Eight months between posts, that's probably somewhere in the top 100 biggest delays between blog updates... What have I been up to?

Well, I found a job for starters. In journalism, no less. I'm enjoying it immensely and it sure is a nice change to have a steady wage instead of living from translation to translation.

Other than the new job, the rest of my time has probably been spent on World of Warcraft, which is a real timesink. While, amazingly, I still enjoy playing it after around three years, I feel fairly relieved that my subscription has run out. It's just too easy to open WoW up every time you have some free time, thus sidelining everything else indefinitely. Plus now that everyone I used to play with has either joined another guild, switched to another server, or quit the game entirely, there is no real social aspect to it anymore. Not being able to do instances, probably my favorite aspect of the game, didn't help either.

PvP might have been an option, but I've never really cared for it much in WoW and, while I'm generally quite good at PvP in general, I need to put in a lot of time to keep my reflexes and mind sharp. Considering I can't even commit to a couple of hours for an instance, that doesn't seem likely.

My highest level character, Erdamion, is still the guild leader for Spirit of the Wolf. I tried to find Clearbreaze/Tripp/etc, the only other active remaining member from back when the guild was alive, in order to pass on the torch, but had no luck. Looks like SotW will indeed die with my characters, as I predicted back when I joined. Ah well, it outlasted a lot of larger guilds on the server, as well as outlasting the people that were mainly responsible for its collapse. But that's another story for another time...