eaten posts and making friends

So I started using an LJ client so that I wouldn't lose entire posts after writing them. Then they find a way to thwart me! I had an entire long description for the bostonsingles community (yes, I'm diving in) written, and in an attempt to post it somewhere more private to be proofread before posting publicly, I accidentally logged out of my client and lost the whole post. Maybe it's a sign.

I had an absolutely wonderful Saturday evening in New York City with ratbastrd, whom I can happily speak with as easily as I can comment on. Since I had been to NYC on a sightseer's trip before, we didn't attempt to do any of that but rather walked around the East Village for most of the evening. We ate yummy Vietnamese food (including coconut juice, which looked like a snow globe in a glass or perhaps Orbitz, if you remember that drink), browsed through an awesome clothing store in which I could create outfits to break men's minds if I had enough money, and had coffee and conversation at The Worst Table in that particular coffee house (as told us by one of the staff). Oh well, our waitress was quite hot. Quite. All in all it was definitely worth going out of town for the weekend. :)

I finally got around to readding LJ interests and rewriting my bio. This is yet another ploy to find more people in the Boston area with whom to connect. I know I'm more likely to respond to someone if I can see we have things in common, so hopefully others will do the same.

Speaking of ways to make friends... tragicstory is holding a Firefly marathon at his house this weekend and supposedly inviting other friends of his besides me, at least one of whom I hope is single, within 5 years of my age, and attractive. tragicstory himself would fit the bill except for that whole single qualification, and he's not willing to bend on that one. Sigh. ;)

My next topic of conversation gets its own post. Lucky it!

eaten posts and making friends

So I started using an LJ client so that I wouldn't lose entire posts after writing them. Then they find a way to thwart me! I had an entire long description for the bostonsingles community (yes, I'm diving in) written, and in an attempt to post it somewhere more private to be proofread before posting publicly, I accidentally logged out of my client and lost the whole post. Maybe it's a sign.

I had an absolutely wonderful Saturday evening in New York City with ratbastrd, whom I can happily speak with as easily as I can comment on. Since I had been to NYC on a sightseer's trip before, we didn't attempt to do any of that but rather walked around the East Village for most of the evening. We ate yummy Vietnamese food (including coconut juice, which looked like a snow globe in a glass or perhaps Orbitz, if you remember that drink), browsed through an awesome clothing store in which I could create outfits to break men's minds if I had enough money, and had coffee and conversation at The Worst Table in that particular coffee house (as told us by one of the staff). Oh well, our waitress was quite hot. Quite. All in all it was definitely worth going out of town for the weekend. :)

I finally got around to readding LJ interests and rewriting my bio. This is yet another ploy to find more people in the Boston area with whom to connect. I know I'm more likely to respond to someone if I can see we have things in common, so hopefully others will do the same.

Speaking of ways to make friends... tragicstory is holding a Firefly marathon at his house this weekend and supposedly inviting other friends of his besides me, at least one of whom I hope is single, within 5 years of my age, and attractive. tragicstory himself would fit the bill except for that whole single qualification, and he's not willing to bend on that one. Sigh. ;)

My next topic of conversation gets its own post. Lucky it!

roleplaying

Slowly but surely (thanks to the horrible influence of good friends if nothing else) I have come to the point of actively working on my desire to tabletop roleplay. I'm talking manuals, character sheets, dice, etc.

For a long time, a particularly disasterous event with my older brother when he was 14ish and I was 11ish led me to shy away from roleplaying, even though I was fairly certain that I would enjoy it. Most of my friends roleplayed, but I always found a reason to avoid it. After realizing the truth behind the said disasterous teenage event (that 14 year old boys are inherently cruel to their younger sisters, especially younger sisters who want to hang out with their brothers), I then became stuck with the burden of being the one person who didn't already know their way around the systems due to years of practice, and never asked to join my friends for fear of slowing them down or even (gasp) looking like a newbie.

I'm over that.

I want to roleplay. I now know a lot about the story of a few different systems and would like the chance to participate in those stories. I know Vampire the best (thanks to isaiahblake), have droplets of knowledge of various other World of Darkness settings (Mage, Werewolf, Changeling), and have seen a D&D session (but not books). I am fairly certain I am more of a storyline/character interaction player than a hack'n'slash, although I realize that I might want to start with the latter in terms of not expecting too much of myself.

Speaking of isaiahblake, in an AIM chat last night he casually mentioned running an online game for goldbug and I. I have latched onto this idea with sharp claws, although goldbug seems pretty ambivalent and isaiahblake would need a bit more prodding to actually begin setting something up. I guess the point of this paragraph is to see if anyone else would be interested. I think I can safely say it'd be a White Wolf game of some sort, but beyond that it's not in my hands anymore. Tentative responses are fine, since there's nothing remotely solidified about this idea yet.

I have also sent off an email to everyone's favorite webcomic author kobold, since he posted back in 2003 (y'know, way back then) about S*P Boston gaming groups forming up. I don't know if they've already formed, if they're really open to newbies, or what... I think I could count on S*P fans to provide a good deflowering. *snicker* karlean7, any knowledge?

And therefore in parting I say, if you are interested in satisfying this urge of mine, or even if you just are part of a regular game that I could sit in on to get a better feel of how things go, please let me know. I know there are several readers of my journal that I would like to get to know better and who roleplay, and maybe we could kill multiple birds with the same stone? :)

roleplaying

Slowly but surely (thanks to the horrible influence of good friends if nothing else) I have come to the point of actively working on my desire to tabletop roleplay. I'm talking manuals, character sheets, dice, etc.

