Slow

I'm apparently slowing down my posting (which Jordan will probably be grateful for). And it's going to get even slower over the weekend, as I'll be at EISNER CAMP for a Hebrew school retreat. No internet access. So if I don't get back to anyone right away, that's why.

Peace!

Cheating

Last week, I spent the entirety of a badminton game in gym class arguing about cheating. My doubles partner and I are both reasonably intellegent people, if I do say so myself, and our opponents were, shall we say, not. They were attempting to convince us that we were really mean because we wouldn't give them answers on tests. The girl we were facing kept on tossing around the phrase "share the wealth!"

What?

Roleplay

I miss roleplaying. I miss having time for it, and I definitely miss Corruption. That, I think, was the worst casualty of the original Unbinded dying. Of course Corruption was already pretty much comatose by the time Ogu shut down the forums. But still. I've got the file on my (broken) computer, so if I recover the files I'll have it. Hopefully Ogu still has the Unbinded files and can send them to me again.

Another new EverQuestII expansion comes out today, and I'm still not back on the servers. I sort of want to re-up my account, but I don't have the time, the money, or the working computer to run it properly. Well, I have the money, but I owe my mom too much, and I need to save for a computer. So it's a bit circular.

I miss the guild, and I definitely miss roleplaying. I'm going to fall even further behind, since they're bumping the level cap up to 80 with this expansion, and I'm still at 50-something, maybe even just 50. I've got the cash to buy proper armor and weapons, which will be nice, considering the fact that I just moved up a tier and most of my stuff is quite a bit behind.

My mount makes me want to shoot myself some times, though, since it's only a 10% run speed, and as a human paladin I'm not all that quick to begin with. All of my groupmates always have much faster mounts and other speed increases. I'm onto my carpet quest, though, and Muqali's home so he'll probably help me out, since he's really nice. I need to be powerleveled, really, but I'd settle for being dragged through the carpet quest.

Back to roleplay. I'm trying to get into Laik's new roleplay on the new Unbinded, Staring at the Sun, but I'm confused. And I'd be happy to get into Frecyo's Shattered Sea thing, but that's even more confusing.

And on top of all that, I've still got work to do.

Dammit.

Rabbits

Fluffy, adorable animals, right? Everybody loves them, and only a few people love them for their nutritional assets.

But oh my god, those that do eat them: Gross. Really, really gross. And mean. Really, really mean.

We were just watching Michael Moore's first documentary, Roger and Me, in economics, and there's this woman in it who sells rabbits for food and pets to try to make ends meet. And you know me, I'm all for people having enough money to feed their families, but I shudder at bashing a bunny's head in, tying it to a tree, and skinning it, all in front of a camera. Way to make me nauseated.

On a national level

Today is Veterans Day.

I was debating whether or not I was going to acknowledge it, but I've decided that I should.

I am, though I was not always, a patriotic American.

My patriotism might not lead me to agree with the present administration, or with a lot of what some prominent individuals say, but I do love my country and what it was founded on.

I respect the sacrifice of every veteran and every soldier, even if I don't necessarily agree with the war they fought in. They fought, they died or they survived, all for their country.

My salutes to you, members of the armed forces.