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That's right, time for the Friday Five!

1. If you could eat dinner with and "get to know" one famous person (living or dead), who would you choose? Wow... this one is hard... there are a lot of people I would love to get to know... but I think I would go with Neil Gaiman.

2. Has the death of a famous person ever had an effect on you? Who was it and how did you feel? Ah, time for the Kurt Cobain story. But this story has to run kinda backwards to make any sense. Buttmagic, the SonofaBritsch, and I were driving around one night, and I was talking about having heard a Nirvana song on the radio on my way to meet up with them. Somehow the conversation turned to when Kurt Cobain had killed himself, and I mentioned that I was a sophomore in college, and that I had found out about it the morning after it happened, while waiting to be let into the building for my college's gaming convention (which I was in charge of). The boys looked at each other, did the math, and discovered that they were in 6th grade when this occurred. This has since become a game of "let's make the ScaryWhiteGirl feel old," which all my friends love participating in... I suppose the interesting (and relevant) thing about this story is that it didn't really affect me all that much at the time, but 7 or 8 years later, it has a big impact on my life...

3. If you could BE a famous person for 24 hours, who would you choose? Hmmm... another tough one. I know it would have to be someone in a band, but I can't really pick any one person. It would be neat to see what it's like to perform in front of thousands of screaming people... :)

4. Do people ever tell you that you look like someone famous? Who? When I was in high school, everyone told me that I looked like Blossom (you know, from the TV show?)... I hated hearing that! I've also had a couple of people tell me that I remind them of Winona Ryder, but I think that was more of a similarity between me and her character in Beetlejuice... :)

5. Have you ever met anyone famous? Thanks to my friend Jamie (who I miss a TON!), I've met a handful of people in bands... like the guys from Catherine Wheel and Midnight Oil. Not like they'd remember me, but oh well! :)

And for the "End of the Work Week Wisdom":

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
--Dream, from Sandman

:: Dawn 11:50 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Before you ask, no, I don't know what happened to my comments section... I'm thinking the page that hosts it is having problems... it should come back eventually! :)

At any rate, really, really long weekend, but lots of fun! :) Changeling was Friday night. I haven't quite found my niche in the game just yet, but I'm working on it. Hopefully there will be more Friday games, so that I'm able to do so... :)

Saturday, we ran around like chickens with our heads cut off... Laumeier Sculpture Park, dinner, mall, Buttmagic's birthday party, and Blade II. I was not as impressed with Blade II as I would have liked to have been, but it was still a decent movie. And at any rate, the music rocked! :) And it was a good day, despite all the running around... I actually got to talk to Megan for a while, as well as hang out with some of my friends!

Sunday was Broken Sword, and I had a TON of fun at that game! Too bad that most of my pack had to miss my character finally being appointed as Bishop! There was a good quote from Lufcy at that game, and if I can find the paper I scribbled it on, it will go up on the webpage eventually... :)

Monday was wrestling night (yeah, I'm a junkie!), with the draft that decided which superstars went to which show. This was a major issue in our house, because we don't get UPN, which is where Smackdown, the Thursday night show, is aired. So basically, whoever got sent to Smackdown was being exiled from our lives... well, my original favorite wrestler, Edge, is one of the exiled... :( But, on the up side, the Hardy Boyz, Lita, and RVD all ended up on Raw... so I can't complain too much! :)

I suppose I should mention that I'm going to be one of the STs for Fury of the Forsaken, which is the summertime Marissa Garou LARP. That's right, the LARP Marm is back in the ST business... ;) At any rate, we had a meeting for that last night, and lots of very kewl stuff is in the works. So if you're interested in that game, check out the webpage, or E-mail the staff at MarissaRage@yahoogroups.com. Trust me, it's gonna be a blast! :)

:: Dawn 1:27 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Here's this week's Friday Five:

1. What is your favorite time of year? Spring, without a doubt. Fall is a close second, but only before it starts getting too cold!

2. What is it about your favorite season that, well, makes it your favorite season? An end to winter (FINALLY), which means getting able to spend more time outside. Also my birthday, and flowers blooming.

