It's like practically 3 AM. I was on Facebook, saw my Livejournal link and thought to click on it---

Here I am. Haha. I see how different things are. Livejournal themes?! What the?! Things have changed a lot indeed, including the fact that I'm no longer 16, and am now going into my second year of college. WOW...things have really changed.

Anime, for one thing. I used to be so addicted to it. It was the only thing that pumped adrenaline in my veins. Seriously. Nothing else gave me that feeling. It was my escape from reality, not that reality was bad---it just wasn't as interesting, funny and cool as the "anime world" was.

Don't get me wrong. I wasn't like full-on cosplaying otaku with a million subtitled anime (although I filled up my 140 gig desktop with so much anime, I burned a lot on DVD-R's to free up my computer for more---that poor thing).

Some things never change, though. I've since made a lot of new friends, some now close friends, but I still have a few old, close friends even from my anime days (who didn't like anime). Hardly, but some. I also stopped the whole anime thing around junior year, and never really returned to it to the extent of that 7th grade year to sophomore year. I had stopped altogether, until going to Comic-con the summer coming into college, where I found myself not just drawn to the Marvel section but also to the anime section. Yeah, I didn't get that "rush," but I was still interested in seeing the new stuff that came out since I stopped following up with the latest anime. Curiosity? Still some interest in anime? Probably both.

One big change since the last time I wrote was that I came to know Christ. He made me realize that my life was more than just simply finding thrills for myself via downloading anime. From that, I saw how my life was somewhat pointless in my anime years. I lived and breathed for anime. Literally. The latest episodes that came up gave me thrills that nothing else could. It wasn't even the thrill of watching them, either, for the most part---it was the thrill of downloading them, the latest anime of series that seemed somewhat interesting to me. Even now, I have stacks of anime from back in the day, most of which I have yet to see. Will I ever see them all? Probably not. Will I watch some of them? Probably. Will I learn a lot of Japanese from my vast collection of fansubbed anime? Heck no. My life has more purpose now, a life to serve, although I'm still unsure what career I should get into.

Despite the things I learned over these three years, one thing that has never changed is my love of writing. I love to write. I love to dream. My imagination is a great gift from God, and ideally, I'd love to use it to write stories and novels. Will this happen? I'd certainly like to. In fact, I'd like to complete and publish or be in the publishing process of my first novel by the time I graduate from college. After that, I will have even less time to write, but nonetheless, it will continue to be a great hobby of mine.

Times change, people change, but some things never change. Thank goodness for both.

Wow, my first journal entry! XD I just thought I'd write something here for the sake of today. It was a good day, compared to my supposed "Sweet Sixteen" yesterday (which was a horrible for the most part). Ah yes---track meet went great despite the fact that I'm positively absolutely sure I did not PR. Ah well...better luck next time, I guess.

Minimum days rock! I KNOW I'll like tomorrow.

Happy Thanksgiving to all you who celebrate it. That is all ^-^ I'd say more, but I'm currently busy doing my homework so I can go on my "Thanksgiving vacation" tomorrow XD Yeah...it's weird.

Hope you all have fun while I travel between the borders to go on my usual trip...Las Vegas...always, always, Las Vegas.

Quoting my English teacher: "Eat turkey. Watch football. Get fat." XD Bye bye, now!

...My, my...everyone's so into the Harry Potter movie. My "friends" seem to be those HP freaks who would buy tickets a month ahead just to sit in the theaters tonight. Oh well...HP fans will be HP fans. I personally don't have much hype for the movie---but I would like to see it some other time. I'd rather not crowd myself in the theaters tonight surrounded by all these people who would laugh at the smallest "humor" that happens. Hopefully, this movie will be better than the last one. The last one was...well...not very good. It was too scenario-like and choppy with different scenes/skits every several minutes or so. I'm glad they're at least going "magical" again...they seem to be wearing those wizard costumes again. It's all good ^-^

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a date with my Gamecube XD Fire Emblem is sooo darn fun...wait...maybe I should do my Chinese hw first -_- Usually, I'm fine with Chen, but she suddenly gave us all this hw today. Whatever...it IS honors (but why so sudden?! ^-^") Have a good weekend...I know I won't XD