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Today was a relatively good day. Didn't go as well as it could have, but I guess my tombstone will read "For one who dreaded roller coasters, his was an up and down life, with many loops and sudden dips." :), creative even when bummed.
...I'm not really bummed, just a temporary thing. And to avoid making this an emo journal post, I do actually have good stuff to talk about, its just sometimes stuff happens and I feel compelled to bitch about it :).
Played some Magic today, drafted a http://cgi.ebay.com/MTG-Altered-Art-nicol-bolas-PlainsWalker_W0QQitemZ170299830119QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item170299830119&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50, but not nearly as cool as this :). The set's rather wacky, and reminds me a little of Fifth Dawn, without the affinity brokeness. Would have done better had things gone a little differently, but I guess that's the same thing anyone would say when playing Magic.
My box of WoW minis arrived today :), which reminds me to go leave feedback for that when I finish this. I'm now only 20 shy of having one of everything in the base set. This is mostly an accident, mind you, I don't necessarily have any intention of having the whole set. It might incidentally happen if the local tourney scene grows and they actually start to support the game a little better. I certainly wouldn't complain about that at all. As it stands, I don't want to let myself get addicted to either game. It's just good to have a hobby that forces me to get out of the house and talk to total strangers at least once or twice a week.
Speaking of strangers, I feel like one around my friends sometimes :p. And I'll tell ya now, I'll probably sit here for the next two hours re-writing this one paragraph. I don't get to reply as much as I used to, but I still read over everything, often to the tune of 250+ journals from a week or so back. There's just that many of you XD. I know enough about each of you to want to keep you around, and enough that I can usually strike up a short conversation at a convention. But am I too quiet, or do people hear enough that they'd rather really not get to know me for who I actually am? I think a lot of factors add into it, and I'm sure the constant paranoia of people not wanting to be around me or associate with me doesn't help.
I really would like it if someone would ask me how I was doing every now and then. Its nice being the group's pep squad, but sometimes even the cheer leaders need hugs :p.
Its rare that I put someone into a 'blocked' list of sorts, but it happened in record time this past week. Met him less than a week ago and I've already come to the conclusion that he's not really someone I want to hang out with. The problem is, he's friends with my friends, and my roomies XD. Another one of the people Feral hangs out with is quickly getting on their nerves too, but I don't see them saying they can't come over anymore happening anytime soon. I understand wanting to have friends over and stuff, but not several times a week :p. Yeah, maybe I'm energy conscious, but I'm also a little concerned when everyone hides and I don't exactly get to socialize...but I get to help pay for it :p.
Work's been going rather well, but its also a lot busyer than it has been in past weeks. I think its a mix of it being a new year, with a lot of people resolving to do more work, and partly because of all the changes that's going through with the company. From the clients parent company having a colossal paradigm shift to the way reps can monitor the business. Just makes me enjoy the days where I'll get maybe 50 calls in the course of the shift as opposed to what seems to be going on lately XD. But just incase, I've got a few educational and self training books at the cubical should it slow down sufficiently that I could read more than half a page or so before the next call comes in.
On the subject of work, sometime between now and April they're supposed to query us about what of a list of possible shifts we'd rather be working. I'm honestly not sure whether I'd want to keep the shift I currently have or opt for something different. I don't want an early day shift...that's just not me. I'd like to avoid a M-F straight shift... So if I took anything else, I'd probably be making me going to conventions a lot less likely. As my schedule stands now, I take Saturday off...poof...four day weekend :). I don't get a lot of time off as it is, so I have to be careful with what I'm doing, and not take sick days. I'll just have to wait and see what's being offered, I guess.
Its starting to get late, and as much as I've got stuff to get off of my chest, I know that its probably best I keep quiet and just let it slide like usual.
Take care, be safe, and happy singles awareness day whenever that rolls around if I don't push myself to post again before then :).
...I'm not really bummed, just a temporary thing. And to avoid making this an emo journal post, I do actually have good stuff to talk about, its just sometimes stuff happens and I feel compelled to bitch about it :).
Played some Magic today, drafted a http://cgi.ebay.com/MTG-Altered-Art-nicol-bolas-PlainsWalker_W0QQitemZ170299830119QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item170299830119&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50, but not nearly as cool as this :). The set's rather wacky, and reminds me a little of Fifth Dawn, without the affinity brokeness. Would have done better had things gone a little differently, but I guess that's the same thing anyone would say when playing Magic.
My box of WoW minis arrived today :), which reminds me to go leave feedback for that when I finish this. I'm now only 20 shy of having one of everything in the base set. This is mostly an accident, mind you, I don't necessarily have any intention of having the whole set. It might incidentally happen if the local tourney scene grows and they actually start to support the game a little better. I certainly wouldn't complain about that at all. As it stands, I don't want to let myself get addicted to either game. It's just good to have a hobby that forces me to get out of the house and talk to total strangers at least once or twice a week.
Speaking of strangers, I feel like one around my friends sometimes :p. And I'll tell ya now, I'll probably sit here for the next two hours re-writing this one paragraph. I don't get to reply as much as I used to, but I still read over everything, often to the tune of 250+ journals from a week or so back. There's just that many of you XD. I know enough about each of you to want to keep you around, and enough that I can usually strike up a short conversation at a convention. But am I too quiet, or do people hear enough that they'd rather really not get to know me for who I actually am? I think a lot of factors add into it, and I'm sure the constant paranoia of people not wanting to be around me or associate with me doesn't help.
I really would like it if someone would ask me how I was doing every now and then. Its nice being the group's pep squad, but sometimes even the cheer leaders need hugs :p.
Its rare that I put someone into a 'blocked' list of sorts, but it happened in record time this past week. Met him less than a week ago and I've already come to the conclusion that he's not really someone I want to hang out with. The problem is, he's friends with my friends, and my roomies XD. Another one of the people Feral hangs out with is quickly getting on their nerves too, but I don't see them saying they can't come over anymore happening anytime soon. I understand wanting to have friends over and stuff, but not several times a week :p. Yeah, maybe I'm energy conscious, but I'm also a little concerned when everyone hides and I don't exactly get to socialize...but I get to help pay for it :p.
Work's been going rather well, but its also a lot busyer than it has been in past weeks. I think its a mix of it being a new year, with a lot of people resolving to do more work, and partly because of all the changes that's going through with the company. From the clients parent company having a colossal paradigm shift to the way reps can monitor the business. Just makes me enjoy the days where I'll get maybe 50 calls in the course of the shift as opposed to what seems to be going on lately XD. But just incase, I've got a few educational and self training books at the cubical should it slow down sufficiently that I could read more than half a page or so before the next call comes in.
On the subject of work, sometime between now and April they're supposed to query us about what of a list of possible shifts we'd rather be working. I'm honestly not sure whether I'd want to keep the shift I currently have or opt for something different. I don't want an early day shift...that's just not me. I'd like to avoid a M-F straight shift... So if I took anything else, I'd probably be making me going to conventions a lot less likely. As my schedule stands now, I take Saturday off...poof...four day weekend :). I don't get a lot of time off as it is, so I have to be careful with what I'm doing, and not take sick days. I'll just have to wait and see what's being offered, I guess.
Its starting to get late, and as much as I've got stuff to get off of my chest, I know that its probably best I keep quiet and just let it slide like usual.
Take care, be safe, and happy singles awareness day whenever that rolls around if I don't push myself to post again before then :).