A Bed of TAKS

[omorka]

Today was the third of the four TAKS subject tests. I have gotten nothing useful done for the past two days (except get a few more inches done on the shawl during my pseudo-break). The good news is that there's only one more day of this, and the scheduling breakdown that happened on the English day mostly didn't happen this time.

My Mu Alpha Theta officers have been giving me shit all this semester. This Monday they sent me a really offensive e-mail, basically saying that if they felt like spending the entire treasury of the club on this year's banquet, then that's what they were going to do, dammit, and since this was a student-run organization, there was nothing I could do about it. Oh, but I shouldn't worry, since they were going to "recognize" me at the banquet. I mean, what the fuck, guys?! If you think my price is a bouquet of flowers, you have got another think coming, dudes! Then they completely and totally failed to get the paperwork turned in on time, so I called them on the carpet, made them reschedule, and ended up losing my composure completely when they tried to argue with me. I think this is like the third time this year I've cried at a student . . . And that acted as emotional blackmail on them, of course, which was not my intent. :( They tried to call and ask to not reschedule the banquet last night, on the grounds that my President thought he could sweet-talk the school bookkeeper into getting the check cut in 24 hours instead of the usual 72, but by that point I was already asleep. At least they apologized to the Spouse for calling so late.

I'm beginning to wonder how much of my emotional swings this semester have been at least partially due to sleep deprivation. (This is, of course, a vicious cycle - I lose sleep over things when I'm upset, naturally.) I've been pretty consistently getting six hours of sleep or fewer a night, and while I can function like that for a few days, I really need seven to function on a regular basis. (The sex deprivation doesn't help much, either, although the Spouse has been much better about that this semester than last. Then again, getting one means I don't get much of the other . . .)

I'm almost ready to start recruiting for my next GURPS game. If I get enough time to polish stuff up over this next weekend, expect news on that this coming Monday or Tuesday. Also, I'm brewing a Big Eyes, Small Mouth one-shot for sometime during the week memeslayer is in town, on the "first hit's free" principle - anyone who might be interested in that, let me know; the more the merrier.

Comments

[pinesandmaples]

fuck...high school students are offensive and irrational.

c^2 would have never let mu alpha theta blow scratch like that...and you aren't a tight-ass for telling them no!

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Ah, if only I had half the huevos as a Mu Alpha Theta sponsor that Mama Carter has, I'd be doing all right indeed . . . *wistful grin* Somehow these kids came up with a terrible sense of entitlement; I don't know where they got it, although it sure wasn't from me.

[asland32.livejournal.com]

I might be interested in the BESM. What kind of setting are you planning on doing? When do you plan on doing the GURPS thing? I've never used that system, but have heard...things about it.

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'm in. I think I'll make my character a suicidally depressed alcoholic with post-traumatic stress disorder from attending Ohtori Academy. "Roses? ROSES?!?! AAAAAAAAGGGHHH!!!!"

What would you prefer the Mu Alpha Theta people spend the money on?

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I'd rather they not spend it at all, as it would be really nice next year to start off with enough money to go to a tournament without having to do a fundraiser first. (Not that we're going to be able to get out of doing a fundraiser one way or another - probably two, actually - but it would be nice to not have to do one first thing.)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

The BESM setting will be "high-school and shojo" - I haven't gotten too specific beyond that yet.

GURPSing will start probably about a week after I get out of school or so. The setting for that one is modern urban investigation/espionage, with a little Illumination/conspiracy theory thrown in for good measure.

What have you heard? GURPS is one of those systems that, as a GM, you either love or you hate, and as a player really needs a GM who's into it to make it work. I, of course, use it for my games almost exclusively . . .

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

High school and shoujo...oh dear...

Can I still be my character from the other comment? :)

[omorka.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not . . . did sie pick up a phobia of openwork elevators as well? *evil GM grin*

Sex vs. sleep

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

Sleep or sex? Touhg pair to choose between.
It's too bad you can't do either of these things during the day . . . Hey! Wait a minute! ;-)

Re: Sex vs. sleep

[omorka.livejournal.com]

(a) Depends on the structure of one's day - Saturday is the only day I'm likely to be home before sunset.

(b) Spouse is generally not into the morning sex. :( That is, when he's into that at all, it's pretty much guaranteed to be evening, and more likely than not around the time he's thinking about going to sleep anyway.