this is not the greatest song in the world, no.

So its been a little over three weeks since I updated. I know I resolved to be a good blogger like I was in Germany, but the fact of the matter is in Germany I had huge whacks of time every day when there was nothing better to do than update. Now I'm back at school with all the usual stresses (and all the old distractions) and I just can't seem to find the time to fit updates into my pseudo-busy schedule. And I'm not saying that anyone out there especially cares when I don't update, but it bugs me. So I'm fixing it.

Speaking of things I'm fixing... this skipping classes thing has just got to fucking stop. I'm not sick anymore, and I didn't go to my morning classes today only because I didn't feel like it. I'm going to get away with it, of course. I have friends in both classes, and neither one is attendance-based. But it'll just create more work later when it comes time to take exams and write papers. So I'm resolving to actually go to these classes for the next few weeks. Here's hoping I stick to it.

News on the DCP front: Newbie Game went real well. Picked up perhaps as many as 10 new folks, and the game was good and full even without all of our returning players. A couple of whom, I hear tell, might not be so returning after all. Oh well. Their loss. Game is shaping up to be killer this year. Saw rollick only barely, but it warmed my heart to do so. I look forward immensely to gaming with her again in the coming year.

I changed my character concept, much to oberndorf's dismay. Poor guy was planning on being the buddy of my ol' Toreador Keeper of Elysium (the abbreviation for which was almost K o E until I realized that savvy readers would probably interpret that kuei-jin and be real confused.) Now instead I'm playing a Malkavian security and transport specialist he might not get along with so well after all. Oh well, tho' - I'm going to have more fun, and dear friend Wizard was just getting psyched up too early in the game. As in, before it actually started.

Was noch, was noch... running my second sort of proto-mishegoss session today. Trying to get enough character detail to do what I want to accomplish is a little bit like pulling teeth with this crowd. Actually, that's not accurate as a simile. Its not nearly that painful, its just not something I think any of them have been asked for before in their gaming lives. So every time I get a paragraph from any of them I ask for a page more, and they are for the most part happy to do it, they just seem... surprised is I guess the word I'm looking for here.

Anyway. Much craziness upcoming: Tremere Prom, Games Plus, Mitsuwa, reading and papers and tests oh my, new hard drive, Thanksgiving in Massachusetts to see the new house on the Cape, tickest for a family trip to St. John's over Spring Break and oh yeah, did I mention my older sister is getting married after I graduate? Wait, wait... I graduate... I get a job... fuck... I'm gonna stop writing now, before I have a heart attack about all the scary things in the not-so-distant future.