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Jessi's story, "To Die Beautifully," the story of the final masterpiece of China White, is now available for your reading pleasure. The link will take you to the fiction page because, as is often the case with us wacky Sabbat Vampires, this story falls into the category of "R-rated." Jessi is an amazing writer, and I think even people who don't know much about the characters involved will still enjoy the story!

:: Dawn 11:13 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Friday Five!

1. What are your hobbies? Well, first off, and obviously, gaming! That's the hobby that I spend most of my time on. I also like writing, working on genealogy, and playing the Sims. Because it's a silly addictive game that you can't win, and that's the kind of game I like! :)

2. Do you collect anything? If so, what? White Wolf books. No really, I do! :) Other than that, ummm... Sandman stuff when I can, Goth compilation CDs, and dust bunnies... :)

3. Is there a hobby you're interested in, but just don't have the time/money to do? I barely have enough time to spend on all of the hobbies I already have. Case in point, I haven't actually done much genealogical research for quite some time. But if I were going to pick up another hobby, I'd probably start painting miniatures again. I have lots of stuff to paint, and plenty of paint, but it's all packed in a box until I figure out how to be two places at once.

4. Have you ever turned a hobby into a moneymaking opportunity? I used to make beaded necklaces, and sold them when I could. Not a lot of money in that, but when you're young, it's better than nothing! :)

5. Besides web-related stuff (burbs, rings, etc.), what clubs do you belong to? I'm actually a member of the Collinsville Jaycees, despite the fact that I live about 100 miles from Collinsville. No, it doesn't really make sense, but it has to do with game and friends in that area. But it's a ton of fun, too! :)

And the "End of the Work Week Wisdom":

"Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!"
--which is apparently from Ghostbusters

The Old Man kept saying that this morning, cuz we saw two stuffed animals, one a cat and the other a bird, in someone's car when we got to work, and I said "Cats and birds living together!" It was amusing at the time!

Did I mention I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night? :)

:: Dawn 10:32 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well, my Changeling game has already come and gone. One of my players is going home this summer, and I'd rather not run it for just the remaining two players. Sure, that could be fun, but I really wanted more like 4-5 players for this game. Maybe in the fall, if people have a lighter class load...

I'm really looking forward to this week being over! Work has been exceptionally hectic, leaving me with very little time to even think straight. Luckily, it looks like this weekend will be plenty of not having to think about much of anything. And all I really have to do between now and then is work, find a present for my little sister's bridal shower, and pack for the weekend. That's almost manageable. I'm so glad it's Wednesday already!

:: Dawn 11:12 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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All kinds of crazy busy today, but of course I take time out to read other people's blogs, and write in mine... that's cuz I'm just psycho like that... :)

Jess had a blogger code on her page, so I went to get one for mine too.

B1 d t k- s-- u-- f i- o+ x-- e- l c

Decode it here.

That is all for today. More when I have time to stop to breathe, let alone think. :)

:: Dawn 2:53 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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So what should I be reading...

Well, first off, I've had the SonofaBritsch's copy of Hitchhiker's Guide (all of the books) since December. I'm still only about halfway through it. I suppose I should get that back to him sooner or later... particularly since I found the Old Man's copy... ;)

I want to reread The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned... I went to see the movie, and my friend Ashlea told me that it wasn't really like the books, mentioning some aspects in particular... so I want to reread them and see how off it was...

One of these years, I should get around to reading all of the Lord of the Rings. I managed to get through The Hobbit without any problems, but I can't make myself read Fellowship... no matter how hard I try, I just can't do it! If they weren't so expensive, I'd get them on tape or CD and start listening to them while I'm driving to ST meetings or to St. Louis for game or family functions.

I have about 10-15 Vampire and other World of Darkness books that I've only managed to skim thus far. I should really read all of the revised Werewolf tribebooks, since I'm helping to ST a Garou LARP... (and the Old Man just reminded me about the tribe novels as well, of which there are five so far! Ack!)

Oh, and then I should be studying German for my language proficiency exam, and I should be coming up with my readings lists for my Ph.D. exams... but I've been REALLY lazy about this for the past few months. I should probably make sure that I can get the time extension that I need for this stuff, before I start doing all of this reading...

I think that's it... for now... :)

:: Dawn 3:56 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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The week of birthdays draws to a close with happy birthday wishes to Jenny! Have fun tonight! :)

*pant pant* I think I'm done with the birthday wishes for at least a little while... :)

:: Dawn 3:19 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Because my Fridays wouldn't be complete with out it... the Friday Five!

