Sins Meme: Day Two

Day One: Pride - Seven great things about yourself
Day Two: Envy - Seven things you lack and covet
Day Three: Wrath - Seven things that piss you off
Day Four: Sloth - Seven things you neglect to do
Day Five: Greed - Seven worldly material desires
Day Six: Gluttony - Seven guilty pleasures
Day Seven: Lust - Seven love secrets 

I don't really do envy. It's pretty fabulous being me, so I am largely content with what I am and what I've got going. But for the sake of the meme, if I could have everything I wanted...

1. A singing voice. I have other talents that I am grateful for, so I don't think I'd trade them, but it would be neat to be able to sing.

2. Greater facility with math. I think if I were able to do math better a number of college classes would not have been such a miserable experience.

3. A full-time job in my field. I'm not quite so bothered by this since getting into grad school, but someday I do hope I can be some kind of working writer or editor. Heh, hopefully the Masters will help.

4. More empathy. I don't always relate to or understand other people's feelings-- I am judgy and sometimes detached --and I think I'd be a better person if I did.

5. Unlimited focus and time. I am definitely the kind of person who gets shit done, but I would have the most amazing varied body of work if I had the focus and time to complete every project I ever had an idea for.

6. People who have the skills and resources to make things. If I could do anything, I'd learn to build furniture, sew elaborate costumes, work metal into jewelry, lay tile, carve wood... I always want to make stuff, all the time.

7. Washboard abs. Maybe someday if I ever decide to have the discipline I could get them-- or if I ever have the cash for a trainer --but for now, they are the gilding that is missing from this lily. ;-)

Packing, and dinner parties once more

Working furiously on preparing The Stand. I worked pretty from the minute I got home from work yesterday to the minute I went to bed. Got a lot done, but of course my printer would choose THIS week to screw itself up, when I need to print about a million pieces of paper.

I have made up most of the written materials. The written bits for the map are, I think, the only bits that still need writing up. I designed the cards for the horse wrangling minigame. Everything still needs to be printed, except for the letter. Oh, my goodness, but this game has letters. Letters are going to be very, very important.

One thing I enjoy about The Stand is that I constructed it entirely out of western tropes and built upon them from there. I am hoping that I sufficiently spun them into something more interesting, but I wanted to utilize the stock characters of the genre as my basis and go from there. Genre studies interest me, so I thought it would be a fun experiment.

On a semi-related note, I miss having dinner parties. I've barely had any at all in the past month or so, and they've always been one of my favorite ways to socialize. This has been a direct result of needing all the time I had to make sure the game got written. I had one this past Friday just to blow off some steam, and though I made a bunch of rookie cooking mistakes due to having to rush from writing to dinner prep, it reminded me how lovely they are. After Intercon, I want to get back into the swing of them. I'm sure you've all missed them terribly. After all, my dinner parties are THE social events of the season, and anybody who's anybody loves to come to them. ;-)