Four Months Later...
Damn, do I even remember how to properly do lj-cuts? Guess I'll figure it out after I submit this. But yeah, it's been awhile. I'm been mum. There have been various reasons. I'll just catch up a month at a time via summary posts, before getting to about mid-July.
Faire ended. Which, after a brief lunch meeting with the director, for the "post-mortem" Faire discussion (I had to meet her earlier in the week, since the scheduled date and time for the rest of the production staff coincided with)... celebrated the 2 year wedding anniversary.
Went back to work, and tried to figure out what to do, since this would be the first year I wouldn't be preparing for ConGames (aka IvanCon) for the three months post-Faire.
And that's the trap of life. Sometimes, you get free time, and immediately you know how to reinvest yourself. Looking back now, I fell into what the French might refer to as ennui. Any prep for next year's Faire... well, it seemed pointless. I had someone tell me they were taking a year off, and I told them I was trying to write a show for them. I've dabbled into, and out of that project since... well, it's dependent on their return, somewhat. I don't know if I'd feel right just handing it off to the director to find people to populate the script, if it ever goes that far. That is, though, an interesting way to get writers' credit for productions, though. Still, it's a work in progress I keep coming back to, and am somewhat dissatisfied with at this point. Lines are funny, but when you can't imagine who'll be cast in them, it's a bit harder to get the dialogue out. I've seen dialogue I've written butchered by people with nil charisma before... so yeah.
Other than that, I tried to just relax for awhile. Delved into playing Madden NFL 2009. That was a good way to distract myself, I suppose, but in the end, it was repetitive, and getting so good at the game you're winning 255-0 is well... hard to keep yourself excited about. I tried getting to a point where I'd develop a whole team to consist of guys with ratings (1-100, the worst players are rated about 52) of 90 or more, but the game disc started to skip, and lock up, when my stats would get to outrageous in an individual game.
So yeah, that was that. Really, the telling personality thing for me was how I turned into a hermit. I bother people. I do. I thought it time to just go away. Get away. Step back, and let people do whatever without my comments, concerns, or judgments. A different version of "Just let go", one of the Fight Club edicts, but still, yeah. The real deal, it seemed, was to go off and figure out what it was I wanted of life ("pre-mid-life-crisis" crisis) and what I needed to do, before things passed me by. Anyone who wanted to reach me, I was there, within reason. But that was letting go, and seeing if any plates that were being spun, so to speak, would fall and shatter.
Some of the china may have been damaged. Still assessing that at the moment.
But yeah, that was April. Not a lot of news, other than 9/5 crap, but at least I didn't blog about it every day and bore the hell out of everyone. The hope that something would just pop up to get me creating, within a few weeks, though... yeah, we'll get more into that in the post about May.
Faire ended. Which, after a brief lunch meeting with the director, for the "post-mortem" Faire discussion (I had to meet her earlier in the week, since the scheduled date and time for the rest of the production staff coincided with)... celebrated the 2 year wedding anniversary.
Went back to work, and tried to figure out what to do, since this would be the first year I wouldn't be preparing for ConGames (aka IvanCon) for the three months post-Faire.
And that's the trap of life. Sometimes, you get free time, and immediately you know how to reinvest yourself. Looking back now, I fell into what the French might refer to as ennui. Any prep for next year's Faire... well, it seemed pointless. I had someone tell me they were taking a year off, and I told them I was trying to write a show for them. I've dabbled into, and out of that project since... well, it's dependent on their return, somewhat. I don't know if I'd feel right just handing it off to the director to find people to populate the script, if it ever goes that far. That is, though, an interesting way to get writers' credit for productions, though. Still, it's a work in progress I keep coming back to, and am somewhat dissatisfied with at this point. Lines are funny, but when you can't imagine who'll be cast in them, it's a bit harder to get the dialogue out. I've seen dialogue I've written butchered by people with nil charisma before... so yeah.
Other than that, I tried to just relax for awhile. Delved into playing Madden NFL 2009. That was a good way to distract myself, I suppose, but in the end, it was repetitive, and getting so good at the game you're winning 255-0 is well... hard to keep yourself excited about. I tried getting to a point where I'd develop a whole team to consist of guys with ratings (1-100, the worst players are rated about 52) of 90 or more, but the game disc started to skip, and lock up, when my stats would get to outrageous in an individual game.
So yeah, that was that. Really, the telling personality thing for me was how I turned into a hermit. I bother people. I do. I thought it time to just go away. Get away. Step back, and let people do whatever without my comments, concerns, or judgments. A different version of "Just let go", one of the Fight Club edicts, but still, yeah. The real deal, it seemed, was to go off and figure out what it was I wanted of life ("pre-mid-life-crisis" crisis) and what I needed to do, before things passed me by. Anyone who wanted to reach me, I was there, within reason. But that was letting go, and seeing if any plates that were being spun, so to speak, would fall and shatter.
Some of the china may have been damaged. Still assessing that at the moment.
But yeah, that was April. Not a lot of news, other than 9/5 crap, but at least I didn't blog about it every day and bore the hell out of everyone. The hope that something would just pop up to get me creating, within a few weeks, though... yeah, we'll get more into that in the post about May.