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From NEF's Pornucopia:
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How it Started: Professor Layton and the Curious Smut
by noreply@blogger.com (NEF)
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An Introduction/Mission Statement
by NEF
New category. For a year or two now ( It’s two. Yup. ) I’ve been investing in the stock market. My poison of choice is tech stock because of the high risk involved. High risk is almost synonymous with high gain in the market. I currently own 800 shares of TTWO at $18.90. As of this post, [...]
In three days I will start the most important set of exams in my life.
I was going to write a post on Graham Greene, the author we have been studying for the last year, but that first phrase has freaked me out.
I'm gonna go study now.
So I've been enjoying my Xbox 360 again. I spent all day downloading the Crackdown demo, and just as I was starting to get into it... the phone rings. Microsoft was calling me! They wanted to make sure the new unit they sent me was working well, and it is.
"Is there anything else I can do for you, sir?"
"Welllllllll..." I dragged. "I hate to sound selfish, but, uh. You know, you guys took two months to get this back to me. Is there any way I could maybe get... some compensation?"
I felt like such a slug. The way I was raised, you never take hand-outs or even gifts; anybody who has ever bought me a christmas or birthday present knows that, unless I can afford to pay them back - and usually I can't - I tell them I do not want gifts; granted, I usually end up accepting them anyway, usually by force, but it makes me feel so terrible, like I'm a bad person for taking it. It took a lot of willpower to ask the Microsoft phone guy that, but I knew that if I bailed, I would regret it.
"That's not selfish at all! Sure, just let me get the serial number of the new unit we sent you so I can confirm that you own it. Once we do that, I will get in touch with somebody who can set that up for you, alright? But, I will tell you now: We only have two games to choose from."
During the hold music, I wondered what the games would be. I joked to my friends: Probably Kameo and PGR3. I mean...
I’ve had a hard time starting this blog, which seems to be a recurrent thing with my writing. I’m not sure if it happens to a lot of people, but beginning is always the most difficult part, and from there on it’s usually gravy. Usually. Anyway, this blog is something I created [...]