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Well, part of the reason why I changed my name was because I really didn't like Epic Flygon. And there are a bunch of Professors here, check out the member list.
Ah, that sucks. I've been doing fairly well, school started a few weeks ago and the workload is slowly getting to me haha. Besides that though everything is fine. I even changed my username, as you can see. :D