AWL (Absent With Leave)

I finally caved, and rang in sick. Unfortunately, I left my rucksack with all my dice in it at work, and we might have an impromptu 7th Sea session tonight. I will have to borrow dice. There is such thing as being too sick to be at work but there is no such thing as being too sick to roleplay unless you're in a coma. Besides, I want to see how badly I broke Pietro.

Bleeeeeeeegh.

Crowded House

I've just gained a whole new understanding of how daft my friends are. I mean, how seriously fucking daft.

Kat's a Sims 2 addict, a status to which I can relate. She made a house full of characters from Angel -- Angel, Cordelia, Wesley, Gunn, Fred, Faith, Connor and Spike. Yes, that's right -- eight fucking characters in one Sims 2 house. How she controlled the lot of them I have no fucking clue. However, the very idea of Angel Sims appealed to me in ways I couldn't even begin to describe, so I asked for a copy. That and a whole lot of downloads. Brought them home, installed the Team house (which is what she called it), tried to play...

Oh. My. Fucking. GOD. I can barely manage three Sims in a house -- eight is fuck-impossible! I can't even deal with talking to eight people at a time most times. I've got this caregiver thing going on which means I can't ignore my charges, even if they're fake charges comprised of hexagons and based on characters in a now-defunct TV show. So the first goddamn thing I did was started to move people the fuck out. So now Wesley and Fred are married and trying for a baby in their very own (incredibly tiny) little house. I'm working on moving Faith and Gunn out -- they had something of a liaison in the Hot Tub O' Love, but Faith, despite "Woo-Hoo" being one of her aspirations, wasn't having any of Gunn's attempts in that vein. I haven't paid any attention to the others -- they were asleep or at work. Thank God.

I suddenly wonder if some moron's set up the Facts of Life house in Sims or Sims 2. That's just fucking petrifying.

See, this is why I make whole neighbourhoods instead of one house full of people. It's ridiculous! I mean, instead of making the Slayer family and moving them into one house, I would rather make Sunnydale and do it right. You know, the Summers family with Joyce, Buffy and Dawn; the Harris family -- either Xander solo or with Anya in the marriage that should've bloody well happened; the Rosenberg family with either Tara or Kennedy; the Giles family with Rupert and Wesley getting on each others' nerves.

I still feel rotten. Food does not sit well and frankly, I have no idea if I'm going to be up to going to work tomorrow. But damnit, I am not missing yet another 7th Sea session; it's just sitting in a chair and telling part of a story anyway...