A Matter of Framing
Jul. 13th, 2005 09:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
There are days where I can't help feeling like Charlie Chaplin in "The Gold Rush." These are usually days when I'm at my most self-pitying. And probably egotistical. :) I can't elaborate any more than that, really.
Work has been better; as long as I do the work, I can keep up with things all right, actually. We're slowly working down the enormous stacks of books that have been climbing up the walls for months now, and Charles actually gave us permission to start chucking books out. Well, not so much gave us permisson as turned a blind eye. He's all right. :)
The first story of my trial game ended last night, and I think everyone enjoyed themselves well enough. I think taking the year-long hiatus helped a lot in giving me the chance to come at running RPGs with a fresh perspective. I'll be taking about a month off to learn D20 3.5 a bit better, and to read the Eberron campaign setting. I already have ideas for the next story to line up, but I really want to get a basic understanding of mechanics down before solidifying anything. I don't really feel like writing a game summary right now, but maybe someday.
Haven't written in a very long time because I feel more like observing than speaking. Probably why I haven't posted in a long time, either. I'm falling into that very contemplative way that usually happens about a month from now, right around my birthday. Another year gone, another year older, what have I learned? Etc. etc. This year I think it's especially bad because I'll be 25. A grump. The last vestiges of legitimate childhood will have been tempered away. What have I learned?
Oddly enough, life doesn't feel...over. I don't feel like I'm bogged down in bills and deceit and whatever it is that's so incredibly bad about being an adult. I feel like I'm finally able to be confident, really. I have the experience, I have (mostly) the knowledge. I have the right to be comfortable. Life feels really like it's just starting. I really look forward to getting older. :) I just hope the world doesn't decide to end a day after my birthday, or something.
Work has been better; as long as I do the work, I can keep up with things all right, actually. We're slowly working down the enormous stacks of books that have been climbing up the walls for months now, and Charles actually gave us permission to start chucking books out. Well, not so much gave us permisson as turned a blind eye. He's all right. :)
The first story of my trial game ended last night, and I think everyone enjoyed themselves well enough. I think taking the year-long hiatus helped a lot in giving me the chance to come at running RPGs with a fresh perspective. I'll be taking about a month off to learn D20 3.5 a bit better, and to read the Eberron campaign setting. I already have ideas for the next story to line up, but I really want to get a basic understanding of mechanics down before solidifying anything. I don't really feel like writing a game summary right now, but maybe someday.
Haven't written in a very long time because I feel more like observing than speaking. Probably why I haven't posted in a long time, either. I'm falling into that very contemplative way that usually happens about a month from now, right around my birthday. Another year gone, another year older, what have I learned? Etc. etc. This year I think it's especially bad because I'll be 25. A grump. The last vestiges of legitimate childhood will have been tempered away. What have I learned?
Oddly enough, life doesn't feel...over. I don't feel like I'm bogged down in bills and deceit and whatever it is that's so incredibly bad about being an adult. I feel like I'm finally able to be confident, really. I have the experience, I have (mostly) the knowledge. I have the right to be comfortable. Life feels really like it's just starting. I really look forward to getting older. :) I just hope the world doesn't decide to end a day after my birthday, or something.
