Boy, I was having a lousy day. Not as bad as some of my friends, mind you; I know my misery is almost entirely school work related and that beats the serious stuff any day of the week. But it was a lousy day for me nonetheless. I was up entirely too late the night before reviewing for my C test today that I know I passed but still wish I did better on. I thought it was a quiz since that’s what he was calling it. I check the syllabus today when I wanted to see how far/close the midterm was and I realize that, no, this was a test and thus worth 10% of my final and not 2%. Grr. Not to mention that it was freeze-your-face-off cold outside so I decided not to go for a run and then chickened out from going to the gym. So I did my laundry, planned out my homework and study schedule for February, cleaned my room, dusted, swept, mopped, did the dishes and anything else I could think of to not do more homework or readings or anything productive in an academic sense. There was even free curling tonight and I couldn’t get a single soul here to come with me and that really made me sad. Fortunately, it was gaming to the rescue.

At 9pm I got a message from two friends that wanted to come downstairs and play Rock Band. Since my goal for today was to finish a small project for my ‘Advanced’ Web Design course (nothing advanced about it but at least I’m allowed to use CSS, finally) I figured that a small music break would do me good. Also, it was depressing to watch Penguins lose to the Thrashers so I jumped at the chance to put something else on the TV. I’m not sure which is more fun. Watching people struggle and die, frequently, on drums and love every second of it or playing the drums yourself. Man, too fun. Eventually they had to go and was in such a great groove that only playing with other people can provide. Solo career is nice and all but it’s nothing compared to the fun of playing with others. Thus, I went online with my skillz for the first time. It might be a little unfair since I play medium drums — I need to make them quieter before I tackle the rest of the hard career since I really go to town on them — and can 100% almost every song. My truskill ranking is low at the moment since it was my first foray into live competition and the only match I lost I still had 100% completion but the other player (song: Sabatoge) also had 100% and more notes. I wish it was more like pro face off so you don’t have to worry about getting the short side of the note chart but I can deal. It just makes it harder to get the achievement for 5 wins in a row since otherwise I would’ve had that tonight. Just before quiet hours kicked in I played co-op with a fan and that was also a ton of fun. I’m usually more into co-op than versus play but this might be the first game where I love the both the same. I can’t wait until I finish all my work tomorrow to jump back online.

If you have Rock Band and aren’t on my list — LadyGuardian — let me know. I don’t have any space on my friends list at the moment but I do read all my messages and we can always work out a time to jam.