[2003.07.17 1546h]

   [music] linkin park \\ faint

in this entry, i will attempt to break my habit of starting all my entries
with the word "so".  so far, so good.

i got my midterm back for the class i'm not taking.  apparently, i only
missed 1 point, so i am quite happy with my performance.  i do, however,
after looking at the question in which i missed the point, feel that it
was a somewhat unjust deduction, but i don't feel like arguing for the
point, as since i am not taking this class for a grade anyway.  it would
have been nice, though, to have aced a midterm for a class i wasn't
taking.  alas.

so, in high school writing classes, i was taught to try to write smooth
transitions from paragraph to paragraph.  however, it seems as if i can't
do this easily with these diary entries, since they are usually an amalgam
of random items that i happen to have thought about recently.  sometimes,
i tack on a "so" in front of a paragraph, as i have done with this one, in
order to at least have some semblance of a transition.  however, this poor
tactic is really getting overused.  so i think i'm just going to give up
on these sad attempts at transition, and abruptly switch from subject to
subject whenever i feel like it.  if you, kind reader, feel as if this
lack of transitions is akin to some level of blasphemy, and would much
rather see poorly written transitions than none at all, please let me know.

i have a playstation 2 in my room.  it's plugged into the video card of my
computer, so i can basically play games on it any time i want.  however,
the sad thing is that i rarely ever play any games with it.  i seem to
always be too busy doing other stuff, like keeping this diary, and going
to classes i'm not enrolled in.  so i rarely ever get around to playing
games i really want to play.

so i don't understand why role playing games are getting longer and
longer.  i'd say many of the popular rpgs coming out nowadays would take
at least 50 hours to beat, but i wouldn't know, seeing that i don't have
that much time on my hands.  some rpgs seem to brag about how they have
over 80 hours of gameplay.  however, knowing that finishing an rpg would
require at least 80 hours of my time would simply make me feel as if i
shouldn't even start to play the game in the first place, as since i know
i would probably never be able to finish it.