Hey~

Last night I fractured my left 5th metatarsal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatarsus). I was at the gym practicing kickboxing, so you should probably have an idea of how it happened. Anyway, I live on campus at UC San Diego and have a few different gym choices. I decided to go to a farther gym then since my girlfriend want to stretch for dance with some of her friends. I'm really completely unflexible, which doesn't help for martial arts at all, so getting a good stretch was pretty attractive. We arrive, do a bunch of stretches, then all the dancers get into doing a few workouts. Since becoming flexible is a way higher priority for me than conditioning, I keep stretching. The room we used is multipurpose, and used by a few of the martial arts clubs, so there were a few upright punching bags supported by big fat bases. The gym I normally go to has regular suspended bags. I'm just waiting for the dancers to finish at this point, so I launch a few casual kicks and am pleased to discover the stretches helped a lot for kicking. Everything seems fine, until I make the mistake of launching a tornado kick on the bag. It actually went so high as to go over the top of the bag, which wasn't really a problem, but my left foot, instead of landing on solid ground like it normally would, landed partially on the bag's fat base. It slipped off after bending a great deal, but I managed to land standing. The first thing I noticed was a great (though tolerable) deal of pain in the outer side of my left foot.

At this point I didn't know that I had broken anything. I figured that the fact I was able to walk, even if walking caused excruciating pain in my foot, was a pretty good sign that it was just a bruise or something that would be fine overnight. I still was stuck at the gym though, but luckily my girlfriend's dorm was very close. It would have been hell to get to my dorm, which was about a mile away despite still being on campus. UCSD is ridiculously huge. I crashed at my gf's for the night, hoping that my foot would feel better in the morning. My foot did feel a lot better when I woke up, and I could hobble around well enough to take a campus shuttle to class.

I went to the student health center after class to make sure nothing serious was wrong. The guy who took my xrays was like "Hey come take a look at these. You sure did a doozy on that." From the picture, it would be pretty obvious to anyone that my bone was broken. The doctor said that he was surprised that I wasn't in a wheelchair and that I wasn't taking anything for pain.

The treatment isn't so bad. I just have to wear a hardsoled shoe for up to 6 weeks while it heals. I'm just a bit sad that I won't be functioning to my best abilities for the first few weeks of the school year. I was also going to take a kempo class, which I out the door until next quarter, I guess. The worst part of all this is the sheer size of UCSD. I walk so slowly that it takes forever to get anywhere. Getting between classes which have only a 10 min window of time between them and take a 10 min walk at normal pace is going to be a challenge. :/

Hey guys! There are a few orders of business that need to be taken care of. First off:

1. The Roster:
-Fontong(player/coach)
-besiger
-jello_biafra (newly joined)

Unconfirmed:
-pr0xi.beater
-randombum
-Ziras
-Butigroove: quit
-flow.of.soul

If you are unconfirmed please tell me whether or not you are playing!!

Out:
Duke: quit
intertinept: 2 week temp banned, dunno if he will be oming back
sonu: nuked
nukemduke: nuked

I have a feeling that the mods are in some sort of sadistic game in which they chose one kickball team and will ban them all...

2. Contests: (read spoiler or latest LKL thread if you don't know)
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CONTESTS:
Since there will be no games this week, I'm introducing some super-awesome contests in their place!
Party Pooper (Coaches only): Each coach will be given the opportunity to show of their random UMS game skills by duking it out in a mini-game party tournament! The nine coaches will be divided into three groups of three, with the three winners facing off in the final round. The winner's team will be awarded two wins! The groups are scheduled to meet on Wednesday at 4:00 EST, Wednesday at 11:00 EST, and Thursday at 11:00 EST (All PM - aka 16:00/23:00/23:00). Coaches, post which groups you will be available for! Don't be a party pooper! (Map can be downloaded HERE)
King of Games (Players only): Each team will select a representative to participate in a tournament of a random UMS map of my choosing! Again, you will be split into groups of three, with the three winners making up the final group, playing a completely different UMS map! These maps will be revealed at a later date, and may not be the same for each group. The games will begin on Thursday at 11:00 EST/10:00 CST/8:00 PST (PM). Remember, teams, pick someone who will actually show up. You get another two wins if your representative wins, but you get nothing if he bails! It's time to d-d-d-duel!
Back to School (Players only): Yes, it's that time of year again. You're heading back to your stack of expensive university textbooks (or, in Kawaii's case, stack of 2nd grade snack time milk and cookies), dreadfully waiting for your professor's next report assignment. Well, who needs those boring reports? Why not do an awesome battle report of a particularly outstanding LKL game instead? All entries will be proudly displayed in this thread along with my own upcoming battle report(s) (yes, I'll get them done), and the winner's team will receive three wins (possibly more if I don't have very many entries)! All entries are judged on the criteria of creativity, humor, and overall awesomeness, and are due on Saturday. Let's open up that Word document and hit those keys (other than 1,2,3,9,0,a,t,p,z, and d), guys!
Lucky Lottery #1 - Lock the Loser (Open to all): As most of you know, participants in this league have a history of getting banned. Well, it's time for you to profit from their misery! Guess who the next locked or nuked douchebag participant in this league will be, and the each correct entry's team will receive one win (max one total win per team)! Yes, you can even guess that the loser will be me. Post your guesses in this thread by Friday. For reference, these are the previous bans: NukemDuke, Sonu (self-requested), inertinept (aw ). Also, try not to vote for people on your team. That's kind of mean
Lucky Lottery #2 - Mystery Map (Open to all): It's time for you to test out those clairvoyant skills and guess the surprise maps for next week. Each correct guess will net your team one win (max two total wins per team)! Remember, past surprise maps have been Othello, Holy World, and Troy. Post your guesses in this thread by Friday. Will I follow the trend, or will I pick some totally hideous map like Demon's Forest? That's for me to know, and for you to find out

