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The last couple weeks have been insane for me work-wise. We're working towards a
product release and there's craploads of testing to be done, so that's eating up most
of my time & energy. Aside from that there's some management-y training going on that
I'll be going to this week as well as sometime in June.
But all of that is boring and we both know you don't come here to read about
my job, so let's move on.
Remember in my last post, how I said that Hepzibah wasn't my Alliance alt any longer?
Well that was a fucking lie. I've been playing her (and by that I mean that Rose
has been power-levelling me with the help of her main -- I'm only a squishy warlock for
Christ's sake, I need a bodyguard) almost every night last week and now she's a glorious
level 37! We're hoping to get her to 40 over the course of this weekend, whenever it is
we get around to playing WoW. Once that's done, I'll get Rose to pony up over on the
Horde side; we'll get her Priest to 40 and then we can sit back and look accomplished.
E3's over. The new Alliance race is gonna be the Draeni; Rose showed me a picture of a Dreani back
in the day, and they were ugly as sin -- I laughed at her/the Alliance at that point and
thought nothing of it (I believed it suitable torture for sticking the unique Horde with the
mundane Blood Elves), but now that Blizzard's released official news with pictures, it
turns out I'm not feeling so smug any more. The Draeni Rose showed me was apparently the
unevolved (or whatever) version of the race -- which isn't the character model that will
be in the game! The actual in-game Draeni are pretty freaking hot -- which pisses me off
something fierce. They look like regular D&D asimaar (for non-geeks, asimaar are creatures
that have angelic blood), which totally isn't fair, 'cause I would've liked the Horde to have
been gifted with a matching demon-esque race...le sigh. Whatever. I still say the new Alliance
race should've been the Worgen.
Last night Rose and I were sitting on the living room couches, talking about how we, as
(aspiring) writers, need a THING. We need a unique, distinctly-us THING that we can pride
ourselves on. It's hard to find, though, 'cause it has to be totally creative and new,
which I personally think is unachievable (Rose is more optimistic about it, however). So
anyway, after a half hour bout of silence, Rose kinda nods a little and goes: "You know what we
need? Opium." And she may be right. It worked for Poe, I can't see why it wouldn't work for
us. I'd just really, really like to be able to create without resorting to intoxicants.
Fact: Rose and I have known each other for 11 years now. During this time, we've developed a
language; of course we've been aware of that for some time now, but recently we've discovered
that it spreads to other environments. For example, the title of this post may not mean anything
to you, but to Rose and I it's actually a WoW combat strategy. Playing with other people is actually
becoming really hard, because we spam stuff like that to each other all the time and the rest of the
party's like "wtf r u talkng abut?" -- which is really amusing. Maybe we're just being dicks. We do
it during D&D as well, and it's apparently really remarkable; Rose's kid sister watched us do it a
couple weeks ago and was floored by the silent eyebrow-and-odd-look conversation Rose and I supposedly
had.
For all you folks that like sci-fi and/or physics (James, you're probably the only person
who may actually care about this), read
work (if you haven't already). He also does regular novels that aren't wonderfully written but
are still entertaining.
Also, for my fellow atheists:
every now and then and see if anything floats your boat.
♠ KA
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