Merkavah - Drive the Lord's SUV!

My third study break of the night... err... morning. Exam in an hour and a half.

I am perfectly calm. This isn't the one I'm worried about. It's the one later today, at two... the German one, that wrenches my guts. I am sorely underprepared for that exam, and given my horrible performance on the oral (I panicked... sadly), I am not feeling in my game at all.

Nothing that can be done, I suppose.

I received two colourful e-mails in the last few days about things I've posted on the blog. That, and I had a 'talk' with someone concerning privacy issues. The latter I respect, though frankly, if I were any less level at the time I might not have responded so well.

The person was right, though. So with that note I will begin using pseudonyms for persons whom I may be slandering. The content, however, will remain as unmerciless (and forever my fueled by whatever creative urge... booze or otherwise).

Would you expect any less from me, after having ranted quite vividly about how I intended never to be scared away from blogging again, even if the long arm of the law decided to lay itself down upon me?

But I digress. They were right, after all. And I do apologize, thoroughly.

On the other hand... the two others whom I received e-mails from I do not so appreciate. Not that your opinions are not valued, just please, don't waste my time with silly little things. This is a blog... a log of my thoughts and fancies. It's not a journalistic publication, by any means. You don't need to flame me. (Besides, there's a comment feature)

First off... I'm surprised to receive an e-mail (from Australia, no less) within an hour of my posting my last post. Surprised, and pleased. Thanks for reading. Thanks for being polite too, it's appreciated. However, realize what you are doing. You are e-mailing me, an independent blogger, at his personal e-mail (which, by the way, I don't know where you found. It's not on the blog, though it's probably elsewhere on johannkwan.com) about how you think Bethesda won't make a bad Fallout 3. Isn't that just a little silly?

Look, it was my opinion. And I stick by it. No offense intended to the guys and gals at Bethesda. Just because the devs at Bethesda are fans of Fallout, doesn't mean they can make a Fallout true to the old ones. That's like saying that just because I'm a writer and I'm an avid fan of Dune, I can write a valid Dune 7. It doesn't work that way. Thanks for reading though, but next time, please use the comment feature. Besides which, that gets your counterpoint read, instead of me having to ask you for permission to post it (which I don't think I technically need to, but I'd feel bad) in a followup post. (and if you were trying to pick me up from being down about FO3, weird way to do it, but thanks!)

Second e-mail, actually, an earlier one... I'm surprised the spam filter didn't block this one. Barely, barely coherent. You must be fourteen or something. Frankly, I'm still not sure this one wasn't a prank. And I'm NOT going to e-mail you back to respond at all, because that would just boil down to a flamewar I don't want to engage in. Telling me that Nick Drake is "ghey" and "deserved to die" and "really depressing (well, he said sad) shit" (and yes, I fixed the spelling a bit) was just uncalled for. And how you found my e-mail... and my old one at that...

That scares me. That you'd actually go and find it. Unless of course, this is a prank. Which I highly suspect... I wasn't aware people were *that* stupid, even at your apparent age. Either that, or you're from Blizzforums, which would explain quite neatly how you got my old e-mail. *sigh* Don't make me regret my four years serving there... I loved it. Dealing with your kind without having banning powers now though... is bothersome.

I'm not even going to bother going on further.

One hour left to exam. I should go. More studying needs to be done.