So class is over and summer is just beginning. Sure, I’ve got papers to grade next weekend, but this weekend (and this week) I’m free!!! So what’s a girl to do with all this newfound spare time? 1. Eat copious amounts of tasty food with friends. 2. Finish Twilight Princess. 3. Learn how not to get my ass kicked at wii Mortal Kombat. 4. Watch anime.

It should come as no surprise that I am making good progress on #1. Today proved to be full of fantastic dim sum goodness, and tomorrow brings the promise of a kick ass barbeque! Yay!!!

I have also managed to succeed at #2. Even though I have decided that I really still dislike Zelda games, I managed to suck it up and finish the game Friday evening just out of spite. And now I know that no matter how many positive reviews the next Zelda game gets, I will not fall prey to it’s obnoxious dungeon-puzzle-solving with annoying sidekicks who give the most useless hints ever and a rambling plot-line with craptastic voice acting! No sirree, I won’t buy into that again. I still love you, Nintendo, but Zelda can stuff it!

I will, however, buy into the gimic of waiving my hands in the air wildly trying to perform some kind of bloody fatality on my friends in Mortal Kombat. An afternoon’s trial of the game today suggested that despite thinking motions would somehow be easier than button-mashing to pull off the tricky combos, Mortal Kombat is still hard and I’m remarkably bad at it. I take some consolation in the fact that local game-master Jason could do little more than just kick people in the groin repeatedly in his efforts to produce fatalities, the fact that he still got to even attempt to execute the fatalies way more than I did speaks to my need to practice.

As an added bonus, the Game Stop visited after Target left us Mortal Kombat-less was also having Final Fantasy XII on sale. So of course, an impulse purchase was made. Not that I’ve been very good about keeping up with the series of late. The last one I played to the end was VII. I got about halfway through VIII, which I actually did enjoy, but got distracted by the card game crap and never finished it. Then I never even tried IX, started but again never finished X, and never was interested in the online aspect of XI. So XII must surely be the lucky charm, right?

Finally, I expect to work in some more Bleach watching this weekend. I’ve also been watching some of the old Black Jack series as well, although the medical component of the original series is a little less interesting than I would have hoped. But if I ever had kids and didn’t want them watching the schlock that passes for Saturday morning cartoons these days, I’d probably plop them down in front of Black Jack, just to make sure they got the proper doses of ueber-nerdiness in their routines.

Thus concludes my weekend update/post-that-makes-me-sound-like-a-13-year-old-boy. I guess it wouldn’t help my case to add that I also watched game 3 of the Stanley Cup tonight, huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought… forget I said anything!