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2009-11-09T03:04:36Z

An oldie but a goodie from Lore Sjoberg's Bad Gods. This one's for you, _rigel_.

Hubris lol

2009-11-05T14:30:02Z

This is what I get for talking up my games so much!

Life@ currently has 16 of 25 people signed up, which is respectable but doesn't hold a candle to Dark Line's reception. (I must admit, though, the people who are signed up already? Good LARPers, and very pretty.)

Tonight at 8 has only one signup so far! Luckily, I know for a fact that folk who missed it last year want to play this time around. Moreover, it's a second run and therefore will have a chunk of its potential audience gone.

Anyway, I am still confident that both games will get snapped up in due time. All of the people who sprinted toward Leash will be freed up for the second round ;) (thank fuck my games were not across from it.)

NaDruWriNi is tomorrow

2009-11-05T03:42:11Z

National Drunken Writing Night is upon us.

It's simple:

Drink, then write. Then show us what you wrote.

Write fiction. Blog. Write about something that happened to you. Rant. Compose poetry. Anything. Just drink first. Get nice and buzzy (at the very least) then write, then post your writing online.

Since I work very early on Friday, I'll be starting to drink and write early so I can conk out early. I'll count on the rest of you to keep things up after I'm unconscious.

An Intercon Draws Near!

2009-11-02T12:43:18Z

Hey everybody!

Intercon J signups are almost upon us -- 1st game signup is on November 4th (the day after tomorrow) at 7pm.

If you don't have much experience LARPing, this is a great place to start. I will be running two games: arachne8x and I will be running Tonight at 8, our romantic comedy hijinks LARP, on Friday night. On Saturday afternoon, I'll be running Life at the Securemarket, the LARP loosely based on the novel Tales from the Securemarket, which ... I also wrote. Also, this is not a boast, it is sound, fact-based advice: If you want to play in them, sign up early for my games. They fill up really fast.

Honestly, Life@'s slot is fantastic. I don't recognize any of the names I'm across from, which I suspect means that a lot of the people who'll really want to play in Life@ will have no other game tempting them away. :3

Not to be too specific, but I know what MY first signup will be, hazliya. This reminds me... um, would somebody be willing to sign in and sign up for me on Wednesday? I won't be able to get near a computer until 9pm, and I don't want to risk hitting a full game.

So, all that aside, I have some Requests Concerning Life@.

I am going to need a Floor GM and possibly an AGM too. I'm running a 25-person game and I cannot do it by myself. Helpful skills are, in order of importance:
Previous experience as a LARP GM or AGM.
Patience and a cool head.
Getting and holding the attention of multiple people.
Interest in and/or knowledge of the Age of Corporations / Tales from the Securemarket.

My primary floor GM will also be helping edit my game (low commitment, I promise. You'll just be looking for inconsistencies and typos). The floor GM will be comped, meaning s/he won't pay for intercon reg.

The AGM will get mad props and maybe a batch of cookies, but will also have a pretty easy job mainly consisting of setup/strike coordination and simple arbitrations.

Comment here if you're interested! :D

Also? Save your Empties for Life@.

When you're done with a cereal box? Collapse it flat, but leave it otherwise intact. When you finish a box of pasta? Do the same. Canned goods? Wash them and keep them. Soda bottles, same.

Basically, I am going to be building a small supermarket and I need all of the CLEAN empties I can get.

Also, if you have a lot of light collapsible shelving, please let me know.

Amplitude

2009-10-27T03:24:58Z

mindways recently pointed out that happiness and stress/anxiety do not run on the same track, and that both can run high at the same time.

Both are running very high for me right now. I am quite happy, but I'm also very stressed and not a little bit anxious for many reasons.

Going to MD for less than 12 hours tomorrow. blahchewy has lent housespace.

Oh, and as for the sickness I had: cangelo caught it way worse than I caught it, and the urgent care people at Lawrence Memorial identified it as Swine Flu.

So I almost certainly had Swine Flu. I want my lousy t-shirt.

NaDruWriNi 2009

2009-10-25T04:54:14Z

So way way back on November 5, 2005, Websnark talked about an event called NaDruWriNi -- (inter)National Drunken Writing Night. Best to call it NaDruWriNi, which is almost impossible to

The idea?

You drink, and then you write.

What do you drink? Well, anything alcoholic, and enough of it to get you altered. Doing this one 'in spirit' is all right as support, but not really the same as participation.

What do you write? ANYTHING.