3. What is your least favorite time of year? Why? Every year it changes between being summer and winter. I hate the heat, because I don't deal well with it. But I also hate the cold, and the inevitable sickness that comes with it.

4. Do you do anything to celebrate or recognize the changing of seasons? Not really.

5. What's your favorite thing to do outside? As long as the weather is nice, I LOVE camping. Until last summer, I hadn't gotten to do much camping for a while, but now I have at least one night a month when a bunch of us head outside to play Garou, and then spend the night camping out... good times! :)

And also, as not to disappoint, the "End of the Work Week Wisdom":

Style is the essence of life. Those who have it inspire the rest of us to want it.

Dedicated especially to the "Toreador" of the old LARP, Vampires Without Hats... :)

:: Dawn 1:50 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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It's been really hectic at work this week, which cuts down on my prime blogging time... :) Hopefully by the time I leave today, however, the book that I've been working on for what seems like an eternity will be off my desk, and I won't have to worry about it ever again... or at least for a week or so... :)

I got my players to make their characters for my Changeling-esque game last night. We've got a Nocker and a Satyr so far, with a possible third (probably Eshu) to come. I like it so far, and I keep coming up with more kewl ideas about why certain things are the way that they are... now, I just need a name for the chronicle... and while "The Pimp Daddy Skillet Experience" is certainly appealing as a chronicle name, I don't think I'm gonna go with that... just preempting your suggestion, Seth... :)

In other really good news, I get to play in the Changeling LARP this Friday, because the nice STs decided to have game on a Friday! Now if I can only convince them to have it on 2nd and 4th Fridays all the time, I'll actually get to play on a regular basis! :)

This does mean, however, that I don't get to see Blade II on opening night... ah well, I think I'll live. We might get a bunch of people together to see it Saturday or Sunday during the day instead... I am kinda leery about going to see it, cuz I'm not sure if it will be good or not. I liked the first Blade so much, I'm just afraid of what they might do in this second one... so maybe I'll wait and hear some reviews from other people who like Vampire stuff... :)

:: Dawn 2:16 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Okay, okay, okay... I'll work on the Morgan story... since I finally figured out how to make it work right! :) It should be interesting... at the moment, there are two possible endings to it... and I haven't decided which one I should use just yet... :)

But, of course, that will be after I finish getting stuff ready for my Changeling chronicle. Well, I suppose it could be called a Changeling-related chronicle. I'm using most of the game mechanics from the Changeling system, with a good chunk of the background story left intact. However, I'm setting my game in "London Below," which is a part of London that Neil Gaiman invented in his book, Neverwhere, which was also a BBC miniseries. There are parts of the mechanics that simply won't work in this alternate setting, and the background story has been altered and supplemented with the ideas from the book and miniseries. It's certainly going to be interesting!

:: Dawn 1:18 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I should probably mention that the deadline for my new Morgan story was extended indefinitely, due to me being sick for two days this week. Okay, so it's a kind of lame excuse, but the idea that I had simply won't go beyond a few lines, all of which I have written in my head... it needs another spark to get it into a short story... maybe I'll have some better ideas after game tonight, though! :)

Blogging is a great way to make my boring afternoon pass more quickly... I'm very glad that I decided to work through lunch today, so I can leave an hour early... woo hoo! :)

:: Dawn 1:41 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well, look at that... there is a Friday Five after all! :)

1. What's your favorite animal? I've always been partial to cats, though there are certainly some that I don't like...

2. What pets have you had in your lifetime? Growing up, we had our dog, Dusty, who was older than I was. He lived to be quite an old dog, but we had to have him put to sleep when I was in high school. I think he was around 18 years old (people years!) by that point. We had a pet mouse for about a day, when we caught him in our old apartment. We let him go out in a park though, because we really didn't want a mouse for a pet. I named him Templeton, after the rat in Charlotte's Web. :)

3. Is there any specific pet that you've wanted but never had? I would love to have a cat, but since the Old Man is VERY allergic to cats, that's not going to happen. So I will have to content myself with our "porch cats," which are the various cats from the neighborhood who come and sit on our porch in the sunlight. The porch is made of brick, so I'm thinking they come to our porch cuz it's nice and warm.

