I want my internet connection back!
May. 11th, 2006 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unforthLack of internet access has greatly curtailed my ability to engage in various tasks, including but not limited to reading and commenting on LJ, answering my e-mail, sending in my BGA's for various games, etc., etc. It's rather depressing. That said, here's the best update I can do in the 18 minutes I have left on this computer at the MCPL. :)
For those of you who don't know yet, I'll be leaving for New York on Saturday, the 13th. I should be arriving at about 4:30 at La Guardia, at which point I'll hitch a cab and get to my mom's in Manhattan. I'll be returning on Sunday, the 21st. My plane arrives in Indianapolis at 11:30 or so. Yes, these are timed around the Changeling games. Yes, I'm a bad person. In my defense, I really was prepared to miss the interlude - not that I'm not happy I don't have to. ;)
So, in general, here are some comments:
1. I want to see people! This means you,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ultimabaka, claireon, and bakanekotoo. I'll give up a call. ;)
2. I need a ride - I hear there is a shuttle, anyone know the details?
3. As before, does anyone need anything that they think I might be able to find in a city that can't be found with the internet or in Bloomington? I'm willing to tackle most reasonable searching tasks, though I'll have less time than I did last visit to go on wild hunts, becaus most of my time will be spent caring for my mom. That said, I definitely intend to return with Italian cookies - though my discovery of a whole two local sources of canoli (d'Angelo's and Grazi) makes it slightly less urgent that I return with those. I'm gonna try to bring back some H&H Bagels, as well, cause they're yummy as all get out. :)
I think that's it on that topic. ;)
As for gaming in the last couple weeks, it's been pretty busy.
First there isarekin's game. D&D and all that jazz. It's taught me a few things:
1. Yes, I can manage to crit fail even more in one session that typically do during the Midnight game. I crit failed 5 times last night. In contrast, I crit succeeded once.
2. I hate the D&D system so thoroughly that it's getting hard for me to play it.
3. Being the best friend lacks rewards, though when you die trying to save said best friend, it does draw some attention to your sacrifices.
4. Lecherous bards can apparently win over even the most hardened hearts against them. Damn you Raldo!
(I'm apparently on a numbered list kick today...don't usually use many of those...hmm...:) )
(Played on Friday night of last week, and last night)
Midnight is it's own dilemma. My luck wasn't as dismally poor this game, and I'm glad for that, cause it was getting really frustrating that I failed at basically everything that I tried to do in that game. I mean, I try to be pretty cheerful about such things and not let it get me down, but bad luck is so sucky, cause no amount of effort on my part as a player can overcome obstacles unless the dice go my way at least occasionally. Sigh.
As for Aberrant, well, vile plotting! :) That is all. ;)
In general, I've been having lots of fun hanging out with folk. I've been fighting a bit of depression in the back ground, which is annoying - I haven't really had depression as a problem in a few years now. I think a lot of it's being caused by not really having a home yet - a space to call my own, with the services that I need. Like, the room I'm staying in now is sort of my own, except that I don't have a TV, or an internet connection, and it's just a room, so company isn't really reasonable, etc. etc. I'm praying that my assessment of the source of my depression is correct, cause if it is it should be alleviated relatively soon when I move into the actual place on Monday the 22nd. If I'm wrong, well, that's it's own issue I guess.
The rest of my grades came in. No more 4.0 for Claire, I got an A- in one class. I want to convince myself that I don't care (and largely, I don't) but there was a momentary stab of sadness when I first saw this. At it is, my GPA is a 3.950, so I really don't have anything to complain about - and really, I'm not so sad about it now...just that first instant or so...:)
Well, the computer is yelling at me about how I need to log off - if I don't, I'll lose this whole post!
Tonight is singing, tomorrow is interlude, should be fun! :)
For those of you who don't know yet, I'll be leaving for New York on Saturday, the 13th. I should be arriving at about 4:30 at La Guardia, at which point I'll hitch a cab and get to my mom's in Manhattan. I'll be returning on Sunday, the 21st. My plane arrives in Indianapolis at 11:30 or so. Yes, these are timed around the Changeling games. Yes, I'm a bad person. In my defense, I really was prepared to miss the interlude - not that I'm not happy I don't have to. ;)
So, in general, here are some comments:
1. I want to see people! This means you,
ultimabaka, claireon, and bakanekotoo. I'll give up a call. ;)2. I need a ride - I hear there is a shuttle, anyone know the details?
3. As before, does anyone need anything that they think I might be able to find in a city that can't be found with the internet or in Bloomington? I'm willing to tackle most reasonable searching tasks, though I'll have less time than I did last visit to go on wild hunts, becaus most of my time will be spent caring for my mom. That said, I definitely intend to return with Italian cookies - though my discovery of a whole two local sources of canoli (d'Angelo's and Grazi) makes it slightly less urgent that I return with those. I'm gonna try to bring back some H&H Bagels, as well, cause they're yummy as all get out. :)
I think that's it on that topic. ;)
As for gaming in the last couple weeks, it's been pretty busy.
First there is
arekin's game. D&D and all that jazz. It's taught me a few things:1. Yes, I can manage to crit fail even more in one session that typically do during the Midnight game. I crit failed 5 times last night. In contrast, I crit succeeded once.
2. I hate the D&D system so thoroughly that it's getting hard for me to play it.
3. Being the best friend lacks rewards, though when you die trying to save said best friend, it does draw some attention to your sacrifices.
4. Lecherous bards can apparently win over even the most hardened hearts against them. Damn you Raldo!
(I'm apparently on a numbered list kick today...don't usually use many of those...hmm...:) )
(Played on Friday night of last week, and last night)
Midnight is it's own dilemma. My luck wasn't as dismally poor this game, and I'm glad for that, cause it was getting really frustrating that I failed at basically everything that I tried to do in that game. I mean, I try to be pretty cheerful about such things and not let it get me down, but bad luck is so sucky, cause no amount of effort on my part as a player can overcome obstacles unless the dice go my way at least occasionally. Sigh.
As for Aberrant, well, vile plotting! :) That is all. ;)
In general, I've been having lots of fun hanging out with folk. I've been fighting a bit of depression in the back ground, which is annoying - I haven't really had depression as a problem in a few years now. I think a lot of it's being caused by not really having a home yet - a space to call my own, with the services that I need. Like, the room I'm staying in now is sort of my own, except that I don't have a TV, or an internet connection, and it's just a room, so company isn't really reasonable, etc. etc. I'm praying that my assessment of the source of my depression is correct, cause if it is it should be alleviated relatively soon when I move into the actual place on Monday the 22nd. If I'm wrong, well, that's it's own issue I guess.
The rest of my grades came in. No more 4.0 for Claire, I got an A- in one class. I want to convince myself that I don't care (and largely, I don't) but there was a momentary stab of sadness when I first saw this. At it is, my GPA is a 3.950, so I really don't have anything to complain about - and really, I'm not so sad about it now...just that first instant or so...:)
Well, the computer is yelling at me about how I need to log off - if I don't, I'll lose this whole post!
Tonight is singing, tomorrow is interlude, should be fun! :)
