nishatalitha

Back to work today for the first time in nearly a month. I did a lot of filing, was tired from about 11.00am onwards and bored enough at the end of the day to Not Care and troll Tenancy Tribunal Orders.

Wellington Anniversary Weekend was the usual sugar/caffeine high people overdose gaming weekend. I probably didn't have enough caffeine or sugar over the weekend. Next year, I think I'll buy a four pack of bottles of V, not cans.

( Kapcon Games )

Did nothing yesterday until I was due at stephanie_pegg's for the BHS game which I've now joined on a permanent basis. I'm in the process of coming up with a long term character. It should be fun.

Lectures start on 9 February, so I'll be playing frisbee Tuesday nights until then. Life is already starting to get busy.

For all that I talked about (or think I talked about as sometimes I'm not sure of the difference) about slowing down, about being less busy and easing some things out of my life, it hasn't really worked. Maybe after this weekend - and the week after Easter, I don't have class, so that should make things easier to.

I'm currently trying to work out how much of Conjunction I want to attend. The entire thing is (currently) $100, but I believe that goes up if you register on the day and I certainly don't want to use my entire Easter with the SF Con. Each individual day is about $25 at the moment. I have go on Friday as I'm running For the Honour of the Family again and with any luck, I'll get a full cast. That would be neat. But for the rest of it - well, maudlinrose and tamarillow aren't currently planning to attend or attend much and they're the usual people I'd hang out with at this event. I'm not sure what darthsappho and tofulope are doing either. It is not that I don't believe that getting to know new crazy people at a con is a bad thing - one of my good friends I met at the last con I went to - but I don't have the energy or the time, really, to put into new people when I am changing how I relate to other people in my life and am focusing a lot on that aspect.

So if you are planning to attend, do let me know, and maybe we can work out something together.

I failed at getting to bed before midnight last night or the night before, and once again, I didn't get to the gym on time, so it's definite - I have to be asleep before midnight. I must be getting old. So I shall finish writing this post, make my lunch, finish chatting to Alessan, make my lunch and go to bed. Probably to read, but I'm more inclined to turn my light out if I'm already in bed.

The handwork is into its final stage (I just need to buy some black thread and think about spacing) and then I can do some nice ordinary uncomplicated counted crossstitch like the maidens and that will be good.

On National Radio recently, there was an item about Ultimate. J passed on the link, so I thought I'd post it. Apparently it's only valid for about a week, but it's quite interesting and a nice introduction to Ultimate. I'm passing it around various people who may or may not be interested but get to hear me talk about it anyway.

http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/twu/twu-20070804-1214-Flying_Discs-064.mp3

There was Confusion yesterday, en masse at Turnbull House. Something over 30 people turned up for Confusion 5 and I was there for the whole day, even though I'd gone to bed the night before at 2am after making gingerbread and printing off character sheets.

( Games )

( LARP: For the Honour Of the Family (playtest specific spoilers) ).

So it was a really good day and I'm just recovering today. I was very tired anyway and really needed a day at home to do nothing (and by do nothing, I mean at some point I'm probably going to clean the bathroom and get the flatmates to help me clean the lounge and the dishes at some point). Nothing that really requires thinking anyway.

Lunchtime!

The cats got their first visit to the vet today. I'd tired them out previously by sitting outside in the sun on the kitchen chair watching them race around outside, so when the three of us went inside again, they settled down very easily and which made it a lot easier to put them in the catboxes.

Jemima was, surprisingly, on her best behaviour. I had thought she would be growling and spitting and absolutely furious with me, but instead she stayed on the stainless-steel table and was affectionate and smoochy. She even purred. The vet couldn't hear her heartbeat because she was purring so loudly. She was fairly sure Jemima doesn't have a heart murmur anyway. Jemima weighs 4.33kgs at the moment and is probably about six years old, which is a lot younger than I was expected. But clearly happy and healthy, which was good to hear. And she has now had a flu-jab and goes back in three weeks for the booster. I am considering getting her micro-chipped when I can afford it. Not that she wanders; I'm just paranoid.

She is currently curled up sleeping on my bare duvet and the pile of clean washing on my bed. Tobais (also jabbed and weighed) is dozing on the other side of the pile of clean washing, on the bottom duvet.

