Maturity is relative.

First off, sorry I've been slacking so hard and not posting anything lately, I'm sure you're very disappointed, Adam Steinberg. In the very rare case that another dude named Adam Steinberg reads these, hello!

Anyways, I'm taking the time tonight to write about two very crazy things(to me at least) which I've been waiting my whole life for. One is a game called Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. The other, is a little bit of maturity shown by me. In the past few days, I've acquired both things, and believe it or not, I needed the game to gain the maturity.

This past Saturday, after completing my first week of college classes, I became very depressed of no one particular reason. I really can't explain it, but my best guess is I spent all this time preparing myself mentally for going to class that when I woke up friday and didn't have to go, I didn't know what to do with myself. I felt out of funk the entire weekend. After various attempts to feel better(which failed), I knew I had to pull out all the stops. Video games and brownie mix. The ultimate cure to any mental ailment(it's science). Being that it was 1 AM Sunday morning, I had to make a trip to super walmart to fetch these two key ingredients to happiness. I thought for sure that finding a game would be tough, I hadn't done any research, and my visitation to CheatCC.com (my game source of choice) has been severely lacking lately, so I was going into the store with no idea what to purchase. I stumbled to the game section, every so often shouting gangrape in a whisperish voice. That's a joke only three people will get. Regardless, I walk to the case, and after a bit of inspection, I stumble across Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. I see from the title and front of the case that it's an RPG. (One, I have a good eye for these things, and two, it depicts a war, which as anyone who's ever played an RPG knows, it's the role of the hero to avert the war, or lead the world up the it's events, BUT you never get to fight in the war...) Regardless squared, I whipped out my phone and did a wikipedia search,I discovered it's a sequel(which, having owned a ps2, is the only form of game I trust) Action RPG, featuring 2 player offline, and 4 player online. A third person view, but open world environment. That, ladies(who am I kidding?) and gentlemen, is gold. Pure gold. I see that and I see a combination of my two favorite RPG's, Champions of Norrath RTA and Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. And not only that, I can interact with others online(which I've yet to explore, and probably won't considering the 200 level cap). I pay for the game, have a short conversation with a Haitian man working the brownie mix isle, pay for the brownie mix, then proceed home. I arrived home, read the manual in the bathroom(which is ritual in my house) and then got distracted by lego's and spent the night being a 4 year old child again.

However, I played the game the following day, and although there are a few things I would prefer otherwise, the fact that I've been waiting for an open world action RPG on console my whole life, and being that this game is one, I've never felt more satisfied with a game in my life. And being that there's a 200 level cap and four difficulties(I skipped the bronze and went straight to silver, because I'm cooler than you), I have a feeling it will be consistently satisfying for a long time, unlike YOU Entourage! (I'm kidding I actually am not an Entourage hater, this season has been just as good as any in my opinion.)

Seamless transition to maturity....here.

Knowing Monday was fast approaching, I packed up my PS3 and hauled it over to my dad's apartment, where I stay while I take classes during the week. I finished my reading, played a bit, then went to bed around 12. Today I wake up(alarm malfunction, but still exactly when I wanted to wake up...), and go to class. I come home knowing that I have 104 pages of English to read, and a section of math to do(about 50 problems). I also know that Spaniards are playing soccer and the US Open(my recent obsession with tennis is another day's topic) is on. I also have the burning desire to 'play that fucking game', which any real gamer can relate to. To everyone's surprise, I settled with English. Then, after reading about 50 pages, I shifted into math, and finished that. With 2 hours until evening eating time(you heard me), I decided to play my game. After dinner...evening whatever, I finished up my remaining work, and began writing this.

You may think I have just recounted a normal day. And it may very well be a normal day to you. But to Zack Mayo. That's a damned amazing feat. To Zack Mayo, that's like exercise. I truly never thought I'd see the day where I would actually begin to ration time between work and pleasure appropriately. It's something I've never, ever done before. It can't be said simpler than that. Never before have I said, I'll do my homework first, and then do whatever I want after. Normal people say that. I don't. But today I did, which I see is a tremendous step towards increasing a small pool of maturity with which I just barely squeaked through high school with.

All this being said, I am, after all, only two weeks into classes, and all I did was a very simple math assignment, and read how to write essays, both of which I already know. But I still think it was such an important step towards furthering myself as a person that I must relate it to others.

Feel good stories are so annoying, so I'll end it with some pessimistic remarks. I thought I disliked reading them, but I really dislike writing them. I could've easily summed this up by saying 'Today I decided to study, and THEN play video games.' But I didn't, I wrote all this garbage. And if I'm lucky you read it, so HAH!

There, now I feel just about normal.

Your dad goes to college!

Summer is coming to a close, and all of us cool kids are going off to college. Some to Tally(wooo!), some to Orlando(fagggs), some to Miami, and even some to that god forsaken ghetto ridden swamp. I, however, am not going very far, but I'm still going off nonetheless. PBCC will be my new place of learning for the next two years, and I'm just as excited as everyone else. But I have a little spin to my college fun that nobody else will have the pleasure of having.

My dad is just about to complete his tenure at PBCC and move on to to FAU, which means that at one point there will be two Mayo's enrolled at PBCC this fall. For some this might be a really annoying or embarrasing situation for them to be in, but for me, it's like a godsend. One, it's just plain funny, considering the 35 year age difference. Two, Mayo blood courses with competitiveness, and I'll finally be able to compare my intelligence to that of my old man's. And Three, it'll be very interesting to see how professors react to teaching the son of a student they had not but two weeks prior.

This semester, I'll have the same professor as my dad for American History to 1865 as my dad, which I couldn't have planned better. History's my strongest subject, but unfortunately, you can guess why that is, I inherited all that from my old man. He had the highest grade in his class, so that's my goal going in.

Like I said before, I find this prospect very, very amusing. I have this scene running through my head where I point out to the family that I had a higher GPA than him, and we all start pointing and laughing. That, folks, is a motivation that can convince me(and probably only me, with my sick twisted mind) to succeed in college.

Good luck to each and every one of you in all your travels and experiences.
Love,
Mayo