Ocean fish destroy mass media!
I have managed to successfully navigate the twisting labyrinth that is a the Lewis and Clark College of Arts and Sciences Bureaucracy. Like the determined Salmon swimming upstream, I had to weave between rapids, climb waterfalls, and avoid marauding bears such as the vacation status of half of the people I need to speak with. As it stands, I am currently awaiting approval of my petition for financial aid, which I am 94.3% confident I will receive in full as per my last two semesters. However, tracking down the visiting professor to get my four incomplete credits from may be more challenging as he is no longer a faculty member of Lewis and Clark. Aiee.
In between such soirees I have been currently working on my summer project: doing nothing for three months. So far, I have been enormously successful in my endeavors to sleep in, play video games, and avoid working in any way. Now that I have the ball rolling on all of this school business I plan to take care of a few loose ends I have been avoiding for the last few months. This includes the possibility of transferring credits I earned at Mt. Hood Community College during high school to Lewis and Clark. Out of twenty-seven credits, I think I might be able to get about six credits, which isn't bad at all.
Gaming: For those of you "in the know," Brad introduced me to the Ars Magica: Fourth Edition roleplaying game, and I've totally fallen in love with the magic system. It is by far the best gaming system for magic I have ever seen; much, much better than any of the editions of White Wolf publishing's popular game Mage: The Ascension. Also, thanks to Andrew I now have a spiffy NES emulator, with one of my all time favorite games, Mike Tyson's: Punch Out!! additionally, I also acquired from him my long sought after ROM of Mario Brothers 64 for my N64 emulator. Of course, I got myself a crack of Ground Control II: Operation Exodus which is disgustingly awesome and fun. I loved the first game, and the second has totally blown away all of my expectations. I recommend the game to anyone interested in real-time strategy games but hates resource management. Finally, I've begun to actually write my Vampire: The Masquerade chronicle for next year. Not just come up with the story in my head, but actually write it down, with pre-generated NPC's and minions, roleplaying notes, and overall goals for each section of the story. I find that when I do things like this, my games run much more smoothly and enjoyably for the players. I'm really excited about this game next year, and I hope I we get a good turn-out of players like we did last year. The game is designed to work with player groups of 14-20 people, I just need to find some narrators/storytellers to help me out...
For the most part, though, I'm pretty bored out there, and if anyone out there in blogger land who lives around Portland wants to go chill, e-mail, call, or use some sort of smoke signal to communicate with me.
