Oi. Hello July 31st, how are you? Good, glad to here you're going to be sunny for that graduation party I'm going to.

More importantly (to me) is that today marks eight years of my membership here at theOtaku. Now I roll into year 9 and continue to whine and complain about everything that goes on. It's like the drama I never got in high school is suddenly making a fierce comeback.

Regardless, yeah, eight years of officially flying under the Katana moniker actually happened in June, since that's when I joined the OtakuBoards. But this place is more my home and I hardly poke the OB these days and is where I've been camping out for years.

This place has seen me do important things. Band trips, eighth grade promotion, plays and projects, regular tests and the ACT, getting my driver's license and a job, high school graduation, moving into my dorm, having the existential crisis about my major, and now about to leave my teenagerdom come Tuesday.

It's pretty much the stuff I talked about in Tales of an Eternal. I'm still here because I want to be here because the people I have met and befriended have made it completely worthwhile.

Also, if you're part of that group on Twitter, you saw what happens when the site breaks and we can't get into chat. So many @ replies...TweetDeck...TweetDeck...!