I haven’t updated in a while. That’s because I’ve been trying to spend my weekend doing work and play in an efficient manner. I’ve succeeded moderately. I read some philosophy, but I still have much to read, and I have nearly finished my chem lab write up. I would have liked to do more, but the play I’ve been doing has been pretty good.
Yesterday I went to an orchestra concert w/ 8, Dim and Keston. At the concert we decided that we would start a new D&D campaign, one in which Keston DM’s, because he was bored with the old one he was DMing. So we went home and made characters. We decided after about 2 hours of descussion to roll stats the old fashioned way and not do point buy or the like. As a consequence we have some neat characters and some neat quirks for roll playing. It forced Dimitri to play a fighter type, which is cool since he doesn’t play that often. I am a high charisma party leader type, which is not me normally either. So we’ll see how things work out. The campaign is set in Eberron for anyone who knows/cares. The players thus far are me, 8, Dim, John, and Ody. Mike left for the weekend so he knows not of this stuff.
Yesterday after food and some work I went to see a free showing of “Meet the Fockers” w/ 8, Keston, Dimitri, and Ody. It was fairly entertaining. Then we played our new campaign. The first session was nearlly all role playing, with only one combat roll (in which dimitri’s character one hit killed our enemy). It went fairly well I think.
Today I skipped brunch because there is going to be a hall BBQ soon. Hopefully the food can substitute for Dillian… otherwise that’s just sad. I will finish the final touches on my lab write up… and read some more philosophy, maybe some micro… who knows. Maybe we’ll even play some more D&D, although it’s always less likely on Sunday for some reason. 😛
Oh yeah, and with regards to my interview… I dunno. The interview itself was odd in that he didn’t really ask me any questions. He mostly just talked… I tried to interject some things that would make me look good, although I’m not well versed at such things… so I dunno how successful I was. He told me that currently they can only take 15 people and that they have 21 applicants. Apparently they are supposed to pick 15 for sures, and then rank the other 6 on a waiting list. They are going to try to convince the people with the money to bump up the class size to 18 at least, and they’re fairly confident they can do that. I heard from Kait who heard from another girl signed up for the trip that they only asked for interviews from 18 people. So if that’s true the worst I can be is 3rd on the waiting list if they don’t increase the class size. *shrug* I don’t feel as confident about getting to go as I did before the interview. Not anything I can do about it now though, so I’m not going to bother worrying. Going to my other choices would be fine, too. I probably won’t know anything very conclusively until the first week of April he said.
On Securacon, it’s currently looking like we won’t go at all. Apparently Tristan, our esteemed leader, failed to secure any funds and neglected to tell us. Phillup, who was going to be our place to stay, decided not to go and neglected to tell us. So currently we are w/o money or a place to stay… we have another idea for how to get some money besides asking the school… but the setbacks are kinda big. *shrug* I’m sure we could overcome if we really tried… we’ll see if we really try.
Ok, if you’ve read that I think you know everything that I would tell you if I was talking to you in person for a long, long period of time. Oh, except that Pat’s on spring break the week before me, and is therefore stupid. I’d say that too. 😛