4. Are you allergic to any animals? Not that I know of, and I doubt that I am! As an interesting side note, one of my friends is allergic to cockroaches... how weird is that?!

5. Do you have any 'pet' pet peeves (your pets or others')? My sister's cat, Frazier, who is the one and only cat that I despise, lives to annoy me. From the moment it first saw me, it must have decided that I offended it, because it's been nothing but mean and stupid to me ever since. I also don't like it when peoples' dogs jump up on me, because I have been scratched and knocked down entirely too many times by other peoples' dogs...

:: Dawn 11:08 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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*sigh*... no Friday Five this week either, since there isn't one this week! How bizarre! :)

But for my "End of the Work Week Wisdom"...

Age is just a number. You're only as old as you feel.

Which means, in my case, I should be starting Kindergarten soon... ;) Don't I wish!

This reminds me, however, to give a big Happy Birthday to my friend Lufcy, who is exactly 10 days older than me! And yes, this means that my birthday is rapidly approaching... and yes, I will accept any and all gifts that you see fit to buy me... :)

:: Dawn 9:19 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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I'm taking a bunch of these online quizzes, cuz they amuse me... but I'm not going to post all of the pretty pictures here, cuz it takes up too much space... sooooo...

What Mythological Creature Would You Be? - a succubus... what, me? I'm innocent! :)

Become One with Your Inner Dragon- a green dragon.
Your Inner Dragon is the embodiment of Nature and the Earth. Greens spend almost all of their time below the canopy or just above the treetops in tropical rain forests. Not a bad life considering every other creature in the forest looks up to you, figuratively and literally. You speak the language of every animal and plant in your domain and know most of them by first name. If people mess with your forests, you're more than happy to wail on their puny butts. Because of your protector/caretaker role, you are the Earth Elemental dragon.
Naturally your whole life pretty much revolves around the other couple million species you keep an eye on, but that's not your whole dragon. You also like to like to impose your steadfast will on others, commune with Nature, and lobby governments for alternative fuels and conservation. Your favorable attributes are Midnight, Winter, gemstones, mountains, caves, soil, respect, endurance, responsibility, prosperity, and purpose in life. Folks shouldn't get the idea you're a hippy pushover though, because your breath weapon is a nasty Fire/Acid combination. Maybe you should invest in a hemp shirt reading "Don't knock my smock, or I'll clean your clock." *wink* Eh, figures I'm an evil one... :) Well, at least they were evil back in AD&D... :)

What Flavor Are You? - chocolate... yummy yummy chocolate... :)

I took the Vampire Clan Test (click on Quizzes) last night, and I turned up Tremere. This is not terribly surprising, if you ask me... :) I skipped the non-Camarilla portion of the test, cuz I wanted to get on with my tabletop game...

Yet another episode of Seven last night... the plot is advancing, slowly but surely... I'm really enjoying only having two players in a game, and I'm hoping that we can keep it going for a while. Now I just gotta figure out how to keep them in the city, rather than hitting the road...

:: Dawn 1:57 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I hate being sick... cuz not only does that mean that I'm miserable for a day or more, it also means that I get totally behind on everything else I want to get done... *sigh*... hopefully now that I'm feeling better I can get caught up though...

I saw Queen of the Damned on Saturday night, and I kinda enjoyed it. It's definitely not the best movie I've ever seen (we watched that later... *grin*), but it wasn't nearly as bad as I was anticipating it to be. And Stuart Townsend is a HOTTIE! My only real complaints had to do with the makeup (all the vampires with silver eyeshadow on the interior corners of their eyes) and the pacing (was it just me, or did it seem off somehow?).

