The last 36 hours have been flipping awesome.
After the latest iteration of the Committee Plot From Hell (aka 2.009), the universe decided that it freaking owed me for the hell of last week.
I got to watch an American Jiu-Jitsu belt test. Not only was this special because friends were going up in rank, it was really special because of the ranks involved. One went up to sho-dan. One went up to ni-dan. Two went up to san-dan.
Also known as first-degree black belt, second-degree black belt, and third-degree black belt.
Yes, I got to see four black belt tests. The first-degree represented 5 years of hard training; the third-degrees represented ten years. Believe me when I say it was 2 hours of pure, unapologetic gratuitous asskicking.
Following that, I went to a party for people I haven't seen in at least a month. There was homebrewed beer and mead and grilled animal flesh. It was also mostly clear and roughly 60 degrees outside at night at the end of October. I miss being able to just shoot the shit with people and geek about LARPs and old LARPing stories. I miss people who can be rude and crude one minute and turn around and be absolutely sweet and the kind of people who you want to have your back at any time.
Then I got DST, which means I got an extra hour of SLEEP. You have no idea how much this means to me.
I headed up to a coffeeshop today I've taken to frequenting lately, and banged out details for the final projects for two classes. I just need to write one of them up formally, and get feedback from my group on the other (yes, I did my plot for the Committee Plot From Hell). I am utterly addicted to this coffeeshop, to the point where I almost have to go once a week, because it's just a really nice spot to do work (I feel less distracted because I'm paying for wireless there) and they have really great drinks.
And then tonight was the weekly run of the Persona tabletop that DMark runs. I babbled at![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
holdouttrout about it AT LENGTH. Suffice it to say that a plot point I had been pushing my character (who has been EXTREMELY RELUCTANT) towards, and that I enlisted the help of another player for, finally came to light this run. The awkward! The HILARITY. The CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I think the entire party spent at least 3/4ths of run cracking up out-of-character.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPY FEELS LIKE, RIGHT?
After the latest iteration of the Committee Plot From Hell (aka 2.009), the universe decided that it freaking owed me for the hell of last week.
I got to watch an American Jiu-Jitsu belt test. Not only was this special because friends were going up in rank, it was really special because of the ranks involved. One went up to sho-dan. One went up to ni-dan. Two went up to san-dan.
Also known as first-degree black belt, second-degree black belt, and third-degree black belt.
Yes, I got to see four black belt tests. The first-degree represented 5 years of hard training; the third-degrees represented ten years. Believe me when I say it was 2 hours of pure, unapologetic gratuitous asskicking.
Following that, I went to a party for people I haven't seen in at least a month. There was homebrewed beer and mead and grilled animal flesh. It was also mostly clear and roughly 60 degrees outside at night at the end of October. I miss being able to just shoot the shit with people and geek about LARPs and old LARPing stories. I miss people who can be rude and crude one minute and turn around and be absolutely sweet and the kind of people who you want to have your back at any time.
Then I got DST, which means I got an extra hour of SLEEP. You have no idea how much this means to me.
I headed up to a coffeeshop today I've taken to frequenting lately, and banged out details for the final projects for two classes. I just need to write one of them up formally, and get feedback from my group on the other (yes, I did my plot for the Committee Plot From Hell). I am utterly addicted to this coffeeshop, to the point where I almost have to go once a week, because it's just a really nice spot to do work (I feel less distracted because I'm paying for wireless there) and they have really great drinks.
And then tonight was the weekly run of the Persona tabletop that DMark runs. I babbled at
holdouttrout about it AT LENGTH. Suffice it to say that a plot point I had been pushing my character (who has been EXTREMELY RELUCTANT) towards, and that I enlisted the help of another player for, finally came to light this run. The awkward! The HILARITY. The CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT. I think the entire party spent at least 3/4ths of run cracking up out-of-character.THIS IS WHAT HAPPY FEELS LIKE, RIGHT?
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