Back to the Stupidity

So to start the week off, I am currently going through the T-cards, which I have to do on a regular basis now despite the fact that most of this stuff got sent to Ham-Fisted Editor and Lady Competence before I went on holiday. And I'm already seeing signs of idiocy that are not my problem or my fault. For instance, we've been waiting on this one comment on this one paper for months, and it turns out that the guy who was asked to comment sent it directly to Ham-Fisted Editor, despite the fact that the email to this guy was sent from my email account. (No one uses 'Reply' anymore...) Anyway, Ham-Fisted Editor copied me into the reply from this guy, basically going, "Thanks for the comment, I'll send it to my office". Did he? Did he bollocks. So now I've had to email him going, "Um ... you remember this thing you said you sent three months ago? Well, I have no record of it" and hope he's as terrible at weeding out his Inbox as he is at everything else. *sigh* What a lovely way to start a Monday.

My weekend was predominantly spent relaxing, playing Sims 2 (my current architecture project is Ceoris, or as much of Ceoris as I can do given that there aren't any cheats to allow multiple subterranean levels in Sims 2), sleeping, watching cult alien-based TV (X-Files DVDs and Invasion) and not bothering to leave the house. It was relaxing. I think I needed that to recover from the week as a whole. Now hopefully I won't completely exhaust myself this week so there's enough of me leftover after Saturday's veg-fest to run Mage. I also hope weaselbitch manages to get home from her parents' in time for pre-Mage lunch, or at least Mage itself.

I already want to go home, and I've only been here two hours...

New gaming?

Okay, while I'm loving Mage, I'm kind of jonesing to do ... I dunno, something else. So I'm thinking, maybe I should see if I can get a game together for the other Sunday. You know, something a bit less ambitious than Mage has turned out to be, and can be shunted aside if anyone else wants to run something brief with no long-term commitment and no stress if they lose inspiration and tank out plot-wise.

I suppose this is addressed particularly to dodgyhoodoo, weaselbitch, nadriel, lokean and guido_was_taken, but is of course not limited to those five; this is addressed to any of my friends in the area and interested in gaming. If you are keen, take a minute, leave a comment, and answer the following questions:

1) Are you free on the Sundays alternate to the Mage Sundays (for the uninitiated, the alternation for non-Mage Sundays goes 5th Feb, 19th Feb, 5 March, 19 March, 2 April etc)

2) If so, are you keen to participate?

3) If the answer to the above two questions is yes, any preferences to what's run? I've personally got a yen to run old Vampire, Werewolf either old or new, Awakening, picking up the old BESM campaign or possibly trying Shadowrun. Kult is an option only if dodgyhoodoo doesn't mind me reading the books.

Answers on a comments field, or whenever you next see me.

All-Purpose Update

My 50-Book Challenge update goes as follows:

Read:
House of Leaves
The Bloody Chamber
Tipping the Velvet
Furnace
Neutron Star

Currently Reading:
Neuromancer
The Bhagavad Gita
Beowulf
The Bible

Next Up:
Memoirs of a Geisha
Tales from the Cthulu Mythos
Ulysses

I'm well ahead on this 50bookchallenge thing. 52 weeks a year = 1 book per week. Fine, I had a bit of catching up to do, as I started late, but even by that reckoning I'm at least a book and a half to the good. Go, me. If I focus on the way home I'll be two books up not counting the bits of the 'Currently Reading' stack. I really should buckle down to Beowulf, though. It's not as though it's long. The Bible, on the other hand, is going to have to be read in snippets. I'm a fair ways through Genesis, at least. As for the Bhagavat Gita ... it would help if I knew who the bloody hell they were talking about sometimes; it doesn't half throw names at you. I think I need associated text, or possibly Google. Hell, even Wikipedia might help.

Today's been a nightmare. Post run. Server crash. Tidy tidy tidy sort sort sort. Massive list of alternate referee requests sent to poor Lady Competence. Three papers sent to my favourite statistician -- the poor man's swamped, but he finished all the other stuff, so at least that's something. I will be so glad to be getting home ... which I will be doing any minute now, just as soon as I tidy some things. Yay.