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Where do you go from here?
Here? I carry on playing the game. The game never ends.
Actually over the next couple of weeks I find out I'm moving offices, I decide whether I'm going to quit my job, I get asked some LRP-related questions which can be best summed up as Catch-22 and I realise what a stupid hobby running is. Well, at least two of those are likely to happen.
Beyond that I don't know. I'm becalmed. Where did I put those electrodes...
When you discover yourself to be genuinely liked by someone, do you have difficulty accepting it at face value?
Do I need to answer this? Of course. (Thats an answer to my question and yours). I used to think that I trusted people a lot, very easily - and that's partly true. It doesn't take me long to be willing to do anything for a person. However, I don't think I ever quite believe that they trust/like/would do things for me in the same way. It's not a competition - or even something I worry about a lot. But I do sometimes.
I'm think I'm just too cynical for it all, and I keep putting my foot in my mouth, and more than that I don't always like the image I feel I'm projecting.
If you had to choose between tech and LRP, which would go first?
They kinda perform the same function at heart - they are about people. LRP is a way of meeting people and it brings a community and context, tech has a primary application to sustain that when people are not physically connected.
I'd love to say LRP, but I think the truth of the answer would be tech. Stop this world I want to get off...
I've danced around the idea of giving up LRP before - but I couldn't then. God knows what I'd do for a living then mind...
How great a part in your day-to-day life does pride play?
Some - I use it as an excuse to act up when I don't agree with what I've been asked to do - and where pride=professional integrity then it causes me huge amounts of problems. For example all my job issues now are caused by pride - it was part of the reason I left the last one, and if I didn't have it I'd have no problem sitting out this contract, taking the money, etc.
I don't often take pride in my apppearance. I'm just too lazy. Of course at the moment it's too hot too!
What's your single worst incidence of "corpsing" (being unable to keep a straight face at an inopportune moment)?
I can give you four in descending order of bad, worst last:
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pax_draconisWhere do you go from here?
Here? I carry on playing the game. The game never ends.
Actually over the next couple of weeks I find out I'm moving offices, I decide whether I'm going to quit my job, I get asked some LRP-related questions which can be best summed up as Catch-22 and I realise what a stupid hobby running is. Well, at least two of those are likely to happen.
Beyond that I don't know. I'm becalmed. Where did I put those electrodes...
When you discover yourself to be genuinely liked by someone, do you have difficulty accepting it at face value?
Do I need to answer this? Of course. (Thats an answer to my question and yours). I used to think that I trusted people a lot, very easily - and that's partly true. It doesn't take me long to be willing to do anything for a person. However, I don't think I ever quite believe that they trust/like/would do things for me in the same way. It's not a competition - or even something I worry about a lot. But I do sometimes.
I'm think I'm just too cynical for it all, and I keep putting my foot in my mouth, and more than that I don't always like the image I feel I'm projecting.
If you had to choose between tech and LRP, which would go first?
They kinda perform the same function at heart - they are about people. LRP is a way of meeting people and it brings a community and context, tech has a primary application to sustain that when people are not physically connected.
I'd love to say LRP, but I think the truth of the answer would be tech. Stop this world I want to get off...
I've danced around the idea of giving up LRP before - but I couldn't then. God knows what I'd do for a living then mind...
How great a part in your day-to-day life does pride play?
Some - I use it as an excuse to act up when I don't agree with what I've been asked to do - and where pride=professional integrity then it causes me huge amounts of problems. For example all my job issues now are caused by pride - it was part of the reason I left the last one, and if I didn't have it I'd have no problem sitting out this contract, taking the money, etc.
I don't often take pride in my apppearance. I'm just too lazy. Of course at the moment it's too hot too!
What's your single worst incidence of "corpsing" (being unable to keep a straight face at an inopportune moment)?
I can give you four in descending order of bad, worst last:
- Every time it happens at NWO
- Playing the "Heroes of the Revolution" rizla game at barrettyman's ultra-serious Russian game.
- At the first Crooked Eye when my corpse had a moment
- Last Sunday morning when Ziusdra went "I'm going back with Kyle... I mean Mithras". It would have been wonderful if it had been an IC slip - and in years to come I might even claim it was - but it wasn't. At that point I lost structural integrity.
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:00 am (UTC)Why is running a stupid hobby?
I like it... although I couldn't for the life of me recall why, as I stumbled along this morning.
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:05 am (UTC)Since I combined it with Kazaa it has been much improved. Yesterday I continued my exploration of the Laibach back catalogue for 45 minutes around South Birmingham.
Finding Trailgauge has also helped as I can combine running with my love of tech and maps.
Mind you, for any LRPer to describe a hobby as stupid is a bit nonsensical.
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:17 am (UTC)Finding Trailgauge has also helped as I can combine running with my love of tech and maps.
Meep. That looks cool and scary at one and the same time. I use the low-tech solution -- tape measure and a map. Not very accurate, but it gives me a vague idea.
I can't listen to music when I'm running though -- I'd be bound to put myself under the wheels of a car, if I did!
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:24 am (UTC)However all my views of being good come from watching
If I haven't finished it all by then, boglin says it's nice to have jog on the beach at Whitby. The minor problem being that I think I'm staying out of town - but we'll see where I'm at by then! Last Whitby I completely slept through her clunking around outside my room and leaving the house - it was AM I believe...
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:30 am (UTC)But I seem to recall you had An Excuse... Didn't you say something about a nasty cough?
Personally, I think I'll be leaving my running shoes at home next Whitby!
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:33 am (UTC)I fully intend to be well in November - or at least to be able to stand smokey rooms a bit better.
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Date: 2003-08-12 07:35 am (UTC)Well, maybe having done lots of running between last Whitby and next will help with that. I suffer a lot less with respiratory type problems than I did before. :-)
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