12 posts tagged “ro”
No real update this morning, because I'm going to go back to bed until I absolutely have to get up now that the cat's been fed and she'll shut up and stop bothering me.
I was up until 2ish, involved in an RP that had been going on since about four hours earlier. We'd just gotten down to the meat of the problem, but everyone agreed they were sleepy/needed to go for the sake of work/school today. J will be over later tonight, so hopefully I'll still be awake enough after our weekly TV Night Number One (tomorrow is Supernatural) to finish it up. No work tomorrow, as I've said before, so it's entirely possible.
Anyway, going to go doze for a little while longer, while I can.
And here we are, more than ten days later. Needless to say, the past couple of weeks have been incredibly hectic. Due to a fluke in my work schedule a couple of weeks ago (shifting it one day later in the week), I ended up working one forty-hour work week, having one day off, and doing another five days. After two days off this weekend, I'm finally feeling not only human but like I have time to sit down here and write again.
To be fair, anything that I could have written in the past two weeks wouldn't have been terribly new or interesting. Times like that lead to a fairly strict schedule consisting of waking up at 7:30-8, heading out at 8:30, getting home at 7, and going to bed at around 11:30.
I haven't gotten much ROing done lately, either, though last night I was able to attend an event that at least gives my character something to do, which she hasn't had in quite a while. It's also leading her in the direction I'd like to take her, though I'm kind of hoping that there'll be some great event in between that will turn her back into her brilliant jaded self. Though the war she's just been through is a good start...
Let's see. There's still not all that much new to say, but just that I hope I'll be able to get back to this with a little more regularity from here on out. We are getting into the retail holiday season, though, so God only knows how crazy things will get. This weekend we have our store's One Day Sale, but it's on Saturday, so my schedule is screwed up again this week. At least I have a day off closer to the weekend (Thursday) this time. Hopefully they won't try to beat me to death with another wonky schedule.
Anyway, I'm about out of time for now, but hopefully more to come, and not too long from now.
I slept eleven hours last night. Two on the couch after my hot soak in the bathtub, and nine more when I woke up and figured I might as well just go to bed.
I hadn't realized I was so tired.
Actually, I think I've been fighting off a cold for the past couple of days, and I don't feel sniffly at all this morning, so I suppose that's something, eh? At any rate, I do feel a lot better on the overall, so it was probably for the best, even though I hadn't really planned on doing it.
It's also entirely possible that since I didn't really rest much on Monday (day off) that I still hadn't recovered from all that. This week is promising to be better, since I work today and the next two days and then have at least one day off. Compared to the neverending schedule of last week, that seems remarkably easy. I am, however, going to be working longer hours this week. Since Evan doesn't get off work until 6:30, and we're way behind on a few projects (All of the main displays of the store get changed this week, that means we have to get that out as quickly as possible. That results in all the books that were on the old displays getting piled up on a table. Plus we still have to deal with our regular shipment), I agreed to stay late and help with voids, which means taking a scanner gun through specific sections and finding all the books that haven't sold or are coming/have come out in new editions. Those get sent back, which gives us more room on the shelves, which is yay!
One of my favorite sections to void or COMP (basically reset the section so that it's all in order) is the essays/criticism section, which always has interesting books about books, which is quite possibly one of my favorite things ever. Yesterday revealed two interesting finds, a book about reading "like a professor," and one about the Dark Tower series. So I'll probably browse through those two at work today. The other book I picked up is called The Alphabet of Dreams, and is about a boy who has the ability to have prophetic dreams if he sleeps with the possession of another person. So far, so good, but I'm not very far yet, as I've given up my reading time to work this week.
I think I'm giving up on Half Life. I hate that, but by the last third of the book, the story and writing are so convoluted that I can't even begin to feel engaged. I think I'll probably put it back and maybe pick it up again later. Sometimes that's for the best.
