And one more to go.

[silveradept]

To do tomorrow - drop off exam in box, check mailbox. Second, study for other exam. Third, well, third involves getting packed up a little bit more. Which is always an interesting prospect for me, because I don't want to pack too much too soon. At the same time, I need to pack all that I can, so that the moving thing goes smoothly. It'll be okay, really.

Played a game of Literati with annaonthemoon tonight, and she would have beaten me if not for managing to make a 31 point score, using some triple-word help in choice places. Most people will find that I probably look dangerous at these games, but I'm not very dangerous at all. The point being proven that on another match I accepted. I got thrashed. Badly. Definitely not very good at these at all.

South Carolina introduces a bill to ban sex toys. I still say that anytime someone invokes the obscenity precedent, I need to find a community that find those sorts of things to be obscene and sue. Might even win the case.

Demon Lemons. Along with the Devil's Avacado and the Guacamole of Doom, I think we're on a solid path to finding the Devil's own Fruitbasket.

Starbucks can be a place where you hear strange things. This particular gem, though describes a world where fascists protect abusers and party girls. What an interesting world we live in.

By the way, if you didn't already have more than enough reasons why to believe that Ritalin isn't necessarily a wonder-drug at all, apparently taking Ritalin might just cause hallucinations. Now, I don't know about you, but I'd rather not have my child screaming about bugs that aren't there. Fidgeting and attention span problems can be dealt wi--oooh, shiny!

Anyway. This are doing better on this front. All the things I was worried about have fallen into place and come out to my favor. I'm still waiting on one thing, but it might very well be that the person I'm supposed to talk to is out of the office. And might be out of the office for a while. So there's no major worries involved there. They'll call when they call (or e-mail) and that will be how it happens. Once again, wonderfully worthless worry wasted. Better though, to have it be wasted than warranted.Just need to, well, work it out.

Goals are an orienting device - they will help you proceed in the direction you wish to go. The enjoyment of the trip, though, is not the destination - that's a wholly different thing. Be sure to look around every once in a while to make sure that, you know, you see the scenery and the other interesting things around you. Remind me to look up and look around every now and then. Otherwise I'll barrel head-first into a tree I should have seen coming.

Bed now. Perhaps things make better sense in the morning. Plus, in the morning, there are things to do.

Comments

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Heh. Was a challenging game, at the very least. We'll have to play again :)

banning the sale of sex toys? So, t's still leagal to OWN them, just not have a business that sell them? Even so, I think I predicted this happening. Government alwready wants in our uterus, why not in the bedroom, too?

Glad things are falling into place for you. Don't forget to look down, too - don't want to trip over anything (or step on a short person!)

Now I have the theme to george of the jungle stuck in my head. (the cartoon version "george, george, george of the jungle, fast as he can be. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah watch out for that tree!"

Also, Pack! You don't want me decending on your house and packing for you, trust me. (although, I am a very efficient packer.)

Things always make sense in the AM.

[silveradept]

Perhaps at some point - that second game I played, I lost by sixty points, and it was never really close.

Yes, quite legal to own - I suspect there's a precedent involved there that can't be gone after. And with as many gay marriage and sodomy laws still on the books (and other things like obscenity standards), the government has been very interested in the bedrooms of the populace.

Here Shep! Here Shep! Good doggie! (*elephant trumpet in the background*)

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I thought Shep was a sheep?

[silveradept]

Ship is the sheep.

Shep is the doggie/elephant.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

hehe whoops.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Literati is just not enough like Scrabble for my taste. Two reasons: 1) Random letters rather than a fixed letter distribution totally ruins your ability to plan for the end game. 2) Dictionary.com is too forgiving a reference (it has ap, qi, both not allowed in US play) but lacks a few common Scrabble words (like mm, xu). If we consider international play, then dictionary.com is very lacking as a reference.

I do like how high-point letters don't drive the game though.

This, of course, doesn't mean I don't play it sometimes, it just means I wish I were playing Scrabble when I do.

[silveradept]

Yeah. I tried to play it somewhat like Scrabble. I don't think it worked out to well for me, plug the letters I got kept trying to make words like "ZQMVBFG" that Calvin was so fond of.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

Literati rewards high letter cycling moreso than Scrabble (Scrabble does too, don't get me wrong) but Literati is played such that the best move in any situation is almost always to use the most letters you can. Saving blanks, high-scoring letters, or keeping track of vowels to ease your endgame just doesn't do as much as it would in regulation Scrabble.

[silveradept]

Definitely not. Also, the board there feels relatively cramped compared to a Scrabble board, regardless of whether it actually is or not. Not much room for expansions that don't immediately give your opponenet room to find triple word scores, as I found out in the second game.

[2dlife.livejournal.com]

It's not smaller. The triple word scores are much easier to access though.

[silveradept]

That could be it, as well. I kept giving my opponent chances to use them without capturing any for myself, so it's no wonder I got thrashed on that game.