On my way back home from work today, I encountered this broken car.

The entire back of the car was tilted to its right, and it kept randomly swerving off the road. Occasionally, it would swerve too far off to the right and the driver would stop, presumably out of fear, pause for a little bit, then start driving again. I took this photo during one of those moments – the instant it stopped, I whipped out my camera to snap a photo. As I was taking the photo, the car started driving off again, but immediately swerved off the road again.

A word of advice: if you have a car that’s in this terrible shape, stop driving it.

I am officially done with all my classes for Summer 2012.

I’ve been done with my online literature course since last week when I posted my last response paper about Waiting for Godot. Today, I took my last quiz and submitted my final paper for my on-campus class, and took my last exam and submitted my final paper for my other online class.

This means that I’ll have quite a bit more time to do things with the time I originally spent taking classes and doing homework. One high-priority thing that I really need to work on getting done is my website migration – I started it months ago, but the process got so tedious and uninviting that I have about 150-200 pages remaining that I still have to transfer over to the new content management system (on the bright side, I’ve finished transferring somewhere around 500-600 pages so far). I once again modified the expected completion date in the notice on the sidebar of the website to the end of August; this should be the last time I extend that date, as if I don’t finish it by then, I’ll end up not having any time left to finish it up because, by September, I’ll be back in school.

Another thing that I will definitely be doing with my extra time is making more League of Legends champion skin previews. The Battlecast Cho’Gath preview I made got a surprisingly high amount of search engine traffic from Google, and has set a new explosive traffic record for my website in terms of first-day release traffic (meaning, no other page has gotten so many views as that one within the first 24 hours of it being released). Checking Google Analytics, the traffic on that page has been steeply declining, especially because Battlecast Cho’Gath has already been released. I’m not 100% sure if that page had a high level of interest simply because Battlecast Cho’Gath is a legendary skin and a new skin for Cho’Gath was long-awaited, or if people are just interested in seeing champion skin previews; I’ll find out by making more in the future and seeing if the patterns persist.

I’ll be back in a few days with some more content and more updates.

Want to know a fun fact about Ed Lam? He’s a terrifyingly slow eater.

Ed and I went to Rosati’s Pizza today to get some lunch. Unfortunately, even though Rosati’s has great cheap pizza, they don’t have a dining area in the restaurant (which is a good idea in my opinion, because it allows them to pay less rent and keep their prices incredibly low). So, Ed and I brought our pizza back into the car to eat.

One thing about me is that I can barely do anything in hot weather. Of course, eating falls under the “anything” category, so I was unable to eat. I took a few bites out of my pizza, then started driving back to our community college where we were taking transfer classes. Meanwhile, Ed was still eating his pizza while I was driving.

When we got back to the parking lot, I kept the air conditioning on and continued eating my pizza. By the time I finished my pizza, this is how much pizza Ed had left:

Our slices of pizza were the same size, but it took Ed longer to eat a portion of his pizza than it did for me to finish my pizza and drive a few miles back to campus.

So, Ed would make a great competitor for a reverse eating contest. In eating contests, you usually want to eat as much as possible in as little time as possible. Thus, in a reverse eating contest, you would want to eat as little as possible in as much time as possible.

I’m the friend of a future world champion.

My term paper for my summer literature class is due today at 5 PM.

The assignment is to select any work of literature that we read this semester and argue something about it. The work I selected is Macbeth by William Shakespeare. My argument is that Macbeth starts as a normal and sane man, but gets driven insane throughout the plot; this process is initiated by the witches’ prophecy, is further fueled by his wife’s influence, and is later confirmed by his hallucinations.

If you’ve read some of my previous blog posts or my tweets, you might know that the place I usually do my homework is a lobby commons area where a lot of people pass, and it can get pretty distracting. Because this paper has such a tight deadline, I decided to go into a random classroom and work in there.

Quite a nice selection, if I do say so myself – there’s a nice scenic view through a large window that lets in a perfect amount of natural light so I don’t have to turn on the regular lights.

Time to go back to writing my paper.

If you know me, you know that I absolutely hate rain. It always rains when I’m walking to class, and it always stops raining once I reach my destination.

The funny thing is that I actually like rain when I’m back at my home town during my university’s breaks. I never have to walk anywhere anyway (because I live in a suburban area and there’s nothing close by to walk to anyway), so if it rains, the weather cools down and I don’t have to water the grass as much.

Ever since I got back home at the beginning of break about two months ago, it hasn’t really rained much at all. It’s been so long that I almost forgot what rain even was.

Then, today, it rained so much that it was as if the clouds were trying to make up for forgetting to rain on me for the past two months.

That picture was taken at our family business. It was pouring rain just as we were about to leave to go back home, and my mom apparently hates walking in the rain as much as I do, so instead of just running out to our car, she put a garbage bag over her entire body as a makeshift raincoat.

Hey, at least it worked.

When I got home, I tweeted:

YESSS IT’S FINALLY RAINING AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LIKE 2 MINTHA

Then,

I’M SO EXCITED THAT I APPARENTLY FORGOT HOW TO SPELL “MONTHS”

You might have noticed that the only blog posts I’ve been putting up lately are either random photos from when Ed and I go to class, papers that I write for homework, or stuff about League of Legends. That’s because that’s pretty much all I’ve been up to lately.

I recently got a request to blog about “the hidden side of [my] life” – the life that doesn’t show up on the Internet. Unfortunately, there really isn’t much of a hidden side to my life right now (or ever, when I’m back at my home town for summer break), and the parts that I don’t write about online are pretty boring anyway.

Other than doing homework and going to class, I’ve been spending most of the rest of my time either at the laundromat (family business) watching to make sure nobody blows it up, and doing martial arts at the academy near our family business.

If you follow me on Twitter, you might remember that I had two interesting things happen at the laundromat.

A lot of people leave coins on the ground because we’re a coin laundromat, and all our machines take quarters only. Along with quarters, our laundromat is usually pretty scattered with a lot of coins in general. Yesterday, I thought I found a penny on the ground and swooped down to pick it up. Then I realized I got trolled by a bottle cap.

Earlier today, there was a woman singing the ABC song with her child. She was repeating it quite a bit, but I noticed something strange about it. When I listened more closely, I realized she was leaving out the letter X.

Yes, that is literally some of the most interesting things that happen at our laundromat. Other than that, it usually just sitting around on my laptop, cleaning machines, and sweeping the floor.

Unfortunately, I can’t promise you any high-action suspenseful content in the future, but I’ll try to at least make my papers more interesting or something.