Ookings of d00m

For those on my flist not in Toronto, a super brief summary.

There's been protesting, rioting, violence by thugs on both sides. I avoided it, though a northerly shift meant I saw the police getting ready on my way to buy fabric.

I and all my peoples are safe.

I am hoping tomorrow will be quieter.

Ok, I know that there was a weekend in there somewhere. I seem to have lost track of it, though. I know there was singing, movie rental and playing old video games, and laser scissors. I somehow seemed to have missed out on doing a bunch of things I meant to do, though.

part 1: fashion.

Last night, the belt I wear with my work pants broke. It has been getting worn, but I realised that I can put my finger through the hole that the buckle goes through. Since I was at work until 8:30 last night, this meant that shops were closed by the time I got back near home, leaving me beltless for today.

Since I had no belt, I wore suspenders to keep my pants up. I also added a grey vest over the standard black oxford shirt to cover up the suspenders and give me a pocket to keep my phone in. The pocket watch was a natural addition at that point. As was the grey silk brocade tie. I used my new skills and did a full windsor knot. I considered a fedora, but since I lack a good overcoat, the effect would have been wasted.

I need to go buy a new belt this weekend.

I'm not sure what to do about footwear - my combats have a big split in the leather, but I can't afford to replace or repair them right now.

part 2: medical.

A wheezy day today, despite the advair. I called off the planned gym experiment - I am concerned that if I have to leave classes gasping for air too often, they'll have to ban me from the gym. and that would upset me greatly.

part 3: gaming.

I've decided on running Nano-Victorian Futures and Sleepers at ACUS. The website has stymied my attempts to register games thus far. I have been mucking around the wiki adding more NVF character gneration examples and the skeleton of a section for Sleepers. I've got a plot seed for NVF that should grow into an actual plot before the con. Still not sure what Sleepers will be about plot-wise, but if all goes according to plan, I should just need to nudge the players a bit and sit back to watch the mayhem. I'm really hoping someone comes up with a Sleeper that is weirder than my sample ideas.

part 4: NOMs.

I really want chocolate right now. Instead, I have apples. I do not want apples.

( Friday )

( Saturday )

( sunday )

Sleep supply insufficient, but weekend good.

Last night I dreamt that we rented a lion. So we were stuck with this big freaking lion in our living room. The lion was knocking stuff over and generally being a pest, and we were all too terrified of it to try to stop him. The scene shifted, and we had a deck, and more than just the lion - we had a whole menagerie of dangerous animals, though none quite so big as the lion.

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In other news, I now have a one inch spiderweb crack in my windshield. At lunch I will be trying to get that fixed.

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The weather is gorgeous, and this is a three day week for me. Productivity is hard.

I took today as a day off to recover from last weekend's workfest.

I had vague plans to be all productive and stuff - hitting the gym, sewing, maybe trying to take the car in to the shop.

None of these things happened.

Instead, I slept in until nearly 11, wandered around until Liz and I (she's home sick today) went out for lunch.

Since returning from lunch I have... still done nothing. I had thought about at least doing laundry. Nope.

Apparently I was overdue for a day of doing nothing at all.

I had a good con.

I finally had a shamrock shake. They taste like minty chemicals. I couldn't finish mine.

My games were all awesome. I'd promise to review them, but I probably won't.

Brutally tired. Did not get searched at the border in either direction!

I won the graphic design contest, so my pattern sword picture will be on next year's t-shirt. I was not expecting to win!

Got pretty clothes.

Work tomorrow. Sleep now.

doom!

The weather forecast today is calling for "every kind of bad weather imaginable". I do not feel like driving in that, so I am safely ensconced in my office at home. There may be a trip to the gym at 4. Working from here means i can continue to poke the sick new computer throughout the day, and maybe get some laundry done.

I'm finally starting to feel human again. Hopefully the recent scariness has mostly been due to being even more exhausted than I thought. I could easily go back to sleep for a few hours now, though that would ruin me for sleep tonight. I think, instead, that I will sit here and play civ 4, or possibly start watching dexter.