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This is so funny to me. T and I played Warcraft last night with the friend I talked about in the last entry. He finally got his headphones to work, so we actually spoke with him--which amazes me. I know, I know. VOIP is an established thing. Still amazing. We found out he's 14. And now I'm not as keen to play with him. We're old enough to be his parents. Or, as Thomas helpfully pointed out, possibly even his grandparents. (That's a stretch.) We never actually told him our ages, but T asked questions like, "Do your parents mind you playing", etc. Obviously "old man" questions. So funny. He was so much like my nephew was at that age, down to the really lame joke he told. I kinda don't think this is what my therapist had in mind when she wanted me to broaden my circle of friends. Tags: gaming, world of warcraft
Current Location: home, my aerie
Current Mood:  awake
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Last night I actually interacted at length with a real person while playing World of Warcraft. Seriously! Thomas and I have played with a coworker of his, but this was someone I've never met IRL before. I met him Monday night when I was getting killed about 8 times by ravagers, but I was barely civil, because, um, GETTING KILLED ABOUT 8 TIMES BY FREAKIN' RAVAGERS. Plus it was getting late and I was trying to wrap it up. Thomas had started over as a night elf and was leveling up to meet me somewhere. So last night, Thomas was adventuring with two people he'd met (and whom I'm joining tonight, because they need a healer--I'm an 11th level draenei shaman). This guy messages me again, asking me if I'm still getting killed. I was in the midst of cleaning out a cave full of wrathscale nagas, and having a pretty easy job of it, so I was able to chat some. He's a couple of levels above me, also a draenei shaman, and has played for a couple of years. He ended up helping me find a jewelcrafter trainer in the Exodar so I could gain that profession, and gave me some scrolls. I was proud of myself for interacting, but it's more stressful than just playing. T said the same thing when he came upstairs to check on me. All in all, I think my therapist might approve. Hey, it's not like I'm Codex. Tags: gaming, world of warcraft
Current Location: work
Current Mood:  good
Current Music: Special Cases by Massive Attack (on Pandora)
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Here's the program for the Spring Concert, Montevallo Chorale, Sunday, May 10, 2009, 3:00 p.m., University of Montevallo, LeBaron Recital Hall. Gary Packwood, conductor. Matthew Rose, accompanist. Morning Has Broken - Text by Eleanor Farjeon, Music by Shawn Kirchner The Lord is My Shepherd - Psalm 23, Paraphrase A.P., Music by Allen Pote Basket, from Four Pastorales - Text by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Music by Cecil Effinger Sure on This Shining Night - Text by James Agee, Music by Samuel Barber A Red, Red Rose - Text by Robert Burns, Music by Z. Randall Stroope America, the Beautiful - Text by Katherine Lee Bates, Music by Samuel A. Ward, Arranged by Rollo Dilworth I Want Jesus to Walk with Me - Music by Rollo Dilworth I'll Never Say Goodbye, from The Promise - Text by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman, Music by David Shire, Arranged by Mac Huff Like a Mighty Stream - Arranged by Moses Hogan Tags: montevallo chorale, singing
Current Location: work
Current Mood: good
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Life is about coping with life. Okay, maybe that's not terribly profound. It's something that occurred to me this morning. I've just had a bad week, emotionally, for no apparent reason, other than coping with change. I always feel compelled to add caveats when I make flat statements, in the interest of full disclosure, I guess. Life is about more than just coping, but it's a basic element. If you can't cope, you can't do much else. As my therapist says, if you keep out all the bad stuff, you also keep out the good stuff. My best friend is coping with a whole host of new life changes: he has a child at an advanced age (not THAT advanced, but after becoming somewhat set in his ways), dealing with several personal losses, being the head of his extended family, mundane and spiritual worries...It's difficult. It's also difficult for me, trying to understand what he's going through, wanting to help, not knowing what to do, coping with my own fears. My wise pastor said yesterday in the sermon that you never know what is going to happen to you in life. He's said before that you choose how you're going to react to what happens to you. I like the word "intentional." Coping is intentional. Making choices. It is SO hard when you're in the middle of a depression episode to see any way out. Like being inside a deep valley that's dark and you can't see up above the hills surrounding you to know that somewhere the sun is actually out and it isn't night anymore. The "valley of the shadow of death," I guess. Coping is an action verb, though. I guess "hide more" is too, but that's not a constructive option. It didn't help me any last week. Not sure I have any answers, really. Cope. Reach out. Keep choosing. Sometimes day by day is way too hard. Sometimes it's hour by hour. You can't eat an elephant all at once. Tags: coping, life
Current Location: work
Current Mood:  contemplative
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So, dkfitch, your LiveJournal reveals...
You are... 0% unique, 20% peculiar, 0% interesting, 20% normal and 60% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you are keen to please. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.
Your overall weirdness is: 26(The average level of weirdness is: 29.
You are weirder than 57% of other LJers.)
Find out what your weirdness level is! Tags: surveys, weirdness
Current Location: home, my aerie
Current Mood:  okay
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On the topic of Twitter/Facebook, etc. I use Twitter to post to Facebook. Keeps me succinct and satisfies posts at two places at once. Twitter is so "it" and fun, I feel like I need a presence there, especially when I start really marketing my work. @dkfitch I am loving Facebook. I never thought I'd have 90 friends. The vast majority of them are writers from HWA whom I've never met in person. Seeing their status updates about their writing projects gives me a real sense of comradery, and I enjoy seeing what other people's writing processes are. I have a MySpace page, but never use it. The nasty backgrounds give me such a headache. I'm a terrible web design snob. I use LiveJournal for blogging longer entries, which then get posted to Facebook. My website, www.passarola.com, I use as a home base. Anyone can get to it and find it. That's where I keep my updated resume and works list. Each site serves a purpose. I like applications that help me maximize the use of each one for duplicative information, but I try not to duplicate too much.
Tags: facebook, twitter, web
Current Location: work
Current Mood: okay
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