Thoughts and Theories in the Life of a Layman.

Ugly Day.

2008-12-02T04:05:40Z

Prolly not the best representation of me since I still haven't gotten my music library back loaded onto my comp. But what the hey, let's give it a try.

DIRECTIONS
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write that song name down no matter how silly it makes you look.
4. Title this post what the answer to your last question is.
5. Good luck and have fun!

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?

Fearless by DC Talk

HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?

Thanks & Praise by Christifari, Interesting.

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

Wicked World by Hellblinki Sextet. Even more interesting.

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Let me go, Rock N' Roll by Kiss

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

All that is Good by Five Iron Frenzy. I'm liking most of these answers so far.

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?

To Make you Feel My Love by Garth Brooks.

WHAT DO YOU OFTEN THINK ABOUT?

A New Hope by Five Iron Frenzy. This is turning out very optimistic.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Hui by The W's. That doesn't make alot of sense. Let's try it again. What you are by Dave Mathews Band Ok, I suppose I can go with that.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

The Truth by DC Talk.

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Rollin' by Garth Brooks. Huh. Ok.

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Dependant by Elyjah Wyman

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

I have been there by mark schultz.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?

Half Jack by the Dresden Dolls hmmm.... lets's try this one again. Since I don't really fear that I'm half man, half woman. Next... Dandelions by Five Iron Frenzy. oooo scary. it's far too uplifting of a song to be a fear. Next... Live this Love by Christifari. come on. Next... There is a treason at sea by DC Talk. OK Fine.

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

It's Killing Me by DC Talk. In case you didn't know, now you do. It's killing me. super secret. Sadly fitting.

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Faith, Hope, and Love by Mark Schultz.
"A chapter done
Turn the page
And separate roads
Lead separate ways
But as we go, we're not alone
No, we're not alone

Because faith and hope and love
Are waiting for you when we say goodbye"

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO NAME THIS POST?

Ugly day by Five Iron Frenzy

First Lex of the season

2008-06-17T19:00:53Z

Well, here I am. The first lex of the season is done. By the end of it I realized that it was actually a really good event. And as a bonus I made Baran walk away because the weight of the situation was too much. We were having a festival to Sothas, a festival remembering the dead. And to do so people tell stories. So I, as the person in my profile pic, had some people help me tell a story. Three players, myself, and Tergard Loren, the Thane of Swampgate. So we read this story, one line at a time going around in a circle. Then after it was all done I disintegrated Tergard and walked off laughing. As I was walking off the town was freaking out and followed me to the gate until Felix told me to turn around. At this point the conversation went something like this:
Felix: "Turn around."
August (Me): Turns around
Felix: "Why did you do it?"
August: "Because I could"
Felix: Lethals me in the chest.

Then Cormac carried me back into the town and as we were walking through the middle of town I started laughing and walked out of his hands as he stood there stunned.

The rest of the next hour or so I was killed a few times, and kept coming back to life, while chained to a pole. I was also punched in the face a couple of times by Baran which was fun. Then they found out how to kill me by compelling me to tell the truth many times. And as Felix hammered away on the stone that contained my heart Baran had to walk away because the mixture of screams, laughing, crying, and gagging was too horrifing.

I'm glad it had the effect I was hoping for. But now i'm tired, and still looking for a job. So I need to get back to that.

First Prophecy of the season

2008-04-12T13:16:54Z

So it's been about a week since the first P2 event of the season and I'm still reeling from it. Two or three of the caches were found, and I was directly involved in two of them. So I was fairly busy most of the time. And I had a pretty amazing dabble. I worked with Cedric and Baden to make one massive dabble that will be remembered forever.

