The State of Things

I have a blog, which makes me (at least by some stretch) a blogger. Now, while this is a gaming-oriented blog and I haven’t been gaming at all lately due to school pressures, I think a scarcity of new content is permissible. On the other hand, being a ‘blogger,’ I am compelled to keep throwing things out into that endless night of the Internet for digestion by my friends and Mr. Anonymous. The problem is that I don’t have much to say relevant to gaming, so it’ll have to be personal.

Life right now consists of straining myself to accomplish one project, breathing, straining to accomplish the next and breathing again. It’s a lot like being violently sick: a gasp of air before each stomach-wrenching attempt to vomit. Well, it’s really not that bad. I’m just a generally lazy person who likes his free time and lately I’ve been whipping out my ducat-pouch and purchasing every precious second. Yesterday and today have turned out to be breathers. I’ve had a chance to sweep myself into a pile in the middle of the floor and marvel that I’ve actually been able to accomplish things.

I have a feeling that my breather ends tonight. I’ve got work next week which is going to demand this weekend of me. I could complain that this is going to wrench me from spending adequate time with my friends, but that’s a pail of crap and I know it. I can throw that blame boomerang at any kind of obligation I want, but it’s always going to… well, you know.

Oh, on the subject of school, I’m using the time I have between more intense projects to resume work on my Remnant Universe wiki. Sadly, I squeezed my wondersponge dry with efforts at getting the mechanics in place first, so it’s been taking a while to soak up enough inspiration and finding enough free time to start drumming out the interesting bits – the stuff about the universe itself. I want to draw a map. I think a map will help a lot.

My casual interest has been really focused on Penny Arcade lately. I’ve been downloading and listening to their podcasts in, and I’m a bit embarrassed to admit this, in an attempt to stave off melancholy by listening to human voices. I mean, moving out of the dorms is like suddenly being air-dropped into Siberia. There’s nobody there, and you couldn’t hear them if they were because you’re wearing a huge hat made out of a walrus. Anyway, about the PA podcasts: they’re hilarious. I don’t know about you folks, but I get off (figuratively) on listening to other people have intensely imaginative discussions backed by a professional instinct for humor. If you want to listen to a creative process go down as well as some really insightful video game criticism, then grab a few of these and have a listen.

Well, having produced very many letters, I feel that I can safely call this a post and go see if Java City’s still open. I crave muffins.

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