i never could get the hang of mokuyoubi
Jan. 25th, 2002 01:29 amI felt really nauseous this morning. Nevermind that I hadn't fallen asleep really until around 5am and had to wake up at a semi-reasonable time (which I failed to do), but I utterly felt like crap when I did wake up. I spent more time than I should have lying in my bed after my morning shower, but at least I was reading the Perl Cookbook while doing so. (I hate it when I want to do one task, and find two recipes that, if combined, would do my task, except that they're not easily combinable. I should have asked ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jcreed for help when I saw him this evening.) So I finally got moving around 11:40 (yeah, I know) and figured I'd grab something to eat here rather than go buy lunch near work. I ate a bologna sandwich and about halfway through it felt utterly totally nauseated, to the point I couldn't swallow the mouthful of food I was chewing and gave up on eating it. Took some pepto, drank some ginger ale, sat down for a bit more... felt ok after a few minutes and walked to work.
Went to meetings, futzed with Perl, etc. felt pretty yucky for most of the afternoon. Kept going to the bathroom because I thought I might throw up. Failed to throw up. Drank lots of soda.
Left to go to Kiltie band around 5, stopping by the activities fair on the way to say hi to people. I actually only felt slightly yucky at band. Mostly I felt hungry more than anything else. Ed Latimer is now a Cadet Lt. Colonel or something in ROTC (The BAQ was something like "What is Oliver Wojtna's real name? OR What does a percussionist play when they are the only one to show up?" and so I wrote "my answer to both questions is Cadet Major Ed Latimer", and he, sitting next to me, signed underneath "Excuse me, that's Cadet Lt. Colonel Ed Latimer to you, missy!") The pieces we're playing in Kiltie this semester range from really easy to absolutely impossible. I'll set out a few challenges for myself and just try to meet those sorts of goals, I think, and not worry about playing everything perfectly. It is nice to begin each semester and realize how much I've improved in sightreading, at least.
So after band, Carl and I got indian food from ToI (yum! chicken tikka masala and kofta saag, and Carl got a dosa). We went to the CS lounge and bunches of people were there. I got to play Manhattan again, withdvarin, combinator, and jcreed. It was fun! Carl and I were both trying out Django's strategy, and it worked - Carl won, and I didn't do anywhere near as badly as I did last time. I think it is a neat game. If I teach enough people to play it, it'll even be a nice fast game. Really. Martin likes it too, so hopefully it'll propogate in the lounge.
Dan showed up somewhere in the interim and we mostly sat around D&D munchkinning for a while, since we'd decided to play Cosmic Encounter, but John wanted to get food first, as did Martin and Pete and such. I think my character will actually end up being one level ranger (for the fighting abilities), many levels rogue, and will use the OA ninja class... or something. I'm sacrificing my character concept of Taki, but I think it'll be a more effective character. It turns out Pete actually played a decent amount of D&D - we were way surprised when he started commenting on stuff, since apparently he had this majorly powerful rogue in his last campaign. (You have to understand. Pete's a really smart, really cool nice sort of guy, but he seems like such a "cool" type of person that sometimes it really surprises me to find out he's into all of this geeky stuff, like gaming, anime (well, that's more mainstream now I guess), etc. I like it when people defy stereotypes though, obviously.) Actually, almost everyone in the lounge at that point was D&D geeking, since Evan showed up for a few minutes and Brian R was around too... wacky.
So, eventually we reconvened, and started setting up cosmic. Martin was told to go find us some more players if he was going to duck out and do homework, since 5 is our ideal number for Cosmic. I said, "Hmm... how about I call Kevin?" and got out my cell phone and had typed in "SHIUE" and was ready to dial his number.
Then the lounge phone rang.
Carl ran up to get it and was like "Hi? Oh. Hi Kevin..."
It was really fucking weird. Kevin was apparently looking for his backpack.
He ended up coming to the lounge anyway to play, and got there like ten minutes later, by which point we had finished explaining the game to Martin, so he decided to play anyway, so we had six players. The game took around two hours and some players didn't actually get a second turn, even - It got to me, and I was third, and I won on my second turn. I was playing as Zombie/Reserve, which was actually a lot more powerful than I thought it would be. It worked out pretty well, especially because Kevin played pretty randomly and somewhat sabotaged a lot of the players by accident. He and Martin also gave me tons of cards - I had 29 at my highest point. Pretty ridiculous. It was still funny. I guess I didn't actually win totally on my own - Carl played a card so that actually, Dan and I won. Also pretty silly.