I still need to find out more information about the Black staffs. All I know is that the person I'm looking for is hiding amongst them. So, the best plan I have now would be to kill them all. However, I'm still unsure of how I would do that. I suppose I could just sink the isle all together and have done with it.

oh, I'm also going to learn sanguimancy. I'm planning on becoming the Master of Sanguimancy. Over the summer I'm going to write a Thesis on Sanguimancy to propose my candidacy. My basic goals are to get it well enough taught that maybe it'll end up in the rulebook for P3. I would absolutely love to play a sanguimancer for an entire campaign. But we'll see. I'm basically spending all of my bga's studying sanguimancy, trying to learn up to the third rank. Granted I'll only be able to buy the second. However, there is a ritual Cedric was talking about that will let me forget skills that I am strongly considering. Basically swap out Neth III for Sang III. Should be fun.

Last Prophecy of the Season.

2007-11-12T19:57:13Z

I got back last night from Prophecy. And now I'm still exhausted. It was a good event. I think picking up one handed weapon really made me feel more useful. Now I can actually somewhat defend myself if something comes after me, which helps alot, and makes me a bit more of a speed bump.

I had a great time. And I have to agree with Callenghast that the moving fight to save the high Domani was excellent. Though I don't think that my way was any more vicious than Faelas. But it worked out wonderfully because it completely stopped the fight and led to one of the greatest quotes of the weekend. Cedric came up to me afterwards and told me that I had just demonstrated everything that was right and wrong with nethramancy. I still have to say that enslavement is one of my favorite spells. Earlier Faela and I had been walking with a few others and we were being followed by a group of lachellen. There were 4 of us and 3 of them, but none of us were much for fighters. So they followed us for a while trying to get within javelin range and then Faela and I enslaved two of them and had them fight the other one, then we walked away.

This was a very fun, cold, tiring, emotional weekend. And I enjoyed every minute of it. Though Saturday I was in the same boat as Callenghast. I fell asleep on one of the couches in the tavern and woke up in the morning. I wonder if they would have been able to wake me up if Callen had come. Who knows. Apparently they tried when they were making masks for the masquerade but had no luck.

balenmar @ 2007-10-15T14:36:00

2007-10-15T18:40:17Z

So it doesn't look like I'm going to be able to go to any ren faires this year. Which really sucks. This coming weekend is the last weekend for King Richards and the CTRF is just to far away. It's like a 2 hour drive. It's sad cause I really wanted to go, oh well. I don't have any money anyways.

So it's been a week since the last event for Grimwode. It was an amazing event, but I'm gonna miss it. Oh well, I suppose that just means i'm gonna have to find some other games to play/staff.

Old man armor

2007-09-30T01:28:42Z

So I've just posted to see if anyone can make some armor for Balen, that should be interesting. If I can do what I want to do then I should have about 5 or 6 health and 8 mana after I'm done. That should make him a bit tougher. I wonder if anyone will bite. Perhaps they would if I told them this was a step towards something other than nethramancy. Yes, I'm sure that'd do it. Though I'll never give up my death magic. It's to much fun, and besides. I'm going to learn how to use it to eat shadows. So that should be fun.

I'm not sure if this is evident or not, but I've decided to keep my prophecy character in exchange for a way to get more health. So armor it is.

I think that's all I've really got to say for now. Kinda sad I suppose. Oh well, it's good news. at least in my ears, and the tall and pointy ears of some others.

Prophecy II and life

2007-09-25T03:31:11Z

Well I'm back now. And I haven't written in this for a long time, as usual. Anyways. Prophecy was great fun. I can't wait till grimwode the weekend after next, and prophecy again in a month or so.

Tired, sore, and even more tired, though my ankle feels better than it has for a long time. Which is good. Maybe I wont have to go to the doctors, at least not till I completely screw it up after Grimwode. We'll see.

I thought about ditching my character for Prophecy and going with someone who can do a bit more, and be a bit more active but have since decided to go just pick up a weapon skill and get some armor for my old man. Then he can fight when he's not casting his death magic, and sanguimancy won't be a complete waste. Well, I'm off to bed now. Man am I tired, but it was a good weekend.

