Wanted: Experienced GM
I'm so excited to have completed my second story for AU. NPC's are made, maps are made, visual settings are ready to be made. I just have to place my monsters. My personal thorn and challenge are the monsters...are they too hard...are they too easy...are they too mundane...? Tonnes of questions. I've re-read the section of the DMG 500 times where they give advice about placing them and setting CR's, but it's still "uncomfortable" because I have nobody to say, "yeah, that's right." I kept thinking that I would check with Eric. Oops, he wants to play. Fine, John then. Uh, no, he's playing too. Derek? Playing. OK then, Fiddy. Not quite...yes, he's playing too. Arg! Ball? I wasn't sure if he GM's or not, but I knew he understood storywriting. Nope though, he's playing too.
Suddenly, the intimidation factor of being a newbie GM just shot through the roof as it dawned on me that this is beyond just a bunch of friends getting together for a game, but I have all of the experienced GM's in my game. That's crazily scarey. I still would like to check my CR's and placements of the monsters, so if there is an experienced GM that would like to ensure me that everything's OK or that I need tweaks, I would greatly appreciate it!
23 January 2005
Good News and Bad News
Good news is always more fun...but if you start with the bad news, then you get to end on the positive note; however, I'm so excited about the good news, I'll start there. (Yes, my brain is scarily busy with decisions like that!)
I get cool new jewelry! I'm going to Mexico during the end of April/beginning of May, and I have a lot of my outfits bought or at least chosen. I love Ellen's jewelry, and discovered the perfect opportunity to stock up with some of my favourite stones. I stopped by her place yesterday and told her my dominant colours and we came up with four different varying sets of varying colours. It's going to be so awesome.
The bad news is that I was really really looking forward to the IMA's (Indianapolis Museum of Art) big bash open house for members. It's supposed to be quite the deal, and activities lasting all week. Would you believe that the open house is on the day we fly out to Mexico, and the weeklong activities are during the time I'm gone? So many months of looking forward to that event gone.
I'll just have to focus on the new jewelry and outfits...
Good news is always more fun...but if you start with the bad news, then you get to end on the positive note; however, I'm so excited about the good news, I'll start there. (Yes, my brain is scarily busy with decisions like that!)
I get cool new jewelry! I'm going to Mexico during the end of April/beginning of May, and I have a lot of my outfits bought or at least chosen. I love Ellen's jewelry, and discovered the perfect opportunity to stock up with some of my favourite stones. I stopped by her place yesterday and told her my dominant colours and we came up with four different varying sets of varying colours. It's going to be so awesome.
The bad news is that I was really really looking forward to the IMA's (Indianapolis Museum of Art) big bash open house for members. It's supposed to be quite the deal, and activities lasting all week. Would you believe that the open house is on the day we fly out to Mexico, and the weeklong activities are during the time I'm gone? So many months of looking forward to that event gone.
I'll just have to focus on the new jewelry and outfits...
14 January 2005
Stress...More Stress...Crash
Stress
A year long incident started out very simply. I earned an A in a class that ended in Feb 04, and the prof miscalculated, giving me a A-. I tried contacting the prof...no response. I contacted the advisor, and did the complaint procedures she requested. Many months go by, and no change to my grade. Another advisor comes on board. I explain the situation and go through the entire ordeal again. Nothing. A freakin' third advisor comes on board. He actually does something. By this time (8 months later) the prof has been contacted and she requested a grade change. Please note that I did everything in my power to get it changed as of two weeks of getting the grade.
More Stress
I'm truckin' along. Finished my last class. Just have the capstone/thesis session left. I have a 4.0, except for the A- that was incorrectly posted. I ring the advisor. He said that he just got word from the grade grievance board that my request was denied because they did not get the complaint within six weeks. You can imagine my reaction. I was speechless at first. How could they make me take the fall for their own poor handling of the situation? Then I couldn't stop crying because I wanted to get a 4.0 for the degree in order for a better shot at a good doctrate programme. I was such an emotional basketcase I almost left roleplaying, but finally got it together. Anyway, I had over 20 emails of communication with these people trying to get it fixed over a time period of nearly a year. The advisor asked me to forward the response from the first advisor, which was two weeks after the grade incident, and he'd forward it on to the academic affairs office. I certainly did...along with a timeline of the incidents, my complaint of the unfairness, and a promise of legal interference if it became necessary.
