My Great Accomplishment!

(Warning: This is a video game post. XD)

Everybody who knows me knows my love of the Mario Kart series. I don't care what anybody says, the Mario Kart games are the best games ever. Anybody who has ever seen me play the Mario Kart games knows my skills at the Bowser's Castle tracks. And they are elite.

In the SNES version of Mario Kart, I easily single or double-lapped everybody on Bowser's Castle 1, coming in as the only person under 02:00:000. (I was often somewhere in the 01:48:000 range.) The other Bowser's Castle tracks were also easily dominated.

So of course the GameCube version of Bowser's Castle is no exception. I tend to be the only team that comes in under 03:00:000, and I tend to have a lead of 25 or 30 seconds above second place. So tonight I hit the Time Trials mode, figuring I'd try and break my record of 02:50:438.

And I did. Several times over. As I beat each score, I got to race against my "ghost." (A "ghost" is when you get to race against your replay from the previous attempt.) And as I have extremely strong pride in my skills of the track, I had to beat my ghosts. And beat them I did, until my record was 02:45:520. When I tried again, I had surprised myself: I unlocked the staff ghost.

The staff ghost is a nasty little creature. It's a ghost the programmers put in a game that's unlocked when the player manages to get a certain score. The staff ghost is uber elite and is almost unbeatable.

At 11:40 PM, I beat the staff ghost, and set my record on Bowser's Castle at 02:44:376.

Further proof that I am the uber elite when it comes to Bowser's Castle.

...Yes. I'm a nerd. A serious nerd. But I'm also a serious nerd who just accomplished something she spent a ton of time trying to do. So there.