No, this is not about religion. It's about Math, and how a crazy guy named Aerostar taught me to look past the classroom.

You see, Math has always been my Achilles heel.

I never really appreciated the skill as my talents are primarily artistic. I'm not the best writer, my writing is rife with grammatical errors and spelling errors, but writing comes naturally to me. Math, however, for most of my school life, was something nobody could convince me I'd need.
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I had a terrible headache earlier tonight that basically kept me from playing Aion, but the brief time I was online I noticed something: all of the chat channels were offline for some reason.

It was strangely disconcerting not to see the usual round of trolls in LFG. I usually think they all should be /banned from the channel, but it got me thinking.

Which came first: The troll, or the bridge?

Something that I haven't had to do in a long time is Barter, beg, scrape and borrow to get a deal on something. WoW's economy works in such a way that it's basically not necessary. You want something, go do dailies. that's pretty much all there is to it. Aion's economy is in that delicate, frail state where half of the people out there wants the world and noone can afford it.

The other half of the people, however, live pretty well within their means.

I wanted the...

Monkey Island is cool.

However, I plan to make vids of my Aion experience now that I have a working fraps setup.


My Aion Chara sel.

I got an E-mail in from my app... FAFSA's decided I'm elligible for a full Federal Pell Grant, which with the school I've chosen will cover about 90% of my tuition.

Hurray distance learning being cheaper and more flexible than a traditional college.