At the end of last week, Gaederon laid down a challenge to see if he and I could both do a little creative writing to post by today. He posted his a couple days ago, so here's mine. Originally, this was going to be just a couple paragraphs total, but the idea sort of expanded beyond my initial idea. Instead of a complete story, this is instead the first ( Read more... )

Whether you are Irish or not, make sure you're wearing green today!

...let me count the ways ( Read more... )

Apparently things like this really do occur outside of movies...

Sex-romp Satoya stripped again -- this time of World Cup team spot

I haven't posted in my LJ since August of last year. Not surprising, really, considering how lax I've been lately with anything dealing with my online interests, other than FFXI. Between the stresses of being the father of a now-14-month-old child and the teacher of over 100 high school freshman, I've admittedly not had much time or energy to ( Read more... )

It is now the end of the third complete week of school with students in attendance. Thus far, this year is going better than the previous two and the students themselves (despite all being freshman) seem reasonably well-behaved and cooperative, at least in comparison to previous classes. However, I still wish I was instead home taking care of my ( Read more... )

Okay, so after reading the short ficlets that elfen and suzie_b have been challenging each other to write, I got the idea of challenging each of them to write a ficlet based on the same pairing, chosen by me, to see what their different results look like.

I then decided it was only fair if I also wrote one myself. First time I've done something like this.

( So here it is. )

...which is why I play in one every Saturday, and another about once a month. And it's also why I plan on running a third game, also probably once a month, for elfen, kagetora and kyoki_tenchi. Details are still to be worked out, but I'll likely be using the Mutants & Masterminds system with some alternate rules. As for the setting? Here are a few tidbits to help set ( Read more... )

This Friday I return to work as a high school teacher, after spending the last six weeks or so at home as a full-time househubby and caretaker for my not-quite-7-month-old son. There have been days where I've been stressed and overwhelmed by this role, but overall I've immensely enjoyed it. I like staying home with my son, and being here when my ( Read more... )