Earlier today I went to Jameson’s Charhouse with Ed and Taiki – Ed you know, and Taiki is a buddy I’ve known since junior high.

Before my burger came out, I got this bowl of soup (as well as some bread we could eat before our soup arrived, which you can see in the background behind the knife):

It had a bread-boat of powdered cheese.

For the main meal, I got a Jameson’s burger, which came with fries, cole slaw, and pickles.

After finishing our food and dropping Taiki off back at his house, Ed had this sudden urge to play with a frisbee. Unfortunately, we couldn’t find a frisbee in his garage, so we went to Walmart to buy one for $0.97 ($1.05 when including tax).

While we were walking around the sports area, I came across these license plates for bikes. All the names seemed normal, until I came across…

BUBBA.

After purchasing a frisbee, we came back and started throwing it around, until we realized how bad we were at throwing frisbees. I successfully chucked the frisbee into a foresty area near our subdivision, and Ed was brave enough to enter the dark depths of the abyss to retrieve our new toy.

After exhausting ourselves with the frisbee, Ed took this photo through tall grass on our way back to his house.

No, we did not encounter any wild Pokémon.

For dinner, we went to Ed’s restaurant (that his family owns). Upon arriving, I came across a bamboo tree with a sign on it.

In case you can’t read it, it says “Please don’t shake the tree.”

Yes, apparently, they have such massive problems with people shaking the tree that they had to put a sign on it telling people not to shake it.

After a short while, my food was ready – I had beef, broccoli, and rice (with other random vegetables).

After finishing our food, I came back to my house to play some League of Legends, respond to emails, and go to sleep.

So apparently, while my parents and I were at my graduation commencement ceremony, this happened to our car while it was parked in my apartment building’s parking lot:

:c

After another two-hour-long dizzying ride back to Madison, I participated in my bachelor’s graduation commencement ceremony back at my university.

It obviously wasn’t the best experience, because it was two hours of listening to people speak and read off graduates’ names, and the fact that the Internet inside the stadium barely worked made the whole situation worse. Either way, it’s finally over now.

My dad took a bunch of photos of the event, but in a majority of them, you can’t see what’s going on because they’re so blurry. Out of the 40 or so photos that my dad took, I picked out five photos in which you could actually see the content of the picture.

The first two are of the Kohl Center, the building in which the ceremony took place.

Ignore the blurry black thing at the bottom-left corner of the photo above – my dad accidentally included the camera’s cord in the picture.

The next photo is of the screen above the ceremony area. The Kohl Center is usually a basketball stadium, which is why this was there. During the ceremony, it was used to give a close-up of the speakers and graduates, as well as closed captioning for the hearing impaired.

The last two photos are of the ceremonial area before commencement began.

All the other photos my dad took of me are too blurry because they were seated so far away. There were, however, professional photographers taking pictures of all the graduates, so once those get processed, I’ll be able to keep those as a souvenir of the ceremony, and possibly post them up here if they’re not too awful.

As I mentioned yesterday, I went to the Deerfield location of Chicago Martial Arts for photos. We had so many people there to get photos that my instructor might as well have told me it was Waiting Day, and not Picture Day.

But of course, that wasn’t that huge of a deal, because that meant I got more time to spend with Kyra, the academy’s mascot.

Kyra had to be locked in the main office a majority of the time so she wouldn’t interfere with the photographer’s work, so I stayed in the office a majority of the time with her so she wouldn’t get too lonely. I do, however, regret not bringing my laptop, because I got pretty bored in there.

After finally getting our photos done (and being gently forced to do some poses and kicks for individual photos, which consequentially led me to overextending my leg muscle as a result of not stretching enough prior to the shoot), we bought way too much fried chicken on the way back, and had dinner back at the Mundelein location while playing League of Legends.

After a dizzying two-hour car ride from Madison, I am finally back in my home town in the Chicago suburbs.

Because our family business was left unattended during the time my parents came to pick me up, we had to go straight there to make sure nobody set off firecrackers inside and burnt a hole through our ceiling (fortunately, nobody did).

That also meant that I was easily able to go to my martial arts academy (because, for those of you who don’t know, it is next door to our family business). After playing a game of League of Legends with Simon, my instructor, we went out to the main gym area as classes began, to teach.

Tomorrow, I’ll be headed to our alternate academy location for martial arts photographs – this also means that I will have new photos of Kyra, our mascot.

As of today, I am officially done with the second-to-last semester of undergraduate studies, and the last normal semester (seeing as my overall last semester is going to be this coming summer, during which I will be doing an internship for course credit).

I finished my last final exam earlier today for my criminology course, and now all I have to do is wait for all my exams to be graded and the scores compiled, calculated, and entered into my transcript.

As you can probably guess, this is also why I haven’t really been updating my website much lately or streaming at all – I’ve been studying for my last stretch of final exams.

As of right now, my plan is to spend tomorrow in Madison taking care of final move-out stuff (such as returning office keys to my various workplaces, packing up, and cleaning). My parents plan on coming to pick me up Friday early afternoon, and I’ll be headed back home for the weekend until Sunday, which is when we’ll be coming back for my graduation commencement ceremony.

I will also be taking this time to catch up on a lot of website maintenance stuff I’ve been falling behind on, as well as preparing to produce more content. Like usual, I’m not able to stream from home be­cause of the poor Internet connection, but I do have access to a better Internet connection at a different location during different parts of the day, so this doesn’t mean that I will never be streaming again in the future.

Stay tuned in the next few days as I get more information and am able to provide more updates.