Instant Review: Knights of the Old Republic

Dear Diary: Me and this paranoid gun-boy got stranded on some backwater world occupied by the Sith. We had to rescue the Jedi our ship was transporting to get out of here (and she's supposed to save the galaxy or something). I did, by entering a, wait for it, pod race. She turned out to be a screaming bitch. THE END...for NOW.

In spite of the unfortunate personalities and plot points involved, I stayed up playing this until...I don't wanna think about it. Ooog. And I felt cravings to not go to bed at all. Oh, for the halcyon days of being able to cut.

We also picked up GTA:Vice City, so Steve spent the evening sprinting around Miami punching random strangers in the head. He seemed to be having a dandy time, though he couldn't drive a car for longer than five minutes without crashing it. (Or maybe that's why.)

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They know when I haven't had enough sleep. It's always a much livelier class then. I was partnered with John (that is, a different one than the other three Johns I've worked with before), who was a little exuberant with the arm pressure on ikkyo but well within tolerance; and not doing it out of chest thumping yobbishness, so it's doubly okay. We were otherwise much on the same page with energetic rumbling, and much fun was had. He's a fair bit more advanced than me, I'd judge, but I'm happy to say I don't believe I was dragging things down. Yay for being able to hold my own.

On the ehhh side, my ukemi for iriminage was edging on sloppy, and I utterly left my brain in my purse when it came to shomenuchi kaitenage. I've only done that, what, FIVE HUNDRED TIMES before. Bah.

The temperature is above freezing today, and therefore I started to overheat. I need a CPU fan implanted in my head.