A Week!

Now I know I earned all A's. One year to go to keep that up for undergrad. I don't pick classes based on what I think I can get A's in, so it's good when I think I'm going to be wiped out (oh, to condescend to a B) that I still get it.

And darn well I should, in Restoration Literature. Aced that final. It's possible but unlikely for a math one. For an English one, it's even more improbable. There're so many ways to potentially be wrong. All of it was identification or explication, but bring out the wrong thing, make an incorrect assumption... which happens all the time, even outside tests.

But now I've been out of school for a week this Wednesday, and as of 2:25, without any exam. It feels pretty good.

Anyway, what I've been doing with my mornings and afternoons off:
7-9 - Wake up, read paper, all of that.
9-11 - Read Chaucer for a while (I'm most of the way through the Knight's Tale, the first one of The Canterbury Tales... I average about 700 or so lines a day) and then read something more... modern. (Just finished a Star Wars book, not sure what next).
11-1 - Play an RPG (Kingdom Hearts 2 is my current project. See below.)
1-1:30 - Lunch! (Pizza today.)
1:30-3 - Study for GRE

And then after that I either read more, play games with Scott, play games on the computer, or go out. If I go out earlier I can normally get things done around that. It's very flexible and times often change, but I still get most of this done, at minimum.

Now, Kingdom Hearts II. It's a game with both Squaresoft characters (a game company) and Disney characters. So you control Sora, a fifteen year-old on a journey with Donald and Goofy to cleanse the world of Heartless and Nobodies, both dark entities with their own instincts or purpose. All this time you're trying to find King Mickey, who is more covertly fighting them. Using a gummi ship, you travel through different Disney-themed worlds. So far there's been Mulan, Pooh, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules, Steamboat Willie, and there's about to be Pirates of the Carribean. In addition, there are popular characters that come around often, like (I'll list the Disney ones) Merlin, Chip and Dale, that one wizard from Fantasia, Malificent, Pete, Minnie, Daisy, and others.

A lot of the charm of the game is nostalgia, but the gameplay is also fun, if you like slashing around quickly with a keyblade. It also has a coherent story, as I mentioned earlier, though I can't say much about it yet. In any case, I enjoy it.

And finally, Saturday evening I went to the Beachhaven Winery with Katie, Diana, and Jon for Jazz on the Lawn. I discovered that I like sweet wines far more (even peach!), and Katie's friends weren't scary, but interesting. I didn't talk too much, but I did dance like a blazing fool. Afterward I went to Books-a-Million and scoured the books for an hour. I could've spent more time, but it was past 10 by then, so I decided to just head on home.