Also on Saturday, some of us took the Werewolf Tribe Test (click on Quizzes to get there)... well, I turned up Fianna (go me!), Ashlea was a Black Fury (though we don't agree with that), Timmy was a Glass Walker (much to his chagrin), and Colin was either a Fianna or a "Red Child of Fangs"... or something like that... he scored equally on Red Talons, Children of Gaia, and Silver Fangs... talk about a weird one... ;)

Other than that, I've been spending way too much time playing The Sims again... might have to reinstall Hot Date so that I will get fed up with the game and quit playing, once again... ;)

:: Dawn 12:56 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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It is a little known fact that Seth is my hero... ;) Though I suppose now that I've posted it, it ceases to be a little known fact... At any rate, he says that I should post an inspirational message of the week... right-o... without further ado, here is your "End of the Work Week Wisdom"... courtesy of the ScaryWhiteGirl...

We'll get along just fine as soon as you recognize me for the goddess that I am.

Hehehehe... that works! >:)

:: Dawn 1:59 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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I was going to do the Friday Five this week, but I couldn't really come up with good answers for the questions. Ah well. There's always next week! :)

New on scarywhitegirl.net is The Old Man Speaks. Don't be surprised if he doesn't update it all that often... you know, he's old and cranky and such... ;) Basically, he saw how much fun I was having with my blog, and decided he wanted one too! :)

Three hours and twenty minutes left of work for today. Fridays always inch along... *sigh*...

:: Dawn 1:09 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Much better now. Sometimes just a couple of words, even if they come to you second hand, can make you feel a whole lot better about everything. :) And good comments from a friend are always appreciated as well! :)

The Mummy game last night was a whole lot of fun, even if the first thing I did was botch my Willpower roll for my Nightmares... so I lose a permanent Willpower, and am basically traumatized for the rest of the game... this actually worked out okay, cuz it let me sit back and be quiet for a good portion of the game. ;) Granted, we didn't really get anywhere, but we had a good time doing it... so that's not all bad!

And I've got two ideas for stories to write now, and I'm giving myself a deadline on the newest idea, since it's another Morgan story, and I want to have it done before the next Friday Broken Sword game... that gives me a week... let's go! :)

Forgot to mention that I got to run a one-shot, vaguely related to Seven, on Tuesday night. I had forgotten how much I missed that game, and those NPCs (yes, all 122 of them). Why do people's school schedules have to suck so bad?!?! Well, maybe things will clear up after Spring Break, but that's doubtful...

:: Dawn 9:26 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Tomorrow is Friday... Tomorrow is Friday... Tomorrow is Friday... sorry for the repetition, but, at the moment, that is my major motivating factor... work has been relatively boring the last couple of days, and when I have little to do, my mind starts wandering, and that usually leads it into places where there is no good reason for it to go. In other words, I'm worrying about things that aren't entirely in my control, and that I don't want to (or can't) talk or write about. Wow, how's that for cryptic? :)

Well, on to the nicer things. Benedira sent me a nice E-mail after I signed her guestbook... which reminded me that I should look into getting a guestbook! And then tonight is the Mummy game, which we haven't gotten to play in about a month because of school, vacation, and the fact that it alternates with the D&D game. I'm definitely looking forward to it, cuz it's nice to do non-Vampire stuff every once in a while... :)

I picked up a copy of The Quotable Sandman (which was on sale) last night, adding to my ever growing collection of miscellaneous Sandman stuff. And I don't even have all of the comics yet! :) Wow... Neil Gaiman has his own blog... add another site for me to start checking daily... :)

:: Dawn 10:24 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Seth sent me two new stories while I was on vacation, and I finally got around to posting them. You can find both of them under his name on the LARP fiction page. Enjoy!

It's times like this, however, that I wish I had more time to spend on my own writing, and more ideas on what I should write about. I've been kicking around an idea for a new story, but I wanted to do a little research about some of the facts before I started writing. My facts at the moment are based off of a story I was told almost two years ago, and I'm sure I'm getting some of them mixed up. But the more I think about it, the less of a problem this seems to become. We'll have to see where it goes from here...

