High Gear

[jmfargo]

I'm having some problems with focus today. Work is slow, and there's lots to do around the house, plus I should be getting ready for our day trip out to the Baltimore Aquarium tomorrow, but I can't seem to get in gear.

That reminds me, any of you from Baltimore?

I've spent the last half hour to an hour doing a record or two here and there, reading Live Journal, checking stats for my other three blogs, looking at my igoogle feed reader to see if anything new popped up, and doing it all over again.

Man, I'm not in the right state of mind for all that I should be doing.

So, to do list, I suppose.

Dishes

Find green ATM cards

Office cleanup

D&D Prep

While that last one may not seem like something uber productive, it is helpful. I'm trying to be more social, and while my attempts to locate the local LARP crowd has distinctly failed, I now have a D&D game I'll be joining next Thursday, and one that I'll be starting on my own on Wednesday nights at the local gaming shop. I don't know why, but I'm mostly looking forward to running my own, rather than playing in a game someone else is running, but that might be nerves just because I don't know the guy running the game, his style, if I even will get along with the people there, etc.

But the other three things on the list? Those I should do first, probably. You know, because they really ARE productive.

Every ounce of my being (which is roughly a LOT of ounces) wants me to finish typing this and then start checking my friends list for updates. Some ephemeral part, off in the distance, is pulling me to do dishes.

Guess I gotta give it to the ephemeral, because it's a cool word.

Comments

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

Have you checked Shade's List (http://larplist.com) for local LARP?

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

In fact, a search for Delaware (http://www.larplist.com/searchlist.php?search=Delaware) returns two MET LARPs in your hometown. They're both for Vampire: Requiem, but hey.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

*nods* I know of them. One of them is a part of the Cam, which means you actually have to pay to play a Requiem game, so...forget that.

The other one is very shady. You can't find out where they play until you actually decide to play, and then they pick you up at the local gaming shop instead of giving you an address. They play at one of the player's houses.

Just...too weird...too much room for something to go desperately wrong.

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is creepy.

[jfargo.livejournal.com]

It's one of the big reasons I'm trying to push for some kind of gaming club at the University. That way, there's somewhere centralized, and local, with lots of possible word-of-mouth advertisements for different games.

I hate going to someone's house if I've never met them, let along going through all that that I mentioned above.

I'm sacrificing for D&D though, as I'm going to some guy's house. I'll at least have my own car, and I've talked with him via email, so he seems okay.

[fax-celestis.livejournal.com]

You could try talking to the theater department and see about having them sponsor some sort of LARP event.