in the backrest with their character’s name underneath that. That set was just one of the 50+ sets currently in Chicago. This is wild cause Chicago hasn’t seen so much film presence before. It’s boomed in the past few years, probably thanks to Vince Vaughn.

…if they invent plug-and-play networking.

My first week of my last quarter in college went well. I like most of my professors, my classes are cool (they’re all electives, so they better be), and there’s hot bitches in my classes. This is going to be a good quarter, I can feel it.

On a side note, the people involved in my university’s Game Development Program and are part of the core community in our game labs are primarily clickish douchebags. The majority of them have a “holier than thou” attitude and if you’re not one of them, you have no chance of ever being one of them. They’re “cool” gamers. God forbid you don’t play Warcraft III (primarily DotA) or Guitar Hero, or listen to the same music they do. Plus it’s funny to see them have power struggles over the video game club leader positions. It’s like seeing three year olds fight over candy.

Yes, we all thought this year’s April Fool’s jokes by Blizzard (the Bard class and Molten Core) were funny. What we didn’t find funny was Blizzard’s realm downtimes today. I had 3 hours to kill between classes, I was thinking of leveling up my Warlock. I had it all planned out. See, here was my plan:

1. Get out of International Marketing
2. Buy textbooks
3. Eat
4. LOG ON TO WORLD OF WARCRAFT AND LEVEL UP MY WARLOCK
5. Go to Effective Business Communication

Steps 1-3 went as planned. I was about to start step 4 when I saw that all servers were down and they were going up one by one very slowly. Blizzard stated in its in-game message that all servers should be up by 2:00pm PST. It’s 5:30pm CST, meaning 3:30pm PST and most are still not up. Oh, look, they updated the message. Now servers should be up by 4:00pm PST. God dammit Blizzard, NOT FUNNY!

This. Is. HUGE! It’s been over 10 years since I played Star Wars: Dark Forces. I remember trying to install it about 6 years ago but it wouldn’t work. Today for some weird reason I decided to see if I could successfully install it. I did a bit of research and lo and behold, I finally got it to work! I can either run it using VDM Sound or using Microsoft Virtual PC 2004. I’m gonna be up all night…..