Lots goin on buds. I didn't get into GDQ, but in all honesty I didn't deserve it w/ the half-assed submission I made and my twitch stats speak a fair amount to how dedicated I've been to the game in the last 360 days - http://puu.sh/o6oIE/4c73baf8c9.jpg

I was going to attend anyway, and some part of me is looking more forward to it now that I won't have to spend time at the event balancing being social and putting work into practicing so I don't make an ass out of myself (SGDQ '14 I ended up locking myself into practice more than I really wanted to due to this fear tbh). Zorlax got in w/ a submission for 100% which is a good category, so that's that. I'll acknowledge the gorilla in the room and mention I've actually chatted w/ him a good bit in the last while and everything's been nice, I'm afraid to jinx it by bringing it up but idk it's feeling like water under the bridge at this point; I just wanna chill and play games. Whether I'll have a couch appearance or be there as a backup in case there's last minute attendance complications remains to be seen but that's a minor detail.

Work is going good. 3 paycheques in, it's nice. My main concern w/ career & life right now is doing w/e I can to turn my 8-month contract into permanent employment, and now that I've officially been done preliminary training for a week now I think my plan is to just buckle down and do all I can to make myself helpful/indispensable to achieve that end for the time being. I really like the job and environment and I'd like to stay there for the foreseeable future and could really use the ease of mind of permanent (or as permanent as it gets) financial stability so I can keep planning and moving forward w/ life. Goals after that are apartment, possibly car. Beyond that I don't know what I want, but getting my shit together is good enough for the time being.

SGDQ is going to be lots of fun, I actually am counting the days. I'm excited to not have to be worried about practicing a game, to being able to have a bit of spending money while I'm there instead of being 110% frugal, a lot of pals I've made that I haven't met yet (Used Za comes to mind) and all the buds I have but haven't seen since last GDQ (my collective & 502 dudes). Putt'er There is the place to be in Minnesota, dudes. Main goal is to take a lot more pictures - primary regret from SGDQ 2014 is I have a single photo from the event of myself and buds and it's a Polaroid photo w/ my pal Sumi, idk that's it. It's April 4th and there's 6 inches of snow out, I'm fucken mad