Author: Gene

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neato.

DDR (Dance Dance Revolution) is fun. Jamie (guild guy) got here. We ate fish. sleep.

So now I try to post for all those days I didn’t. 😛

I’ve been busy. I had a bunch of classes to go to for one thing. And I spend a lot of time cooking, shopping, and cleaning now that I’m off the meal plan. I also was organizing the first LRPC meeting, switching physics classes (so that I’m in the physics major class, even though I’m not a physics major) and figuring out my independent research project. Not very much time to let you all know what’s going on. I don’t remember all the interesting things I was going to post, so now you’ll just get a long string of boring. 😛

Hmm… I dun remember how far back to go. Whatever. My parents came yesterday with a carload of stuff for me. So now I have a printer, and clothes, and a mountain of food, and a lamp, and a chair and various other things. Like all my video games. /grin We ate Thai w/ 8 and such. Dad’s getting sick apparently.

The first LRPC meeting was pretty successful I think. We had the crowd of friends I’m always hanging out with, plus around 14 freshman. After the introductions and little announcements Dimitri and I ran an intro D&D course for 8 or so learners. Bunch of other people played Magic. I think most of them will come back. Good good. Dimitri and I are supposed to continue our teachings, but I left it up to him to set it up, and he’s done nothing even though we have a three day weekend and less homework than we’ll have the rest of the year. I dunno what his deal is. 😛 Probably getting drunk w/ his new roomies all the time.

I’ve got some reading to do, so I guess I’ll do that. I’ve been keeping up pretty well though. Things are going to start picking up soon though. 😛 Not exactly looking forward to that. My classes seem like they’ll be pretty cool though.

That’s another thing we did when my parents were here yesterday, bought me a yoga shirt. I needed something that wasn’t 9 sizes too big for me, like I normally wear, so that when I’m standing on my head and such my shirt won’t fall down over my head and be annoying. We found these spandex shirt things, and 8 made me try one on. Man they’re gay. I’m not one to use that as a general negative like some, but specifically, spandex shirts look as though they are designed for homosexuals. You could see my nipples. We found a different more normal shirt that should work. 8 liked the spandex though. 😛

Today 8’s friend from high school is supposed to visit, but she’s already 2 hours late so who knows. Also, my guild mate might come down. He’s in Portland apparently hanging with a third separate guild mate. For those of you who don’t know, I’m in an online guild. The guild is for MMORPG’s mostly. We play together in those and we have a website with forums and stuff so we can talk out of game and such. I’ve been pretty active for around 3 years, and technically in it for like 6. The guild has been around since the good old UO days. So this Canadian guildy might show up sometime, kinda looking unlikely though.

I also made juice. 8 has this juicer thing, so I made carrot apple ginger juice. It tastes like goodness. Juiced 2 pounds of carrots, 9 apples, and about 2 cubic inches of ginger if you want the recipe. Makes a pitcher.

Ok, I’m going to do my physics and physiology reading.

this is eight. i’m updating. soon, i will have no time since i will be writing a short novel at all times. it has to be 72-120 pages long, though it can be longer. i have no ideas on what to write but i’m thinking dysfunctional family story. i’m at gene’s apartment which is hot and full of nerds for no apparent reason. i want to go back to my place and take a shower and clean the juicer and sleep until it’s dark outside. it is really hot here. i think i have reading for existentialism which is tomorrow… i was supposed to read the glass menagerie but i couldn’t find a copy of it so i am going to read the cliff notes. that’s for play directing.. which is a short class in which i have to be around a lot of people who want to be in the spotlight. i am comparatively very quiet and shy. gene is reading the Hero book.. some old p&p rpg. we’re the presidents of nerd club so we have this big box of nerdy books. gene said the box was covered in cookie crumbs and condoms when he found it.

weird. yeah.

i’m going to leave gene’s ridiculous hot apartment now.

-kait

There’s a woman in my comp sci that looks like the woman who ran Tommy the Train Engine’s train station or whatever that show was called. The one with the tiny Beatle. She was in Grease too.

I’m on the 5Questions again, and this time he didn’t put everyone in. I beat some people out. 😛

Shoes kinda suck. If you can get a job where you can go around barefoot all day then score! I would know, cause I was basically shoeless all summer, but now I have to wear shoes again due to PAX and school and such. Taking them off and putting them on is the worst, but I hate wearing them, so I have to take them off all the time, and I need them to go to class and outside and whatnot, so I have to put them on again. Totally lame. Even though my Converses are getting better with age.

Ok. Let’s see. 8 showed up, people were here, the left, we slept, that’s was good.

