Sooo...how's it going?

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Overall it's going alright. Been getting pretty bogged down in practicing for my chinese course and there's all that reading for my norwegian class...

So while the academic side to college is getting pretty strenuous the social bit has been a blast. Semester's going great having already made quite a bit of new friends and gotten drunk a couple times (North Dakota weekends, man...), and there's that plus of having gotten closer to some of my friends from last year.

On the sad note: Still haven't found a new girlfriend. Being international student makes it pretty hard to want to make a commitment when you don't know how long you'll stay in one place. That's probably the only real mental strain i have these days.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I'm finally enjoying my summer.
You see, I completed my exams (again) and am now eagerly anticipating the results. The future of my education hangs in the balance, but now it's out of my hands and all I can do is hope I did enough/the examiners are not massive twats.

So, with that out of my mind, I've been catching up with my backlog of old games and films, and finally started Breaking Bad. I finished Planescape: Torment and System Shock 2, and am playing Deus Ex (all great games btw). Yesterday, I watched the original Robocop, which was pure awesome, and I'm thinking of watching the Blade Runner uber-cut because I've yet to do so. Breaking Bad's going strong thus far, which is good, since I needed a good series waiting for Korra book 2 and Game of Thrones 4.

All in all, I'm living the life.

 

[Hoplon]

My head is apparently made of nothing but snot. This is currently the entirety of my world.

 

[MrMixelPixel]

Like many others in the thread. College. That's up.

I'm taking all online courses this semester, so I've been shut in as of late. However, my friend just recently got me into Persona 4... So I spend half my day studying, and the other half playing Persona 4. I find time to eat and sleep somewhere in there.

Also! My Filipino friend, she just had hear 18th birthday. Apparently that holds much significance in her culture, so her parents rented out a golf club and had a very fancy party. She had to choose 18 males to give her a rose and dance with her and 18 Females, to give speeches about her. All in all, it was night to remember for all the right reasons.

 

[ForumSafari]

I'm alright, I mistimed leaving my job to restart university so I got four weeks of accidental NEETdom. I've been bidding on job lots of Magic cards as a speculation activity and painting my Convergence of Cyriss battlegroup. I've rediscovered Skyrim and my girlfriend is getting it for herself too, got in to the Hearthfire content in a big way.

 

[SadisticFire]

Today is overrally pretty well, assuming 3AM is still the tenth. I can't sleep though which is pretty god damn annoying. School starts tomorrow for me and my mind won't stop racing over trivial to life issues that i really can't be dealing with at the moment. My brother 'insulted' me by saying I have an hourglass figure but it's actually something that made me happier with myself slightly 'cause that's what I'm trying to get. Finally got over my illness.
Overall I say it's going pretty well relative to the rest of my life. Mundane, but I like mundane. Nothing exciting, nothing terrible. Just another empty day.
Off note. Future me would like to know how you guys solve racing thoughts in the middle of the night. Current me doesn't think it's worth it to make a thread.

 

[Ecliptica Wolf]

I'm training for the new American Football season, getting work sorted on my placement and trying to think of what to write about for my final year media project.

So pretty good all things considered.

 

[Benni88]

Turned 25 today.

 

[Esotera]

I just moved into my new house for the final year of uni, and I'm loving it as all I'm doing right now is playing Dota, Minecraft, and Rome Total War, and having a few drinks in the evening with housemates. Still got a bit of work to do which I am currently procrastinating, and have to buy some more food & things I forgot to take with me like a bike helmet/lock.

Also for some reason I'm building a bug-out-bag. I basically have everything apart from a tent & tinned food, and I don't know whether I'm ever going to use it.

 

[Guffe]

Thanks for asking.

At the moment working my new job, and so far it's been a great deal of fun, and I'm learning a lot.
Been watching some movies but nothing spectacular, played Pikmin 3 and Metroid Other M; quite enjoyed both games.
Reading "A Song of Ice and Fire" which really turned out to be a great read. (halfway through the third book)
Liverpool are at the top of the league!!

So yes, I am doing just great at the moment!

How are you?

 

[Strain42]

Wow, sounds like a lot of us are keeping pretty busy. To those of you that have been having a rough time, I'm sorry to hear that and I hope things pick up soon, and you've always got your good good friends on The Escapist to talk to if you need them ^^

So I suddenly got a bit busy these next few days. Today I made my last trip to my local comic book store before I head back (they hold my comics for me while I'm gone, so I always have a lot to look forward to when I get back) and tomorrow I have to go into work to finish some final things and I'm also gonna be washing a friends hot tub for 20 bucks.

Oh, and today I bought a chibi figure of Gigan because...well...I like Gigan.

That one isn't specifically mine, but that's the one I got.

 

[A BigCup of Tea]

Turned 25 today.

Happy birthday my good sir! I hope you've had a good day

OT: Things are kinda in between for me at the moment the good: I've finally been told that i can get treatment for my illness when i need it, which is great as I've spent the last four years in and out of hospital every couple of weeks due to it, the in between: I went and got myself a new job but it's one of these silly zero hour contract things and i don't get told what my hours are (if i get any that is) until that day but it's better than being on benefits, and the bad: it may sound lame but i'm really struggling to find someone to be with at the moment, no one seems interested i don't know if it's the way i look or if it's cause i'm just too damned nice! six years of being single is a bit tedious, so yeah that's my life at the moment

oh and as a side note none of my friends like to just have a chat all the want to do is play games which is all fun and stuff but leaves me with no one to talk to and this makes me a sad panda

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

My external hard drive shat itself, and I recently started a youtube channel!
I've been feeling generally good these past few months. Things seem to be right on track. I'm looking forward to what the future might hold.

