A very, very long overdue New Year’s update

*Blows dust off of this WordPress account* Oh boy, it has been a while hasn't it? Guess the best way to start this overdue update is by wishing all of you a happy new year and a happy new decade! There's something overwhelming about the idea that we have a new blank slate to work …

The… Anti-Summer 2018 Initiative?

Greetings and salutations. As you may have noticed, things have been a little different around here recently. A little more barren. Don't worry, it's not a symptom of finally running out of ideas. I did that about a year ago and wrote about my pencil set. Nor is it some delusion that my Naruto-Arena post …

Gotta read ’em all!

The Unova Region has enveloped a lot of my life over the last few days. First there was the start of my fanfiction. Then the locale of Pokémon Black & White came up again when I was wandering Barnes & Noble with my sister and discovered a book of Santa Harukaze comics, put out by Viz Media. …

More fanfiction: Pokémon edition

Creating myself a fanfiction.net account truly opened a Pandora's Box I'll never be able to close. Last time on "The Adventures of Jason Ruining his Credibility on the Internet," I had a bizarre reaction to Stardew Valley that drove me to write a fanfiction about the budding relationship with my farmer character. I spent a whole …

Jason wrote a fanfic

I have been playing a LOT of Stardew Valley over the last week. For those uninitiated members of the audience, Stardew Valley is an independent farming/life simulation game in the same vein of Harvest Moon or Animal Crossing that came out in 2016 to critical and audience acclaim. Well-deserved acclaim at that. This is a …

Six years of progress

Here's a fun fact for all of you computer enthusiasts: I've been using the same MacBook Air for everything since late high school. A MacBook Air that I inherited from my Dad. That he got in 2010. Needless to say I've been in the market for an upgrade. That laptop may have served me well, …

Stars full of Jazz in 2019

Last year I wrote a post about Alyson's end-of-year Jazz Under the Stars concert. It's a yearly event that is a lot of fun because you get to see the students at their peak and raise some money for the arts. But this year Jazz Under the Stars was a bit more hectic for the …

Meeting expectations

If my life were a series of Sesame Street episodes, the word of the day would be: Meetings. Pretty much as soon as I woke up, I joined Mom at a local Starbucks to have breakfast with Tatjana — the wife of Magic Moreno, who I spoke to for Gladeo not long ago. Worth reading if …

My Senior Honors Project debrief

These graduation milestones are really starting to gear up. Today's adventure took me out to Fullerton with my parents so I could officially give my Senior Honors Project presentation. It has been literal years in the making. After I spent some time reflecting on my novel and compiling the work behind it into a PowerPoint, …

A pre-preparation of rites

Like I mentioned in my post showing off the character sketches from my novel-in-progress, this Friday I will be presenting my Senior Honors Project at the Honors Project Interdisciplinary Conference. We got the official email with the final schedule brochure and everything. It's happening. Not only is it happening, it's coming up at full speed. …