Crash
You know how stress can build and build, and then when it's over, you just crash emotionally? This has been a year long building, then a huge spike, so you can imagine my collapse of relief when I received an email this morning (less than 8 hours turnaround!) from my advisor forwarding me the approval override from the academic affairs office. Hopefully the transcript will be changed by next week. After that mess, I have been nothing but a zombie all day. Thankfully, I can wile my stress away tonight at the hockey game and tomorrow by gaming all day :)
Stress
A year long incident started out very simply. I earned an A in a class that ended in Feb 04, and the prof miscalculated, giving me a A-. I tried contacting the prof...no response. I contacted the advisor, and did the complaint procedures she requested. Many months go by, and no change to my grade. Another advisor comes on board. I explain the situation and go through the entire ordeal again. Nothing. A freakin' third advisor comes on board. He actually does something. By this time (8 months later) the prof has been contacted and she requested a grade change. Please note that I did everything in my power to get it changed as of two weeks of getting the grade.
More Stress
I'm truckin' along. Finished my last class. Just have the capstone/thesis session left. I have a 4.0, except for the A- that was incorrectly posted. I ring the advisor. He said that he just got word from the grade grievance board that my request was denied because they did not get the complaint within six weeks. You can imagine my reaction. I was speechless at first. How could they make me take the fall for their own poor handling of the situation? Then I couldn't stop crying because I wanted to get a 4.0 for the degree in order for a better shot at a good doctrate programme. I was such an emotional basketcase I almost left roleplaying, but finally got it together. Anyway, I had over 20 emails of communication with these people trying to get it fixed over a time period of nearly a year. The advisor asked me to forward the response from the first advisor, which was two weeks after the grade incident, and he'd forward it on to the academic affairs office. I certainly did...along with a timeline of the incidents, my complaint of the unfairness, and a promise of legal interference if it became necessary.
Crash
You know how stress can build and build, and then when it's over, you just crash emotionally? This has been a year long building, then a huge spike, so you can imagine my collapse of relief when I received an email this morning (less than 8 hours turnaround!) from my advisor forwarding me the approval override from the academic affairs office. Hopefully the transcript will be changed by next week. After that mess, I have been nothing but a zombie all day. Thankfully, I can wile my stress away tonight at the hockey game and tomorrow by gaming all day :)
12 January 2005
Bleh
I feel very "bleh". It may be partly because I've been hungry a lot lately, but if I eat, i don't feel well. Otherwise, I'm loving the weather, at least today's weather. It actually almost motivates me to go the park or something. I adore drizzly overcast weather in the 60's or so :)
Last weekend was fun. Unfortunately, I don't have a huge memory capacity, so I forget about past events pretty quickly, but I do remember having a good time watching Sally play poker and accidentally bluffing Chappy, then winning...The food and drinks were good too :) :) Monday was the George Clinton concert with Sheehe, Tonya, Dave and both Eric's. I really really enjoyed the first half, but apparantly this group from the drug decade didn't realise that we weren't high as they played instrumentals for 45 minutes between the singing; it got really repetitive. The music kicked back in, but by that time all I could see was a patty melt and onion rings, so we left for Steak 'n Shake.
Let's see what this weekend has in store...definitely nothing huge going on during the week. Another "bleh" point. It must be because it's January.
I feel very "bleh". It may be partly because I've been hungry a lot lately, but if I eat, i don't feel well. Otherwise, I'm loving the weather, at least today's weather. It actually almost motivates me to go the park or something. I adore drizzly overcast weather in the 60's or so :)
Last weekend was fun. Unfortunately, I don't have a huge memory capacity, so I forget about past events pretty quickly, but I do remember having a good time watching Sally play poker and accidentally bluffing Chappy, then winning...The food and drinks were good too :) :) Monday was the George Clinton concert with Sheehe, Tonya, Dave and both Eric's. I really really enjoyed the first half, but apparantly this group from the drug decade didn't realise that we weren't high as they played instrumentals for 45 minutes between the singing; it got really repetitive. The music kicked back in, but by that time all I could see was a patty melt and onion rings, so we left for Steak 'n Shake.
Let's see what this weekend has in store...definitely nothing huge going on during the week. Another "bleh" point. It must be because it's January.
05 January 2005
No no no!
Just because I thought the rain was good for my bulbs did not mean that I wanted cold freezing rain. Apparantly the world does not revolve around my own desires. Very sad.
I had a funny dream...normally my dreams aren't worth repeating, but recently I think I've been reading too many KODT just before sleeping, causing some funny dreams. I dreamt that I had plans to visit England, but I lost my passport. The fortunate thing was that I had a friend at the airport that would let me get across the pond without producing my passport. The friend just warned me that I probably wouldn't be able to get back, but I didn't care, so I still planned to go. Then, another friend promised to turn me in for treason (not sure how the concept of treason got involved), so I was too scared to go, and decided to just apply for another passport. Very very strange. Of course, that wasn't as bad as the time that I was fighting a huge furry monster, then woke up to YY sleeping on my face. The problem was that I wasn't completely awake, so I was certain that YY was the furry monster. Definitely too much KODT before bed.