1. What's your favorite TV show and why? I really don't watch a whole lot of TV... but if I had to pick a favorite show, I suppose at the moment it is Raw is War, which is the Monday night WWF show. Seeing as it's just about the only thing I watch, that would make it my favorite!

2. Who is your favorite television star? If we make this past tense, that would have to be TV's Wil Wheaton. :) At the moment, I suppose I don't really have one!

3. What was your favorite TV show as a child? Jess mentioned Voltron, which definitely ranks on my list, but I'm going to have to go with live-action TV shows, as opposed to cartoons, or I'll be here all day! My two favorites that I can remember were Knight Rider and V. I LOVED the idea of a talking car, and still think I would like to have one! And my dad got me into sci-fi from a young age, so I was totally into V. In fact, I think that was the only sci-fi that my sister Sarah really has ever liked, and I don't think she quite got what was going on... :)

4. What show do you think should have been cancelled by now? I'm not a big fan of hardly any of the "reality" shows, so I say get rid of 'em all! :) Except The Osbournes, that one is funny as hell!

5. What new show do you hope escapes the axe this season? Ummm... there are new shows on TV? Not just reruns? What a novel concept! (Did I mention that we don't get ANY network stations?)

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

"They're not nice people, they're worse!"
--Mikey's comment in The Old Man's Mummy game

:: Dawn 10:53 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Wow, it apparently works! I put my list on the page, and I've already got one thing to check off the list! The Ravnos poem is done! I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a poet, but I am pretty pleased with what I came up with in about fifteen minutes. Maybe that's the key. If I can make myself write for at least 15 minutes a day, on whatever, maybe I'll get some things accomplished!

The next list to appear will be my "books I really want/need to read" list. That one is going to be an absolute BEAST!

:: Dawn 3:25 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Yup, after wasting the entire evening yesterday playing the Sims, it's time to put the dreaded to-do list on the webpage, so I can have more than just myself nagging me about what should get done.

In no particular order, mind you... ;)

• Another Morgan story. The nice thing about this one is that I can procrastinate it a bit. This story, even moreso than A Moment in Time, is going to be able actual game events, rather than just stuff that Morgan did at some indeterminate point in the past. As such, I have to wait on some information from the STs before I can write much more than the first page or two... most of which is already started! :)
  
• Garou story number 1. This one is going to be along the lines of Christian's story, in that it will be a Galliard telling a tale that they know. In Christian's case, it was first hand knowledge. In the new story, it will be a story that has been passed down for nearly 100 years. This is my safety valve, because I'm pretty sure I'm not going to get all of the historical facts and figures straight. ;) Despite all of the research I've done, I can't find anything on the internet or in books about what I want to write about. As a side note, if anyone reading this knows anything about the "Baby Pavilion" at the 1904 World's Fair, E-mail me! From everything I've been able to determine thus far, it's a pretty obscure topic!
  
• Garou story number 2. The Old Man has been working on his background for Fury of the Forsaken, and it's based largely on a long-running Garou chronicle that the two of us played in. My character in that game led a VERY interesting life (in the way that "May you lead an interesting life" is a Chinese curse), and I've often thought about writing something about her. Seems like a good idea, now that I'm using her as an NPC Mentor to one of the characters in Fury...
  
• Garou story number 3. I'd also like to write something for the Fury of the Forsaken page. A while back, a bunch of us players wrote a whole bunch of stuff for the Broken Sword of Caine page, and Macke mentioned that it would be kewl to have something similar on the Fury page. Well, I'm an ST in Fury now, but that doesn't mean I can't write for the page! :) I'm looking for ideas for this one, at the moment, but it will probably end up being another Galliard-style story. Those seem to work very well as far as Garou fiction goes!
  
• Work on The Beyond, which is my currently active Changeling-esque chronicle. I have most of the groundwork laid, and I know where the game is going. I just need to work on creating that final destination. I have some time for this, as the destination is still a while down the road (IC and OOC), but it would be good to get started on it sooner rather than later!
  
• A Ravnos poem. An anonymous person wrote Clan Brujah for me to post on the Forgotten website. I had encouraged all of the players to do stuff like this a while back, whether it be poetry, song/movie quotes, or whatever, so that we could personalize the clan pages, making them more than just a place to list the active characters. Seeing as I'm the only Ravnos in that game, and the webmistress, I suppose leading by example would be a good thing to do... ;) Luckily, this should be fun and quick to get done!
  
• There is probably more to add here, but most of it has to do with work on chronicles that are only ideas at the moment, or potential backgrounds for characters that I may or may not eventually play. So in other words, even the to-do list isn't done!
  

Ugh...

