heh. I love Christmas break. No more spending my break rushing to drive siblings and parents to work at awful hours of the morning (and then go to work myself)... no, this year I stay up all night playing videogames... and sleep all day. Very very nice. I haven't had time to really play video games since.... before midterms. *sigh*.
And now the moment you have all been waiting for (or not)... my thoughts on Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. Actually, I like it. Which is good, since i went through Hell, two Wal-marts and a Best Buy to get it (I am begining to think that hell and Wal-mart resemble each other somewhat...). But I digress. The new combat system.... is ok. I like it, I manage to kick butt with it (most of the time). I guess they couldn't manage the exploding menu thing from the first one on the GBA. But they worked the card system into the plot very nicely. The plot is also very cool, at least as far as I've gotten in it (I'm between the 10th and 11th floors, there are 13). And rumor has it that once I beat the game as Sora I can play the Riku part of the game (which is different than Sora's game). This makes me happy. As far as time spent... it's about an hour a floor for the lower floors, about an hour and a half for the upper floors so far, and about 15 minutes for the Winnie the Pooh floor. I think I've spent about 12 hours on my ten floors. All in all, I think the game is success (but not sure how well everyone else liked it... Chad hates the card system).
In other news, Chad and I are in Huntsville for another couple of days. We're leaving the 23rd or 24th. And we'll be going to Memphis for a week or so, then home... For school to start :-) (I have to finish Kingdome Hearts before then).
Anyway, gotta run now... need to like, visit with my family or something. :-)
omg. I live in a void of technology. Kingdom Heats: Chain of Memories came out yesterday... And like any good groupie, I went to GameStop to get one. They didn't have it. Neither did Wal-Mart. Forget for a moment the fact that I can't actually open the box until tomorrow night... I want to have it, to hold in my hand, to giv eme the extra incentive to finish. *sigh*
the list is getting shorter: one take home assignment (due tomorrow), one project (due wednesday), on final (wednesday), and one presentation (Thursday). I might not die between now and then...
There's nothing like turning in a project report 4 hours late and only half done to make your day... especially if you're turning it in to your major professor. *sigh* But he was understanding, I guess... the full report isn't due till Monday now.
And I have a meeting for work today... with little tangible progress to show (I have made a couple of breakthroughs, but mostly it involves correcting stupid mistakes I had made, or misconceptions about how Java and OpenSees work together). Yeah. No deliverables. I'm so gonna have to work my butt off next week.
But... I have 2 projects left to turn in, one assignment, a test and a presentation. And then I'm done for the break. Yay for me. And I definately have my required 3.0 gpa... looking at somewhere between 3.6 and 4.0 (don't hold your breathe for the 4.0, it involves making pretty high grades on the final and project in SEII).
Speaking of SEII... omg. That class is so the bane of my existance at the moment. I have walked, talked, eaten and dreamed this stupid reservation system for like, two weeks (dude... maybe that's why I didn't get any real work done...). I took it home with me over break. I have put blood sweat and tears into this stupid project... and it doesn't work. Not only that... One person from the other teams has offered to help us integrate (besides the e-mail dude who thinks I'm stupid). One person. Out of 8. Nice. Since, you know, integration is only the responsibility of the interface people. Because that's how the syllabus has it divided.... NOT. This is so supposed to be everyone's thing. But no. It belongs to the Yellow Darts (that's us). *sigh* I hate group projects.
On the upside of group projects though... there is a small possibility that one of my group projects might get published... though I won't know anything probably until after the break. Interesting to note, though.
Yeah. I will resurface sometime after the 9th, when my final assignment (the presentation) is done. Until then, I'll be working on stuff.
This is my brain..... in part, at least.