I'm also thinking about taking a creative writing class, maybe this fall... because it's not so much that I'm tired of school, it's that I'm tired of the program that I'm in at the moment. It would be nice if I could finish my degree, but it's just not something I'm interested in doing at this point in my life. Maybe in a few years... maybe never. But without good motivation, I'll never get anything done!

Oh, while I'm thinking about it, happy birthday, Mom! I doubt you'll see this, but I thought I'd wish you a happy one anyway! And now the rest of the world can see that today is my mom's birthday! :)

:: Dawn 2:21 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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It's always nice to get back to work after a long vacation, and be able to have your desk almost completely clean by the end of the day. I'm rather contented right now, which is a nice feeling. This probably has something to do with the fact that I've only barely been thinking about what needs to get done when I go home today. That's going to make work look like a picnic, I have a feeling!

I often get the impression that I really need a planner calendar. I actually have one, but I never use it except for when I'm taking classes. Deadlines are good for me... I'm just not that good at inflicting them on myself when I don't really have anything that must be done...

Either that, or I'm just a slacker! ;)

:: Dawn 4:02 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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You would think that a person who is perfectly happy sleeping till the last possible minute (and sometimes beyond) during the week would relish the opportunity to sleep late on the weekends... weird, isn't it? :)

I'm still waiting to see Queen of the Damned. The weather last night was rather snowy and icy, so we decided to stay in. But before the weather got bad, we took a fun trip to the Art Museum in St. Louis, and then I got to watch a couple of kewl DVDs... the Nine Inch Nails concert that just came out (And All That Has Ever Been, or something like that), and a handful of Type O Negative videos. I'm leaning back towards my "just barely off the mainstream" goth music again, though I'm still really enjoying my extremely obscure goth bands that I can only find on compilation CDs. Hmmm... why not, I'll just put a request right here. If anyone knows anything about finding full length CDs (heck, even EPs would make me happy) by the Morgans and/or Lucyfix, please E-mail me!

Well, vacation is all the way over when I get back home this afternoon, so I may start working on a new chronicle. First order of business is finding players, I suppose... and then figuring out which of my chronicle ideas most appeals to the group as a whole. I have five (yeah, five...) ideas at the moment, all of which would be fun in my mind, but they're fairly diverse, and not everyone would enjoy all of them. But I'm sure there will be more on this front in the next few days. In actuality, I should be working on my stuff for Egyptian Campaign, which is just over a month away... knowing me, however, I'll put it off till the last minute, and wing what I haven't prepared... ;)

:: Dawn 11:10 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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I have discovered that visiting New Orleans involves lots of walking around. Driving in the French Quarter is difficult when it is permitted. And at night, some of the streets are just flat out closed. If you've ever seen pictures of Bourbon Street at Mardi Gras, you'd understand why... and it's kinda busy even when it's not Mardi Gras. Why this is relevant is that visiting New Orleans involves more walking around than my knees could handle. Unfortunately, this meant we left early, and had to skip the vampire tour and the ghost tour. :(

On the up side, however, I did get to see a lot of really neat stuff (including Marie Laveau's purported grave), and got some pretty kewl ideas for Vampire related stuff. After all, there are some things about New Orleans that they don't tell you in New Orleans by Night, that you can only really understand by visiting there. Like the complete and utter absence of any squirrels in the entire city... or at least none that we saw... but that's not really important... If I have the time and inclination, I may type up a few of my (useful) thoughts on the topic and post them here or somewhere nearby.

In the meantime, I'm trying to find things to do that don't involve standing or walking, as that seems to be my best bet at the moment! Looking forward to getting to watch Queen of the Damned tomorrow night, since most of my friends seem to have liked it!

Listening to an interesting CD at the moment. A band called Anathema, whose CD (Serenades, from 1993) was in the discount bin at the CD shop today... from the song titles, it looked like they might be a goth band... now that it's in the CD player, they're a lot like Type O Negative. Not necessarily a bad thing, just kinda odd. But for $4, I'm not gonna complain too much! :) I love finding CDs that don't suck that cost less than $5! :)

:: Dawn 3:57 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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