July 17, 2000
"Somebody's Got a Case of the Mondays!"
Yes, yes, I'm alive. I ended up going out to Dawn and Jason's house on Saturday rather than on Sunday. As per usual, we inundated ourselves with movies. Let's see... we watched Office Space, which I'd never seen before. Dear god. I work with those people. All of them. Then I pushed The Pirate Movie on them to pay them back for making me watch things like The Waterboy. ;-) Hrm... oh yeah, Jason's little brother Adam came over about then, and we watched The Avengers, which I had also never seen before. I'm finding that general opinion of this movie was that it sucked, but I thought it was a lot of fun. Extremely British, at least to my American eyes.
The next morning we ended up stumbling across Dudley Do-Right, which was funny after we'd had a discussion about whether or not Brendan Frasier could play a geek (as in the previews for Bedazzled). I'd only ever seen him in The Mummy, so I had my doubts. Dudley got mentioned. I have to admit, it was a pretty funny movie. It's odd, there are some movies that probably suck if you watch them by yourself, but are a lot of fun if you watch them with a group. That's kind of tough as I usually end up going to movies and renting movies by myself.
Finally Alex and Heidi got there with Joshua, and Heidi took off to run errands, since she does game with us, but she doesn't play in my game. We had a great time. Or, I did at least. I think this game was the best so far of the new story I'm running. The one very very painful moment: Dawn's character Jenny has a minor allergy to animal dander. At one point, there were four satyrs around, Ed (Jason's character), and three NPCs, Kip, Rhiannon and Allegra. Satyrs being half-goat, there was much animal dander. Dawn commented that Jenny was probably off in a corner sneezing. Alex grinned maliciously and said, "No, she should be fine. She's got Allegra with her!" The groaning quickly subsided into innuendo -- after we threw things at Alex, of course. (For those who haven't seen the commercials, Allegra is also the name of an allergy medication.)
I spent most of the game (and in fact most of the afternoon) with Joshua on my lap. He's about six months old now, and has tons of personality. That and the fact that he reached for me when he saw me, well... my day was made. However, by the end of the day I had a serious case of mommy-itis. I don't do this often. I don't often look at my life and compare it to my friends here in the area, the vast majority of whom are married and either have kids or are trying to have kids. Yesterday it was hard though. Like I said in email last night, it's not so much that I'm afraid of being alone now, it's that I'm afraid I'm always going to be alone. I heard my biological clock ticking for the first time last night, and it wasn't pretty.
I'm doing mostly okay. I'm still a little down, but I'm getting better. My frame of mind is a little weird.
Posted by Lisa at July 17, 2000 12:32 PM