At the time, I missed the holiday. Read about it a few days late. The next year, I missed it again. Four years later, I am ready and no one else is. The holiday seems to have been all but forgotten -- the blog that Eric linked from his own doesn't even exist any more. Balderdash, I say. Balderdash and poppycock and other such words.

I will be there and I will be drinking and I will be writing. Maybe I should ping Eric Burns about this.

November 5th. You. Me. Booze. A computer. NaDur...

Na ... nadroo .. wryyyyy ... nye.

Cowbell didn't work

2009-10-22T14:00:04Z

So I've got a fever.

It happened yesterday, when I woke up with a temperature close to ~~OVER 9000~~ 100. Mercifully, Ed and I were able to find people to take over my shifts for yesterday and today, so I don't have to be at work until 15:30 tomorrow. It's gonna hurt my paycheck, but them's the breaks.

I hope I'm well by then. My insurance hasn't kicked in yet, and going to the ER is very expensive.

I'd like all you office workers who GET paid sick days to, for a moment, stop regarding that limited number as unfair and acknowledge that retail workers get nothing of the sort. When we don't show up, we don't get paid.

sorry. tired.

2009-10-15T01:54:48Z

sorry.
tired.

different, yeah ... new house, new people, new time. new space. new priorities.

miss you, and you. sorry. want to see you. my fault. sorry. busy.

job. downtown. HEART of downtown. by the commons. busier, you know? rushes six hours long. lots of new people, lots of turnover.
yesterday? that shift's worst close ever, boss says. new kid. cocky. needs swift kick, but not TOO hard.

coming home tired, every day. very tired.

really, though, my fault. miss you. haven't seen you. sorry. tired.

money? ok. better. have a job. payment plans. markouts and food. love? good. lots and lots of love. life? good. feel competent. helping out. good cleaner, good cook. good person.

time? not much. sorry. not online much, i know.

sorry.

miss you.

Take a Tumbl

2009-10-13T13:58:01Z

You guys are reading my tumblog, right? That's where I put all of the cool media that people send to me or I steal from dancomono. There's been some really cracked-out stuff on it lately. And maybe a little more Beyonce than I'm comfortable with.

http://inurashii.tumblr.com

You can also follow its RSS feed on LJ by friending puppy_stuff.

Relationship PSA: Basic Version

2009-09-29T08:49:17Z

I'm making this announcement a little late; most of you know it already!

juldea and I have started dating! Huzzah!
It's likely that if you didn't know this already, you don't know who juldea is.

I'll soon be talking a little more about my relationscape in the [lovelock], my opt-in filter about my romantic life (actually ... my ONLY filter). Immediately after this post there is a test post on the lovelock. If you can't see it, you're not on it.

Please comment here if you wish to be added to the lovelock. It is not restrictive -- generally the only people not allowed on the lovelock are people with whom my breakup is still fairly fresh, or people directly related to love hurt.

all the singulladies

2009-09-29T08:36:59Z

Hey look, it's witticaster's creepy long-lost sister, making one of Beyonce's songs listenable.

Holy Dang

2009-09-27T17:15:46Z

In the past 12 hours, I have had notably frank and/or emotional interactions with or communications from no less than six of my friends, and seen several others reacting emotionally via LJ or hearsay.

I generally think that astrology is bullshit, but hey look: mercury is in retrograde for two more days.

Hang in there, everybody.

The Short Version

2009-09-21T08:51:16Z

Recently, I was pinged about the fact that I'm not online very often right now.

A fair concern! I should address it at length.

Here's the short version of why, in the meantime:

1) My store is short-staffed and I am being scheduled for lots of long, exhausting shifts and am generally only getting time off on days when I asked for it. Even though this is no more hours than a normal person works, it comes at weird times and leaves me exhausted.

2) Heidi, my little laptop that could, is suffering from meltdown and I'm in the process of migrating files off of her before she dies. Her death is a really bad thing for several reasons, but the main one is that my other two computers tend to be fixed in place, specifically in places that don't let me spend time with hermitgeecko the way Heidi let me do so. Sir Clarion is a desktop machine in my room whose internet connection frequently cuts off, and Hrothgar is a very heavy laptop that tends to live downstairs and isn't so great for long-term typing as he's missing a few keys and doesn't fit on a lap.

I'll type more later, but this is the capsule version of why you haven't seen me online much.

Foresight Fail

2009-09-17T19:54:56Z

I've been really bad at looking ahead lately.

Would someone be willing to give me a ride to the wedding on Saturday, preferably not TOO early? I can meet you somewhere if need be.

Stacking?

