Scheduling Conflicts

Too many cool things going on this weekend; not enough energy.

The Crawl of the Dead had to be on the same day as the NaNo launch party, didn't it? Still, gabbing about the novel trumps wandering around dressed as a zombie, especially since I was too ill this week to even consider going out and getting the necessary makeup. Besides, I know that people I know are going to be at the launch, so I want to at least put in an appearance. Which means I have to swig down my coffee, get dressed and leave, like, now - it starts at 1 but I'm pretty sure turning up at 2-ish isn't going to be a problem because it lasts all afternoon.

Now comes the wardrobe issue: do I wear my old "So many words, so little time" NaNo 2004 T-shirt, or do I break in the new VG Cats T-shirt that came in the post the other day?

Hmm. Well, I know the Aeris T-shirt is clean. So I guess that decides it for me.

Us and Them?

( Charleston by Night-related musing )

Okay, so this has been a really long rant about something that only a few people who read this (not all of them with LJ accounts of their own - hi, guys!) know or care about, so I've put it under a cut. Still, any of you who are on Charleston by Night, I encourage you to read this. Let me know if I'm being wrong-headed about this. I just want us to work things out so that we can go back to having the fun I know we can have. I've lost a whole lot of great RPing to stupidity, and even if I wasn't a part of the backbiting recriminations and general shit that's gone on in Charleston by Night, I still have no wish to lose yet another fantastic role-playing experience to things that could be solved if all parties involved would just put aside the "us and them" mentality and the tendency to blame people for being human, pitch right in and help fix it. Maybe I'm wrong; I dunno. Maybe it can't be worked out. But damnit, not even trying just belittles all the time and effort that all the players, staff included, have put into giving us all so much pleasure over the months or, in most cases, years.

I enjoyed the NaNo meet-up, what little of it I attended. I wound up sitting in a corner of the upstairs room at the Round Table, talking to three guys I remember from previous years and a couple of new-to-me faces about zombies, travel, novels-gone-awry and all the other wild and whacked-out stuff that writer-types talk about. Unfortunately, ill health meant that I could only spend a couple of hours, but it was fun while it lasted. Still looking forward to NaNo; we in fact all agreed that NaNo's really not all that hard, provided you are the sort of person who can put aside their faff for a month and work on the novel in all the time people generally waste in front of the telly or what have you. Then again, the six of us at that particular table are the type who are constantly inspired, somewhat dedicated and don't often get writer's block. Others probably aren't so lucky, so we could really only speak for ourselves in that case.

And incidentally, I still feel like crud.