Saturday, August 19, 2006

Whew!!
Well, my first week at my new job is finally over and let me tell you, getting up at 6:00 every morning is, as Shikamaru would put it, "troublesome!" I had two loooooong days of orientation followed by numerous medical clearance checks and other unpleasantness. Then I was sent down to the ER and put straight to work. I certainly didn't waste any time in putting that 3 years of schooling to use did I?

Prior to getting the job at the hospital, I had to take the ARRT Registry, a 220 question exam that covers everything from basic anatomy, to the properties of electromagnetic radiation. It took nearly 3 hours to complete and at the end I was sure I had failed. It was a long week of pensive frustration until I got the letter in the mail that confirmed that I had, in fact passed. With a 93 at that! So you guys can all start calling me Eric R. Ellis R.T.(R) (that has a ring to it, no?).

I can't believe that school is all over with. I started my Otaku site just before I started college and now here I am, a graduate, yet still an Otakuite! Through these 3 years I have often been noted for my lack of activity here, though I have always kept an eye on things. The early days of MyO were pretty cool as I got to meet alot of great people (some who are still here, some who aren't). They included such Otaku legends as the nototious Someguy (heh, we both joined on the same day!), the always dependable Rustym, the wise-cracking John, and the original custom page designer LazeChibi just to name a few.

I remember writing blogs on here detailing my first days of school and how it had seemed so odd to be back in a classroom after 7-plus years. I posted a bunch of fanart early on (fan art was the reason I had always come The Otaku, long before MyO had even started) and I had many people check out my site over that first year. I remember one day noting that my site was #1 in visits and thinking, "wow, I wonder how that happened?" In fact my site remained #1 for many months until a lack of updating and the prevalence of other great MyO sites conspired to drop me down through the ranks (though I'm still in the top 50!).

Then there was a long period of over a year when I didn't post at all. I'm not really sure how that happened either. I still checked my page and others every now and then, but for some reason just had nothing to say. I think the explosion of Myspace may have had something to do with it. Alas, many of the people that I used to chat with frequently have gone on and stopped visiting me (or have left MyO completely). I have to say that Someguy and John have always been there and are both greatly appreciated....

Anywayz, now here it is 2006 and I have got the bug to be active on here again. Maybe its that school is finally over and I have time to myself once again. Or maybe its that I have gotten insanely into Naruto (much like I did DBZ long ago) and have desired quality conversation on the subject. I definitely am glad to be back and reading other people's blogs once again. It's cool to see glimpses into the lives of so many different types of people who are all connencted by their love of anime (and manga). I will definitely be more proactive in the future regarding my posting and commenting on others' sites. Hopefully some of those that I have met and lost contact with through the years will one day find their way back to my site and we can be friends again.

Wow, that was long. I am not typically so long-winded. Ok, well that's all I've got for now. Think I'll go watch some more Naruto (I'm up to episode 84 now). See yaz!

-Eric

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