Well... Fuck.
Well I'm finally getting the hang of teaching my class. No long term harm should be done by my early learning curve. So things are looking up in that area. But I may have alienated one of my few friends here tonight. Not that what I finally got her to understand didn't need to be understood... but I wasn't exactly at my best when I did it.
Its the same tale as always. You know how Chung gets when he plays games? Now imagine that 10x worse and all focused on me. Yeah, that's about what she was doing. And it was NOT fun and was REALLY getting under my skin. And she was doing it outside of games here and making my life miserable. I'd been trying to respond in kind the way I do with Chung and take it, shrug it off. But she's way too over the top and way too constant and I see way too much of her for that to work. That and she gets backup from some of the other staff from time to time (the general atmosphere here is rather like a big LAN party, fun for a night, but not for all summer).
So tonight I was losing bad (bloodseeker against veno in her hands and death prophet in my brother's, with uneven teams since the campers filling out the remaining slots had been playing for all of a week) and she was rubbing it in like there was no tomorrow. I finally exploded. I exploded mid game and kept simmering until afterwards she finally headed back to the dorms, a little more demure... I think she was trying to be angry with me but at the same time could see that I was rather clearly in the right. And I was too pissed to back off. So now I'm rather afraid that I've gotten her rather seriously upset and pissed at me. On the one hand the abuse she dealt out wasn't fun, but when she wasn't dealing out abuse she was a good friend. Just like Chung. And was the only real good friend I have here to talk to.
Then again, in this case, quiet with my computer might be nice... once I HAVE my computer. Bugger.
Its the same tale as always. You know how Chung gets when he plays games? Now imagine that 10x worse and all focused on me. Yeah, that's about what she was doing. And it was NOT fun and was REALLY getting under my skin. And she was doing it outside of games here and making my life miserable. I'd been trying to respond in kind the way I do with Chung and take it, shrug it off. But she's way too over the top and way too constant and I see way too much of her for that to work. That and she gets backup from some of the other staff from time to time (the general atmosphere here is rather like a big LAN party, fun for a night, but not for all summer).
So tonight I was losing bad (bloodseeker against veno in her hands and death prophet in my brother's, with uneven teams since the campers filling out the remaining slots had been playing for all of a week) and she was rubbing it in like there was no tomorrow. I finally exploded. I exploded mid game and kept simmering until afterwards she finally headed back to the dorms, a little more demure... I think she was trying to be angry with me but at the same time could see that I was rather clearly in the right. And I was too pissed to back off. So now I'm rather afraid that I've gotten her rather seriously upset and pissed at me. On the one hand the abuse she dealt out wasn't fun, but when she wasn't dealing out abuse she was a good friend. Just like Chung. And was the only real good friend I have here to talk to.
Then again, in this case, quiet with my computer might be nice... once I HAVE my computer. Bugger.