I'm SO worn out lately... Just churning out these recruiting lessons for the White Rose over and over. :x

I've written and tested 6 out of 7. Of course, I won't take all the credit, Samarah has done plenty of work on her part as well. She's writing the scripted versions, I'm writing the notes versions. Sometimes our opinions on how lessons are arranged differ slightly; that means I have to do more writing to arrange it as I see fit.

I have never done so much work for a Dragonrealms organization in my LIFE until now. I bet you COLLEGE will be easier. *smirks* But I love what I'm doing because the Order needs the foundation of the recruiting program. Even if I or Samarah are gone, other people can take what we've written down and do good things with it.

Sure it's just a game. But... it's a GOOD game. And I'm even learning good teamwork, writing and editing skills. So it can't all be bad!

With my next bit of news, though, I've entered a whole new level of DR crazy.

I spent this entire last week slaving over Order of the White Rose documents. Yep that's right! For no pay and no gain, and even MORE insane, for a game!

But I was a bonafide geek for years now, I suppose I can't hide it.

I'm actually only halfway through the work, but made a serious breakthrough finishing the last two documents. So I'm feeling really good right now.

I'm looking at my rpol games and realizing "sheesh, those aren't even hard compared to what I was doing for the Order!" Hah! Yep, the complexity of writing recruit training lessons -- given information that takes some interpretation to write in a coherent manner -- defeats any difficulty I've had with RPoL recently.

Okay, maybe I still hate writing Exalted combat right now. But I think ANY RP post would be a break over all that nitpicking over lesson wording. *wobbles*

Right now though I really just want to rest (and by rest I mean poke at facebook apps and mess with the few RPoL posts I AM committed to doing this week).

Not really true. But I've been horrendously busy/distracted.

Earlier this week there was this whole fiasco with my brother-in-law coming to visit with his girlfriend during a time 1) we were TOTALLY not prepared for visitors, 2) I was HORRIBLY busy because I had a lot to do absolutely no time and energy to do it all.

Having the distraction of relative strangers in my home (I didn't know the girl at all, and my brother-in-law and I have the language barrier) completely destroyed any progress I would've had on my work. I was extremely upset about that, and at the idea that we were expected to put up with their presence on short notice because he decided he wanted to leave home on a whim. It wasn't even an emergency or anything so much as just... moving with hardly ANY plan of where to stay and what to do for the next few days.

After all that, my RPoL posting was pretty much thrown off COMPLETELY as well, as I couldn't get the energy to do that, either. I just kept getting more and more behind, more and more exhausted. Even doing work for the Order of the White Rose in DR was more wearing than I would have liked. :(

Cause I'm not used to being without a computer. Need laptop nao?

I feel silly 'cause I just sat here and played a buttload of Sims 3, finished a last rpol post, made sure my facebook apps wouldn't explode without me hovering over them (mostly just cleared some fields and fed my pet :P) and now am writing this.

And then find out that there's DR invasions, grr. Hello, Simu, stop making invasions while I have things to do. thx, Talliska.

Anyway, I have this list of Sims 3 things to do and need to write it down.
- Estrella and Elasul need to fall in love! (Damn, they're both so shy!)
- Mellauna needs 2 more best friends to finish one of the Charisma challenges.
- Mellauna and Suurnis are going to have a baby. (And she's eating a lot of apples. Needs to be a son, Nardoan.)
- More vacations!! Haven't been to Shang Simla yet. :D (Atma and Iluun went to SimEgypt, Oira and Reva went to SimFrance.) Want to review World Adventures, it's REALLY good.
- EVENTUALLY I will start aging all the kids up, once Nardoan passes toddler years. n.n

...gah, I need to nap! But gotta go!! :) See you all on the 5th-ish.

But I'm sitting here playing DR on the new year. Yeah, I'm a dork. Jon and I have our hotel reservation and stuff, though! We just wanted to do it post holiday so it wouldn't be too crazy outside. I'm not one for loud noises and crowds. :(

Talli is circle 44 now. Flying through the ranks with my improved scripts (need to write a short bow one now!) In fact I've been scripting all day while beating my head over this horribly difficult post in Soul Collectors which I FINALLY finished. x.x I am seriously hating Exalted combat right now. I either need to be better organized, or White Wolf needs to stop having rules for similar concepts (i.e. mutations, undead, etc.) spread over TOO MANY different books.

On the other hand Selina said she might run a FFT game and let me play a viera in it. Sounds fun. We are both going to be busy with college entry stuff this Jan, though. Ugh, not looking forward to it, I've been procrastinating this time around because of how discouraged I felt last time I applied but couldn't go. I intend to send before Jan 15 though, one way or another. I just hope they won't need more of my transcripts. Gah.

We're gonna have fondue and booze now, so... woo! (AND I'm going to try and sneak a couple more posts in before then. I wanted to do them before but that Soul Collectors post just KILLED all my time.)