Pretzel bread stupor

Day 410

I have made a dreadful mistake by eating a large pretzel bread pizza from Little Caesar's. This is a mistake I won't be repeating soon--except for the fact I purchased two of the pizzas and will probably east the second one tomorrow. I can't let it go to waste! However, I do feel terrible and lethargic as I often do directly after making poor food decisions. Is it my own stupidity that causes this or an overabundance of enthusiasm for food in general? I drove home at unsafe speeds in anticipation of the pretzel bread pizza--and I was burned in such an epic way.

I'm not sure I've written about it yet, but I have finished Persona 2: Innocent Sin, clocking in at roughly 50 hours. It's one of the longer games I've played this year, but it didn't feel that long possibly because I'm accustomed to how ridiculously lengthy Persona 3 and Persona 4 are, both of which have a good 30-40 hours on that one. My reaction to Persona 2 was mixed, but I liked it overall. I'd like to jump right into Eternal Punishment, but I can predict myself swiftly losing motivation on that one considering the fact that I already feel burned out on Persona. It is for that reason that I'm going to wait awhile before I tackle the PS2 games in my backlog since there are no fewer than three Shin Megami Tensei titles there left for me to complete.

I'm sitting at 26 completed games right now and I'm currently juggling three different games, none of which should take me an extremely long time to finish. I could be mistaken about Persona 4 Arena. It could be a lot harder than I realize and there could be a lot more content to take care of before the game can be considered beaten, but I'll worry about that later. Beating Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call is only a matter of time because it's an absurdly addictive and fun game. If the game doesn't give me some criteria for completion I'll just have to complete all the songs at least once or unlock all of the characters. That's still something I can accomplish in a week or so--probably less if I really concentrate on it.

I have 8 or 9 hours logged on Lufia 2 which is really not bad considering how short my play sessions tend to be. If there comes a time when it's the last game left to hit 30 games for this year, I'll start playing it exclusively to get it out of the way more quickly. This is exactly what I did with Fire Emblem: New Mystery of the Emblem, although I must admit in that case my eagerness to get it over with was equally motivated by my sagging motivation for actually playing the game. It was very frustrating in a lot of ways!

I still need to start up one more game if I plan on hitting my 30 game goal. Monkey Island 2 is still an option, but I'm of the opinion that I still have plenty of time to start up a lengthy RPG if I wanted to. If I'm saving PS2 games for later (and I'd rather do PS3 games even after that), I'm only left with a few options. Tactics Ogre: The Knight of Lodis is my only GBA option--but I think I've played a lot of strategy RPGs recently. Throne of Bhaal is a game I desperately want to finish and the expansion to the game that got me to start writing this blog in the first place! It has a lot of sentimental value and I'm frequently baffled as to why I haven't finished it yet. I might just start that for real tonight or tomorrow.