How's it going?
Well. It's going well.

 

[SquidSponge]

Well... My new landlords want rent quarterly in advance (plus first month) starting a while ago (note past tense), whereas my research degree starting in a few weeks will pay (note future tense) monthly in arrears. So 4 months rent and 1.5 months living costs go out before my first paycheck. Oh, and the research council are holding onto my tuition fees until the last possible day so I can't register for my course. Also, love life? What's that?

Buuut... Watching some Bones on Netflix, owning some NC in Planetside. Is OK. I was a miser as an undergrad an my parents have offered me loans, I sent another email about the tuition fees today.

So perhaps I'm in denial, but overall I'm not feeling too bad. Thanks for asking my friend!

 

[Artina89]

Well, I work as a veterinary biochemist, so there is always something interesting going on, I have temporarily moved back into my parents house, as I am currently house sitting for them while they are on vacation, and its great to have a whole house to myself without having to worry about my housemates, I am also watching Sherlock and loving every minute of it, I have just found and purchased the Jet set radio future, Jet set radio and The world ends with you soundtracks on iTunes, and looking forward to going to Montreal on the 1st October, so my life is going pretty great at the moment.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Pretty good, thank you.

Bought my provisional driving licence because after waiting for a bus today and having nothing but weirdos approaching me is really getting on my nerves so I would like to take up driving. The problem is where I live, car insurance is the most expensive in the UK because people can't drive for shit and there's lots of fraud.

I've had the same job for 2 and a half years and I'm looking forward to progressing to a better job when I'm settled in my own house.
I've been in a relationship for over half a year now and we're hoping to live together soon so I'm also looking forward to that because living back with my mum is slowly driving me insane.

Apart from that, nothing much. The annoying 'omg why aren't you at uni you failure' sort of comments have started again which is pissing me off but nothing too major.

 

[Beffudled Sheep_v1legacy]

Not well at all. I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping recently, worse than usual. My nightmares have been acting up, my emotions are getting frayed and I'm starting to see enemies everywhere. I feel like my friends are abandoning me. I feel like my family is coming to hate me. My job is causing me lots of additional stress and I feel like I'm a hair's width away from wrecking some of the people that come to me at work.
I can't write anymore, I have no way to express myself in a controlled manner. I've exploded in anger and violence at least 5 times since Monday and I've destroyed a good many objects. I've been having trouble being calm at all. My heart is always racing these days and I'm having trouble breathing all the time. My memory has been super shit too, I even forgot to go into work one night!
One of my relatives is holding my savings account and even my checking account hostage and I'm worried that I'll wake up one day to have the 5K I've saved up over the last few years just be gone.

And if one more member of my family tells me I'm lazy then I will take my hands and tear down the house they live in, the house that I fucking built for them. I will burn their food that I work my ass off to help them pay for.
And I will take away the fucking children who I practically raised while they neglected and abused them.

But getting to rant about it has been cathartic. Thank you very much for asking. It isn't good for me to keep all that in.
I'm a lot calmer now.

I think I'll talk about the good things now.
I'm super excited for GTA V and I already know that I'm going to love it. I've been slowly overcoming my social anxieties and have been making friends with some people from college. I even sat down with a Bible Study group and had lengthy and detailed discussions about the Bible with them because it was a beautiful day and they were nice people (I'm an agnostic btw). I bought some new scented candles yesterday and right now my room smells like fresh apples!

And I've been chatting with some awesome people on the 'pist today ever since I got off of work. Writing up a lengthy message to one person now and I had a hilarious conversation with another user in the Lady Bits group that really brought my mood up and had me in stitches laughing several times.

Wow, I'm in a very chipper mood right now. This is just what I needed I think for now. Its temporary but a happy mood once in a while is worth constant misery at all other times.
Thanks OP, this thread may have just saved my day

 

[Strain42]

You're very welcome my confused ovine friend. Sometimes it is good to just kinda get that stuff off your chest. Hope things start smoothing out for you soon.

Tonight has just been a bunch of running back and forth for me trying to get everything ready to leave saturday morning. The plus side to this though is that I recently got my old Digivice toy (found it cleaning out my closet) working again with fresh batteries which is basically a pedometer, so...y'know, I have to walk back and forth, but I get to save the digital world while I do.

 

[Padwolf]

I am doing very well thank you. I've moved out of my parent's house, I'm now living with my wonderful boyfriend, we've been together for nearly 6 months now and I couldn't be happier. We even already have a pet hamster named Kupo, and he's very adorable. I'm currently hooked on League of Legends and Final Fantasy Realm Reborn. I'm also trying to get into a better sleeping pattern and start getting up at 9.30am like I used to. Hopefully I will get a job soon, then me and my boyfriend can start saving up to move to London. I do miss London a lot (I lived there for 18 years). The only negative things going on in my life right now are: being away from my two dogs and three cats. I am missing my pets horridly. Also me and my boyfriend have been a bit ill today, to be honest I think it was the pizza's we ate.

Another thing that's negative, the few comments from family about "you've been to uni, you have a degree, it's been a year, why haven't you done anything with it?" however I know they mean well really and that there is no real heat in their comments. It's just my insecurity about not having a job shining through there.

Oh and after a whole year without one, I finally have a keyboard again. A year ago I think I must have posted a comment on the escapist, in a thread like this, moaning about the loss of my piano. Well I finally have a keyboard, a full sized one, it sounds great. I no longer feel like I'm missing a limb. Now I just have to practice! I also have a new computer keyboard, a Razer Blackwidow. Oh gods the sound on that is fantastic too.

All in all, I am very well thank you, how are you?