So, since my little spill on wednesday, I haven’t done alot. In fact, I don’t think I’ve actually made it in to work since then. Lunch with Marco on thursday. Rearranged my room (or was that before…?) Theoretically, I read on thu, but in practice I fixed the windows installation, and put neverwinter nights on. It’s okay, apologetically hack and slash. Friday evening was supposed to be a date with Steve, but that got rainchecked to Monday. Stayed up late talking with Tom and Simon. Played a great deal with the census website (hey,
Saturday morning, opted out of a bike ride on the basis of mental trauma and knee scrapes. Bending the knees really was rather painful, but it’s much better today. So instead, I went on a hike with Cal Rugged (queer hiking group, from Cal), through Tilden. We started out at the small farm, where we fed chicken, geese, ducks, cows, sheep, and goats. Then up to inspiration point, and down to ‘Lake’ Anza. I didn’t want to wade in with open sores, so I ended up napping in the shade on the beach. Ran into Josh from x20s. He expressed an interest in hanging out, maybe trying some strategic board games more complicated than Risk. Yay. =) Over to
Sunday I was basically useless. Made burritos for lunch, and despite my best intentions, never made it to the clinic. Instead I watched
Today I’m going to head into sf to hang out & chat with my gay paternal uncle. Apparently we shared a room for about 3 months when I was 4. The one time I’ve talked to him since then was about two years ago: I introduced myself and that was about it. Don’t see my extended family much, and he’s apparently rather estranged from them as well. Later this evening, date #3 with Steve. Oh right, I should do reading for my class at some point. Basically no work has occurred these past two weeks, in no small part because Ro has been out of town. Also with my third consecutive week of no clinic, and not going to the gym for a week.
I am keenly aware of the distance between what I do and what I feel I ought to do. And I ought to be putting some work in towards my long term goals: getting in to gspp and getting out of debt, in particular. For that, getting the readings in and working longer hours would be good. But, if history is anything to judge by, I will not work longer hours. At the end of those 4 hours, my focus is shot. The reading, on the other hand, is probably mostly a matter of habituation. One thing that helps for habituation is having someone else to engage in the habit with. So maybe I should try recruiting people for a regular basis studygroup kinda thing. Not necessarily at our little peak of mount leroy 😉
I’m having so much fun with the Final Fantasy remake.
After watching Tom play the game, I’m starting to realize just how sucktacular BM/BW is. RM/RW is so much more worth it. =)
Something about NUKE, I mean flare, doing low hundreds damage, when fast, I mean haste, bumps the black belt/master into ripping tiamet and kraken new holes in two rounds. Plus RM/RW can actually taking a pounding for a little while.
I’m kinda contemplating starting over with a fighter , red mage, monk, white mage party. I kinda wanna fit the thief in, because I’ve seen the graphics for the other ones, and I want to see the new ninja graphics, plus, hey, someone who can use katana. But it’s really not worth it. =) (found the graphics for him on the website anyway).
I’m not sure how much I like the fact that they kept EVERYTHING about the game intact, such as the lopsided class stats and unpredictable spell effectiveness, but I’ve always been a fan of the underdog classes. I like challenge. =)
Pure offense magicians are always my favorite image-wise, so I can’t exclude them. I take a Thief simply to defy all the people that point out (and perhaps rightly so) that they Suh-huck with a capital S. C’mon, at least let me steal items!
Thieves suck, but ninjas are pretty damn cool.