at least writing, if not for a paper

chadu has his own company now, Atomic Sock Monkey Press. He's just published his first game. You can read all about it here. (The game is called Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot Deluxe, and is five bucks for the PDF; there's also a free version.)

I can think of few things I want to do less than write my paper(s) right now, so I'll kill time with LJ instead.

On Thursday I skipped my first class after hearing that my second was cancelled, and then skipped my third (betting that it, too, would be cancelled, as there was a message from the professor on the message-board for a different class that she teaches saying that she wouldn't be in for her office hours) and wandered around the duckpond with K. (Got my feet wet, too. Wet socks suck.) Attempted to go to my fourth class, only to find that the professor hadn't bothered to show up. I then found out on Friday that the professor for my first class hadn't showed up either. And they say classes weren't cancelled.

Wow. The last real post I made was about not being in quite such a bad mood. *shrug* I dunno. It comes and goes.

Went in to work Friday morning as well as Friday night, since no one else could get there. I said "Sure, I can get there" and hung up before realising that, duh, i can't get there either, my %&$ car is in the shop. Luckily Patrick was able to give me a ride in. Worked eight or nine hours, with a couple-hour break in the middle. Yay fun. Came home, crashed, went to Game Day. That went pretty well. Got to play Adel again, and once more came in third (of five). It's a good game. Went and played Changeling at the Shadowlake common house again. Game continues to go pretty well; not necessarily as smoothly as I'd like, but that's okay. I finally got the write-up out that I'd been promising my players, too.

I failed to get into the music appreciation class. Maybe I can force-add it later. *shrug*

I'm getting all "whatever" about things. This is probably not a good sign. This much apathy is generally accompanied by a severe lack of motivation. Eh, whatever. Sleep, now.

Bad news day

"Rings" director wants to film "Hobbit": "Arwen, the elf princess played by Liv Tyler, could also feature again, Jackson said."

Cindy Van Antwerp, a friend of my family for almost twenty years (given the amount of moving we've done that says a lot) and mother of four of my baby sister's close friends, was diagnosed with cancer in late summer. At this point she's apparently so weak that chemotherapy simply isn't helping. She'll be coming home later this week.

"I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live; and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die." That always bring to mind the scene in Disney's Three Musketeers, with the four of them plus Milady atop a hill, and Aramis reading from the Bible. It's a grey morning, and none of them really want to be there. . .
It's been years since I really believed those words. They give comfort to the rest of my family, while I turn to Dylan Thomas's colder method of coping.

( And death shall have no dominion )