I’m Not Dead!

Happy New Year!

It’s 2011 and it’s the first time I’ve updated this blog this year (and in 6 months, but whatever…)

So what have I been up to since I last updated this blog?

• Moved to Pittsburgh.
• Started my (hopefully) illustrious career as a PhD student at CMU (more on that later).
• Met lots of new people.
• Picked BlazBlue back up and played lots of fighting games (like Melty).
• Cooked a lot.
• Watched a lot of anime this fall season (Shinryaku! Shinryaku!)
• Got through Finished my 1st semester as a grad student.
• Submitted my 1st paper as a grad student.
• Not update my blog.

Since it’s the new year, that also means it’s time for resolutions:

• The usual (lose weight, sleep more, etc.)
• Get at least one paper published (papers are academic currency, after all)
• Do enough quality research to get more than one paper published
• Finish Sakura Taisen 5 (笑）
• Getting good enough at my chosen games to place well at tournaments (aw snap, Arcana Heart 3, let’s do dis)
• Find more time to do personal programming projects (something I’ve been slacking off on lately)
• Build up a nest egg (through summer internship, probably)
• Embarrassingly enough, I really need to find more time to go out and meet girls. (well, more accurately, I need to stop making excuses for myself, but whatever).
• Update this blog more.

We’ll see how these resolutions turn out. I’ll update this blog as I go along (including that 2nd to last one, good or bad).