BS

I highly dislike being forced to read as I have stated, so most of the upcoming English 102 semester will be me BSing my way through everything. So last night I got enough IP to get Ezreal, this makes me happy. Ezreal was a character that when I looked at him I wasn't impressed but once I decided to actually try him out I had a blast. He's a lot of fun, you can spam all of his skills because of Mystic Shot's secondary effect of reducing cooldowns by a second. I don't think I'm going to be posting an Ezreal guide, mainly because I'm not that great as him yet. All I know is harass, harass, harass. Well I'm going to end it here, and I won't post it on anything either because this post is inconsequential, but I hope to make one last post of meaning before the end of Blogust.

I Don't Want To

I have to read and post so much shit for my English class... I wonder if I can skim and BS the whole class. I really hate reading a lot of stuff just for the sake of reading. When I read I want to read for the sake of learning and entertainment. Most stuff I am force to read for classes teaches me next to nothing and is boring as hell. Well here's to a successful, hopefully, semester.

Blogust and Life

Looks like my posts may be getting wholly less significant for the rest of Blogust, aside from my few requirements I have yet to meet. I have decided, in an effort to make up for Spring, to take all Gen Eds this semester, of which most will require quite a bit of homework and writing. Once I hit college I decided that grades are important to me, so this hobby I chose to do is now going to be taking a backseat to my academics. I hope to be able to post more of my Anivia guide and the completed concept for my LoL champion. In fact, I have an hour I might as well work on the concept for Mao Shi.

Mao Shi: the Shaolin Weapon Master

Passive: I can't think of one that would fit... help?

Q: Jian Style / Heart Lunge - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Jian, increasing his dodge chance by a percent per level, maxing out at 24% at level 5. If already in Jian Style Mao will lunge forward at the target doing magical damage maxing out at 350 at level 5.

W: Twin Hooks Style / Severe Tendons - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Twin Hooks, increasing his attack speed by a percent per level, maxing out at 50% at level 5. If already in Twin Hooks Style Mao's next attack will hit the target in vital areas doing additional damage and slowing the target, maxing out at 200 damage and 35% at level 5.

E: Bo Staff Style / Iron Will - Mao switches from his current weapon to the Bo Staff, increasing his attack range to 150 and his defense per level, maxing out at 125 at level 5. If already in Bo Staff Style Mao will gain MR equal to the armor granted by Bo Staff Style.

R: The True Weapon is One's Self- Mao fights unarmed for 30 seconds retaining all of the passives from each of the weapons, and being capable of using each of the weapons' techniques.

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I just threw in numbers that I felt were appropriate based off of other numbers found on similar skills on other champions. Leave some feedback for him if you would like.

Back to School

I have got to say that even though I had one class that lasted only an hour it feels so great to be back in classes again. I missed the environment of learning, being surrounded by hundreds of people I don't know yet could at any minute meet. I look forward to learning something, anything. My life has structure once again, I missed it so much. Some people might think I'm weird to feel this way, but honestly learning is one of few things that I thoroughly enjoy and will never get tired of. I have a sort of obsession with obtaining new facts, it's just part of who I am.

So it looks like creating a LoL Champion is the thing that's been going on lately amid the blogging group I participate in (or maybe just the Nickbots in general) so I'm going to be working on mine. I'm contemplating some stuff, though it's a little complex I like it. The concept is a Shaolin Weapon's Master.

Gunna Get Heading Out

Going to watch Scott Pilgrim vs the World with Blakegetsbitches, Stanley and Joe in a bit. They should be here soon and then we'll head on down to Valencia. I don't think this is worth making a bitly url for and posting, so I won't. School starts tomorrow and I'm actually pretty excited. I'm looking forward to a good semester. Oh and I might post a review of the movie, or maybe more LoL. Take care Blogust.

SCHOOL!

