please say honestly you won't give up on me

Samhain is on a Monday this year, and that's kind of crappy. I mean, on the plus side, activities relating to the holiday can be stretched throughout the preceding weekend. I might (emphasis on might) end up having a surprisingly full calendar this weekend. On the other hand, I haven't done any of my errands-in-preparation-for-Halloween yet, nor have I succesfully completed my apartment-cleaning, or figured out my snow tires, or any of the other hundreds of things on my ever-growing To Do list. If the past few weeks are any indication I'll be lucky if I remember to pick up my dry-cleaning tomorrow, let alone get to any of that stuff. Case in point: I wanted to carve a pumpkin, but I haven't even bought one yet, and I wouldn't attempt it except in a mostly-clean kitchen. And, um, my kitchen is the opposite of clean right now. As of last night I don't think I even have any clean silverware.

There was no Because Its Wednesday this week, mostly because yesterday was for me the day from Hell at work. I had not one but two exams, on unecessarily complicated material, with a minimum passing grade of 80%. Which doesn't necessarily sound that bad, until I started hearing rumors that several members of last year's training class failed these same tests, back when a passing mark was 70%. So yesterday was a day of much stress. My tension levels have, fortunately, plummeted dramatically since then.

The lack of Because Its Wednesday is really unforunate, however, because yesterday over at Websnark, the darling Ms. White wrote a nice little article about NaDruWriNi, the hillarious innebriated cousin of NaNoWriMo. If you haven't got anything planned for Guy Fawkes Night this year, I hereby officially suggest getting hammered and abusing your word processor. Seriously. When you get right down to it, many people are still intimidated by the thought of NaNoWriMo, even though part of its mission statement and indeed very conception is to get people to overcome their hang-ups and just write. But everyone except teetotalers can get behind NaDruWriNi. For lowering inhibitions, alcohol is hands-down a better tool than peer pressure.

with maps, a mountain range, a piggy bank...

This is less an actual post and more a reference list for me. Some of these people may be friended in the near future; that obviously remains to be seen.

Prophet's Fall Staffers & Their Livejournals (That I Know Of Right Now):

• dippy423 (Andrea) -- One of the first people (aside from thablueguy, obviously, who will not appear on this list) to make me feel welcome in my involvement with PF. Currently abroad in the United Kingdom somewhere.
  
• ethereal1 (Eric) -- He stayed at my apartment senior year and watched B5 on DVD with me, thus marking him forever as a good guy. The only reason I haven't friended him already is because his blog appears to be 99.94% pure baseball content.
  
• human_typhoon (Shannon) -- Shannon's physical body is too small to reasonably contain all of the energy that comes a-vibratin' out of her. I am forced to conclude that all laws concerning mechanics & heat do not apply to her.
  
• kingoftherotten (Pat) -- Pat's a LARP machine. Also he can shout very loud on command, apparently without doing significant damage to his voice, even when the weather is damnably cold and rainy.
  
• kmedusa (Katie) -- Not to be confused with k80, who has numbers in her name, and who's hair is not red in the normal course of things. Katie is a stealth bomber of humor.
  
• onthejohn (John Green) -- [summary removed]
  
• playinggodagain (Blinky) -- OK, so when thablueguy used to speak of him, it was always with a combination of affection and fear that was hard to comprehend. Until now. Now I've met the guy and it makes perfect sense.
• war_pug (Steve) -- Steve is a pug. Pug pug pug.

'cos one or two more smiles from you and I don't need anything else

The amusing results of my attempting to comply with a coworker's request to explain the term LARP in ten words or less:

Acronym: Live Action Roleplay. Make-believe for teenagers and adults.

(Yes, this is my third post today. Yes, I am a total LJ-whore. That last one didn't count, remember? Because I said it didn't, that's why!)