all these poses of classical torture
Jun. 1st, 2004 01:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satyricamy mind and body no longer seem able to be awake or tired at the same time: this may be the result of the sleep-pattern abuse I have been indulging in over what was generally a pretty positive weekend. It consisted of . . .
Friday: on which I was quite unjustly and unexpectedly hungover and after my boss went home at lunchtime I spent the rest of the day lying down in a darkened office with a note on the door telling people to knock if they needed me. A few hours of sleep after work made me feel just about human enough to head to Egham for the weekend of Runnymede games. Sabbat had its problems, as I think all acknowledge, but seeing people was cool and there was chatting at the House of Plot afterwards until we crashed at about 3.
Saturday: on which, rather than loll about the HoP as I tend to on these weekends I went up to Windsor Great Park during the day for the first time which was beautiful and really serene; lying down by the lake was an almost physical sensation of calm. Then in the evening was the Cam game which utterly rocks my world, good to see lots of significant visiting characters being involved in stuff without trampling over the local talent, then more hanging out till early hours at HoP.
Sunday: on which, after getting up at 9 for the second day in a row for no readily apparent reason, chatting to peeps and making shit up for the Mage game, I ran scenes in the digital web which people seemed to enjoy disproportionately to the amount that A) I know about computers and B) I know about Mage: as far as I could tell the game seemed to go really well, everyone seemed to be being kept engaged with something without the game as a whole getting too much for the three of us to contain: many thanks to our NPC volunteers in that regard, I feel. Went straight back home to avoid becoming caught in the HoP's gravitational field and unable to leave, watched![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ebq mosh things on the X-Box and spurned the opportunity to go to bed at a sensible time in order to stay up till 4am spodding.
Monday: on which I had to go into work briefly to change the CCTV tape but it was nice to walk in the sun and then I was disconcerted to find Charles Kennedy shopping in our Tesco's. Continued my roleplaying geekery by spending the afternoon with marker pens and flip-charts and chatted to K. who also seems to be on an upturn at the mo which was cool. People gathered at our place pre-Red Eye and we went through various phases of x-box watching, hunter-gathering and animated rants on all the kinds of things you're not supposed to talk about at dinner parties and, my getting-to-places-on-time neuroses having been tested beyond all previous limits, made it to Red Eye.
Red Eye was fantastic:astebe7, cryx, barty, kimkali, winterdreamer, jamese, laumiere, zapruder, ebq and even a sickly elethiomel and Maggie had come along and maybe it was just the size of the group we were in but everything seemed to have this impervious buoyancy about it- they barely played a bad tune all night and there was much dancing, even from those who are far too modest about their ability to do so. We all stayed to the end and I eventually stumbled home by about 4, kinda sodden but I quite liked the fact that it was raining, it felt like something had changed. Made it to work without too much hassle (I think I've achieved an evolutionary adaption which means I don't need so much sleep on monday nights anymore) although ironically, after months of slackness, it looks like my last couple of weeks here are gonna be pretty hectic. Welcome to June everybody.
Friday: on which I was quite unjustly and unexpectedly hungover and after my boss went home at lunchtime I spent the rest of the day lying down in a darkened office with a note on the door telling people to knock if they needed me. A few hours of sleep after work made me feel just about human enough to head to Egham for the weekend of Runnymede games. Sabbat had its problems, as I think all acknowledge, but seeing people was cool and there was chatting at the House of Plot afterwards until we crashed at about 3.
Saturday: on which, rather than loll about the HoP as I tend to on these weekends I went up to Windsor Great Park during the day for the first time which was beautiful and really serene; lying down by the lake was an almost physical sensation of calm. Then in the evening was the Cam game which utterly rocks my world, good to see lots of significant visiting characters being involved in stuff without trampling over the local talent, then more hanging out till early hours at HoP.
Sunday: on which, after getting up at 9 for the second day in a row for no readily apparent reason, chatting to peeps and making shit up for the Mage game, I ran scenes in the digital web which people seemed to enjoy disproportionately to the amount that A) I know about computers and B) I know about Mage: as far as I could tell the game seemed to go really well, everyone seemed to be being kept engaged with something without the game as a whole getting too much for the three of us to contain: many thanks to our NPC volunteers in that regard, I feel. Went straight back home to avoid becoming caught in the HoP's gravitational field and unable to leave, watched
ebq mosh things on the X-Box and spurned the opportunity to go to bed at a sensible time in order to stay up till 4am spodding.Monday: on which I had to go into work briefly to change the CCTV tape but it was nice to walk in the sun and then I was disconcerted to find Charles Kennedy shopping in our Tesco's. Continued my roleplaying geekery by spending the afternoon with marker pens and flip-charts and chatted to K. who also seems to be on an upturn at the mo which was cool. People gathered at our place pre-Red Eye and we went through various phases of x-box watching, hunter-gathering and animated rants on all the kinds of things you're not supposed to talk about at dinner parties and, my getting-to-places-on-time neuroses having been tested beyond all previous limits, made it to Red Eye.
Red Eye was fantastic:
astebe7, cryx, barty, kimkali, winterdreamer, jamese, laumiere, zapruder, ebq and even a sickly elethiomel and Maggie had come along and maybe it was just the size of the group we were in but everything seemed to have this impervious buoyancy about it- they barely played a bad tune all night and there was much dancing, even from those who are far too modest about their ability to do so. We all stayed to the end and I eventually stumbled home by about 4, kinda sodden but I quite liked the fact that it was raining, it felt like something had changed. Made it to work without too much hassle (I think I've achieved an evolutionary adaption which means I don't need so much sleep on monday nights anymore) although ironically, after months of slackness, it looks like my last couple of weeks here are gonna be pretty hectic. Welcome to June everybody.
