College success, and Doctor Who RPG
Feb. 1st, 2010 05:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethI went to college. It was the right day and the right time and the right classroom, and I spoke up about being in the wrong Blackboard thingy, and I had indeed already missed being told what to read for this lesson but we read it all in the lesson anyway so that works out. I got put on the right list again no worries, and now I have a reader and some handouts and some stuff off the web to read.
This semester we are studying crime fiction. :-)
So for homework we are to read all the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Also Jekyll & Hyde
and some other stuff I can't remember.
Later we will watch some bits of movies.
The basic idea is to study up on how crime fiction makes myths around 'normal' and deviant and enforces the lines. Er, probably, I been awake a very long time. But I think this will be very annoying indeed, because obviously the further back you go the more stuff is made of Fail, and also quite recent stuff has a fail component too. but it will be the informative kind of annoying, so that's okay. This teacher uses the big words and refers to useful theorists and makes sense and calls things their right names and stuff. Will be good.
Then on the way home I stopped in the Television and Movie Store and found Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space. You can look in the packet in store. It's very shiny. It's also a bunch of money considering I never seem to RPG any more. But I think I'm going to have to just admit that this, like the sonic screwdriver collection and the watch and the lipstick and the wrist strap and all which I have no excuse for, is just one of those things I do. Also, they offered me a regular customer discount. I'm in there every week in term time, that's kind of a lot regular. Even with the discount it costs more than Amazon because Amazon wish to make it very hard to shop anywhere else, but sod it, I can walk in the shop and have the game in my hands right there. So I'm probably going to go back in and buy it on Wednesday. Next Monday at the latest.
And then I can make up characters and read the characters they already made and all sorts of fun stuff.
The guy who wrote it works at the store, but not today. The guy writing the next supplement was working there today. Is cool.
Also today I bought the new edition of the RTD book. After lots of um and er because I'm annoyed at him, so why do I buy the book? Which I said out loud, and the two shop guys agreed, but they said they read it so they can see they were right about what he was thinking and read all the that explains it moments. Also they agreed they were annoyed at him and there were lots of what was he thinking moments.
...I think that's more words on the Doctor Who shopping trip (five minutes) than on the college lesson (2 and a bit hours). (It would be three hours but he said we could go early and go do the reading, and then after everyone wooshed and I was packing up he looked at the computer clock and said "Blimey, I didn't know it was that early. Must get my watch fixed." But nobody was complaining. Lots to start on.)
... eh, I know my priorities by now.
This semester we are studying crime fiction. :-)
So for homework we are to read all the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Also Jekyll & Hyde
and some other stuff I can't remember.
Later we will watch some bits of movies.
The basic idea is to study up on how crime fiction makes myths around 'normal' and deviant and enforces the lines. Er, probably, I been awake a very long time. But I think this will be very annoying indeed, because obviously the further back you go the more stuff is made of Fail, and also quite recent stuff has a fail component too. but it will be the informative kind of annoying, so that's okay. This teacher uses the big words and refers to useful theorists and makes sense and calls things their right names and stuff. Will be good.
Then on the way home I stopped in the Television and Movie Store and found Doctor Who Adventures in Time and Space. You can look in the packet in store. It's very shiny. It's also a bunch of money considering I never seem to RPG any more. But I think I'm going to have to just admit that this, like the sonic screwdriver collection and the watch and the lipstick and the wrist strap and all which I have no excuse for, is just one of those things I do. Also, they offered me a regular customer discount. I'm in there every week in term time, that's kind of a lot regular. Even with the discount it costs more than Amazon because Amazon wish to make it very hard to shop anywhere else, but sod it, I can walk in the shop and have the game in my hands right there. So I'm probably going to go back in and buy it on Wednesday. Next Monday at the latest.
And then I can make up characters and read the characters they already made and all sorts of fun stuff.
The guy who wrote it works at the store, but not today. The guy writing the next supplement was working there today. Is cool.
Also today I bought the new edition of the RTD book. After lots of um and er because I'm annoyed at him, so why do I buy the book? Which I said out loud, and the two shop guys agreed, but they said they read it so they can see they were right about what he was thinking and read all the that explains it moments. Also they agreed they were annoyed at him and there were lots of what was he thinking moments.
...I think that's more words on the Doctor Who shopping trip (five minutes) than on the college lesson (2 and a bit hours). (It would be three hours but he said we could go early and go do the reading, and then after everyone wooshed and I was packing up he looked at the computer clock and said "Blimey, I didn't know it was that early. Must get my watch fixed." But nobody was complaining. Lots to start on.)
... eh, I know my priorities by now.