I think I will be cutting back my SL time.   It hasn't been working out well lately.

It's not that it's no fun.  When I can get together with someone, it's been great.  It's that "when" that's the problem.  I've been on almost every night for more than a year.  For much of that time, it wasn't hard to have fun just showing up; sometimes there were ( Read more... )

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I've created a new community for the RP group, for announcements, schedules, background info, and recaps.

http://community.livejournal.com/echo_guild/

Kata and I will be putting more info there as we think of it. :) 

We had a very quiet Christmas, our chief indulgences being to go see The Golden Compass and making a cake. Mmm, good cake, filled with coffee and cocoa, very little fat but very rich.

( As for the movie )

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We've arrived in Chicago, rushing a little crazily because we had to get here by 6 tonight.  And we just made it ( Read more... )

I met Neil last night.  Well, dreamed about him.  But given his cosmology of dreams, isn't meeting him in dreams a form of meeting him?

He was sitting on a couch, surrounded by a knot of people... disappointingly, he attracts a crowd even in dreams.  Odd thing: Nicky, my first girlfriend, was there too.  Odd because I met her before reading any NG, ( Read more... )

But amusing.


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Some random thoughts about and encounters in SL...

1. I had a very vivid dream the other night that Torley Linden was talking to me, and saying I would be banned for public sex in SL.  I was really relieved to wake up and find that it wasn't real.

2. Overbuilding... what's up with that?  I was wandering around a build today that's not only huge, ( Read more... )

Some people in the RP group have expressed concern over combat and other things...

First, why do I want any at all?

Because stories are more intense and involving when things can go seriously wrong.  Read my previous entry about Rear Window... the scene is scary because, at root, we're afraid Grace Kelly is going to get killed.  I don't want a lot of ( Read more... )