Catching Up in Mid-January

[atolnon]

I'm continuing along with my Dark Souls play through. It does have a story, but it's sparse. It's difficult, but I think its difficulty has been somewhat overstated. It's also a beautiful game with a terrific sense of scale, good voice acting, and very nice ambient music. It's been a long time since I've done any writing on games I've played, and I think that Dark Souls is a good one to pick up on, so you can almost certainly expect a post on it pretty soon!

Thanks to everyone who wrote in to talk about role-playing, too. I love that shit, I really do. Matt ran his game last night, and the actions of the other PCs are fairly interesting, but I want to talk about the game structure. I mean, there were some pretty colorful characters there, and I think that represents the best of a kind of alternate-universe Masquerade setting, but I don't know how much I can really talk about it so it'll probably just get an Honorable Mention.

Friday was a wreck for me. Thursday was flat out physically exhausting, I came home, and Kay had to run out to do a night's worth of errands. Friday, Kay was gone from the later afternoon until, like, 1:30 and I ended up with a nasty bout of new-job anxiety, more or less unable to function in any kind of productive way. Saturday was a lot better, but still pretty exhausting since I was up in the morning, worked until 2, then came home. We left at about 5:30 for the LARP and got back at about 1 AM, so I was literally doing that all day long. Kay and I both just totally collapsed when we got home - do not pass Go, do not collect $200.

There's some misc. other shit going on. Posting is tough - it's a writing habit. It  kind of helps me make sense of what's on my agenda, what I'm up to, stuff I still need or want to do and still communicate with other people. But when nothing's going on, maybe I'm doing one or two things, I think "Not enough interesting stuff to post." When a bunch of stuff is going on, I'm like, "Okay, maybe as soon as it calms down a little bit." So, whatever.

I have work today from noon until 8 PM. Considering I work at Weekend's Only and tomorrow's fucking Monday, I am hoping for a day off where I'm not rocking back and forth in an anxiety coma. One good thing is that the holiday season is outright over, now. You've got some Valentine's shit in grocery stores and my friend is getting married pretty soon, but it's not back to back like it's been and some income is coming in when they distribute paychecks (plus Stand Alone just got its first paying gig) so I'm hoping for some sense of stability and normality to springboard off of. 

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[writer-lynn.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I want normal and stable back.