Quote Of Th Day

[uberreiniger]

"Would you like some peanut butter in your football?"

-My friend Amy

Arrived at A&A's house to play L5R tonight only to find drama. It didn't involve me, which in a way made it worse since I had to pretend to be mostly invisible while it played out. Just kept my head down and looked at my cards. The drama involved Meghan, who, for those with long memories, was my love interest at approximately this time last year. She's a sweetie, but as high maintennance as she is, it's probably a good thing that I didn't end up with her. We were supposed to play the fabulous card game that is Munchkin-Fu, but sadly, never got around to it. The evening ended with a discussion on Christianity, which is always interesting. Adam and I share a lot of the same views on things in the Bible, which is nice since I so rarely meet anyone who shares my views on things in the Bible at all.

Today will probably consist of refining my L5R deck for donkeyjon's tournament on Saturday and revelling in my rediscovered addiction that is Monster Rancher 2 for Playstation. Yes, you can make fun of me for that. I deserve it. I've also got five pages of revision left to do on the current chapter of the novel that I'm on, so I'll squeeze that in at some point as well and then hopefully start on the next one. It's been hard because I'm at a part in the story I've never been completely happy with and I'm still not completely happy with it. But I don't know how to change it to anything better. It is, as they say, the best of a bad set of options.

I leave you with a meme purloined from mellifera

This is the problem with LJ, we all think we are so close, and we know nothing about each other. I'm going to rectify it. I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Comments

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

ah yes. Meghan the elf girl. It's always nice when you can look back in hindsight and see that you dodged a potentially unhappy situation.


hmm.. a lot of the obvious questions have been answered, but i will think. Okay, here goes.
What is your single, most favored literary work of all times?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

My favorite? That's tough... Probably C.S. Lewis's "Voyage of the Dawn Treader." For several years as a child, I would reread the Chronicles of Narnia every year and that book was always my favorite. It really just paints such an amazing picture and you really do feel like you're in another universe with the characters as you read it. I love it so much, I even make direct reference to it in my novel. But my novel is full of Easter Eggs like that.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

What's the worst show you ever worked on?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

A community theatre production of Molliere's Tartuffe two years ago. The show itself wasn't bad, but there were personal things happening backstage that were extremely hurtful and confusing. I count it as one of the worst experiences of my life.

[solandra.livejournal.com]

Since you asked me about my spiritual path, I think I'll ask you about yours. What made you decide to become (or if you were raised, stay) Christian?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Oh, you know, the usual. I was sitting in my hut in my native third world country one day and some missionaries came and since I was ignorant it sounded like a really good idea.

I'm kidding ;)

I wasn't raised a Christian per se. My parents made sure I went to Sunday school regularly, but religion never came up much in the home. I was pretty much allowed to draw my own conclusions about whatever I had learned. In the early part of my teenaged years, I wasn't involved in anything and wanted more friends and a social life, so I began with what I knew and started attending youth group regularly. From there it just sort of became part of who I am. I had some bad experiences during college which completely turned me off to religion - anyone's religion. I couldn't stand to hear it talked about, mentioned, alluded to, anything. I drifted in a spiritual desert for a few years, you might say. But I never got the sense that God had left me, nor did I ever get the sense he was trying to force me back. Since then, I've basically just gone about trying to learn and experience God in my own way. I don't attend church because I'm still a bit leery of it, although I would like to become involved in one again. I have had encounters and experiences which proved to me that God was real, and that is why that even at my worst, I've never been able to seriously entertain the idea of walking away from my beliefs.

I'm probably not explaining what I believe in very well, but I'm trying to keep this from turning into a 300 page novel ;)

A Question You Say You Need

[drinkalizer.livejournal.com]

Why do you suck at pool? Oh, wait, we won the game. :)

How do you have to dress for work? (jeans, button-down shirts, whatevah)

Re: A Question You Say You Need

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I wear a laughable polyester uniform with a white shirt that makes me look like a bus driver!