G came over this afternoon and we got a decent amount of LARP work done. I have a couple of characters to finish and I have to type up what I have, but we are on track. Now we only need people who want to play the characters...

This evening, some friends of mine were having a winter warming party (cheese fondue and mulled wine). I rarely see some of these people, so went along. It was fun. And as often happens at these parties, I turned to A. and said "This is neat music. What is it?" and was promptly informed. Whereupon I muse about borrowing it. Last time, I had his Cradle of Filth CD for absolutely ages. This time, he burned me Leave's Eyes and Liv Kristine, which I liked and Nightwish, which he thought I might like. It's rather cool. Semi-operatic, but with these heavy metal type sections and the male singer sometimes reminds me of the Cradle of Filth lead singer...

I should fold my washing and move it so I can go to bed.

So for people who were at my place for lunch today and wanted the recipe:

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Don't ask me why it's called African Peanut Soup when there aren't any African peanuts in it, because I don't know and any answer I give you will range from the weird to the wonderful but contain nothing of the truth.

And as soon as I get around to opening up my work email I shall post the LARP blurb to NZRag. It just occured to me that we need a name for it...

I am drunk and am seriously thinking about writing a small (ten - fifteen people) LARP based off the Amber Chronicles with one of the people I wrote Once Upon A Time with.

I think I'm probably crazy.

Had a really good time at the engagement party, though. Lovely to see everyone again.

And I have pink and speckled M&Ms and when did those colours become normal? Still tastes the same but looks weird.

I'm currently sequeeing because cesperanza recced my Atlantis, baby SGA fic on a 10 things she likes about the SGA fandom at #4. The last line, the one I wrote the story for. I've written one SGA fic, and in a fandom full of crack, it's a deathfic. I agree with a lot of her recs - the story ones, anyhow. Haven't downloaded the vids yet.

We lit the fire for the first time this weekend. It draws really well, and I'm the firelighter, apparently. All that practice with my parents woodburner is paying off. The basic principle of how it's laid out is the same. You just need to remember to check on it more regularly than a woodburner. But it works, and it's really neat.

Lace & Steel was very cool tonight, as Robert was finally rescued in a daring infilitration mission by Sebastian, with help from Esmerelda (planning) and myself (finances), and Dominici (support). I'm really looking forward to seeing how much decorum Isthian is going to lose when she sees him for the first time. How much will depend on how public it is, I guess, and how he's presented. Yay! *does happy dance* But it feels like we've actually accomplished something, and it's really good.

Also, I don't work tomorrow, which means I have a lot to do in the afternoon, but I can still sleep in and vaccum and the like. Earthdawn tomorrow night, and I'm looking forward to it, if only so that Maree will stop trying to be the center of attention in my head. I have a lot of characters, and rpg ones don't usually end up being story ones. Maree, because she's the most cheerful character I think I've ever had, wanders. Which is okay, but kinda weird. It's not as bad as Isthian wanting to be in the Firefly universe. Thank goodness I talked her out of that.

Played in Guild Council on Saturday night. It was lots of fun, and the team who organised it clearly put a lot of work into it. I'm not sure what they vaguely thought the end result might be, but at the end of the evening, the Terrans and the Jerali had allied together against the rest of the Guilds, and all the Terrans present were on the assassination list of the Shadow Guild. Also, I inadvertantly bought plague (the common cold) to Guildspace.

One of the things I found really fun was being infected by a mindleech. The person who did it was initially planning to give me a ring, and make me wear that, but I cleverly hadn't worn any rings that evening, and made up some cock and bull story about only ever wearing one to symbolise marriage. I was the Terran Anthropologist, and none of the Guilds knew anything about us, so it might have worked. I thought it was clever, anyhow. Alas, I was overpowered, and infected, and it was heaps of fun, trying for two sets of goals. I was almost disappointed when the leech was killed. Still, that was one of the things that made me much more agreeable to the alliance - I was rather suspicious of them beforehand.

End conclusion from the Terran Captain was that since all Guildspace members were descended from a colony ship sent out from Terra several thousand years ago, they were all subject to Terran law, and therefore we could just waltz in and pick up where we left off. Terra had the armada to do so.

This has ended up being a roleplaying post, which I didn't initially intend it to be, but oh well.