All Right, Already

The best part about not sleeping for, say, 36 hours is the 10 hours of sleep you get to have at the end of it. I forgot just how great sleep can feel when you're exhausted. The good thing is I wasn't really too much of a basket case throughout the day, though I didn't get nearly as much done as I would have liked. The final verdict: I'm still young enough to pull all-nighters, but I think I'm old enough to know that they're probably really stupid. :)

Oh my GOD, Odis' game was a very long one. I think I'm alone in the idea that it was actually *too* long -- a whopping 16 hours, from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m. Monday morning. Sure, by the end of it we as players all reflected the exhaustion of our characters, but...I'm not sure how into the idea of method role-playing I am, especially when I'm not really prepared for it. Still, it was a really great game; the new town our characters are based in is pretty neat, and Odis used Blair Witch scariness very very well. And Lucas the werebear got himself an ursanthrope girlfriend! The sex is great, and presumably as loud as reahkitty's. :D

Biking was awesome, but I already said that. I've all but decided to buy Prismo's bike, and I'll see if I can't take it out for a test drive after work this evening. Matt is putting his Promised Sands game on hiatus for a bit so he can figure things out, and that leaves my Tuesday evenings pleasantly free for a little while. If I had been a bit more ready, I would have tried to run a small three-week game or something, but alas, there's no time to get one up. Besides, I'd want to make it a Changeling game. That's like, the kiss of death for local gamers here. I'd really just love to *play* in a good White Wolf game; for all of my issues with it, I'm kind of taken with the World of Darkness...first edition, let's say.

I'm really starting to feel guilty now about the level of non-production. Nothing at all, writing-wise, for about a week now. I'm going to have to dig my heels in and discipline myself about that.

Might As Well

The first day of Charles' and Heidi's vacation did not go quite so well as planned. Four *boxes* of books, all mine, with a super special box reserved for nothing but cookbooks. Now, it's the end of my day and I'm just done catching up. Grumble. Hopefully, I can work on the hoopy projects tomorrow.

On the bright side, "Hopes and Fears" by Keane is actually a pretty good album. At first I thought it was kind of bland and untextured piano pop, but now that I'm listening to it more it's growing on me like kudzu. I'm *really* digging it...almost more than the new Weezer album, which I'm sure is a sacrilege in most of the continental United States.

I really want a permanent account! I'm gonna have to jiggle my bank account around to see if I can procure one before the sale's over.

Tried to keep stock of what I ate over the course of the day: half a bag of Ruffles Cheddar and Sour Cream potato chips, two handfuls of pretzel sticks, half of a cinnamon bun with caramel, four cups of water, half a mug of coffee, a turkey sandwich and a cup of yogurt, all nibbled on throughout the course of the day. Oddly enough, the cup of yogurt was the most filling thing.

Oops...there are a bunch of comments I should reply to. I'll try to catch up with *that* in a couple of days.