your graceful, your grace falls down around me in my eyes

I was tagged by playinggodagain -- and when Blinky tags, you'd best pay attention.

That said, this is proving a little difficult for me right now, and not just because I hate making top 10 lists.

List of the top ten things that make you happy right now... and tag five people to do the same:

1. I may not be at my best,

but I'm getting better.

Christmas is coming, and with it the giving and receiving of gifts.

And I'll spend some time with my family.

I'm looking forward to my upcoming tiny little mini-breaks (December 26th and 27th, January 2nd).

thablueguy is back in the area, at least for a bit.

I'm hoping to hang out with human_typhoon when she's in Massachusetts.

I've still got my music (they can't take that way from me.)

Questionable Content and Something Positive have been downright incredible recently. And Smithson is quite good too, just slow.

The West Wing and Gilmore Girls have been pretty good this season.

There's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last.Tagged: no one, actually. Do it if the spirit moves you.

and what I want right now is just some more, gimme more

Is it me, or do the weekends get shorter at the same rate as the days do? This past one flew by, and I hardly did anything.

I am so not ready for it to be Monday.

what doesn't bend, breaks

I've tried several times now to compose a post, one that encapsulates my weekend and how I'm doing since I last weighed in here. But it keeps coming out more depressed-sounding than I really want it to. I had some really rough patches the past week or so, but I would rather that not color the entire tone of my discourse. Looking at some of my posts from around this time last year, I'm starting to wonder if maybe I'm even more seasonally-affected than I give myself credit for. I mean, I haven't got loopygirl's near-pathological hatred of snow, not by a long shot. But I'm feeling down and lonely again, there's just no denying it.

Maybe the trick is to stop keeping my head down. I spend so much time just trying to get through my work week, but I plan like crap, so then I get to the weekend and I haven't got anything in mind to do. And sure, I'm exhausted outside of work, but I do better when I rally and make myself do something anyway. A weekend spent on the labor of love that is Prophet's Fall is ten times more fulfilling and better for my disposition than a weekend like this past one, where I knocked around aimlessly, and my biggest accomplishments were related to apartment-cleaning. Admittedly, part of what's good about Prophet's Fall is the people. I crave human contact; I need people to draw me out of myself, to help me forget my cares and my woes (which are not all that numerous, when put into perspective.)

I have to admit, I am really excited about the new tabletop I'm going to be running for sleetfall and euchaotic. Unfortunately we didn't quite manage to get things off the ground this week. No worries, though -- they're reliable players, I'm sure things will get moving in their own time. I've got portions of character history for both of them, and a number of game ideas are starting to really take shape in my brain. What can I say? I like gaming, and I'm getting to a point where I enjoy GMing almost as much as I enjoy playing. pax_malificus spoiled me very badly, though. His Mage game was (and is) like breathing a rarefied air.

Random (and geeky) thought for the day: am I the only person who thinks people would pay extra to have Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as the voice for their GPS systems and suchlike? If I were going to interact with a computer voice, I would definitely rather it be hers.