Let's see. What else haven't I documented here in a while. The RO/RP situation is going well enough, though I haven't been able to do as much as I might like now that I'm getting five days a week at work again. I suppose it's a sacrifice that has to be made, though I don't care for it. Once I get a little more accustomed to the schedule it should be a bit easier. In the meantime, the RP I have been getting has been pretty damn good. Rachna's attained her magi-knight status, so she and her husband are starting to work on the design and forging of her runic blade. Claire and Spectrus reached another nice little turning point lately, too. I still need to work on getting some more guild RP going on there, but with so many character preoccupied with the war that's going on ingame, it's difficult.
The cat is still crazy. She sits on me each morning to wake me up, though this morning I woke up a few times before she even tried--especially at 4:30, which, given the time I normally go to bed, would have been the equivalent of my normal wake-up time. Finally, at seven, I gave in. Any more sleep might not have been a good idea, probably.
At any rate, I'm going to wrap this up before it gets too long. Hopefully I won't be tired and fall asleep the next time I want to write an entry!
And so we come to the end of another period of not-working, in which I didn't update nearly as much as I would have liked to. Alas, there were other things that I also wanted to/should have done that I didn't. Such is life.
It's been an interesting "weekend." Most developments have come in the realm of RP or other Aeon-related matters, so I'll touch on those here for a moment.
My gypsy and her bardy love have finally gotten their acts together. Hurrah! After a series of nightmares, she had managed to catch his attention. They were both sufficiently frightened and disturbed, and thus clung to each other for support in a time of trial. Everyone say 'aww.' Mira is, needless to say, very pleased with how things are going, even if Claire is shameless enough to get the poor boy drunk and make him play games with her. Hee.
In other RP news, the town where my other primary character's husband lived (and where she spent a small amount of time with him before the war got into full swing) was the setting for a terrorist attack of late. Their house is completely gone, and our most recent scene involved them clearing out the dead bodies from the church, where all of the men of the town had been gathered and then systematically slaughtered. Fun!
Despite my dislike of war-type plots, this one's certainly interesting. I just hope that we can manage to bring it to some sort of appropriate conclusion instead of letting things get silly. Also, an end to it would be nice. Eventually. God knows that Claire and Spec don't really want to have anything to do with it, and I'd much rather they had the chance to stay out of it myself.
In other vaguely Aeon-related news, I think I'm on the verge of re-establishing friendship with N, who I think I've mentioned before in my 'red threads' post. So perhaps that bond is not severed as permanently as I once thought. I'm venturing into this with a good deal of reservations, however, and not without the backup of friends and loved ones who have faith in this decision. I'm still not sure, but I'm willing to at least give him a chance, I guess. It's rough going yet, but I'm hoping for the best. We'll see.
I'm tired now. Going to finish up this RP and head to bed.
For some reason I didn't want to disturb that post with adding a bunch of other stuff to it. Who knows? It might end up as the basis for a story or something. *grin*
Speaking of stories, the RP that Tarsis is talking about over there may well become one also. I have a good deal of it set out in my head already, as that's what kept me busy at work yesterday and made the hours simply fly by. Needless to say, Claire has pretty much completely captured my imagination of late. I'd like to get some of that down "on paper" here at some point in the near future.
Today is going to be a day of household maintenance, however, as Evan and I have tons of dishes to do, and the house needs a general cleaning-up.
First and foremost on our minds, though, is a doctor's appointment I have in a couple of hours. Hopefully this appointment will lead to free/cheap medication of the type that a girl who's married but doesn't want to have babies would like to have. Ahem. Needless to say I'm a bit anxious, if only for the fact that I've not been to a doctor, period, in longer than I can remember, and that this particular thing is fairly...involved. Anyway, moving on.
I do have some good news, which is that, over the weekend, one of my best friends from high school proposed to his girlfriend! I'd heard the rumor from J, my best friend, sometime a couple of weeks ago, that he was looking for a ring, but it appears that he not only found it but got her to say yes. He's been though a crappy engagement once before, but from what little I know of this girl, I already like her a lot more. And he's grown up a lot since then, too. I'm fairly amused by the fact that they both promised her parents when they started "courting" (their word, not mind--fairly conservative, homeschooling, Christian families here, so take that as you will), that they were taking it slow. I'm pretty sure they haven't even been together a year yet. But ah, well. Love is love, and I can't honestly say that Evan and I didn't know how things were going to end up even three months into things. So much love and happiness and congratulations to them.
