My new Ibanez RG-8 8-string guitar. It's sounds great, feels great, and looks great. $360 well spent, for sure.

Here's a picture, complete with a greased neck, new strings, and a homemade sticker:

Fuck yeah.

I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do over the summer, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to spend a lot of it working on Japanese (and Chinese, if a PM I sent someone works out), and playing my new 8-string guitar that I earned myself recently. It's going to suck not seeing my friends for two months, but most of them are starting off 9th grade in the same high school as me, and I have three of my tighter friends on Steam, so it's not all bad.

What about you guys?

Near the end of May, to be precise.

With that said, I'm curious, those of you who are fellow students: What's your summer plan?

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