I was talking about the homosexual thing. I don't really care that they're homosexuals even if I disagree with their lifestyle, but the way the characters are written, it's like writers are trying to bash in my skull "these two guys are homosexual." Yes, I got the picture when I first saw them in episode one of season four where they were living together and had an adopted Vietnamese daughter. Now can you stop doing that for the next 21 episodes? Oh, no. Well, that sucks.

The writers don't do it nearly as badly with Jay and Gloria. "Jay is an old white man who is insensitive since he has white privilege and Gloria's fucking hot with a thick accent."

My main fault with the show is that they portray the homosexual as "GAY GAY GAY GAY" instead of normal people like they do in the other two families. Yes, I understand homosexuality isn't exactly "normal" seeing as a small percentage of people are actually gay, but they're people, not circus freaks.

I finished the fourth season of Modern Family yesterday. I still haven't seen 1-3 because they're not available on Hulu or Netflix, so season 4 was where I started. Honestly, I can see why this show is praised, but I hate how the writers try to ram some things down the viewers' throats.

Funny thing is that I just watched that haircut scene a few hours ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pv4RDaR0YA

So last night I started watching Full Metal Panic again. Man, I've already been waiting 8 years for a fourth series. When will KyoAni stop fucking with me and stop producing all of those moe anime and go back to the FMP franchise?

Last November, I think I posted in here about being medically disqualified (temporarily) from the military. I had to wait until April just to know that I could apply for a waiver, and since April is crunch time in university, I didn't get around to doing anything until last week. Anyway, the reason I got disqualified was because of acid-reflux disease, yet none of the medicines my doctor prescribed worked. On the contrary, they made everything worse. It felt like someone lit a fire in my throat each time I tried taking the medications.

I went to the doctor's office on Monday and now he thinks I may have something else entirely (gluten and lactose intolerance). So now I have to get an ultrasound* to make sure nothing is fucked up with my gallbladder and/or liver and I'll have to see a GI doctor, which means I'll have to redo the waiver process again. Good thing I have until December when I graduate from college.

*I never thought as a guy that I would be saying that I have to get an ultrasound. I always paired that word with the image of a pregnant lady getting an ultrasound.

I almost got fired from my job when I talked back to a customer. I used to work at a pizza parlor, so a customer was calling back saying that we messed up their order. Fine, it happens. However, the customer was yelling at me when I didn't take the original call from him nor made the pizza (I was usually the one who cut the pizza, so all I really had to do was make sure the pizza matched the order ticket.) So then I told him "Hey, stop yelling at me, I didn't take your order earlier." The guy got pissed and asked for a manager and there were a couple of coworkers near the phone who heard me and they started laughing, one of them was a manager. He thought it was funny, but he still had to tell the head manager. The next day I got scolded and thought I was going to get fired.

I was never good with customers and hate the whole notion our country has when it comes to customer being king. Customers are more like hemorrhoids than anything.

In Devil Survivor, I finally beat the boss on Day 6. I spent roughly an hour grinding so that I could fuse stronger demons (and by doing so, I have ended up with quite a few demons with 34-37 magic) and to gain enough money to make sure my backup demons were strong. I'm assuming on Day 7 I'll probably have to do twice as much grinding for demons and money since it's the final day of the game.

I don't know if it's just me, but whenever I find a strategy that works to defeat the boss, the strategy doesn't mean shit if my party is as weak as shit, so I always have to end up grinding a little bit just so I can stay alive long enough.

If I had known earlier that you were taking Japanese classes, I would have recommended you this book. I spent an hour learning hiragana and another learning katakana with this book.

Yeah, there's nothing for my major in Toledo. However, there's not many companies offering living assistance when it comes to internships, so it wasn't feasible to drive 2-3 hours to Cleveland/Columbus/Cincinnati for $10/hour.

When it comes to finding full-time work, I'll probably end up moving out of state. There's not much in Ohio for finance.

I go to UT.

Back in March I had a couple of interviews with an insurance company, but I had to turn it down. They wanted me to do a project (interview 15 people, do three in-depth interviews), but no one I know needs insurance nor can afford it (I live in the Ohio, so most people I know have union jobs, thus not needing insurance. Most of my friends make minimum wage, so they can't afford any insurance). I tried applying for financial analyst internships, but I had no luck with those.

I'm hoping searching for a job will be somewhat easier. On job search sites, there are 20+x more job postings than internships, so that's always a start. Plus, I'm a finance major, so it's not like I majored in Philosophy and plan on being a manager at McDonald's after I graduate.

There's always the MBA option, but I would hate to enroll in a MBA program at 23 years old, but I may have no choice.

I have fallen into the trap that all university students dread: no experience >>> can't get a job because of no experience >>> etc. etc.

I've tried applying for so many internships this semester and got rejected by all of them. Not really looking forward to job hunting in the fall (since I graduate in December).

This is hard and mainly based on how much I enjoyed it instead of a technical analysis of each game. In no particular order.

1. Pokemon Yellow - I was around 8 years old when Pokemon came over to America and made it big. After all of my friends started playing Pokemon, I begged my dad to buy me a Game Boy Color and Pokemon Yellow. I played the living shit out of this game. After that, the rest is history, where I have played a Pokemon game through each generation so far.

2. Super Smash Bros. - I was 9 when this came out and I played this game all the time with my cousins. We would usually stay up to 2-3 am on the weekends playing this.

3. NCAA Football 2004 - Why this one and this year? It's the only one I have. Although the game is ten fucking years old now, it's still playable. There's no point in buying the same game every year just for updated rosters.

4. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance -  Yes, the story is absolute garbage, but I spent so much time playing this game during middle school. The battle system is much more balanced compared to the original, which made playing it a delight.

5. Tales of Symphonia - The Game Cube was the only console system I had at the time. I spent hundreds of hours playing ToS over and over again. It was the first time I played an action RPG and I've become a huge Tales fan since.

6. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - This was my introduction to the SMT series and the game was perfect for me. I love hiphop, so I'm probably one of the few people here who loves P3's OST. While on paper the two halves of P3 sound like utter balls, combined together they are awesome. Who knew a dungeon crawler and dating sim would be so addictive?

7. Super Robot Taisen Z2 (the first Z2) - This is the first Japanese SRT game I had played and I enjoyed it. Though my Japanese wasn't good enough to understand everything, I enjoyed seeing a lot of my favorite anime worlds combining. This game was also easier than the OG games that came to the US, making this one more accessible to me.

8. Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - Again, I didn't have many games worth shit to play on the Game Cube. However, this was the second FE game I played and I really enjoyed playing it over and over again.

9. Final Fantasy XII -  My first console FF game and I enjoyed it, unlike most people. I liked how it was devoid of many of the typical JRPG tropes and I actually liked the battle system of the game. I remember rushing home from school just to play this game.

10. Disgaea - I first bought Disgaea in 2008 after finally finding a copy for a reasonable price after Atlus made more copies. I played the first three back-to-back-to-back that summer and really enjoyed the games.

You can do regular walking and/or riding a bicycle if you want to build up your cardio endurance that way, but doing short sprints (say 50 yards or so) and walking back to recover works just fine. Do that 10 times to start out for a week or two, then bump it up to 15 times, and then try increasing the distance. You'll be done in 10 minutes as opposed to an hour of jogging and you will have done more work than jogging.

Besides, sprinting strengthens and builds your muscles. Jogging just ends up making you look like a Kenyan.