I'm still playing D&D and the game's going pretty well. The plots picking up and we're all learning the rules pretty well. It's still too easy to forget what powers we have and the best ways to use them, but we're having fun. But there's still a few glitches in the rules that are bothering me ( Read more... )

With my schedule as packed as it's recently been, I was somehow still able to find new activities. As some of you may have heard, the Fourth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons came out last month, and as a colossal dork the hype caught my interest. I've been gaming since college, but somehow the big granddaddy of RPGs has escaped my attention thus far ( Read more... )

I had jury duty today. First time I ever had to go ( Read more... )

Things were looking really good at the start of the day. It's definitely the busy time of the season again. People are hiring. I was on my way to my second interview in two days, and that morning I had scheduled another interview for next week and talked with a recruiter about another opportunity. Well, like my preferred presidential candidate ( Read more... )

Gary Gygax is dead. For those that don't know, Gygax is the creator of Dungeons and Dragons, and thus of roleplaying games as we understand them today ( Read more... )

Yesterday I talked on the phone with IDEXX labs. I talked about it in my last post. It's in Maine, and it's veterinary medicine, so it was never my ideal job. I talked to them anyway, thinking it would be a "safety school" like situation. Something to fall back on if my more desired jobs in Boston. Turns out they want a very specific skill ( Read more... )

I went to a career fair yesterday. A career fair is an odd event. Everyone lines up in front of stalls for various corporations, hands over their resume and gives a short pitch begging for employment. It's a tiring and vaguely humilating experience. I spent more time talking to a classmate from Hamilton (Erica, who is very tall and a singer, ( Read more... )

This is from a letter I sent to Jessi today, but it's a non-specific rant that I'm comfortable sending it out there. The immediate circumstances is that I'm going to a career fair Tuesday, and I asked Jessi if she wanted to meet afterward. She could not. This is what I had in response:

Oh well.  I thought that Tuesday would be tricky schedule- ( Read more... )

I had to fight for my democratic rights today ( Read more... )

I had a date with Jessi last night. Pretty low-key. We planned to go window-shopping at Quincy Market. But in front of Faneuil Hall there was this group of people. When we got closer I could see that they were a dance troupe. And before we could get away... Jessi got served. Served hard. The doctors say she may never walk again. Then this ( Read more... )