School has begun once again...and in a way, I'm hoping it will mean I get more accomplished. Don't get me wrong, it isn't like I didn't have free time during the summer, but I ended up working eight hours a day at the Museum of Art on BYU campus, and while the job wasn't that hard, I would still be exhausted by the time I got home, and end up playing video games or roleplaying to relax instead of, say, writing my stories. I had plenty of time at work to consider creative ideas, but it was like that creativity got sucked up as soon as I got back home and comfortable. Working forty hours a week helped my pocketbook but seemed to compensate by dominating my schedule.

But that's over now; my comparatively light schedule with school has begun, thank goodness. I may end up getting more writing done during the school year than I was able to all summer. Most of my classes so far are fun theatre classes that I just attend and do some light writing for, so this is actually going to be quite relaxing for my second-to-last semester before I graduate.

In the meantime, the extra cash I got from my job allowed me to acquire a new laptop. It has specs well above my old one, loads way faster, and was actually cheaper than what my first one cost. Ah, the advance of technology. In some games the performance during cutscenes is kind of weird, though - it's hard to describe exactly, but it's almost like the screen isn't fully synced during those sequences, like parts of it kind of jump and jiggle just the slightest bit. But it's jarring enough to be noticeable. Halo 2's cutscenes are the greatest example of that. Beautifully rendered, but ultimately I'm distracted from that by this...lack of V-sync? I'm not sure what it is. But since most games don't have that problem, it's something I'm willing to live with. At least, most games that I have played so far. And it loads up so much more quickly it's a world of difference. I think it, along with my new gaming mouse, has significantly increased my game performance, particularly in Team Fortress 2.

As far as writing news goes, I am still working on the next Tergonaut story...it's been slower than I'd like, since the scene I'm working on currently ended up extending out further than I originally imagined it would. But I have made progress on that. Also, though I think I've pretty much dropped writing the Sonic fanfic that I hinted at with my preview of Mighty and Amy Rose, I'm currently writing up a Pokemon fanfic that will introduce a character that I'll use in perhaps a series of stories with someone else's character, a dear friend of mine. The person who owns the character is the dear friend, not the character, just to clear that ambiguity up. XD;

I've been very quiet as far as my LEGO projects go too. I want to rebuild Bullet Boss now that there are several parts available now that weren't when I created it - the Marauder, as well, still seems a bit unpolished, though it did serve as a platform to test many new blocks, particularly joint blocks. But my perfectionist urges regarding Bullet Boss also make it a daunting task, so I'm letting that lie for the moment. But I do want to continue LEGO projects, so we may see more of those in the future too.

Amazing how much time has passed between my last entry and this one. But, that's the way it goes sometimes.

Life and Story go on. To the reader, I'll see you later.
-Tergonaut