The other funny part about that whole thing is that I'm nearly positive he proposed almost a year to the day from when Evan proposed. A year to the day or off by one. Which is still kind of amusing. They're setting a date from around June 5, and we went for May 20th, so they'll have slightly more time than I did. I'm all excited about getting to go to a wedding that's not my own! (Mine was only the second I'd ever been to, and would have been the first if two of our friends hadn't made a mad dash to the courthouse about a month before we had ours, because the husband is in the Navy and was shipping out for a while. This will be the first in a big church will all sorts of fanciness, I imagine. Ours was small, but I can't imagine his being that small. And her parents, I think, are fairly well-off. Time will tell~)
Anyway, I think that's the extent of the more mundane update. Evan'll be up soon and then we have to get moving. Ta!
What magazines do you subscribe to, and why?
For general purposes of this question, I shall make an addendum: "If none, why not?"
I don't subscribe to magazines.
Why? They cost too fucking much for the trivial stuff that comes in them, all of which I can probably get for free online and minus all the stupid perfume ads. Or read at work at no cost to me.
Sometimes these questions are so...blah.
In other news, I had a really weird dream this morning before I woke up (although, to be fair, most of the dreams I remember are just so--right before I wake, which is why I remember them at all).
I was at some sort of school or the like, and for some reason I realized, after a few odd stares, that I had this kind of cactus thing (without the spikes)--a fungus, maybe, or a parasite?--growing out of the top of my head. Apparently it was a bad thing, and I tried to put on a hat to cover it up. One of the teachers was trying to help me, and commended me for trying to hide it, but we ended up being exposed after all, which caused a mass panic. I beat a lot of other people to the elevators, but the people who got in before me saw me and made the doors close before I could get on. That elevator crashed.
Um, yeah. Told you it was weird.
Before that I had some kind of stupid school-type dream as well, where I was running around talking to a lot of my old teachers and similar. Now, I know it's back-to-school time and all, but my brain apparently doesn't realize that I'm not going. What the fuck, brain?
I hate that I haven't written in here for the past few days when I've been off, but as we noted before, time off = Mira having plenty of time to find other things to do. I managed to finish off an important item quest in RO, do a good bit of partying, and have some pretty nifty RP since I came home from work on Friday. I'm kind of worried that work will have 'sploded by now, but I suppose at least I won't have been involved!
I should go ahead and get ready, so posting this up for now. Ta.
Oh, and go bother Tarsis about his scruff. I command you!
I've been trying to screw up the brainpower to compose an entry for a couple days now, but nothing has come to mind in the way of content. Constant recaps of "I'm going/I went to work today; it sucked, as per usual,' isn't terribly interesting, but lately my life has consisted of mostly that. So I suppose that's my excuse for not updating.
I tried to write last night, but Evan was using the PS2 and making a lot of noise with it. It was hard to concentrate, so I stopped. Bleh.
Much of yesterday evening after work was consumed with paying attention to the cat, honestly. We fed her when we got home, and she was happy, but still kept running around making all kinds of crazy cat noises. So I took her outside for a couple of minutes, but that didn't satisfy her. I played with her in her kitty tube/den sort of area but that wasn't good enough either. Eventually she settled down with some catnip, then camped on Evan's lap for a while and got enough attention.
She didn't even wake me up this morning, which is a triumph in itself, really. Usually by 7 (and of course, the alarm doesn't usually go off until 7:30) she's jumping up on my hip (or back, or stomach, depending on what's pointing up at the time), yowling once or twice at me, then hopping off. If I don't get up in the next couple of minutes, she does it again. Until I do. I even have a few scratches on my hip from where she stood on me.
