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drcuriosityTime for another vague update of my life.
Friday I went to Seth's birthday drinkies at Michael, Keely and Ricki's new place. 'Tis quite a nice house and area, though quite far to cycle. Still, conversation was good and I eventually ended up leaving at about 4am, though I was lucky enough to get a ride home.
Saturday night was interesting - a party with a bunch of people who I talk to online fairly regularly, but hadn't met most of in person before. A couple of the people were a little odd and scary, but again there was good conversation and interesting people and leaving at about 4am to be had. Granted, there was the Daylight Savings Time changeover during that, though (yes, we are now sticking out over the International Date Line at GMT+13hrs, putting us an entire day ahead of Hawaii).
Sunday night involved anime-watching and an evening of political wrangling in my normal fortnightly game. I managed to avoid becoming the Prince of the city again! Yay! The new order seems to be at least somewhat stable, but with antagonistic power blocs that could make the game fun. And my character gets to manipulate and balance the political scales without having too much responsiblility. Excellent.
On Wednesday I got a hopefuly promising email: The company I interviewed for recently has asked me back for a second interview. I've never had to have a second interview before so I don't know exactly what's required in them, but it's better than hearing nothing or outright not getting the job, I guess. Hopefully that will go well, and I'll be employed again soon. :-)
Thursday afternoon, after studying technical things that I may need for this job interview, I took a break to read through Degrees of Insanity, written by a talented and generally nifty friend,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mattmatt, and then headed off to gaming via Big Green Bus. Riding along with my eyes closed and seeing if I can tell where on the journey I am by feel. At Riccarton Mall I hear a "...speaking of Morbid..." only to find the aforementioned mattmatt and the heretofore un-met-in-person kphoebe getting on - unfortunately only one stop before I had to get off, so I didn't get to chat for long. Why is it that I seem to be making a habit of meeting new/old friends when I'm tired and completely dishevelled? It seems the universe doesn't like me making good first impressions :-) Still, kphoebe seems to think that I look like me (or at least my user pic), which I hope is a good thing.
Gaming went well tonight, and it seems that my Shadowrun character has become a Tai Chi master while I wasn't paying attention. Not bad for someone who started out as a sarariman in the HR department when I first created him :-) He also confessed some of his dark past to the girl he's been going out with for the last few months, which has made stuff quite difficult between them but drives the plot along nicely - both in terms of that relationship, and the dark past. It's stuff like that which makes the character a role you play, rather than a set of statistics that hits bad guys. This is one of the things I find most satisfying in gaming. It may be simple escapism and "not a real form of artistic expression" to some, but I find it gives me a good excuse to be social, collaborative and help craft a story, all the same.
On another note, I'm pondering something with regard to a lady I met recently, introduced to me by a mutual friend. She seems to have an unfortunate combination of traits, in that I find her intelligent, interesting, articulate, fun and beautiful. Poor girl, huh? I'm considering asking her out so that I can hopefully get to know her a bit better, but I gather that she's had problems with men recently - in terms of both being treated badly and having to put up with unwanted attention. As such, I'm worried that my timing may not be the best - and, let's face it, my timing with respect to women has never been particularly good. Then again, I've also had problems in the past with registering my interest in someone too late, when I've been well and truly stuck in the "just a friend - and only ever a friend" category.
I think this will require further thought (but not too much thought, you over-analysing fool!), and possible candid questioning of the mutual friend. The politics of emotion are difficult, especially for the inexperienced such as I.
And if you think you know who I'm talking about, I'd be curious to hear your guesses at the email address provided in my info. Otherwise, shhh! Don't want to give the game away, do we..? ;-)
Friday I went to Seth's birthday drinkies at Michael, Keely and Ricki's new place. 'Tis quite a nice house and area, though quite far to cycle. Still, conversation was good and I eventually ended up leaving at about 4am, though I was lucky enough to get a ride home.
Saturday night was interesting - a party with a bunch of people who I talk to online fairly regularly, but hadn't met most of in person before. A couple of the people were a little odd and scary, but again there was good conversation and interesting people and leaving at about 4am to be had. Granted, there was the Daylight Savings Time changeover during that, though (yes, we are now sticking out over the International Date Line at GMT+13hrs, putting us an entire day ahead of Hawaii).
Sunday night involved anime-watching and an evening of political wrangling in my normal fortnightly game. I managed to avoid becoming the Prince of the city again! Yay! The new order seems to be at least somewhat stable, but with antagonistic power blocs that could make the game fun. And my character gets to manipulate and balance the political scales without having too much responsiblility. Excellent.
On Wednesday I got a hopefuly promising email: The company I interviewed for recently has asked me back for a second interview. I've never had to have a second interview before so I don't know exactly what's required in them, but it's better than hearing nothing or outright not getting the job, I guess. Hopefully that will go well, and I'll be employed again soon. :-)
Thursday afternoon, after studying technical things that I may need for this job interview, I took a break to read through Degrees of Insanity, written by a talented and generally nifty friend,
mattmatt, and then headed off to gaming via Big Green Bus. Riding along with my eyes closed and seeing if I can tell where on the journey I am by feel. At Riccarton Mall I hear a "...speaking of Morbid..." only to find the aforementioned mattmatt and the heretofore un-met-in-person kphoebe getting on - unfortunately only one stop before I had to get off, so I didn't get to chat for long. Why is it that I seem to be making a habit of meeting new/old friends when I'm tired and completely dishevelled? It seems the universe doesn't like me making good first impressions :-) Still, kphoebe seems to think that I look like me (or at least my user pic), which I hope is a good thing.Gaming went well tonight, and it seems that my Shadowrun character has become a Tai Chi master while I wasn't paying attention. Not bad for someone who started out as a sarariman in the HR department when I first created him :-) He also confessed some of his dark past to the girl he's been going out with for the last few months, which has made stuff quite difficult between them but drives the plot along nicely - both in terms of that relationship, and the dark past. It's stuff like that which makes the character a role you play, rather than a set of statistics that hits bad guys. This is one of the things I find most satisfying in gaming. It may be simple escapism and "not a real form of artistic expression" to some, but I find it gives me a good excuse to be social, collaborative and help craft a story, all the same.
On another note, I'm pondering something with regard to a lady I met recently, introduced to me by a mutual friend. She seems to have an unfortunate combination of traits, in that I find her intelligent, interesting, articulate, fun and beautiful. Poor girl, huh? I'm considering asking her out so that I can hopefully get to know her a bit better, but I gather that she's had problems with men recently - in terms of both being treated badly and having to put up with unwanted attention. As such, I'm worried that my timing may not be the best - and, let's face it, my timing with respect to women has never been particularly good. Then again, I've also had problems in the past with registering my interest in someone too late, when I've been well and truly stuck in the "just a friend - and only ever a friend" category.
I think this will require further thought (but not too much thought, you over-analysing fool!), and possible candid questioning of the mutual friend. The politics of emotion are difficult, especially for the inexperienced such as I.
And if you think you know who I'm talking about, I'd be curious to hear your guesses at the email address provided in my info. Otherwise, shhh! Don't want to give the game away, do we..? ;-)
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Second interviews...
Date: 2002-10-10 12:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-10 02:58 pm (UTC)*hug*
Get that job, meet that girl, avoid that princedom...
*more random Kitty-type encouragements*
Yay!
Meet and greet : second interviews
Date: 2002-10-10 03:25 pm (UTC)Have fun be your wonderful self, and you will suceed even if you don't get the job. They are fools.
No sign of bitterness honest.
Good luck.