Holy Smoke

Volcano ashes is spewing over the European continent stranding all air traffic, more or less a revenge from the icelandic nation due to Great Britain's decision to brand them as terrorists and freezing their offshore bank accounts. Thousands of people are stranded over the whole world and can't get home. At the same time the british are appearing to favor their third party, the Liberal Democrats, before the others. The whole world is turning upside down. Do I care? Hell no. I'm at the top of the world at the moment. Why? Let me tell you why:

I had the best day in a long time. First thing first, I was at some survey/experiment taking half an hour. I think they tried to find out by the choice of choosing between two brands of chocolate, one for 20 SEK and the other for a bit more depending on which scenario you read about. The extra money was then given to compensate the climate it take to get the chocolate. Five scenarios with different prices ranging from 10 - 50 extra. Then they chose one scenario (it was different for each participant) and you got the money that was over after paying either 20 SEK or the other price from 100 SEK. Being the green believer I am (actually no, but I ended up that road) I chose the more expensive choice on each. By coincidence I only compensated with 10 SEK and got to keep 70 SEK (ca € 7 or $ 8,75) and a chocolate bar all just by fate. And if that wasn't enough, I got a VG on the latest home exam and can qualify for a VG on the whole political science IV course. Yeah, I'm on a roll.

Other then that I'm continuing playing Final Fantasy XIII, but I'm a bit stuck in the same place. The Fifth Ark or whatever it's called. Before the Bahamut boss. Running up and down, up and down, up and down... you get the idea. Why? Because the leveling system is really addictive. You earn XP, spend them on different abilities and status boost like strength, HP and magic. Also, and this is probably the reason it is so addictive, there is a roof. You can only level up some levels at a time and after a certain point you can level up some levels more. So why not always be at the roof before going to the next point? At the moment I'm something like +40 h, and probably spend 10-20 hours more just leveling up. Yeah, I don't have a life.