I'm fairly excited for school to start seeing as I've been stagnant the last... FOREVER! I'm one of those really strange people like Marlon who, for some reason, enjoy going to school. I love learning, in fact I live to learn. I'm not 100% excited since a lot of my upcoming semester will mostly consist of annoying assignments that I'm doing not to learn, but just for a grade. I'm going to aim for a 3.78 this semester, that's an A in everything but English which is a B. We'll see how everything turns out. This semester puts me at almost completing my Gen Eds, I just need my majors now. Speaking of majors I'm feeling really unsure about what I want to do with myself career wise. Right now I'm set on a course to sit at a computer typing line after line of code. I'm really not sure if that's something I can live with for the rest of my life, so I've been contemplating alternatives. I really love math and science, it's just the type of guy I am, so I figured why not do something that is a blend of them and is a subject I love. Physics, it intrigues me and is something I can see myself getting a doctorate in, maybe. The problem is I'm not sure if I can stand to go through all of that to get a doctorate in the field and and try to establish myself. Also I had a horrid professor for my 101 class, so I learned nothing in that class, if that happened again I would easily fail in the field. Another thought, which is one that people keep trying to get me to do, is cooking. I love food, making, eating, smelling, being around... I just love everything to do with food. I don't know, I just don't see myself as a chef, plus just like in programming (and kinda physics) I don't see myself doing that for life. Music?... I'm not that good, plus every job market in music is insanely difficult to get into and in some parts (like composition which I would like) seems practically impossible.

So yeah, what do you guys see me doing for a career, it would be nice to see what you think.

Summer

So I feel like I owe you guys quite a bit of Blog now that I've been slacking lately. It's just Summer destroys my sleep schedule, as you can tell by the ungodly hour that I'm blogging. I try to keep active and do stuff during the Summer, but it tends to just involve going to a friend's house (or staying in mine) and playing/watching games or watching movies. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love hanging out with my friends, but I kinda feel like doing more, I kinda just want to drive somewhere and be there for the day. Summer is usually a welcome break from the frustration of the semester and all the headache it brings, but as some of you were aware, I wasn't in school this last Spring. I got a stomach bug that completely knocked me on my ass for the week and I was advised by the majority of my teachers to drop. So I've been in a state of doing nothing for the last 8 months, and I'm not okay with this anymore, August 23rd, I welcome you to arrive. This semester I'm taking all general education classes, because I need to start working on getting a degree. So I have German 101, English 102, Nutrition 100 and Communication Studies 101 to look forward to.

Speaking of school I had mentioned last night that I wanted to blog about my opinion on the importance of music education. I'll try to keep this to biased opinion and facts that I can remember from my Senior Paper I wrote on this (or very similar) subject, but first some background on me and music. Going through my elementary we didn't have any music education, I had to seek it out on my own through private lessons. In fact, because I was so woefully under informed on the subject when picking out an instrument that I would like to play I said I want to play the Piccolo (caps because I knew its name because of the DBZ character) while I went on to describe a clarinet. So in the fifth grade my mother and I went to the local music store Mario's Music to look through their selection of clarinets. We looked at a handful of new and a few used clarinets until we decided to pick out a nice, well-loved, used clarinet because it was significantly cheaper. I went on to have private lessons from then through the rest of my elementary school years, which was up to sixth grade (last sixth grade class of Sunnydale Elementary WOOT!), and my middle school years in which I also had a band class at school. I continued taking band in high school in both concert and marching varieties. In my Junior year I went to a different music store, Simonetti's (I may be massacring his name) where I had been getting my instrument tuned up since I bought it and we proceeded to purchase a professional-grade, wooden clarinet. This Buffet R-13 was the most lovely thing I have ever created music through. Senior year I picked up the Bari Sax to be a section leader in marching band. In college I continued to take a few band classes when my schedule would permit and I also took the three (four if you count Fundamentals of Music, but it barely counts) semesters of Music Theory. So while I may not be the most well versed person in music education I do have a strong foundation myself.

Music education is such an important part of school. Yeah, kids who take music classes may be shown to perform better in school and have better attendance/attitudes, but that's just the facts you throw onto a pamphlet to get a parent to sign their kids up. Music education (especially a performance class) can be something that anyone can look forward to. Music when listened to helps soothe emotions (or invoke others depending on the mood of the music [NOTE: Just listening to a type of music will not turn your child into a murderer, there are other factors in their life that would contribute to this]) it is more-so true when one plays the music themselves. Even just knowing more about music can help you appreciate the music you listen to all the more.

Since I'm running short on concepts of how to convey what I'm trying to say without it turning into my Senior Paper I'll just put stuff here.
- Music made me me and I love the me that is me
- "One time at band camp" hahaha American Pie, you're so funny.... no, band camp is a really nice experience and can result in awesome stories, but don't expect tales of instruments and body parts
- One last one, without music education you will find more music with less actual music and more just abusing auto-tune. Music education affects all music in every form of media. So please Mr. Government Man, don't cut music education.