A couple things I hope to write and possibly post soon
- some thoughts on IC vs OOC in roleplaying
- my 15 influential albums (it's been way too hard to choose 'em!)

Lately Jon and I have been playing this MONSTER playlist I created by taking every song in our MP3 collection (ripped from CDs we actually physically bought, we're the new vinyl collectors I guess!) I put them all in one list, hit shuffle and played. It's 7870 songs and 587 hours long, incredible! And the selection is so eclectic, yet I RARELY have head a song I don't like. I like that. :D I was silly and called the list "Fern", as in "...a diverse buyer fern... buyer segment! I wrote this stuff, why can't I remember it?!" </Winnebago Man>

I want to buy more CDs soon, when I can afford it. Which reminds me... the water was cut at the apt. for a while, but then it came back, and we didn't notice the tap was on until it was too late! Water all over the kitchen and living room! The CDs got wet (we had stacked on the living room floor since we've yet to get a shelf for them) so we had to move those and a bunch of other stuff.

So sleep deprived! And I don't think I'll give myself more than 4-5 hours to nap. I have an obligation this evening and don't want to miss NWN2 either. :(

A couple nights ago, Clark, Jim, Jon and I finished the NWN2 campaign. We're gonna play Mask of the Betrayer next, which we hope won't be as multiplayer buggy.

And yesterday I pretty much stayed put, getting a bunch of DR stuff done. I feel a bit bad just sitting around like that, but then I remind myself that in a month I won't have time to sit around anyways. This time I can tell myself I'm enjoying it while I can!

Meanwhie, I found out that I'm gaining an interest in Vocaloid. It's small but growing. :) I was mostly listening to Megurine Luka, who I think is my favorite of the current Vocaloids. I think people who know me well would not be surprised she is my fave. *grins*

I'm a bit more active in Facebook again, and again I'm kinda glad I've eschewed a connection with this site... but I can't really fool myself into thinking no one would ever figure it out. Having to separate professional and personal is something I'll be struggling with more as the years go by and I think about my job options.

I was asleep for a few hours, but for some reason shot wide awake just half an hour ago or so. So I gotta kill some time before I can nap again. Maybe some more Sims 3? Youtube surfing? Jon and I have been replaying Xenogears, too. Now that's a blast from the past!

Man, been so tired these past few days. I've only been up 8 hours or so and want to sleep some more. Maybe I'll finally even out and start waking up normal hours again. *crosses fingers*

I've also been watching this awesome anime that Clark sent Jon and me (real DVD copies. Cause he got them from work, he works at Media Blasters.) It's called Twelve Kingdoms. It's another take on a popular anime theme, the "person from real life Japan gets thrust into a fantasy world" (think Escaflowne, Fushigi Yuugi, etc.) Except I'd rather compare it to Escaflowne because I actually *liked* that series. :D

And Twelve Kingdoms is also very good. The mythology and even the setting associated with it, have some elements that remind me of why I like Exalted. Probably because it seems strongly inspired by Chinese mythology. As for the eponymous kingdoms, they are each ruled by a king or queen assisted by a holy creature, a kirin. (I love kirin! awww unicorns. *ducks*) The kirin chooses the ruler, and so long as the king/queen rules the land justly, it prospers. Otherwise the kirin grows sick, the crops go bad, people revolt, etc.

Jon and I watched the first arc involving how the Queen of Kei (who was originally from Japan) was crowned. Looking forward to seeing more... after I have some epic sleepz! All I did of note today was RP Ryshy going shopping with Alexsei in DR, edit the document I wrote last post, and watch Twelve Kingdoms. Yet to me, this is an ideal vacation. Who needs the real world? :P

Jon and I never actually even cooked our dinner. We got sleepy midday and just snoooored our way through the day. Kind of sad! But turkey and potatoes and yule log are on for later today!

I totally got Talliska to circle 42 on Christmas Eve though. Also went looking at a Dragonrealms fest with some of Talli's in game friends. That was a lot of fun. :)

I'm a dork for being on DR on Christmas Eve. I was on RPoL too, handing out holiday bonuses in a couple of my games. n.n While tallying up the experience, I I wrote and tested the most amazing script ever to help Talliska train hiding and stalking. Now I can finally get those two skills to catch up to my other survivals. It's truly epic. :3 And I'll need it, my dream title for Talli is "Penumbra" which takes 400 hide/stalk. Such a long way off! ;.;

Though I'm proud that Talli now has Trailmaster (175 scouting) - that took quite a bit of work to achieve!

Lastly, I'm in love with Kokia's album The Voice. I'm not big on her pop albums, but I LOVE when she goes for more 'new age' style musicI got me some mp3s, only because I have no way of getting a hard copy any time soon and was so eager to hear it. It's definitely on my "to buy" list though!

I totally slept for 2/3rds of yesterday.

And it was good.

I'm starting to think just getting more sleep and relaxing is really going to kick my writing mojo back into gear. I may be able to hang on to all my games on rpol, even. (Though, just the GMed ones. Have discarded most of the ones I was playing, already.)

Just that one day of rest made my mind SO MUCH CLEARER. Hard to believe how much that helped. I even managed to get my brain started on some cool new Academy events. Hopefully by the 7th or so (January) I should be ready to jump back into my other games as well (particularly the ones that require combat posting. My bane, given that it takes both inspiration AND fiddling with numbers/stats.)

But for now I have over a week of rest to go and I am going to enjoy it. Whee! Actually, we have to run to the grocery store too, to get our turkey for Christmas dinner (yum yum).