Oh, and continuing in my trend of wishing people who don't read my webpage happy birthday, today's wishes go out to Timmy and Jessi. Hope you both have a good one! :)

:: Dawn 1:32 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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So wrong that I had to post it... this is the creation of Macke, and I take no responsibility for it whatsoever. Unfortunately, he takes no responsibility for the brain damage it may cause, so I guess you're on your own for that one! :)

:: Dawn 1:03 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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So I got the Sims Vacation the other day, only to realize that my computer was sadly lacking in RAM. But I managed to figure out how to remedy that situation (it's trickier with a laptop, if you've never done it before), and now my computer goes FAST. The problem in all of this is that now that the Sims moves at a decent clip, I'm far more interested in playing it than getting things done.

I'm coming very close to posting my "to do" list here, and then telling the world when I actually accomplish something. The benefit I could see in doing this is that maybe then some of my loyal readers (I think I have some of those!) will get on my case about what I should be doing with my free time. Unfortunately, I can't really think much beyond the stories that I want to write, and the need to work on The Beyond at the moment. I'm doing decently well with developing The Beyond mostly on the fly, at least for the time being. I will eventually need to work on some more of that, however, because things aren't going to stay the same forever... >:)

Other than that, I'm going to get to see The Scorpion King this weekend! I know I wasn't the only one who was disappointed by The Rock's performance in The Mummy Returns, but from everything I've seen of the new previews, it looks like he's done much better with this one. So for now, I will blame his approximately 5 minutes of screen time in The Mummy Returns, which is far too small to get an accurate assessment of his acting talent.

:: Dawn 2:59 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Oh, and one other thing. Happy 21st Birthday, Sarah! Hope you have a good one! :)

And for those who are wondering who this Sarah person is, she's that sister of mine that you will never meet... the non-gamer sister... :)

:: Dawn 3:51 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Yet another really long weekend! But a good one, nonetheless!

Egyptian Campaign has come and gone, this being the fourth one that I have been an ST at. I only ran four games this year, down considerably from the six I ran my first year. Considering there are only eight slots during which games are run, you can see how six would be a TON! I think four is a nice happy medium, but I am a little disappointed that I didn't get to play more games. I got to do the LARP one night, but there was way too much combat for my tastes. And somehow, I got roped into STing a combat... me, the girl who still isn't sure when you take your steps... :) The other games I tried to play in were either full or cancelled. :(

But at any rate, it was a lot of fun. There are some people who I only get to see once a year, at Egyptian Campaign, and most of them were back this year. I also met some kewl new people, some of whom may come to LARP in C-dale with me! That would be rockin!

Oh, for those who are interested, here's the games I ran. (1) An all Tremere-antitribu game, set in 1998, before the big nasty that destroyed them all. (2) A quasi-Dark Ages game, set in 1632, Bamberg, Germany, attempting to rescue the Prince's childe from the Bamberg witch trials. (3) An Exalted game, which was a search for a lost First Age temple. (4) An Adventure game, which was a search for a nifty artifact type thingie. All in all, I would have to say that while I enjoyed all of them, the Adventure game was an absolute blast. I really like the whole system and setting for Adventure, and I'm hoping that The Old Man will run that this summer... either that, or 5-year-old children who will eventually become Dragon Blooded!!!! :)

:: Dawn 1:16 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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Well, I was reminded this weekend both why I love being a LARP ST, and why I got out of that business. Don't get me wrong, I had an absolute BLAST at the Garou game on Saturday night, despite the extreme cold (how can it be in the 30s in April?!?!)... but at the same time, I'm remembering how much time and energy an ST has to exert to make a game run smoothly and for everyone to have a ton of fun. It's certainly no picnic! But things are going very well already, and once I get through the inital crush of approving, recording, and updating the characters, I'll be much less busy! Then again, as Macke pointed out, I'm a little bit obsessive when it comes to making sure the characters are all recorded and kosher... yet another reason why the guys are happy that I'm on staff! :)

Tonight is the second installment of The Beyond, which is going to be a lot of fun. Like the Old Man said, Changeling is definitely my kind of game... and being able to throw my own little twist into the game makes things very amusing! Guess I better finish re-writing the little bit of prophecy that the old Eshu lady gave the PCs last week... that's the problem of coming up with stuff on the fly, and not writing it down... :)

Egyptian Campaign is this weekend, down here in C-dale. I got all of my games to the "done except for the last minute stuff" point last night. I'm only running four games this year: Vampire, Dark Ages, Exalted, and Adventure. I'm particularly looking forward to the Adventure game. I've never played or run it before, but the system is the basic White Wolf system, and the powers are pretty simple to deal with. And the setting is just way too much fun... basically take The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, and/or any of the Indiana Jones movies, and you've got the setting for Adventure! :) Any rate, once the convention is over, I'll have more free time... free time good! :)

:: Dawn 10:59 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Friday Five:

1. What are the first things that you do in the morning to start your day? Whine a lot about the fact that I have to get out of bed already, and stay in bed for as long as humanly possible. When I finally do get up (usually 7:05, which is just about the last possible minute I can get up and still be at work on time), I start stumbling around my room to pick out clothes and then hit the shower.