Kevin gave me a ride home, yay! And now I am here.
jcreed for help when I saw him this evening.) So I finally got moving around 11:40 (yeah, I know) and figured I'd grab something to eat here rather than go buy lunch near work. I ate a bologna sandwich and about halfway through it felt utterly totally nauseated, to the point I couldn't swallow the mouthful of food I was chewing and gave up on eating it. Took some pepto, drank some ginger ale, sat down for a bit more... felt ok after a few minutes and walked to work.Went to meetings, futzed with Perl, etc. felt pretty yucky for most of the afternoon. Kept going to the bathroom because I thought I might throw up. Failed to throw up. Drank lots of soda.
Left to go to Kiltie band around 5, stopping by the activities fair on the way to say hi to people. I actually only felt slightly yucky at band. Mostly I felt hungry more than anything else. Ed Latimer is now a Cadet Lt. Colonel or something in ROTC (The BAQ was something like "What is Oliver Wojtna's real name? OR What does a percussionist play when they are the only one to show up?" and so I wrote "my answer to both questions is Cadet Major Ed Latimer", and he, sitting next to me, signed underneath "Excuse me, that's Cadet Lt. Colonel Ed Latimer to you, missy!") The pieces we're playing in Kiltie this semester range from really easy to absolutely impossible. I'll set out a few challenges for myself and just try to meet those sorts of goals, I think, and not worry about playing everything perfectly. It is nice to begin each semester and realize how much I've improved in sightreading, at least.
So after band, Carl and I got indian food from ToI (yum! chicken tikka masala and kofta saag, and Carl got a dosa). We went to the CS lounge and bunches of people were there. I got to play Manhattan again, with
dvarin, combinator, and jcreed. It was fun! Carl and I were both trying out Django's strategy, and it worked - Carl won, and I didn't do anywhere near as badly as I did last time. I think it is a neat game. If I teach enough people to play it, it'll even be a nice fast game. Really. Martin likes it too, so hopefully it'll propogate in the lounge.Dan showed up somewhere in the interim and we mostly sat around D&D munchkinning for a while, since we'd decided to play Cosmic Encounter, but John wanted to get food first, as did Martin and Pete and such. I think my character will actually end up being one level ranger (for the fighting abilities), many levels rogue, and will use the OA ninja class... or something. I'm sacrificing my character concept of Taki, but I think it'll be a more effective character. It turns out Pete actually played a decent amount of D&D - we were way surprised when he started commenting on stuff, since apparently he had this majorly powerful rogue in his last campaign. (You have to understand. Pete's a really smart, really cool nice sort of guy, but he seems like such a "cool" type of person that sometimes it really surprises me to find out he's into all of this geeky stuff, like gaming, anime (well, that's more mainstream now I guess), etc. I like it when people defy stereotypes though, obviously.) Actually, almost everyone in the lounge at that point was D&D geeking, since Evan showed up for a few minutes and Brian R was around too... wacky.
So, eventually we reconvened, and started setting up cosmic. Martin was told to go find us some more players if he was going to duck out and do homework, since 5 is our ideal number for Cosmic. I said, "Hmm... how about I call Kevin?" and got out my cell phone and had typed in "SHIUE" and was ready to dial his number.
Then the lounge phone rang.
Carl ran up to get it and was like "Hi? Oh. Hi Kevin..."
It was really fucking weird. Kevin was apparently looking for his backpack.
He ended up coming to the lounge anyway to play, and got there like ten minutes later, by which point we had finished explaining the game to Martin, so he decided to play anyway, so we had six players. The game took around two hours and some players didn't actually get a second turn, even - It got to me, and I was third, and I won on my second turn. I was playing as Zombie/Reserve, which was actually a lot more powerful than I thought it would be. It worked out pretty well, especially because Kevin played pretty randomly and somewhat sabotaged a lot of the players by accident. He and Martin also gave me tons of cards - I had 29 at my highest point. Pretty ridiculous. It was still funny. I guess I didn't actually win totally on my own - Carl played a card so that actually, Dan and I won. Also pretty silly.
Kevin gave me a ride home, yay! And now I am here.