I found out a couple of days ago that one of my co-workers is (very recently) pregnant. Apparently I'm the first person she told aside from her husband. This boggles me, but given that I often take confidences in the people around me, I suppose I can understand, in a sense. Yesterday she also told our manager, but that's because she was late for work due to that lovely, lovely blessing of morning sickness. At any rate, she said it's still really early on and that's why she hasn't really been telling people. So I guess I feel special. Of course, she's also the second person to get pregnant in the past six months where I work. I'm starting to think of that as another reason to get out of there! While I can't wait to have kids, we barely squeak by as it is ourselves. On the other hand, I guess people getting pregnant and having babies isn't all that uncommon out here in the 'adult' world, so maybe I should just get used to it? At any rate, I know that she and her husband have been trying since about nine or ten months ago anyway, so I'm happy for them. She'll be a fun mom.
The other girl who's having a baby that I know is about six months along at this point, and she left work a month ago at her doctor's urging. I haven't heard much of her since then, since I know they were planning on moving back home and probably don't have internet now. I hope everything's going all right for them--they're not much older than Evan and I, though they've been together a while, too, and just hadn't gotten around to getting married, at least until after they found out about the baby! Last I'd heard, they knew it was a boy and he was coming along well, so hopefully things will continue along that path.
I hope I'm not boring everyone to death. I was tempted to do the qotd today, but as with any 'favorite' question, it's hard to pick anyway, plus I'd feel way too much like I was on Inside the Actors' Studio. Y'know?
Anyway. I do have the next three days off (whoo!) so I should be able to get some pretty decent writing in there at some point. Remind me, also, to talk about the book Vital Friends that I leafed through at work, and my thoughts regarding it. It was kind of interesting. I'd also like to do another creative writing exercise and talk about what's going on with my RO RP situation right now, but I figure if this entry gets any longer, the odds of someone taking the time to read it are, perhaps, even smaller.
Until next time~
The topic came up in one of the Aeon chats I inhabit not too long ago.
In case you haven't heard of it before, the general gist of the idea is that there's a Chinese (apparently) proverb that says that when a child is born, red threads are tied around their fingers which connect them to the people fated to become important in their lives. Sometimes there are knots and tangles, and threads can be severed, but it led me to consider how many people I would truly say I am 'connected' with in this way. And, even more so, the lengths that these ties span.
- Obviously, my husband. We discussed this a long, long time ago and agreed wholeheartedly.
- My best friend, J. I love her, and we're the sisters we never had.
- L, in California. Another great love in a fairly non-conventional way.
- S, in Washington. My first and only real "girlfriend," a woman who will always have a piece of my heart.
- J, in Ohio. A brother and then some. My advisor, and one who comes to me for advice. Giving and taking.
Ties that have been severed...
- N, in California. My great mistake, but it would be a lie to say I hadn't loved him. And a lesson learned.
- J, here in WV. A first love, a childish love, but the beginning of the discovery of me.
- Mr M. My band director in high school. A father figure and an inspiration. A separation forced by time instead of pain or fighting. Though it still kind of hurts to return, but only because you can't go back again.
- T, J, A, J...high school friends when friends were few and far between. Again, time and distance pull us apart instead of strife.
Ties still being forged...
- S, in Missouri. He's a great friend and I care about him a lot. He's grown up a lot in the past year, and I appreciate that more than he knows, probably.
- B. Virginia. You know who you are. I suppose it's high time to tell you that you mean a lot to me too, and I'm really enjoying the time we're spending working on our RP and just generally hanging out.
I guess it all comes back to Mira's theory of love, and loving all the important people in your life differently than the last. Each and every one of these people is special to me in their own way, and I feel lucky to have so many special people to surround me and hold up and to hold me up. You guys rock.
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On a separate note, today was D's last day at work, as well as the other manager who was leaving. I attempted to write him a humorous yet heartfelt note but decided it all came off as a little bit cheesy and/or obsessive. Which I'm totally not. Uh huh. (this is me not being convinced!)
Anyway, I commented to him that it was very much like the last day of school--the attitude they both had of goofing off, taking it easy, letting people get away with stuff they wouldn't otherwise. It was fun.
