July 30, 2001
Sleepers, Awake!
I know, another sudden flurry of activity here! I finally updated the notify list page, so you can actually sign up there again. I also finally got around to replacing BlogVoices on the blog, so you can talk back to me there again. I've even been considering overhauling a few other things around here. Nothing like a journal redesign or anything -- I'm still pretty happy with this design. A few other sections of my site are hopelessly out of date, including one redesign that I never finished. My interests have always tended to run in cycles, but I think this is the longest I've gone neglecting my website!
So what have I been up to? Well, work's been one enormous data entry project for about the past month -- which is the biggest reason I haven't been writing entries at work. I'm also getting geared up to transfer out of here come September. I forget how much I wrote here (and I'm too lazy to go back and look), but I did get the job in technical support. I think my supervisor is a little traumatized by my leaving. Ha! So I'm gradually transferring some of my responsibilites on to other people. I don't think things are going to be pretty after I leave. See, there are about three competent people in my department. Out of six. Two of us are leaving or contemplating leaving. Not pretty. Not pretty at all.
So far the biggest, well only, downside of this transfer is that my school schedule is knocked for a loop. I'm going to have to rearrange my schedule for fall and only take night classes, since I'll be training during the day. In addition, I had to withdraw from classes for summer term (more on that last entry), so I've gotten a bit of an unexpected break from school. It was going very well, though. I expect it will start going well again in September.
I've also been roleplaying again (don't all my periods of extended silence have something to do with that?). This time I'm not exactly playing on a MUSH, but rather playing table-top style on a MUSH. We ('we' being me, Brand, Josh, and Laura, with Mo hopefully joining at some point) started playing 7th Sea last week. Right now Josh is running it, but after he finishes this story, someone else will take over. I love it! 7th Sea is a great, over-the-top, swashbuckling game -- and y'all know how much I love over-the-top. My melodrama is right at home in this game. Isabel, my character, is a bit of a twist on the gorgeous femme fatale type I so often end up playing. (Yeah, I know. I've long since given up psychoanalyzing the type of characters I'm drawn to playing.) Josh and Laura put up a fantastic site dedicated to our game. In addition to character info, it also has logs of each game session, which I think make for some pretty darn good reading. ;) (I find them entertaining, at least.)
Other than that, I've been reading a lot, spending too much time playing The Sims, and generally avoiding writing -- which isn't a good thing, I know. My brain feels all lazy. It doesn't want to do the hard work that comes with assimilating plot and character and story and fitting them all together. Feh.
Posted by Lisa at July 30, 2001 02:19 PM
