The Good Samaritan

I am too damn nice.

I wanted to get to Black Mage level 36 tonight. And did, quite handily. However, there were three people in my party tonight who were just a ways behind me for levelling - by a few hundred points apiece. Now, given that I've been making good use of an Anniversary Band / Empress Band combo for upping my XP per mob killed, I've kind of assumed that 700 XP is not a problem to achieve in a mob or two. But these people weren't using any bands to speak of, so this was a bit of a crawl. However, it's just plain rude to disband when people are reasonably close to levelling, so I stayed. For about a half-hour longer than I intended.

Still, Deathgnome level 36. With a nice handy XP buffer in case of horrific accidents en route to wherever. Apparently, my next destination is Crawler's Nest. Oh, freakin' yay - big lumpy caterpillar / horned toad hybrids and giant freakin' scorpions. It's either that or the godsdamned Jungles again. Yippee. I suppose I should sound more thrilled - levelling can be fun. Just some of these places are plagued by abominable stupid. Of course, nowhere seems quite as bad as Qufim (I think the Dunes of Stupid have the mitigating circumstances of being filled with people who may or may not have just started the game, or at least the job they're levelling) but all the same, I think you can be a noob whatever level you're at. Take, for instance, the level 40-ish Summoner who hung around our camp with his party flag up (I assume he was waiting for a taker in either Western Altepa or the Quicksand Caves). Made life hell for our power leveller, and was intensely distracting. Oh well.

Right. Bed now.

Career Moves?

I caved and did that career meme thing. Some of the responses? I just don't get.

( And 'Secretary' doesn't appear even ONCE... )

Common themes: Detailwork and giving advice / giving instruction / bossing people about. So ... yeah. I'm a control freak. But then, we knew this.

Oh, and dodgyhoodoo is too sweet to me sometimes. He came home today with a copy of Sims 2 Bon Voyage! Whee! Can't wait to try it out! *bounce*

I have RP, and Sims, and a lovely fiance, and my mood has much improved.

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Swiped from brigidsblest

Fandoms as exes

The one who seduced you and fucked you over and broke your heart in a million pieces and laughed about it:
Doctor Who. Nine won me over heart and soul, and then came Tennant...

The old flame you don't see very often anymore but whom you still really enjoy getting together with for a few drinks and maybe a pleasant nostalgic romp in the sheets:
Daria. I have to be in just the right mood, but sometimes that whole series is just a pair of comfy warm slippers.

The mysterious dark gothy one whom you used to sit up with talking until 3 a.m. at weird coffeehouses and with whom you were quite smitten until you realized he really was fucking crazy:
I don't know if this counts, but Neon Genesis Evangelion. Dear gods, the crazy...

The one you spent a whole weekend in bed with and who drank up all your liquor, and whom you'd still really like to fuck again although you're relieved he doesn't actually live in town:
Heroes

The steady:
The Dresden Files - books, not TV series.

The alluring strangers whom you've flirted with at parties but have never gotten really serious with:
Invasion, Six Feet Under, Dead Like Me, Millennium

The one you hang out with and have vague fantasies about maybe having a thing with but ultimately you're just good buddies 'cause the friendship is there but the chemistry ain't:
X-Files

The one your friends keep introducing you to and who seems like a hell of a cool guy except it's never really gone anywhere:
Farscape

The one who's slept with all your friends, and you keep looking at him and thinking, "him? how the hell did he land all these cool babes?"
Wonder Falls

The one your friend has fallen for like a ton of bricks and whom she keeps babbling to you about on the phone for hours, and you'd be happy for her except you just know it's going to end badly:
Lost