For a long time, a particularly disasterous event with my older brother when he was 14ish and I was 11ish led me to shy away from roleplaying, even though I was fairly certain that I would enjoy it. Most of my friends roleplayed, but I always found a reason to avoid it. After realizing the truth behind the said disasterous teenage event (that 14 year old boys are inherently cruel to their younger sisters, especially younger sisters who want to hang out with their brothers), I then became stuck with the burden of being the one person who didn't already know their way around the systems due to years of practice, and never asked to join my friends for fear of slowing them down or even (gasp) looking like a newbie.

I'm over that.

I want to roleplay. I now know a lot about the story of a few different systems and would like the chance to participate in those stories. I know Vampire the best (thanks to isaiahblake), have droplets of knowledge of various other World of Darkness settings (Mage, Werewolf, Changeling), and have seen a D&D session (but not books). I am fairly certain I am more of a storyline/character interaction player than a hack'n'slash, although I realize that I might want to start with the latter in terms of not expecting too much of myself.

Speaking of isaiahblake, in an AIM chat last night he casually mentioned running an online game for goldbug and I. I have latched onto this idea with sharp claws, although goldbug seems pretty ambivalent and isaiahblake would need a bit more prodding to actually begin setting something up. I guess the point of this paragraph is to see if anyone else would be interested. I think I can safely say it'd be a White Wolf game of some sort, but beyond that it's not in my hands anymore. Tentative responses are fine, since there's nothing remotely solidified about this idea yet.

I have also sent off an email to everyone's favorite webcomic author kobold, since he posted back in 2003 (y'know, way back then) about S*P Boston gaming groups forming up. I don't know if they've already formed, if they're really open to newbies, or what... I think I could count on S*P fans to provide a good deflowering. *snicker* karlean7, any knowledge?

And therefore in parting I say, if you are interested in satisfying this urge of mine, or even if you just are part of a regular game that I could sit in on to get a better feel of how things go, please let me know. I know there are several readers of my journal that I would like to get to know better and who roleplay, and maybe we could kill multiple birds with the same stone? :)

contactiness

I finally got voicemail set up on my cell phone. I'm a slacker.

Now you can call and leave messages. Well, if you have the number.

contactiness

I finally got voicemail set up on my cell phone. I'm a slacker.

Now you can call and leave messages. Well, if you have the number.

asleep, awake, whatever

Early this morning, while I was still up from the day before, Jim asked me if I would be around for dinner. I said yes, since there is no Waytes/Quire rehearsal tonight.

Then I went to bed at 11:30am.

So, I set my alarm for 5pm. I woke up, had dinner with Jim, and now I'm sitting here. I could go back to bed, or I could stay up for a while yet... But I'm not at peak performance level, so I don't want to go about working on projects I'll expect perfection from.

I really don't know how I spend time anymore. It seems like long blocks of hours go by while I'm awake and nothing gets done. A year ago I had two jobs, school, and similar amounts of online committments and was much more productive than I am now. It's really hard to understand. :-/

For example: since 5pm I've had dinner, fed the cats, read my friends' page, written and responded to comments, read the aust3k.com boards, and chatted a bit with diego001 and Adriana. How in the world did that use up 3 hours?

asleep, awake, whatever

Early this morning, while I was still up from the day before, Jim asked me if I would be around for dinner. I said yes, since there is no Waytes/Quire rehearsal tonight.

Then I went to bed at 11:30am.

So, I set my alarm for 5pm. I woke up, had dinner with Jim, and now I'm sitting here. I could go back to bed, or I could stay up for a while yet... But I'm not at peak performance level, so I don't want to go about working on projects I'll expect perfection from.

I really don't know how I spend time anymore. It seems like long blocks of hours go by while I'm awake and nothing gets done. A year ago I had two jobs, school, and similar amounts of online committments and was much more productive than I am now. It's really hard to understand. :-/

For example: since 5pm I've had dinner, fed the cats, read my friends' page, written and responded to comments, read the aust3k.com boards, and chatted a bit with diego001 and Adriana. How in the world did that use up 3 hours?

well

Perhaps I'm not as productive lately because I spend a lot of time on pointless whimsy... like making a large, complicated Venn diagram of my different LJ friends groups.

There's 12 different groups, people.

If I can sketch out the diagram in a reasonably attractive manner (it looks quite smooshed right now) I'll post a picture.

Anyway, this also involved reshuffling said groups, and going back through my LJ archive to see which still needed to exist and which didn't. I know I mentioned doing this a week ago or so, and yes it did take a long time, but not as long as I thought.

Now it's midnight, and I think I'll go to sleep again. :)

well

Perhaps I'm not as productive lately because I spend a lot of time on pointless whimsy... like making a large, complicated Venn diagram of my different LJ friends groups.

There's 12 different groups, people.

If I can sketch out the diagram in a reasonably attractive manner (it looks quite smooshed right now) I'll post a picture.

Anyway, this also involved reshuffling said groups, and going back through my LJ archive to see which still needed to exist and which didn't. I know I mentioned doing this a week ago or so, and yes it did take a long time, but not as long as I thought.

Now it's midnight, and I think I'll go to sleep again. :)