2. What are the last things that you do at night before going to bed? Make sure that the closet door is closed and my alarm is set, and occasionally I remember to ask the Old Man if the garage is shut. We have a detached garage, and don't have a garage door opener in the house, so if it's still open, that means running out to the garage, closing it, and running back in. Luckily, it usually stays shut now, though that wasn't always the case...

3. What daily routine have you recently added to your day? Watching Late Night with Zach on VH1, and then staying awake for as much of Red Eye as I can... like I said yesterday, too much TV!

4. What routine do you wish you get rid of? I guess getting up in the morning isn't a valid part of my routine to want to cut out... I wish that the house would learn to pick up after itself, so that I didn't have to do that... but that's a pipedream as well... :)

5. What's the one thing that makes you feel like something is missing if you don't do it some point within your day? Turning on my laptop at home. Even if I don't end up using it, it usually is on shortly after I get home, and stays on until I go to bed. The few nights that I don't turn it on, it usually means that I'm not there!

And, as always, the "End of the Work Week Wisdom"...

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.
It's from some Nirvana song...

Five and a half more hours of work, and then LARPing galore this weekend!

:: Dawn 11:04 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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I really don't have anything important to say, just a few minutes to spare... I've been insanely busy at work recently, which means not a lot of time for posting here!

I've got about a billion projects that I ought to be working on... I made a list of them a while ago, and taped it to my desk, right where it's always just at the edge of my line of vision when I'm working on (read: playing around with) my computer. The problem is that the list is in desperate need of an updating, and I haven't made the time to do that just yet... *sigh*...

Part of the problem may be that I've been watching entirely too much TV lately... mostly the music stations... I'm quickly becoming a fan of "The Osbournes" which is basically "The Real World," but it's Ozzy Osbourne and his family... it's an absolute riot to watch! Also, if you're ever bored at night, and looking for something entirely too bizarre to be fully explained, check out Red Eye on VH1. Around here, it's on from 10:30-11:30 p.m. Trust me, you will be confused at first... :)

Okay, time for the ScaryWhiteGirl to stop staring at the computer screen... she's been doing that for way too long today!

:: Dawn 4:16 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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It's very bare bones at the moment, but here's the start of the Changeling game stuff... The Beyond... more to come soon, I promise! :)

:: Dawn 12:01 PM [+] :: (0) comments
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At long last (because I'm a slacker, not because he is), I've got some new fiction from Seth. Good stuff! As a warning, however this story continues in the "R-rated" tradition of the Sabbat related fiction that I've posted already! That's why I don't link to it directly from my main page... :)

I also added another story of mine. No, it's not the Morgan story that I've been promising everyone, but rather a story that I wrote for Wintercastle, back when I had the time to play in that game. It's short, but I was pleased with the way it turned out, so I included it here! :) And, as a side note, the new Morgan story is probably never going to get written. The inspiration for it has slipped away, and it doesn't suit the new(ish) direction that she's going... but that new(ish) direction is probably going to spawn something quite interesting, which might just turn into a story.

I'm also still tossing around a couple of ideas for Garou stories. One of them, though, has the potential to get quite long... but the nice thing about it is that it's a recap of an old chronicle that I played in... so it's mainly just a matter of remembering how things went... and since the Old Man played in that chronicle as well, I should have some help with the remembering part... assuming that his memory is still intact... ;)

And I'm thinking that we're finally going to start my Changeling chronicle (still unnamed at the moment, though Seth and the SonofaBritsch had such clever ideas...) tonight. I had a flash of inspiration the other day, which I really can't say a whole lot about at the moment... but suffice it to say that my players are in for a VERY interesting ride... muhahahah... >:)

:: Dawn 11:09 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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Here's something fun that the Old Man found for me... Backstage Pass - Technical Riders. These are things that bands and other musicians put in their contracts when they go on tour... some pretty amusing stuff, if you ask me! :) Too bad they don't have someone like GWAR on here... I'd love to see their requirements! :)

:: Dawn 9:20 AM [+] :: (0) comments
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