Just A Quick One (Maybe Not)

Lots of shit going on, so I feel the need to post. First and foremost - I am now under the watchful eye of something called Kid Defender. Apparently this program is designed to defend me from kids or something, amiright? Actually, my mom has decided that she can't trust me because of some random occurrence while I was on vacation, someone accessed my uncles computer and "supposedly" (this is filtered through like 3 people here) got onto a porn site or something. While I DID go on his computer without permission (it was my last day in Tennessee, so my comp was packed up, and it was too early to wake up my uncle and ask him, and the thing was ON, and had been all night, in the room where I slept), I would have never used it to access porn or something like that. I know better, and , hell, I wouldn't know where to find any of that shit NOW. *Halo appears (the angelic kind, you X-Box junkies)* My other thought was, why is that such a big deal? I am, last time I checked, 19, and therefore old enough to view pornographic images, so there's nothing wrong there. Again, I'm not saying I DID such a thing, because I didn't, I swear to my neverending spirit. (Note to self, post views on religion later.) But yeah, because of that, I get my AIM convos logged, and my sites logged, and all sorts of invasions of privacy I shouldn't have to put up with. On one level I wonder if my mother is going to find this Blog. [obligatory ass covering]I bet she will, because she's that smart. [/obligatory ass covering]

I'm sure some of you may be wondering, "But Greg, you're a good kid, you don't do bad things, so what are you worried about?" I'll tell you what I'm worried about, in the form of a nifty anecdote. A few months ago (April, I believe), I met over the internet a Philly girl named Marie. She was very nice, and quickly became my first online girlfriend. (I'm still debating whether or not Kathy Blau gets the position of "All State First GF Ever".) But anyway, Marie was the first girlfriend I'd had in my adolescent life. I was a little embarrassed of this fact, and just, in general, didn't want my family to get wind of this, if I could avoid it. Of course, my brother had to find out and go running to my mom "GREG'S GOT A GIRLFRIEND!!" This did not make Greg happy. I really did not enjoy the ribbing I was getting for having an online girlfriend at dinner EACH AND EVERY NIGHT! It seriously pissed me off. And so, I've tried to avoid any other leaks about my online personal life. To this day, my mom still thinks I'm serious about Marie, when I haven't really had much of a conversation with the girl in months. That's why the monitoring thing bugs me. I am no longer free to hit on girls in the singles chat room without my mom knowing all the juicy details before I get done. Kinda ruins the mood, you know? '

Plus, the words "RECOMMENDED FOR KIDS 4-12" appear on the box. There is no one in this house with those ages.

In other news, I'm officially a college drop out. Remember in the last post, where I boasted about having reinrolled for the same classes I'd failed last semester. Well, it seems that by the time that post was up, I had missed the deadline to pay for them, and was unceremoniously DROPPED from the classes, with no chance to re-enlist. So, I'm still officially a High School Graduate, nothing more, nothing less. I'm going to claim this as my year off, and get a job.

Yes, you heard right, Greg is getting a job. Where, I'm not sure, but from what I've seen so far, I'm actually considering the full time position at EB Games. Not like I have anything better to do, right? And there are definitely worse jobs out there. (Like my last one, at McDonald's.) Getting paid to stock shelves and discuss video games 6 days a week sounds like fun. All I need now is a way to sneak FFX into the store so I can work on my game. But on the plus side, all the time I "waste" playing Final Fantasy or reading Electronic Gaming Monthly is now time spent doing job related research, much like Blockbuster employees are required to watch new releases when the come out to be well versed in the stock. My only question is how I'm going to settle my strong biases, though really, I don't have much, aside from "Halo is the only reason to buy an X-Box" (the video game type, you angel junkies). And in my opinion, even Halo isn't worth the $300 or more dollar investment Microsoft is asking. Just get an N64 with Goldeneye and Perfect Dark for maybe $150, max.

Congratulations go out to Dan ****** (last name omitted), who correctly named the source of the quote: "Cool? Daddy-o, we are FROZEN!" - Dask, from "Hot Rodding Teenagers From Dimension X", a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode. I suppose I should offer apologies to you all, as apparently, Daddy-o should have been "Daddio". But that's all part of the chase. Anyway, here is Dan's prize - a "Glowing" descrition by yours truly.

So, who is Dan? Currently, he's a UT student here in Austin, who regularly visits his Lakeway home, helping me keep the mileage on my van down. He is a networking genius, except he cannot seem to get my computer to read his on the same network. Still, he knows more than me on the subject, and has become my family's go-to man when we find a problem I can't solve, but isn't worth the long distance to call my Uncle. He also puts these network skills to good use by being a hot hand at the stick in Starlancer (though, despite the fact that neither Matt and I were able to complete Mission 3 or 4 last night alive, he was unable to top out kill counts for the evening. (Matt and I stayed relatively close, though my massive dying may have given him something of an edge.) He is also a great sniper in FPS games like the ultra cheap Mobile Forces ($2 at EB Games), which frustrates me, because his sniping is faster than my locked on rockets, despite the prettier explosions mine yield. And I suppose that's Dan in a nutshell. If you want to know more about him, you can contact him on AIM as ICE ATAIM (unless he doesn't want this, in which case, this blurb will have disappeared in a few days, and YOU WON'T KNOW! *Cackles maniacly.*

Before I go, I suppose I need to set up a new quote for you all to guess. This one will be a little more recent, but hopefully just as obscure. Good luck.

"I miss you, cupcake." - Name the Show, Character, and Episode in question.
Good luck, everyone. (Except Dan, he's ineligable)

Okay, one more thing I've gotta do, you know what it is...!
DO IT ROCKAPELLA!!!!!!!!!!!
*Rocks out to Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiago theme.*