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-> I have a job now. It is a desk job, and hence takes up my time from 9 to 5, 5 days a week. The work is interesting--I'm compiling a database of basically every comic book store in the country, and then surveying them all over the phone. Some owners are really cool people and some are really cynical, some are incredibly polite and friendly and some are in New York. The people in the office are cool, and I really like my boss, who's going out of his way to make this job a really valuable experience for me, letting me sit in on conference calls and accompany him to customer calls and the like. I'm shoved around to a new desk every day, of course, depending on who's absent, but I'm still enjoying the hell out of it. Except for the waking up at 7 AM part.


-> I'm doing stuff with my free time. Progress writing the Monkey Island RPG proceeds apace, and progress reading my way through everything Lois McMaster Bujold has ever written is nearly complete (I found Paladin of Souls in another branch of the library). I am told by yet another person that I absolutely must read Kushiel's Dart, too, a task made easier by happily finding it sitting on top of the paperback carrels at the library, despite a months-long waiting list. This, however, must take a back seat to the primary use of my free time, namely:


-> Babylon 5. SO GOOD. Kaitlin has already received a gushing late-night email following one episode, and I regularly find myself shaking in quiet joy as the credits roll. I am exactly halfway through season 3 now--I think I watched about 7 episodes today, and I should be getting the next batch off of BitTorrent before I post this entry. Wow wow wow. Any/all of the other people who haven't seen this yet... you absolutely must. I've started my friends here on it, lending one of them the first season to check out, and making them watch the first episode as inducement. I'll report any progress, but this effort may be hampered by these funny things they have called "social lives." Go figure.


-> I have also made ice cream. Flavors this summer include Mocha Caramel Swirl, Mint Oreo, Strawberry Mandarin Orange, and Butter Pecan. Tomorrow, Lizzie and I attempt: Chocolate Mint. More on this later.


-> Finally, I have decided to play an email game of Diplomacy. I have never, ever played or even watched this game before. I am England. I will get my ass kicked. I mean, the freaking rulebook is 24 pages long, as a .pdf file! Any help or advice, most welcomed.

Date: 2004-07-18 08:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lord-codfish.livejournal.com
Advice for Diplomacy:

1)Throw that rulebook away. You won't need it.
2)Attack your neighbors furiously. Especially Russia.
3)Give all your centers to Turkey.

Yep, that ought to do it. :)

Date: 2004-07-19 06:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wolfheart17.livejournal.com
1) Don't listen to anyone, except me, because from my fortress in switzerland, I can see all. And maybe, if you ask nicely I will give you some chocolate, or a nice army knife.
2) the rulebook will tell you how to properly format orders, after that you are on your own. If you tell me in words what you want to do, I can tell you how to order it.
3) make an alliance, they help.
4) The turks are filthy liars, you know they are allied with russia, and that you need to stop it. This is the case in EVERY game
5) england is pretty defensible, not a bad country for your first game (meanwhile I started out with my first two games being germany and austria)

Have fun!

Date: 2004-07-18 11:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] novalis.livejournal.com
Never betray someone at an ally's behest. They won't respect you in the morning.

Don't take the game personally. This sounds obvious, but is almost impossible. It's why I don't play dip.

Date: 2004-07-18 06:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lowellboyslash.livejournal.com
Advice for Babylon 5:
1. All episodes with "And" in the title are extra good.
2. Talk to an expert before watching the season 4 finale and everything necessary will be explained.
3. Do NOT watch ANYTHING out of order. (The order the dvd episodes are in is fine.)
4. Speculate about future plot twists at will - but ONLY with people who have watched as much as you or more.
5. Do NOT watch ***ANYTHING*** out of order!!

I'm considering doing something evil. It may take my soul. It may take my thesis. But it will never take... my freedom! Er. Sorry. It's the being painted blue thing. [coughs, straightens tie] Anyway, I'm considering actually doing the year-long B5 watch again this year. I'd like to know how everyone else feels about that - and how good you are at NOT being spoilerrific. Don't make me gag you. You'd like it too much. (Lowell boy. Pff. Just because you don't live there doesn't mean you can be trusted with duct tape.)

Date: 2004-07-18 07:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] occultatio.livejournal.com
Hey, what do you take me for? I heard you warn about out-of-order watching enough last spring that it stuck. I've not gone a single step out of order! Except that I somehow missed an episode in late season 2, the one with the telepathic password... you know the one. I didn't notice anything was wrong until about halfway through season 3, when... the results of that episode were being discussed. So that sucked.

I'm nearly done with season 3 now, and I think I'd be up for the year-long watch. I mean, this show kicks so much ass...

Date: 2004-07-19 12:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lowellboyslash.livejournal.com
I take you for someone who clearly doesn't understand what I mean by DON'T GIVE OUT SPOILERS, as evidenced by your reply to my comment. Don't talk about B5 plots in public forums without BIG FLAMING SIGNS warning people that you're going to do it. It's just not nice. At best, don't talk about it in public forums at all, but at the very least, give people the choice about whether or not they read it.

Date: 2004-07-19 01:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] occultatio.livejournal.com
See, see, I thought I was making the complete opposite point, by referencing an episode in a way that you will recognize instantly, without letting a newbie know ANYTHING WHATSOEVER about the plot. Anybody reading that will have absolutely nothing spoiled for them, because they won't have the slightest clue what I'm talking about or its significance until the moment when they understand both simultaneously. I considered putting in a note to this effect on the last comment.

I understand that you should not even breathe word of plot events, but I maintain that I did not.

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