I also did a little doodle of Claire, my gypsy, as the Queen of Cups. She embodies the card to that very extent, and made me ponder on a comment made by one of my other RP partners. Now I'm curious and trying to classify characters on the server as players in the Major Arcana and the face cards. Spectrus, Claire's co-guildmaster, is almost certainly the Hanged Man, and another character could quite easily be The Fool. If I had the artistic abilities to depict them as such, I would. But alas, I am limited to crappy pencil doodles that look far less impressive twenty-four hours after the fact.
I digress.
I had really good RP tonight. RP that was good enough that I felt like not only did I learn a good bit more about my character, but that I also felt like I learned something myself, along the way. It was most satisfactory to, for once, walk into a battle, head held high, and have not only confidence, but cool, clear logic on my side.
Sure beats fighting with those bloody emotional types.
Mira, by the way, was also a Queen of Cups, but slowly morphed into Judgment as time progressed, especially after her 'rebirth,' as it were. Claire is also the Queen, and it may be no surprise to anyone that I also consider myself an embodiment of the card.
Anyway, that's probably enough ramblings for me and now I've lost my train of thought anyway. Royal Assassin continues to be interesting, but I'm not done yet. My apologies if this post's a little discombobulated. It's getting late indeed~ I shall go now and come up with much more babbling tomorrow.
There are those days when morning comes far, far too early. Thankfully I have another day off tomorrow, so I'm sure I can manage to make up the sleep one way or the other.
Six hours and some-odd minutes isn't that bad--at least, it wasn't at a point in my sleep cycle where I was dreaming. Those are the ones that leave me awake but groggy, which is also why instead of rolling over and hitting the sleep button until Evan was out of the shower, I went ahead and got up. Six and a half is generally really bad for me.
I know I had some weird dreams the past two nights, but unfortunately they've all but faded from my mind by the time I sat down at the keyboard. I know I was having RO-dreams, which is no surprise given how much I've been playing in the past four or five days.
Last night was particularly awesome, I think. My gypsy character, Claire, was giving a Tarot reading in the game's main pub for one of her guild's new members, and we actually managed to attract quite the audience. I was particularly pleased when the reading was spot-on for the character I was giving it for. Claire's been fairly reliable, honestly. Curiously, the reading was four cards, and I managed to draw the Ten and Nine of Wands, then the Ten and Nine of Cups, in that order. I thought it was odd that it stuck to just two suits and even two particular numbers. Anyone out there with a greater knowledge than me have any thoughts on this one?
Spectrus joined us after a while, and at the end of it we ended up having an informal guild meeting in our base, (the Stage), which was just prettydamnneat. Claire's just as caring as Mira (see angel icon) was without (so far!) any of the craziness that always got associated with her plots that made her a bit of a pain sometimes, if only because there was simply so much going on that revolved around her and the bigger things she was a part of. There's less room for that now, since instead of running a church, she's just running a little band of performers. I like it. In time, of course, things will grow more complex, but for now the simplicity is endearing.
Also worked yesterday on grinding Rachna up a few more levels on her way to magi-knighthood. About five more and I can change over. It's probably a little fast, RP-wise, but time in RO isn't quite normal anyway, so I'm not too stressed over it. The party we had going was really excellent, and effective. I was terrible at dealing damage to the final boss of the dungeon, but hey--we got there, and in the process managed to collect a couple nice items. Net experience gained was well worth the trouble--it's always good to do something different. Same old same old gets so boring after a while.
Speaking of same old--I'd better get ready for work, as the time slips through my fingers once more. As ever, more later. Until then~
What is your current computer desktop image? Let's see it!
Ooh. I actually like this one! Here ya go:
This is a 'shop of the main image, which was a commission done as a gift, partially in celebration of my wedding. It's actually just the digital copy of a real print that I have sitting here in my living room. The characters pictured are, as I'm sure you can see, Cyril Shinsei and Rachna Boyer. Rachna was my high priestess on the RO server I play, and Cyril is the character of the gift-giver. The duo are near and dear to my heart, as is the giver of the gift. So there~