So, today my girlfriend got a job at a company called Vector Marketing. If you don't know what they do (I didn't), here is the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Marketing
Summary:

If you like to, here's some wallpapers for you:



I know no one could possibly be a fan of all three of the above players at the same time, so here's one with only Jaedong:


Also here's some wallpapers with no men in it:



All of them are 1920 x 1080 in honor of my new 23" monitor, which is completely freaking awesome. These are some of the first wallpapers I've made, so don't be too harsh on me. Also if you want a specific combination of players in the image I can do that pretty easily, also I could resize but I would have to cut stuff off the sides to make it any other common resolution. If you want any random images edited you could ask me here too, I was gonna do some of the ones in RaptuhJeezus's thread in general but it got closed since he wasn't doing shit.

Enjoy!

Edit: feel free to give me suggestions on what to do in the future, here's what I'm thinking so far:
-Reach
-Boxer

Ok, I was at my friends house today for a lan. I guess I was really supposed to be just setting things up, but all I was really doing was editing the images for the winner league final. Man I can never get away from this site at any time of my life. Now I'm getting called out on it by one of my friends, apparently she keeps getting linked to stuff on teamliquid by her friends heheh. Then when she found out I'm a regular here she was like "!!!!!!!!!" because yeah. Also she went and searched for all my stuff on this site ;_; I guess it's ok though since there isn't anything too bad LOL. I bet she is looking at this right now o.O

Ok since I know no one cares about all of this I'll post something I've been working on.


I know it's tiny and everyone hates Bisu, but I did it as a request for one of my friends and he has a tiny monitor and likes Bisu. But supposing by some cosmic coincidence someone likes Bisu, likes the wallpaper, AND has a larger monitor I could be persuaded to make a larger version. Of course it would be a pain since my monitor is also tiny . I wanna get like a 22" widescreen or something so it's easy to have like 5 things going on at once on the screen and ez to edit images but I'm half asian and that side of me keeps telling me not to buy things.

Ok a bunch of random stuff. Just know that I'm working hard on the banner for CJ vs OZ to help everyone get hyped up on that EPIC match! I'm including savior in it too, since I know I'll get a bunch of crap if I don't.

Edit: thanks to Quickstryker, that guy is like my first and #1 fan, I hope he reads this!

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Thai Tea
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Thai tea is actually really good just by itself, I know people normally have just had it as milk tea though. It's also cool since it gets really orange(even though the color is food coloring XD)

Green Tea
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The classic of classic teas.

Jasmine Tea
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The other tea served at chinese restaurants. Jasmine tea is probably my favorite, somehow the fragrance leaves a nice feeling in your mouth.

Triple Leaf Tea
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Supposedly this tea can help reduce acne, which is useful since all the food served in my schools dining halls is super greasy. I'm not sure if it works but who cares, it has a nice kind of herbal minty type of flavor which is refreshing.

Vita Tea
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It doesn't fit with the rest, but I like this tea too. Anyone who hasn't tried this stuff is really missing out.

Did anyone know about these? I'm feeling kind of mindfucked despite the nature of these expansions.

Wikipedia article:

Ok, so we know that MMOs can be addicting. Throughout the ages there have been many major ones being MS, Runescape, and ofc WoW. There are 2 guys in my dorm who play MMOs, one plays WoW, the other Runescape.

The WoW player basically never leaves his seat. I've seen him out of his room about 3 times and all of those he was in a big hurry like he had to get back and raid or something lol. I don't think I've heard him speak yet, maybe he said something on Vent, Idk.

Think this is bad, well the Runescape player is infinitely sadder.

He isn't a recluse like the WoW player and I never really suspected him of being a crazy MMO addict until today when I went in and saw him just chopping trees in Runescape. When I was like 'wtf' he just said he had 300,000 chops to get to the next level, apparently he was at 96. Then he said "I have to get to level 99 so I get a special cape to wear and people know I'm a crazy woodcutting pimp." Which is what just killed me.

Even the possibility of Stork winning a title spawned dozens of new threads. What will happen if he actually follows through?

[spoiler]Winner of Fantasy vs Stork Appreciation Thread
[spoiler]Stork Bonjwa?
[spoiler]Who's your Protoss king?
Stork: NOT 2nd Place
[H]Stork Build
Stork: Sweep OSL, MSL, WCG?
TLFE: Jurassic Park: Return of the Dino Toss
Have my babies plox
[H]KILLING STORK
[R]Update Power Rank! Stork #1?
[spoiler]World Ending?

But seriously now, Stork is looking very very hot right now. He stopped the Best bandwagon(of which I was a memeber) right in its tracks, in a very convincing manner. Hell, he even made Best look like a little boy just waiting to be taken to school. Before he lost a game to forGG in the MSL he was on a 12 win streak against terran, including wins against forGG, mind, and Sea. Why does this king of second place suddenly have what it takes?

Stork's execution is often flawless, his units engage the enemy exactly the way that will deal maximum damage. When Stork and BeSt clashed on Plasma, Stork's dragoons were in a far better position and utterly crushed the army of the former PvP god. Can we see a Royal Roader this season? Not if Stork has anything to say about it.

Fantasy's play just hasn't been inspiring enough to make me think he can win. Is the victory of the king of second place now inevitable?