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Carrie has introduced me to this online program called Second Life. I'm still not sure that I like it but I discovered over the weekend that shopping in Second Life is fun. Of course I don't have any way to earn funds so Carrie's been sending me SL money. I'm not sure I want an SL job to do after I get home to work. But building a character and buying clothes hair and skin has been entertaining. Friday night I went to the SL club where Carrie was dj-ing and listened to comedy classics like "They're coming to take me away," "Alibaba temple of the shrine," and "Big balls." My character danced while I sewed and listened to music.
Saturday I sort of slept in. Then ran to the laundromat to deposit clothes in washers, ran back to shower, and then back the laundromat to feed quarters to the drier. All total I spent an hour and a half doing a week and a half's worth of laundry plus cat casualties. It would have take all day at mom and dad's. Time vs money...I spent the money this time and don't begrudge it.
With my free time I was able to knit some on my sweetheart hat and generally slob around the house. I did some cleaning but not a lot. About 2:00 I started curling my hair and getting ready to go to pick up Robert for Vampire Camarilla...yes, I've been sucked in. So far it amuses me but I'm not really invested yet. I didn't quite manage the look I was looking for and in the process determined that I'm allergic to the eyeliner I have at home (although I didn't truly discover this until Sunday). I scrubbed the make-up; I decided I looked better without it. Hair was softly curly but not the 40's look I wanted. Still I looked just fine.
At Robert and Carrie's we set up my trial membership and set up my character sheet. I'd written the background over the last week and it had been reviewed and plotted over already by the story tellers. At the game my character was introduced and tie ins were arranged. Fortunately, since the character Robert needed to play most of the night was not the one connected to my character and had no cause to talk to me, I was tied in to another player who was able to sit with me and talk in character for most of the night. That was fun. Developing the mannerisms was fun, although initially brought on by my extreme shyness, the soft voice, stammering, and shaking were rather appropriate for my character at this point and time. Acting... is totally out of my comfort zone. But it's always good to push yourself, right? Also, there are twists in my story, thanks to the story tellers, that are making my introductions a bit interesting. Mostly it's my fault, based on my back story; I don't know who my Sire is and so don't know my family or political affiliations. Which means that I'm getting some really interesting responses when questioned about such. I'm really interested in building the ties though. I have one in place and another pending. Plus I'm quite intrigued with my character's relationship with Tragedy. I got accused of being too casual in my address when I requested that someone call me by an abbreviation of my character's name but that was the only truly tense moment. Given the political affiliation of the individual making the accusation, that may have been totally character to character. Still it's hard to tell sometimes whether someone is just acting "in character" or is truly being rude. (And I'm guessing sometimes the answer is just "Yes.") I got home about 3:00 am, thanks to the time change and dove into bed.
Sunday I had my church services and then went to Robert and Carrie's so that Carrie could show me more about Second Life. Well, theoretically, anyway. I got my laptop there and it simply would not boot. Power came on, fan came on for about 15 seconds and then nothing. Fan went off, screen stayed black. Power was on and nothing short of pulling the battery out would reset the computer. There was no magic that worked to fix it. It just WOULD NOT WORK! So I had a moment. Eventually I was persuaded to use one of their computers and we played for a while on that. However, my head decided a migraine might be in order so I ended up feeling really horrible. Robert was able to massage my head enough for the puking sick feeling to go away and give me enough time to drive home. Sleep seemed to take care of the rest.
Without a computer I feel totally cut off from everyone. My desktop still will not communicate with my monitor for some unknown reason. Robert has tried to fix it but we still haven't come up with a solution. He's going to work on it again tonight and if necessary loan me a computer so I don't feel quite so isolated. I may have the magic touch at work but at home I have nasty computer foo. *sigh* I'm glad Robert and Carrie have one they could lend to me. I'll have to figure out how to set it up so I can be a couch potato and still on the computer. That's really easy with a laptop but not so much with a desktop. I don't have money to replace a computer right now so hopefully someone can get one of my computers working. Todd at work has been bribed with butterscotch cookies to look at the laptop; I'll bring it to him tomorrow.
Saturday I sort of slept in. Then ran to the laundromat to deposit clothes in washers, ran back to shower, and then back the laundromat to feed quarters to the drier. All total I spent an hour and a half doing a week and a half's worth of laundry plus cat casualties. It would have take all day at mom and dad's. Time vs money...I spent the money this time and don't begrudge it.
With my free time I was able to knit some on my sweetheart hat and generally slob around the house. I did some cleaning but not a lot. About 2:00 I started curling my hair and getting ready to go to pick up Robert for Vampire Camarilla...yes, I've been sucked in. So far it amuses me but I'm not really invested yet. I didn't quite manage the look I was looking for and in the process determined that I'm allergic to the eyeliner I have at home (although I didn't truly discover this until Sunday). I scrubbed the make-up; I decided I looked better without it. Hair was softly curly but not the 40's look I wanted. Still I looked just fine.
At Robert and Carrie's we set up my trial membership and set up my character sheet. I'd written the background over the last week and it had been reviewed and plotted over already by the story tellers. At the game my character was introduced and tie ins were arranged. Fortunately, since the character Robert needed to play most of the night was not the one connected to my character and had no cause to talk to me, I was tied in to another player who was able to sit with me and talk in character for most of the night. That was fun. Developing the mannerisms was fun, although initially brought on by my extreme shyness, the soft voice, stammering, and shaking were rather appropriate for my character at this point and time. Acting... is totally out of my comfort zone. But it's always good to push yourself, right? Also, there are twists in my story, thanks to the story tellers, that are making my introductions a bit interesting. Mostly it's my fault, based on my back story; I don't know who my Sire is and so don't know my family or political affiliations. Which means that I'm getting some really interesting responses when questioned about such. I'm really interested in building the ties though. I have one in place and another pending. Plus I'm quite intrigued with my character's relationship with Tragedy. I got accused of being too casual in my address when I requested that someone call me by an abbreviation of my character's name but that was the only truly tense moment. Given the political affiliation of the individual making the accusation, that may have been totally character to character. Still it's hard to tell sometimes whether someone is just acting "in character" or is truly being rude. (And I'm guessing sometimes the answer is just "Yes.") I got home about 3:00 am, thanks to the time change and dove into bed.
Sunday I had my church services and then went to Robert and Carrie's so that Carrie could show me more about Second Life. Well, theoretically, anyway. I got my laptop there and it simply would not boot. Power came on, fan came on for about 15 seconds and then nothing. Fan went off, screen stayed black. Power was on and nothing short of pulling the battery out would reset the computer. There was no magic that worked to fix it. It just WOULD NOT WORK! So I had a moment. Eventually I was persuaded to use one of their computers and we played for a while on that. However, my head decided a migraine might be in order so I ended up feeling really horrible. Robert was able to massage my head enough for the puking sick feeling to go away and give me enough time to drive home. Sleep seemed to take care of the rest.
Without a computer I feel totally cut off from everyone. My desktop still will not communicate with my monitor for some unknown reason. Robert has tried to fix it but we still haven't come up with a solution. He's going to work on it again tonight and if necessary loan me a computer so I don't feel quite so isolated. I may have the magic touch at work but at home I have nasty computer foo. *sigh* I'm glad Robert and Carrie have one they could lend to me. I'll have to figure out how to set it up so I can be a couch potato and still on the computer. That's really easy with a laptop but not so much with a desktop. I don't have money to replace a computer right now so hopefully someone can get one of my computers working. Todd at work has been bribed with butterscotch cookies to look at the laptop; I'll bring it to him tomorrow.
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