2009-09-17T09:45:32Z

Ugh -- after what I thought was getting over my cold (or whatever), I slept poorly all night and woke up with a nasty, dry cough and reduced lung capacity.

I'm going to hope that it's just really bad allergies, and not another illness riding the coat-tails of my last.

Stories I never wrote meme

2009-09-16T10:34:15Z

This is a really neat idea.

Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you some or all of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I’d been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

Hell Party Costume

2009-09-09T15:21:26Z

View Poll: Going to a Hell-Themed Costume Party.

And yes, I must credit gotspit and jasmydae for having the costumes that inspired this one: they went as "@" and "V".

Dancing in September

2009-09-08T14:31:52Z

Okay, so my September is kind of insane. Here's why:

I have just started full-time at Starbucks. I have a lot of hours because we're still a bit short-staffed. This is a good thing, but hard!
I took on a few side jobs before I got the job at Starbucks. They are not jobs of insignificant size, and I am beholden to them.
I am still trying to complete House at Maison du Scary for the end-of-month contest deadline. I find this important because it's the only creative thing currently on my docket.
zomg Rock Band. My drum skills are getting more and more solid, especially now that we've got the Killers album (if you want to see me work up a serious sweat, watch me try to do "Spaceman" on expert). And with the upcoming release of Beatles RB...
New people in my life want time. I want to give them time.
There is at least one significant event every Saturday this month.
As more people offer to help me with the financial aspects of LoB2, I find going to be more and more feasible, but I am still very jittery about asking for a weekend off (and dealing with the financial repercussions of the subsequently reduced hours) ...

So it's not a BAD insane, necessarily. Life is good, but still traveling at a breakneck pace.

Astro Boy... movie?

2009-09-07T14:11:40Z

I ... I'm not sure what I think about this.

LoB2

2009-09-01T22:26:55Z

So.

Lullaby of Broadway: All That Jazz.

I need to decide whether I'm doing it, and currently I'm leaning toward 'no.'

This is kind of sad, since LoB is really the kind of game I was made for. I sing, I dance, I know a fair bit about musicals. I was even offered the role of Audrey II if I were to cast.

But y'know? I have a lot of reasons to go down to Maryland in the next few months. Each one is expensive and takes me away from work. The City of Glass Threads game is the last game in the initial run. As a former Continuity staff member and primary author, I really feel like I owe Threads my presence. The LARP roast -- since it is all about my ex-roommate, brother-in-fumes and Very Reverend xiombarg -- is really important for me to go to this year, and I can merge that visit with seeing the Revels. Seeing my parents for Christmas is non-negotiable.

Just thinking maybe not. :/

Like a Blurf-gin

2009-09-01T08:41:58Z

'Up for the very first time...'

Yes, here I am. It's 4:39 and I've been up for approximately 39 minutes. I'm showered, shaved, fed, awake, and ready to go catch the first train into work.

Mind you, I'm used to having 15 minutes less prep time, so I'm done early. Oops. Better than the alternative.

Today I begin again. Let's see how it goes.

Last-Minute Cancellation

2009-08-28T23:28:31Z

Ok, so we won't be going to the Goli/Humanwine concert tonight because it's at a bar.

Which means that Jamie can't get in.

I'm not sure why we didn't think of this until dad pointed it out. :/

For the record

2009-08-27T16:35:32Z

Two things are happening tomorrow:

The weird and awesome chamber group Goli is playing at Johnny D's. Their music is compelling, touching and beautiful; I saw them busk at Faneuil Hall and it was excellent. Tickets are $10 and the show starts at 9:45.

Second is that my parents will be coming into town. They're not here for enough time for me to hold an open event, really, but if you want to meet them they will be coming with us to the concert on Friday.

If you want to hear excellent world music and to meet my awesome parents and 'little' brother (at 15 years old, he is over six feet tall), come to Johnny D's tomorrow! :)

Drunk on a Tuesday: Gainfully Employed Edition?

2009-08-25T19:13:02Z

Ok, so I've been hired at the School Street Starbucks (near State Street Station. Six STs. I feel like I should come up with a pithy nickname for that). (mighty_1 has also pointed out wisely that "school" doesn't start with an St. Right.)

I'mployed, y'all!

Who's up for a DoaT tonight? What do you think? I have all of the rum and coke a guy might need for this.

Writer's Block: Interspecies Communication

2009-08-24T15:50:35Z

Have you ever had your feelings hurt by an animal?

Submitted By nyaoran

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I read this as "e-mail."

I was like, "what."