Die, hiatus, DIE

Today marks the end of the longest break from writing I've ever taken — two months and a day — and I'm only going to do a little apologizing for it. Because you all know how much I hate blogs that devolve into excuses.

Anyway, as I get farther and farther into the math-based sciences, I've discovered a few things, first of them being that the students in these sciences are full of awesome, and are interesting and engaging people, and, best of all, find me interesting and engaging, too.

Second of them being, lamentably, that the higher calculus and physics courses actually require a bit of thought and effort in order to really understand. And, whenever you find yourself losing a bunch of extra time, you discover what your priorities really are, and mine are as follows, in order:

1. Classes.
2. Halo: Reach daily challenges.
3. Friends.
4. Catching up on Facebook and all the blogs I follow and The Daily Show and...
5. Writing posts in my blog.

Oh my god, the daily challenges in Halo: Reach —

Oh wait, let me explain a little more, first.

Halo: Reach is a game. It's a thoroughly awesome and amazingly slick game that has consumed me in a World of Warcraft way, because of one little feature they added to this newest installment.

Daily challenges. Every day at 3 a.m. Pacific time, sharp, we're given little challenges with nifty monetary awards. "Kill X enemies in Multiplayer matchmaking with the sniper rifle," or something, and another one may be "Earn two sprees [five kills in a row without dying] in a single game."

... hey, if I get two sprees with a sniper rifle, I'd be getting credit towards both challenges!

Anyway, another daily challenge addict out there did the right thing and made a blog about them. He lives in England, so the dailies change at 11 a.m. for him (rather than the crippling 3 a.m. for me), so he's able to post what the new ones are right as the come out.

I have his blog bookmarked on my phone, so whenever one of my teachers is rambling about something I already know, I can look up the dailies and plot my course of action when I get home.

Anyway, I'm not the kind of person who can go for over two months without having interesting things to say. (I'm also not the kind of person who'll try to soften an overly conceited-sounding sentence, like the one preceding this one)

So here I am, mostly back, and ready to give you all existential crises when Pi Day rolls around.