The New Year's Post of Random

2008 will be an awesome year. I can totally feel it.

That is, after I finally get a job in the Boston area. I've been working my butt off this winter break on two things: job hunting (in Hawaii, no less) and writing the Opera and Oratorio show. I have had little time for much else, though I still try to make some time to hang out with my MCAT studying sister.

As the old year closes and the new year begins, it's hard to dumb it down into lists and whatnot. I've made new friends, I've kept in touch with older ones. I've learned new things, and I've been disappointed by some of those things more than once. Furthermore, this time next year I want to be typing this while employed, and I'm unsure as to whether I will be able to do that. Finding a job in a specific location in a specific field is difficult at best.

That said, here are my top awesome things for the year lists:

TOP MOVIES
This year had more good movies than I could shake a stick at. However, the highlights were Stardust, Dan in Real Life, The Simpsons Movie (if only for Spider-Pig), Walk Hard, Knocked Up, and Juno. All of those were awesome films and totally worth the money to go see in theaters.

TOP GAMES
In terms of games that were actually released this year, there were a few that rose above all the rest:

Best Game that I Played this Year that was a disc-based RPG
Final Fantasy XII. No contest.

Best Survival Horror Game I played this year
Resident Evil 4 for the Wii. Awesome. I logged so many hours in that game it wasn't even funny - although there was one other game that I have logged more hours in...

Best FPS game that featured Samus Aran
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. I mean, there was only one, right? Right?

Best Game That I Logged Too Many Hours In
Pokemon Diamond. So, amazingly, incredibly awesome.

GAME OF THE YEAR
Super Mario Galaxy. If you own a Wii and yet do not own this game, sell your Wii to a more deserving person...or go buy Super Mario Galaxy.

TOP TELEVISION
With the writer's strike going on in full force, this category is pretty limited. But everyone should check out Chuck and Pushing Daisies. Excellent shows with more to offer after the strike resolves.

GO WRITERS!


I would do more categories, but right now I have to run. So I'll go ahead and post this and hope I can finish it later.