…Try to stay in my apartment. Movies seem to show survivors always on the move, but I think it’s just for the sake of changing the scenery. Our apartment is on the top floor, has a balcony that no one could jump to, and our hallway has these huge metal firedoors that would close only 2 other units in with us. Both middle-aged couples, so we’d be able to take’em out if they were infected. Stock my room with a few hockey sticks and I’d be good to go for a few months just living off rice.

Few things I’ve been distracted by lately.

Borderlands
Trent picked this up for the PS3 and we’ve been playing it split screened offline. I have to use his account, so I don’t really have a character which sort of sucks. I used to scoff at the girls who’d only have characters for games on their boyfriends’ accounts, but goddamnit I’m on a budget right now. As it stands, I still hate playing an FPS using a controller. Any gun I pick up has to have high accuracy relative to its type because I’m so bad at aiming with the stupid nubby sticks.

Major complaint so far is respawn rate. Holy god. I don’t know if I’m just bad (I average at best at first person shooters) or it’s actually harder to play through with only two people in the game, but respawns eat our asses. Fighting through the same area several times because a quest sends you back and forth really bites for the ammo stock.

Minor complaint is lack of introduction. You get thrown into the world with very little instruction as to how the game…works. I don’t know how to use a med pack without going into my inventory yet. Granted, I haven’t tried very hard, but that kind of stuff should be made a little more transparent. I’d be blown away if it wasn’t possible at all.

Other than those things, fun game to co-op. Going to play more once I finish writing this.

Another layout
I’m planning to separate my “portfolio” out of this site and into a separate page. Something cleaner, more focused, and less personal. After reading about the grid approach I wanted to play around with it, so I’m also using the separate layout as an excuse for that.

Shopping
How is this possible after I made a huge entry about the evils of clothing purchases? We have to make exceptions sometimes. In this case, I went out to Melrose in L.A. with some Blizzard-affiliated womens that I’ve hung out with in larger gatherings a lot, but close to never in small groups. It was good bonding time, and I got a sweet jacket. Pretty impressed by a few of the stores on that street that matched my taste, had sizes that fit well, and were very affordable. I really want to go back again when I have money.

Purchased a Clarisonic of the less expensive kind because Sephora is having it’s F&F sale. 20% off! (FF2009). Got it today, and hope it works some kind of magic for me like it has for my friends.

NaNoWriMo
This isn’t so much of a distraction as it is just being heavily considered. I’ve never attempted to write a story before out of my own interest. In fact, I hated creative writing classes. HATED. But, I like the idea of the challenge, and being able to say that I’ve written a novel-length book of sorts before however crap it may be. It could be an enlightening endeavor. For self discovery or something equally corny! The key will be finding subject matter that I can blather on about.