revena | Frustration (Reply)

I stayed up quite late last night, and got up early this morning, to plan today's D&D game. We ended up getting through almost none of what I had planned, of course. Ah well. It does mean I won't have to do as much work in order to gear up for next week, and though a game without any combat whatsoever is really bizarre for my group, the three players in attendance really rose to the challenge today. Erik in particular roleplayed the crap outta the game, as it were. In the process, many excellent lines were delivered. Unfortunately, the one that cracks me up the most is kinda a spoiler for some as-yet unwritten Valmai Hammerhand stories, so I'm gonna have to tell y'all what he said later.

Anyway, I needed to burn off some -something- after all of my planning for D&D came to naught, so I came home and cleaned for... four hours. Good lord. And I've got the aching lower back and scarred-up hands to prove it, too. My kitchen is now clean and tidy, though, for the first time in months, so that's good. And I made some encouraging inroads on the study. The whole thesis experience really kicked my ass in a lot of ways... Weight gain, all sorts of new nervous habits, and a frighteningly messy living situation. Dunno how long it'll take me to recover.

It's too dark by now to really keep up with the cleaning, so I thought I'd sit down and hammer out the next Valmai story. Unfortunately, I think my muse doesn't come on shift until after midnight or something, because I've got nothin', over here. Hrm.