There's too much confusion
Life - There must be some way out of here: Last night pretty much solidified the fact that I have to get out of this apartment building as soon as the lease is up, if not sooner. It's a good area, yes, but the problem is the building itself and the neighbors. Or rather, the two in tandem. Because sound travels through everything in this apartment. When my next-door neighbor starts the shower, I can hear the water pounding in the tub as if a monsoon were starting outside. Every time their little daughter cries, it echoes through my apartment as well. I can hear my upstairs neighbor doing a morning workout routine and playing ... I believe it's house-style electronica. And the elevator is miserable. I got stuck in it two weeks ago, and every so often, it makes this awful, loud, and entire-apartment-vibrating grinding noise that makes me feel really, really uncomfortable about ever using it.
Last night, however, my downstairs neighbor was playing music obnoxiously loudly until 4:30am. I did the good ol' foot stomp on the floor at about 3, and that got them to turn down the music. Temporarily. Less than half an hour later, it was back at full volume. Tried to sleep with my iPod in my ears but the sound was coming up through the ventilation too. Not to mention, the bass was still vibrating my apartment. Went downstairs to bitch them out (it's Sunday, I can say swear words) and here's the funny part: when I got back to my room to try to sleep, the first thing they did was turn the fucking volume up for a little while longer and then turned it off.
Die in a fire.
RP - The pains of being really, really selective: Spent a lot of last night (after the land use law studying and the resume-remaking) looking for an RP to join via LiveJournal or InsaneJournal. I'm already signed up for one on IJ based on the A Song of Ice and Fire universe, but ... it's currently really, really slow going as the OOC asylum hasn't been active in the last few days and the IC asylum has a couple open threads in which no one is participating. Oh, and I keep getting an error when trying to join the IC and OOC because IJ sucks, even though my application was accepted.
And so. I try to find another RP to join. But I'm pretty much only really comfortable RPing original characters in non-fandom universes, or just sticking to universes I'm actually very well-versed in (Buffyverse, BSG, A:TLA, or Mass Effect, at this point). And then, while I was searching through comms, that part of my brain going, "YOU'RE GOING TO DROP THE RP WITHIN A MONTH BECAUSE OF TIME CONFLICTS ANYWAY" kept going off.
Ugh. I don't have time for fun. Or I get disinterested after a while. I've found that if I just front-load an experience and immerse myself in it way too much at first, then yeah, the charm wears off and I drop it pretty fast afterward. That's been my problem with several of the RPs I've been part of in the past-start off so well, so excited, and post all the time, and then get tired of it. But it's hard to get an experience that you can take on your own time and at your own pace. My most recent D&D campaign lasted about a year with sporadic sessions, yes, and that was one of the most fulfilling RP experiences I've ever had (especially being the DM and having to play so many different characters).
Does anyone have a recommendation for an RP not requiring that you HAVE TO POST EVERY FREAKING WEEK? I'm cool with a two-week activity check.
Last night, however, my downstairs neighbor was playing music obnoxiously loudly until 4:30am. I did the good ol' foot stomp on the floor at about 3, and that got them to turn down the music. Temporarily. Less than half an hour later, it was back at full volume. Tried to sleep with my iPod in my ears but the sound was coming up through the ventilation too. Not to mention, the bass was still vibrating my apartment. Went downstairs to bitch them out (it's Sunday, I can say swear words) and here's the funny part: when I got back to my room to try to sleep, the first thing they did was turn the fucking volume up for a little while longer and then turned it off.
Die in a fire.
RP - The pains of being really, really selective: Spent a lot of last night (after the land use law studying and the resume-remaking) looking for an RP to join via LiveJournal or InsaneJournal. I'm already signed up for one on IJ based on the A Song of Ice and Fire universe, but ... it's currently really, really slow going as the OOC asylum hasn't been active in the last few days and the IC asylum has a couple open threads in which no one is participating. Oh, and I keep getting an error when trying to join the IC and OOC because IJ sucks, even though my application was accepted.
And so. I try to find another RP to join. But I'm pretty much only really comfortable RPing original characters in non-fandom universes, or just sticking to universes I'm actually very well-versed in (Buffyverse, BSG, A:TLA, or Mass Effect, at this point). And then, while I was searching through comms, that part of my brain going, "YOU'RE GOING TO DROP THE RP WITHIN A MONTH BECAUSE OF TIME CONFLICTS ANYWAY" kept going off.
Ugh. I don't have time for fun. Or I get disinterested after a while. I've found that if I just front-load an experience and immerse myself in it way too much at first, then yeah, the charm wears off and I drop it pretty fast afterward. That's been my problem with several of the RPs I've been part of in the past-start off so well, so excited, and post all the time, and then get tired of it. But it's hard to get an experience that you can take on your own time and at your own pace. My most recent D&D campaign lasted about a year with sporadic sessions, yes, and that was one of the most fulfilling RP experiences I've ever had (especially being the DM and having to play so many different characters).
Does anyone have a recommendation for an RP not requiring that you HAVE TO POST EVERY FREAKING WEEK? I'm cool with a two-week activity check.