Home

2007-05-18T14:34:14Z

Well I made it home. Been home for about a week actually. Still looking for a job. I'm mowing lawns again but on a much smaller scale than last summer. I also have an internship that I'm starting Monday. So that makes it a bit difficult to do lawns because of the nature of the work. If you have only one or two sunny days in a week you have to be available for them. If you have other work to do then you're in a bad place. Oh well.

So we're doing alot of work on the camp now. Well, starting to. I have to go out today and make a couple of dump runs. It'll be pretty cool. We need to tear down the outhouse and fill in the hole, that'll be pretty disgusting, but ya got to do what ya got to do. We're also building a 13 by 14 edition to the side of it and raising the roof so the small cramped loft we have now will be full sized. And we're putting a gabriel roof on ti. Well I suppose I should be going.

Finals

2007-05-09T02:20:55Z

It's time for finals now. I just got back from Prophecy and am thrust into the joy that is finals week. I need to find some time to work, probably tomorrow after my final in the morning. I also have 2 papers left to write. It's hard because I see them as pointless busy work. And it's really hard to get motivated to write something that is just busy work. The worst part about it is that these two papers are equal to thirty percent of my grade so I have to write them. I just don't see the corelation between the papers and the course. They're book reports. I'm finishing my junior year of college and I'm writing book reports. Apart from this professor I haven't written a book report since high school.

Anyways. Prophecy was a blast. and to think that it's only 4 months till the next one. I still need to find time to start packing too. I have three days left to do two more finals, work, pack, and write two papers. I really need to find more time in the day. Oh well. I suppose it's time to get back to work.

I've Found It.

2007-04-28T02:32:49Z

I've found it. I finaly found my story. I know I say finaly but in all reality it's only been a few days. That's alright. It seemed like a long time ago I started searching for it. But I've found it. I decided to adapt a short story to film for my senior project next year, a hefty undertaking to be sure. So I spent the last few days doing practically nothing but read short stories trying to find one that would be do-able for me and my budget. So I needed to find something that wouldn't cost me very much to produce and something that wouldn't require much in the way of costuming and specific locations for filming.

After reading many stories I found one called "A Watcher by The Dead" by Ambrose Bierce. It's a great story. Basically it's about these doctors who make a bet with eachother that a guy couldn't stay in a dark room with a dead body overnight and still keep his wits about him.

So I've found my story and now I've got to start working on writing a script from the text. Horrah.

Unsure

2007-04-26T00:34:10Z

    I don't really know where I'm going in life right now. I only have a year left till I graduate. I suppose it's a long time to think about it. Mostly I think that I just don't know where I'm going to go after this, or what I'm going to do. I wouldn't mind doing radio work, or maybe a youth group or something. I dunno. Maybe I'll just try getting into the film industry when I'm done. I suppose I should go for my masters if I want to do that. I dunno. I've still got a year left so I suppose I should be focusing on that. Heck, I still have two weeks left of this year that I should be focusing on.
    Prophecy is in 9 days. I can't wait. It'll be fun, and a good release from the stress before finals.

    I watched The Illusionist last night. I loved it. It got me tinking about what I'm going to do for my senior project next year. I coldn't stop thinking abou it. Made it so I couldn't sleep for a while. I think I'm going to take a short story and make a short film adaptation for it. I've already started reading some stories. Some Poe, some Lovecraft. I'm not sure. I need to find a story that I can do on a relatively small budget and easy location access. I need to be able to find the spots to shoot easy enough and without having to pull to many strings. And something that isn't too harsh for costuming, although I suppose that falls under the budget issue. I thought of the Tell-Tale Heart. It would be easy enough. There's no indicated era, no specific location, just a house. The only problem with doing that story is that it is to well known. I think it might be better to do something a little less well known than that. I've read a few short stories by H.P. Lovecraft but they would all require more than I have, either location, costume, props, etc... I'm very open to suggestions right now. If anyone reads this and has any ideas of a short story that could make a good film adaptation then by all means let me know.