Just figured I would write a quick little blog about summer life so far. I haven't had class 5 days a week since high school, and I definately don't miss it at all. Fortuantely I am on a decent sleep schedule so I am able to wake up and run and work out before I go to my first class at 11. My life the past week has been relatively different compared to how I have been living the previous couple months. I had been totally into just sitting around gaming with classes only on Mondays and Wednesdays and having 5 days a week off, but now that I am forced to attend class Monday-Friday, I have found myself preoccupied with activites I had pushed aside in my enthusiasim for gaming.

I had played soccer from 1st grade up until freshman year of college and I enjoyed watching sports all the time. But as time went on and I pursued a potential career in playing professionally in Halo 2, I gave up a lot of things that I used to love. The most I would watch TV was to watch Sportscenter in the mornings and football on Sundays. For some reason now, the past month or so I have somewhat fallen away from the 6 hours a day of gaming and moved to doing the things I used to love. For example, the past week I have been getting up early to exercise, going to class from 11-3:15, then coming home to either watch playoff hockey or basketball. I guess I can attribute my lack of gaming time to my emense hatred for Halo 3 and my boredom with Call of Duty 4. It seems that no one plays with their brain and all first person shooting has become a rushing frenzy with no thought of the consequences one's actions will have on the team or the course of the game. I reached the top 500 in Call of Duty 4's kill leaderboards and had one of the top 50 kills per death ratio, but by that time I grew bored of the lack of competition that Call of Duty 4 had and I was irritated that because Call of Duty was on on the MLG pro circuit, it started losing all the better players to Halo 3. So the past couple weeks I had been trying to get into Halo 3, but the game to me is horrid. It might be the most inconsistent game to date and that is all do to the horrible mechanics of the game. But enough of that; now I am starting to play Call of Duty 4 again in the hopes that the competition has increased or hoping that I can run across players and teams who use strategy and dont just rush with their fully automatic guns without any care in the world. I really look forward to playing with friends I havent talked to in a while and playing CoD4 and enjoying it once again.

Aside from gaming, I just feel like telling you a little about me. As you probably have read from my page, I attend Florida State University (one of the greatest colleges in the country in my opinion), I am a finance major in my senior year, and I pretty much love the show Seinfeld and Larry David's show on HBO called Curb Your Enthusiasm. If you haven't seen these, I highly recommend them as they are hiliarious (again in my opinion). Other than that I am pretty easy going, have a good sense of humor, and I am a competitior at heart, but I also want to have fun :)

Thats about all I can think of right now, if you want to play with me on XBL, just send a message to IHadeS. My list is usually full, but I am always adding and deleting people I haven't played with in months. Just send me a message with you friend request, because I don't accept random friend request, sorry :(

EDIT: There is one more thing i want to talk about (and most of you won't care about this) but I have been really, really happy the last couple months.  I was in a pretty down place around the Christmas holidays and over the last couple months I have been able to renew my relationship with my girlfriend, Amanda (most of you know her as Miz Calamity).  We have been dating for the past 15 months and we drifted apart around last July, for reasons I won't go into here.  But what it came down to is that we just stopped talking; and I don't mean just talking at all, but talking about things that actually mattered such as how we were feeling, what upset us, and various other things.  In January we got to a breaking point and took a little break from each other to clear our thoughts.  In the end, both of us realized that relationships take work and we really missed being around each other so we decided to start over and work things out.  Now we are closer than we have ever been and it has been a great past couple of months.  She is my inspiration for everything I do and I have seen her grow as a person, a writer, and an artist.  I have always done well in school and in things that I tried, but I never had the will to do the absolute best I could.  Getting a chance to watch her live her dreams (even if they are in the beginnning stages) and all the hard work and long hours she puts in, has inspired me to be the best that I can be.  I have watchd her determination and character grow and to tell you the truth, I couldn't be more proud of anyone as I am her...