Just a little about my life

This is my first blog. I never found them interesting or whatnot, but since I'm pretty good at typing....why not?

Where should I start? I think I'll start with my schedule. My school generally changes, but I always go on Mondays and Wednesdays, my only days off from work. Once I get out of school, I have to do all of my homework that day, otherwise I fall behind. It's bad enough that I struggle with material even after doing homework and studying notes.
Next would be work. AH YES, my job. I work at Wal-Mart. Everyday from 2-11pm except on Mondays and Wednesdays, I work at the best and worst job I've ever had. The best because the pay isn't really that bad, and they're willing to work around my school schedule. The worst because of the people I have to deal with - both customers AND associates. I work in the back room to avoid dealing with customers, but inevitably it's impossible to avoid them all day. Even my own crew is a let-down. I honestly feel that I am the hardest worker back there. There are a few other people who do work hard at their individual tasks and actually try...but the rest of them just don't care (edited lol). I push myself so hard just to try and help everybody out. If I get done early, I'll help them with their tasks, just for them to end up leaving when 11pm hits....and there's still work to be done. I developed the worst part of my personality working at Wal-Mart, and all the people I have to deal with. If I didn't work there, I'd be so much happier...

Now let's move onto something a little more cheerful: Video games. And not just any video games, FIGHTING GAMES. It started out with probably Mortal Kombat on the 32-bit Sega Genesis, and then it moved on to Street Fighter on the Sega and then Super Nintendo. I remember trying to play Street Fighter in the arcade while I was younger and was not very good because of the joystick layout. I developed a fear of playing on stick very young. But going back to the subject, I never actually really took fighting games seriously until 2006. That's when it hit me that I have to actually PRACTICE outside of doing casuals and complaining whenever I mess up and lose (which I still do by the way). Unfortunately, I'm still not that good, even with practice. I finally bought a stick back in October 2007, and a new one in April. I still have difficulties doing motions seeing as I've only been playing stick since October '07.

I have so many fighting games that I own, but the one that I mainly play is called "Arcana Heart". She is the love of my life. She the one I talk to when I'm down and stressed. She cheers me up when I do one combo correctly that I've been practicing for over a month :D Speaking of which, I finally did the first part of possibly the hardest combo in the game after a little over a month of practicing it. I have not been able to pull it off again, however. The more videos I watch, the more discouraged I get....I mean, some of this stuff I see is beyond my mental capacity and execution. I can understand most of it, but I just can't do it myself. I keep trying to tell myself to stop being so negative and either practice more or use an easier character, but I'm being stubborn. It makes perfect sense to just use someone easier, but that's like 7 months focused on one character down the drain. I've asked questions, practiced, researched, put in the effort, and focused. I seem to come up short though. It may be mental block, or just a severe case of "beating myself up too much". Either way, I need to go back to basics and remember why I began playing video games. Last time I checked, they were supposed to be fun. With all of the competition. ego trips, and selfless jerks these days, it's so easy to forget that.

By this point, I'm pretty sure you realize that I take video games too seriously. The way I see it, I have to. I don't do anything else besides work and go to school, both full time. After I take care of all of my obligations, there's really nothing left to do but to play video games. I play them to cope, because my life is so stressful and I generally don't talk to people about my problems. I think it's important to find my own answers to my problems, and 'video games' seem to work fine most of the time.

I won't even talk about women. Let's just say that I don't plan on dating ever again. Oh yeah, there's this game I want.....

The last thing I want to bring up about my life is the type of music I listen to. If you haven't guessed it by now, I listen to Japanese music. That is ALL I listen to. Seriously. Like right now, I'm listening to a song called "Distance" by Nami Tamaki. Bet you've never heard of her. If you have, then introduce yourself to me (lol). I don't know jack about music in the country that I live in...and I don't really care. As horrid and close-minded as that sounds, I like what I like. I'm not going to force myself to listen to something that I don't enjoy listening to. I don't understand most of the lyrics, but I can translate some. My major is going to be in Japanese once I transfer to OSU, so I think it's purely coincidental that some T.V. programs I watch, video games I play, and music I listen to are in Japanese. I do love that language.

That's pretty much me in a nutshell. Thank you very much if you bothered to read this far. I actually had fun typing this.