Just because I thought the rain was good for my bulbs did not mean that I wanted cold freezing rain. Apparantly the world does not revolve around my own desires. Very sad.
I had a funny dream...normally my dreams aren't worth repeating, but recently I think I've been reading too many KODT just before sleeping, causing some funny dreams. I dreamt that I had plans to visit England, but I lost my passport. The fortunate thing was that I had a friend at the airport that would let me get across the pond without producing my passport. The friend just warned me that I probably wouldn't be able to get back, but I didn't care, so I still planned to go. Then, another friend promised to turn me in for treason (not sure how the concept of treason got involved), so I was too scared to go, and decided to just apply for another passport. Very very strange. Of course, that wasn't as bad as the time that I was fighting a huge furry monster, then woke up to YY sleeping on my face. The problem was that I wasn't completely awake, so I was certain that YY was the furry monster. Definitely too much KODT before bed.
04 January 2005
Flowers!
Is it Spring yet?
Is it Spring yet?
Is it Spring yet?
We got our pretty snow over Christmas, awesome weather for bummin' outside over New Years, NOW...let's get to the pretty Spring weather!!!!
Sunday was so freakin' gorgeous that I even got my daffy, tulip, iris, and something else bulbs planted with my dad doing the burying. They might not make it, but our dirt has not officially frozen over yet, as it was moist and crumbly over a foot down. That has to be a good sign...then it rained all next day. I'm definitely hopeful for pretty flowers in March - June.
I'm being broken in slowly with Tae Kwon Do teaching again since my one afterschool program started this week, and the other one starts next week. Other than that, my time has been focused on RPG stuff. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it's been enjoyable, so I'll ignore the upcoming Ellen comment that will undoubtably make fun of me and be proud of my new Nymph character (on RPG board).
Is it Spring yet?
Is it Spring yet?
Is it Spring yet?
We got our pretty snow over Christmas, awesome weather for bummin' outside over New Years, NOW...let's get to the pretty Spring weather!!!!
Sunday was so freakin' gorgeous that I even got my daffy, tulip, iris, and something else bulbs planted with my dad doing the burying. They might not make it, but our dirt has not officially frozen over yet, as it was moist and crumbly over a foot down. That has to be a good sign...then it rained all next day. I'm definitely hopeful for pretty flowers in March - June.
I'm being broken in slowly with Tae Kwon Do teaching again since my one afterschool program started this week, and the other one starts next week. Other than that, my time has been focused on RPG stuff. I'm not sure if that's good or bad, but it's been enjoyable, so I'll ignore the upcoming Ellen comment that will undoubtably make fun of me and be proud of my new Nymph character (on RPG board).
01 January 2005
Officially 2005!
Clearly I'm going a little picture crazy, but that's mostly because we finally replaced the camera that I "rummed" while in England last May. New Year's Eve was a tonne of fun. The Manhattan Rhythm Kings were fabulous with their tap dancing and swing music, backed by the ISO. I managed to get an autograph on their CD, which was cool. This is the official photo just after the announcement (the camera didn't get the champaigne).
We spent the first day of 2005 being home and playing a game that my parents made us. If you are here for Gaming Night, I'll have to show you. Basically, they carved, painted, and created all of the components of a game, then we have to make up rules for different games that go with the items. So far, we each have created a game with it. They also made an awesome wooden box to hold the components, and several sets of dice, so the configurations of different games seem limitless right now.
Less important details of the day include Mazi spending the day by the warm register, YY spending the day sleeping, and Q getting snacks.
 |
Clearly I'm going a little picture crazy, but that's mostly because we finally replaced the camera that I "rummed" while in England last May. New Year's Eve was a tonne of fun. The Manhattan Rhythm Kings were fabulous with their tap dancing and swing music, backed by the ISO. I managed to get an autograph on their CD, which was cool. This is the official photo just after the announcement (the camera didn't get the champaigne).
We spent the first day of 2005 being home and playing a game that my parents made us. If you are here for Gaming Night, I'll have to show you. Basically, they carved, painted, and created all of the components of a game, then we have to make up rules for different games that go with the items. So far, we each have created a game with it. They also made an awesome wooden box to hold the components, and several sets of dice, so the configurations of different games seem limitless right now.
Less important details of the day include Mazi spending the day by the warm register, YY spending the day sleeping, and Q getting snacks.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)