Next day we got on the road at about 9ish. I had a smoothie before we left. We got gas and then went the wrong way on the freeway for a second, and then went the right way, and barely made a couple exits, and then we took a wrong one, but got back on the right way. And then we deviated from the instructions and went towards Yakima. We would have bypassed it, but it was good we went there anyway cause 8 had to use the bathroom and we got tacos. Then we managed to get back on the freeway despite the accident that happened right before we left the restaurant in the intersection we were going to use. We cut through a parking lot. Excitement. Then we made it to Seattle like we were supposed to, but we had to do a lot of spiraling around and such to find the PAX place. We managed though and still go there early to stand in the hugantic line. Once it started moving though it went quick because everyone in our line had passes already. Then we were in PAX, a wonderful fairy-land of and for nerds and geeks. Free DDR and pinball, Xboxs and Gamecubes everywhere, two huge rooms dedicated to tabletop gaming, and a theater with 1,400 capacity to show Gamers and other such nerdy films. So we did the whole run around PAX thing. We saw the Penny Arcade guys talking about such, and then we saw a pianist play Nintendo music. It was awesome, he through in 1ups and coins and such. Blindfolded one song. Then he did the whole “you only have 99 time units left” and played faster. It was awesome. There was some rap and other stuff but we couldn’t understand it very well.

We went to Denny’s and had breakfast at around 2:30 AM. Then we got really lost trying to get to Phil’s house because the people we were following kinda drove way faster than Ody’s car could go. Eventually we met them back at Denny’s though and the second time it worked. So then we got to Phil’s and all seven of us slept in his basement, even though he wasn’t there. His parents are cool like that I guess.

Next morning we woke up, and since the drivers didn’t feel like going back to PAX as early as all that, we slept in some. Thus Kait, Dimitri, Keston, and I missed our D&D fighter duel tourney, which was pretty ok since we didn’t have our characters made, and a character made in 1 hour would be pretty crappy anyway. We went to this breakfast place and I ate half the peoples fruit. PAX was the same. There was more D&D played this time… Dim ran an adventure. There was an Expo room where they were showing demo’s of D&D Online, Kait won a beta account, so come 9-15 expect some talk of that. 😛 Oh, and the Bawl’s. Haven’t mentioned that. People were drinking it by the case load, I didn’t have any except 50 of the free mints they were giving out. Caffeinated and carbonated goodness. This night we saw MC Chris and MC Frontalot. They are teh cool. Chris practically did a stand up routine between his songs, he’s a funny guy. Got everyone doing the black panther thing screaming “Nerd Power!” Fun. Ody did DDR for about 12 hours. Lost like 12 pounds.

Denny’s again. Oreo milkshake. Phil’s much faster this time. Sleep in the basement, all good. Next morning us 4 (8, Ody, Dim, and I) didn’t go to PAX. There was a going early rebellion from the drivers again, and we had to be back to campus by 6. We got some directions from Phil’s parents and got some gas, and then got on I-5 and then found the cheap gas they talked about and filled up and I got free pop for checking my balance on my card, and then we got back on the I-5 from w/o retracing out steps and made it all the way to Linfield w/o getting lost the whole day. It was bizarre. Traffic was pretty good, except for the dead motorcyclist right outside Seattle. They were scrubbing the road… don’t ride motorcycles. Anyway, got to campus and moved in and bought food and cooked and ate and passed out.

Then it was all college stuff. Figuring out books, and classes… and the club fair. The club fair is where all the clubs from campus sit at tables and peddle their wares and try to get the e-mail addresses of the frosh’s so their club doesn’t die. Kait and I are copresidents of LRPC (Linfield Role-Playing Council). That’s the name for the senate, we put Nerd Club up on our sign and got much more attention. We got a full page of e-mails and names, we did very well. Lots of girls too… dunno what’s up with that. Hopefully we can retain some of them as active members. Have to come up with some activities and such.

Then today I went to class. I didn’t go to physics, cause I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to on account of I switched to the hard version so we don’t meet on Wednesday, so that includes the first day right? I went to computer science. He just rambled all day and told us to do our work and such. I have to fill out a little form to tell him about myself. tough. We’re going to be working on hardware for a couple of weeks, which is swell. I could maybe learn enough to build a good computer someday. I’ll try. No other classes today though. I normally would have bio lab, but I haven’t had class yet, so I’m pretty sure we don’t have lab. I’m going to go talk to my independent research advisor guy soon. He was in a faculty meeting. I also have been filling out applications for work study jobs… work… /sigh.

Ok, so that’s a huge rambling post of stuff I’ve missed telling people about since I was internetless. My apartment is internet plush currently, but 8’s in internetless still. Hopefully that situation is remedied soon. She’s going to be at work at the library today though, so maybe she’ll post a bit on this sort of stuff, and make some sense of it.

Nerd power!

“didn’t you read chobits?!” -dimitri

“what? no, i didn’t read chobits? what the hell!” -six

anyway-back at college. in my apartment with teh shaky leeched wireless. 🙂 dimitri is currently giving me a hard time about being domestic because i just made gene bento and made a cake. i.e. why are you wearing socks?

“but what if i’m staring at my crotch? what if it bothers me, kait??” -dimitri

we are now going to watch Eulogy.

i missed the internet. 🙂

Kait’s new appartment doesn’t have internet yet, and I’m always over there, so that’s why there is no contact. Hardly anyway. Don’t have time to make a real post, since I’ll need plenty to cover all the missed happenings. But we’re at school surviving, and PAX was awesome, and that’ll have to tide you over for now.

i’m here. but there are a lot of ppl here. 🙁

8 is here. We are 14. /party