I'd be lying...

...if I said that I haven't paid much attention to Twitter, ZZN or my blog because I've been busy.

It's all thanks to this little bastard. It's true, I probably have better things to be doing than level grinding or trying to get my Ramkahen/Hyjal rep up to Exalted so I can finally go and do some Cataclysm heroics, but my gear is pretty terrible seeing as I left a couple of weeks after the expansion hit and only returned a couple of weeks ago. I made it to level 85 the other day but I've been distracted by alts and, of course, RETRIBUTION, which has made gearing somewhat slow. This is simply because if I have to pick between spending hours grinding dungeons with random strangers who think they're better than me, or sending hordes of armoured Chaos death machines to shoot the hell out of random strangers who think they're better than me, the choice is obvious.

My consoles gather dust and my PC stares smugly out from glaring blue LEDs at them, but that won't last for long - after all, Dragon Age 2 comes out next Friday and that's certainly deserving of my free time. As for Retribution, it's pretty crazy. Six new campaigns sounds impressive, but then you realize most of the missions are vaguely written enough to apply to all six factions. Despite this, it's still a huge variety of content, and I can imagine getting a crazy amount of playtime out of it.

Argh, what else? Dragging myself away from the virtual world, I've had my final Uni offer come through, from my first choice (UCA Farnham). It's a pretty fantastic offer, too - all I have to do is pass my current course and my place is secure. I've accepted, obviously, and it's going to make the last stretch of college so much more bearable knowing that if I don't hit my predicted B- in Film Studies, or don't quite manage that A grade elsewhere, it's not the end of my academic life. I'm looking forward to leaving home and being all independent, but going through all my belongings and having to decide between leaving Shiny Collector's Edition #1 or Quirky BioShock Merchandise #3 behind (I know, my life is that difficult).

My page layout tutor took a look at this blog and he was amazed by the graphic design work, seeing as he taught me 50% of my photoshop knowledge and 100% of my inDesign skills, not to mention he's started teaching me bits of HTML on the side. I'm going to make the site shinier in the next few months. Other projects... The music video reached a hitch, we can't film the band until the 25th of March which is relatively close, but deadline - wise it's far too late. So I've initiated a back up plan which should be more than adequate. I'm hoping to score at least a Merit for it.

Tag Mag is going ahead okay from what I know, they keep handing me work, I keep finishing it, as far as I'm concerned that's my part in all of it. I've got Distinctions in both design and journalism so I'm happy with that. I think that's all from me for now. More updates later!
-L