On a lighter note
2007-Oct-16, Tuesday 23:29
A lot of my recent posts have been just a massive bitchfest, so I thought I would post something happier and more uplifting about the things that have been going on my life. Then I got a call from the insurance company saying that, due to a miscommunication, they need ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
schoolpsychnerd's father's driver's license number, SS and DOB as well as his address, and they'll cancel her policy if we don't get it to them by 8 a.m. tomorrow.
But, true to my promise to myself, I will not launch into a massive rant about insurance.
Life is pretty good. I got War of the Lions, the remake of Final Fantasy Tactics, yesterday. They redid all the dialogue to make it more true to the original as well as translated it in a more Middle English style. So, one of the first quotes from Ramza is him yelling, "Throw down your swords, or die still clutching them!" to a bunch of thieves. I'm only in the first battle, and I can tell it was made before Disgaea, but I've still repeatedly been told that the price of a PSP was worth it for the ability to play this game, so we'll see if people are right.
I can't get too far until I beat Xenogears, though. I'm almost to disk 2 of that game, and I hear disk 2 is about half the length of disk 1. So that'll be done soon. It's weird...I'm starting to find that classic RPG battle systems annoy the hell out of me, and in RPGs with them I tend to prefer the cutscenes. I really liked FFXII's system (though I haven't played much of it), but in Xenosaga my favorite parts were the story cutscenes.
schoolpsychnerd and I finished our literacy volunteer teaching class today. It was pretty short (just 15 hours), but since we elected to get placed in ESL classes we'll have the teacher's guidance to draw on as well. I'm hoping we get placed in classes on the same day, since otherwise it'll eat up two of our nights together per week, which would be pretty annoying. Putting us in the same class would be overkill and a waste of resources, though, so we'll see what they pick.
I love being able to cook for myself. I could have cooked back when I was at Penn, but usually didn't, partially out of laziness, partially because of all the food carts selling good food for cheap, and partially because our fridge was 70% drinks since none of us drank the same stuff as anyone else. Now that I live with someone who shares most of my tastes in food and my enjoyment of cooking, it's easy to cook plenty of good food whenever we want. The only problem is the massive number of leftovers that stuff our fridge...
schoolpsychnerd's father's driver's license number, SS and DOB as well as his address, and they'll cancel her policy if we don't get it to them by 8 a.m. tomorrow.But, true to my promise to myself, I will not launch into a massive rant about insurance.
Life is pretty good. I got War of the Lions, the remake of Final Fantasy Tactics, yesterday. They redid all the dialogue to make it more true to the original as well as translated it in a more Middle English style. So, one of the first quotes from Ramza is him yelling, "Throw down your swords, or die still clutching them!" to a bunch of thieves. I'm only in the first battle, and I can tell it was made before Disgaea, but I've still repeatedly been told that the price of a PSP was worth it for the ability to play this game, so we'll see if people are right.
I can't get too far until I beat Xenogears, though. I'm almost to disk 2 of that game, and I hear disk 2 is about half the length of disk 1. So that'll be done soon. It's weird...I'm starting to find that classic RPG battle systems annoy the hell out of me, and in RPGs with them I tend to prefer the cutscenes. I really liked FFXII's system (though I haven't played much of it), but in Xenosaga my favorite parts were the story cutscenes.
schoolpsychnerd and I finished our literacy volunteer teaching class today. It was pretty short (just 15 hours), but since we elected to get placed in ESL classes we'll have the teacher's guidance to draw on as well. I'm hoping we get placed in classes on the same day, since otherwise it'll eat up two of our nights together per week, which would be pretty annoying. Putting us in the same class would be overkill and a waste of resources, though, so we'll see what they pick.I love being able to cook for myself. I could have cooked back when I was at Penn, but usually didn't, partially out of laziness, partially because of all the food carts selling good food for cheap, and partially because our fridge was 70% drinks since none of us drank the same stuff as anyone else. Now that I live with someone who shares most of my tastes in food and my enjoyment of cooking, it's easy to cook plenty of good food whenever we want. The only problem is the massive number of leftovers that stuff our fridge...
