location: home
mood: peaceful
tagme: life
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So my birthday is in about 6 weeks now — and this is all I want.

$100 to spend at Michael’s Arts & Crafts
$100 to spend at a used bookstore
$100 to spend at the local bead stores
an lcd monitor

After all, I got a job now. :)

I has returned from the wilds of North Carolina bearing a tiny laptop, some shells, a lot of sand in my bathing suit, a purple shirt I made, and a little peace of mind. It seems like there’s a lot going on in this beginning of June! Chibi night, range session, father’s day, book releases, weddings, bachelor parties …

Anyway, I brought home fun things to do to keep my hands busy and I think I’m ready to tackle things again … just as soon as I figure out what’s causing that annoying buzzing in my linux box, and read Kushiel’s Mercy …

Oh, no *laughter*. See, we have the top-floor apartment in this building, and there’s a tree very close to the corner, where the computer room is. And Phoebe can hear the squirrels as they run around on the roof — come to that, I can hear them. So for several weeks now she’s been perched on Michael’s speakers on the drafting table, staring upward eagerly. Well, just now Michael put her on top of the tall shelves on his desk, and then took her down again — so now she knows she can get up there, and has begun to leap up that high. I don’t know if she knows how to get down! *giggles* So now she is desperately trying to get more ‘up’ than the ceiling. Must get those squirrels!

Queen Phoebe is gazing imperiously down on me now.

So I got my tax incentive thingie the other day, and I was agonising over what to do with it; but since I still don’t have a damn job I’m going to try to hang on to most of it for a while. I’ve had some interviews, had one on Wednesday in fact, but so far nothing has come through. Still waiting to hear back from the people I interviewed with on Weds. but I don’t expect to hear anything before the end of next week.

I keep ending up in places where I’ve done everything I can, and moving on depends on other peoples’ choices. Blegh! I actually asked the ladies in the last interview if there was anything else I could do to prove I was the best, and we had a good laugh.

Mostly I’m just tired, in ways that defy recovery. My shoulders hurt a lot, and though I spend a lot of time in the sun sometimes I feel cold for no reason.

I will go back to testing Issue 12 now.

Still no job. Has had interviews. Looking for entry level data management. Money running low. Sanity running lower.

Everything is tangled up inside. Tired of waiting for phone calls.

I don’t even have anything to say. I’m so tangled inside I can’t get anything to express clearly. I’m surviving, I’m okay. Every day is just another day. Yesterday was bad. The sun had no warmth. I don’t know about today. I keep trying to get up early and I can’t, it’s so cold outside the bed I can’t get up; I just go back to sleep. So I know I’m depressed.

There are things I should or could do. I’m just not always doing them. Maybe I will today.

talking to: Kevin, Michael, the Vent crew
mood: happy
tagme: geekgirl/gaming
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How to pay tribute to Gary Gygax:

Tell three of your best friends, when they come to play BESM, that you are going to play Munchkin instead.

Learn that one friend has never played and always wanted to.

Get Cursed twice by another player, losing several good items, and retaliate by Gender-Switching him (-5 in your next battle).

Spend four turns not fighting the Potted Plant lv 1 you have in your hand because you are under the Curse of the Malice Mirror, which renders all your bonuses null, and you are only level 1.

Gain Sandals of Protection vs Curses, and Open the Door to a Curse on your next turn.

Make a profitable trade of a Wizard’s Hat of Awesome +3 for Pantyhose of Armor (can’t be worn by Warriors) +3 and gain a treasure into the bargain.

Have a Floating Nose wander into a current battle, which then sneezes Electric Radioactive Acid on the combatant, who had spent his last three turns hopping up monsters and stealing treasure.

Illusion a Found monster into a Lawyer (won’t fight thieves), then transfer the Lawyer’s aggro to the thief sitting next to you, who gains nothing from the battle.

Stop one winner by playing Friendship Potion on his Found monster. “I fight a monster.” “But you’re fwends!”

Stop one winner by playing Out to Lunch on his Found monster. “I fight a monster.” “He’s not there.”

Win the game by Looking for Trouble, finding an Insurance Salesman lv 14 (fight with only bonuses), having +17 in bonuses, having the Insurance Salesman Illusioned into a Platinum Dragon lv 20, and playing a Doppleganger (double all bonuses and levels).

Laugh so hard at several points you cannot see; swap many handshakes, hi-fives, and plots; generally pwn each other as often as possible.