So...
Pretty much my entire immediate family is in Chicago. I am left with a nice quiet and empty house containing myself, two dogs and a cat.
I've mixed feelings on the situation. One part of me really enjoys all the quiet and the ability to do what I want when I want and be more productive than I have been in the past weeks. I've already started getting more done, thankfully, and I hope to finish up a number of projects that have been sitting around for too long.
One part of me really doesn't like big empty houses. Some of it is the idea that a house should be a controlled environment, safe and kept under watch.. one person living alone in a mansion has excess space and no practical means to survey and guard it. The dogs help a lot with this, being quite practical as guard animals. The rest of it is that a house is a space that should be lived in, and when it is empty, the silence gives it an eerie life of its own. These are the foundations of ghost stories and haunted house movies. I've never really enjoyed my time purely alone in large spaces, it's always better to have about one other person there.
If I really wanted to freak myself out, I'd rent a copy of Fatal Frame and play it over next weekend. But I would like to be able to sleep, really.
In other news, the annual Christmas party at Ian's was as fun as ever, and I'm glad I got to stay for a while this year, even I made it a bit late and probably kept him up a bit. Always nice to see old friends and have someone to game with. I need to get a copy of that DS cart with the variety pack of games and the color pictochat, preferably before Magfest. KLAMS!
I've mixed feelings on the situation. One part of me really enjoys all the quiet and the ability to do what I want when I want and be more productive than I have been in the past weeks. I've already started getting more done, thankfully, and I hope to finish up a number of projects that have been sitting around for too long.
One part of me really doesn't like big empty houses. Some of it is the idea that a house should be a controlled environment, safe and kept under watch.. one person living alone in a mansion has excess space and no practical means to survey and guard it. The dogs help a lot with this, being quite practical as guard animals. The rest of it is that a house is a space that should be lived in, and when it is empty, the silence gives it an eerie life of its own. These are the foundations of ghost stories and haunted house movies. I've never really enjoyed my time purely alone in large spaces, it's always better to have about one other person there.
If I really wanted to freak myself out, I'd rent a copy of Fatal Frame and play it over next weekend. But I would like to be able to sleep, really.
In other news, the annual Christmas party at Ian's was as fun as ever, and I'm glad I got to stay for a while this year, even I made it a bit late and probably kept him up a bit. Always nice to see old friends and have someone to game with. I need to get a copy of that DS cart with the variety pack of games and the color pictochat, preferably before Magfest. KLAMS!