Beltaine

[jack]

On Monday I was productive, and did much veizla-organising (date confirmed sat 24th june, announcement tonight), and cts termcard making up, and the like, though STILL didn't have time to sit down and curl up for a bit.

I missed pizza and probably penultima :( but went to Edith's Beltaine at Oblivion, yay!

• Pip was there with Edith, it's really lovely to see her. I'm glad she did make it out.
  
• Unfortunately, Pip and I tend to turn into an exponential runaway inneundo-pumping machine, the acceleration if not the content of which might have shocked people trying to have a *semi*-serious conversation :)
  
• *Hug* Edith and Nick. I haven't visited Oblivion for aaaaaaaages, despite going to parties there quite often. It was nice to see both these fine gentlemen[1] on their home ground again.
  
• Ian and Kirsty (Edit: fixed various conceptual levels of typo) were there, and apologised for confusion and frustration on the linear in a very sweet mannar, and I said there was absolutely nothing to worry about, and if that was a badly organised linear then it was in fact very good, it was just bad for a new player, and things became almost inconceivably jolly[2].
  
• And then much useful advice about ishmundi was proffered, and much general discussion about what makes a good roleplaying system happened.
  
• I would have liked to see Wicker Man, but it was getting late, so I came home, curled up with a book for 3/4 of an hour and went to bed at a good time.
  
• I have become a mead-fairy.
  

I feel good.

[1] OK, ok, "san"
[2] Cryptonomicon quote.

Comments

[koryne-is-me.livejournal.com]

*mutter*Kirsty*mutter* I am not a type of bow!
Who is this strange Rob person?

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Doh! Edited. I'm sorry, I really don't know why I do that. I think because I didn't know Ian well, and met him first in company with a very large number of other people I didn't know whose names I would have to remember, and my brain gets all the way to "Three letter straightforward name attached to tall nice roleplayer" and then barfs on *which* :)

I swear I don't do that just to see if people are watching :)

[koryne-is-me.livejournal.com]

*grin* I tend to get names horrifically confused, so much so that I tend to default to not using them. This gets especially confusing when all my friends have a subset of birthname, nickname, IRC/wiki-name, LJ username and up to three or four character names (some of which may be different aliases for the same character). A good number of them also dress up. Hence I tend to remember *people* not names or faces - which is all very well until I have to dredge one or other out of my memory.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I eventually decided not to be embarassed by getting it wrong, which occasionally means I make the same mistake several times (sorry) but mainly means I make an effort and aren't afraid to ask every time I forget, which has been generally more successful as a whole :)

The whole four different pseudonyms at least is definitely taxing though.

In retrospect, as I'm not trying to be particularly anonymous, I should have chosen an online handle assonansic with Jack to help people remember. At the time CDaemon was a one-off name I didn't expect anyone to get to know me by before they knew me IRL, and then when I started blogging regularly never wanted to change it as that'd just make it more complicated for everyone :)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I'm generally quite good at recognising *people* too, except perhaps when I meet a lot of people who are the same in the ways I normally tag them by. For instance, short female asnac student with dark hair who knows John, would normally enough for my brain to use as a primary ID and start to identify other information like name, personality, etc, but if I meet lots of them at once, by the time my brain has adjusted, they've all run together in my mind :)