So I sit here, 6:51AM thinking to myself: why am I about to pull an all nighter? Is it to get a bacon egg and cheese from the bagel store in a few hours? No, but that helps. Perhaps it’s because I can’t sleep? A likely scenario and although true, that’s not the reason either. Maybe I want to laugh at my brother as he leaves for H.S. and I’m home doing nothing until my internship starts next week? Nope. It’s because Guild Wars: Factions owns my life.

I’ve put some 35+ hours into the game over the last 13 days; it may not sound like alot, but consider this… I had finals last week which required me to pull 4 all nighters over the span of 6 days and usually included some 13-14 hours of studying a day. It may be the reason I can’t sleep as well, but even on those days of buttloads of studying, I managed to get an hour or two of Factions in. I’m currently rocking a maxed out Monk and a lvl 14 Warrior, though I’m sure by the end of the week I’ll be at the point where I’ll just want to sell my account and start a new one. (I sold my Guild Wars: Prophecies account which had a Necro and a Monk for $160 on eBay, and necros aren’t popular.) The market isn’t as large as, say, WoW, but I find it much more fun and consequently, a better investment.

I just hope I’ll find some time for Suikoden V, We Love Katamari and Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War over the summer, as well as some reading and a job…I might as well not sleep for the next 3 months. Oh, and I’ll have to get some Playstation 3 preorders in somewhere along the way…after the 360 debacle, i’m not missing out on so much potential profit this time around. And for all the 24 fans out there…the next 8 months of my life will be just as miserable as yours, I promise. We can sit and hate the Chinese together.