• presentation
• R2F
• performance
• piano, 'all the pretty little horses'
• papers
• polisci, offensive realism
• english, why henry paulson should retire
• jazz, concert review
• polisci, take-home essay (>7)
• polisci, exam (3-5)
• polisci, extra-credit (maybe)

AT LEAST IT IS ALLITERATIVE.

1. Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Tom Stoppard
4. Ignorance, Milan Kundera
5. Black Coffee Blues, Henry Rollins
6. The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden
7. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera
8. The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde
9. Love Story, Erich Segal
10. Less Than Zero, ...

• keys and ID card
• cell phone
• magic deck
• set of 7 polyhedral dice (with 2-4 replacement dice for each shape)
• RPG minutes notebook
• flash drive with 3.5 core and 4.0 core/supplements
• pencil
• planner
• book to read
• ipod and connection cable
• after-piercing solution and cotton balls

roll a d8, to decide what I do:

1. whatever leisure reading I have out of the library
2. practice piano/marimba at Shafer
3. re-read Skills, Feats, Equipment, Adventuring, and Combat chapters in PHB
4. borrow Nick's MM, DMG, and Adventurer's Vault; read.
5. read econ journals in the periodicals room
6. D&D Insider back issues
7. MIT OCW: 8.01 Physics I: Classical Mechanics, Fall 1999
8. work on projects that aren't due for a whi...

• Gutts: 4.0 level 1 human fighter
• Kohsta Moonwalker: 4.0 level 1 Shadar-kai warlock (dark pact; all-Shadar-kai campaign)
• Tony Stark: 4.0 level 2 warforged wizard
• Three: 4.0 level 2 half-elf barbarian (playtest version)
• Doctor Syntax: 4.0 level 2 warforged bard (yesssssss.)

• abandon desire
• always give yourself credit for having more than personality
• be dirty
• cluster analysis
• courage!
• decorate, decorate
• destroy nothing; destroy the most important thing
• discard an axiom
• do something boring
• do the washing up
• don't be afraid of cliches
• don't break the silence
• emphasize the flaws
• find a safe part and use it as an anchor
• get your neck massaged
• give the game away
• idiot glee (?)
• is it over?
• it...

• Levi Stubbs saying 'up yours' and 'I'm gonna bust your balls'
• pretty-colored kitchenware
• hideously patterned dresses
• being rickrolled in imaginative ways
• blinky lights on the back of biking helmets
• apples
• braiding Aaron's hair
• Tom Baker Says
• Dr. JB pushing a bike down the hallway of one of the classroom buildings
• factorials (who doesn't love numbers with exclamation points?)
• stealing Aaron's shield
• Jeph Jac...

• real anniversary: 21 Sept 2007
• fake anniversary: 7 Nov 2007
• first RPG meeting: 3 March 2008
• first Magestry trip: 25 April 2008
• license: 8 Nov 2008
• woodwind the dragon: 9 Nov 2008

• better NPC blacks (all of this absolutely has to be black, with no buttons, designs, or noticeable zippers!)
• under-armor shirt
• (present from my mommy, eeeh!)
• pullover sweatshirt (this must have a hood)
• wrap pants and/or very sturdy, warm black pants
• tights and/or leggings
• a good quality sleeping bag
• some kind of peasant-style shirt that fits me well
• because we have no costuming for lady npcs, what.
• steel
• I'...

1. I'm witty. From my father I inherited an excellent work ethic, thick eyebrows, clear blue eyes, and a caustic, biting wit. The last item in my list is also my favorite: in my high school yearbook, under prized possessions, I listed "my razor-sharp wit and my vinyl record collection."
2. I'm good at school. I'm not necessarily that smart, but I understand what professors are looking for when they assig...

not in order, and I probably forgot a few, bold ones were the ones I was most happy to hear:

• Help Save The Youth of America
• Farm Boy
• There is Power in a Union
• Save The Country
• I Ain't Got No Home
• Greetings to the New Brunette
• A Lover Sings
• O Freedom
• I Keep Faith
• NPWA
• Sexuality
• The Milkman of Human Kindness
• To Have and to Have Not
• Richard
• Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards

encore:

• Levi Stubbs' Tears
• Sing Their Soul...

• abusing adverbs (in both speech and writing)
• chewing on the ends of long-sleeved shirts
• pulling split ends out one by one
• F5ing my e-mail inbox
• biting/picking at my fingernails
• scratching off nailpolish, if I've painted them
• fiddling with my glasses
• taking them off and cleaning them on my shirt
• pushing them up on my nose
• taking them off just to put them back on

• Knowing a lot about music
• Dungeons and Dragons
• LARPing (NPC at Magestry and Cro)
• Playing number games with mile markers on highways
• Finding gay subtext in everything
• Sighing and gazing at Daniel Day-Lewis
• Nanowrimo
• collecting polyhedral dice and building miniature cities with them (see Dungeons and Dragons)
• reading all the books in the Czech literature sections of all four linked-university libraries

• Role-playing games
• the opening sentence was a quote from 8-bit D&D
• The Phil Spector Wall of Sound
• for a class that had nothing to do with music
• Presentations of transsexuals in popular films
• Sex and gender roles in Brokeback Mountain
• this was actually the topic the teacher assigned to the whole class
• Race and class structures in the Lion King
• again, my teacher chose this
• The poetic structure of Suede's son...

• Susan Ivanova (B5)
• Simon Tam (Firefly/Serenity)
• Kaylee Frye (Firefly/Serenity)
• Fitz (Doctor Who)

• Lady Thomas: knight/fighter gestalt, wielded a halberd - victim of an abandoned campaign
• Thelonius: monk, once hip-checked a locked door open - also from an abandoned campaign
• Billy Stubbs: bard, generally amazing - killed by pirates
• Stanton: hexblade, used a scythe - killed by a party member's stupidity
• Karl: not mine - my DM's, shows up in almost all his campaigns, likes to give PCs chicken

• Rapture Subtraction
• There's Only One Simon Gilbert
• The Once and Future Queens

• "When I Get Home" Bernard Butler
• originally by Bert Jansch
• "Dancing in the Moonlight" David Kitt
• originally by Thin Lizzy
• "My Girl" Otis Redding
• originally by The Temptations
• this one isn't better per se, I think they're about equal, but I love the implications of a Stax/Volt artist covering a Motown artist.
• "Iceberg" Becky Uline
• originally by the Trashcan Sinatras
• "Walk Away Renee" Billy Bragg
• originally b...

• Ostře sledované vlaky
• Beautiful Thing
• The English Patient
• The Professional
• Tres Colores: Bleu
• To Have and Have Not
• Dead Poets Society
• An Affair to Remember
• The Postman Always Rings Twice
• Sunset Blvd.
• Titan A.E.
• Rebecca
• Lost in Translation
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

1. Juno (with Nick)
2. Cloverfield (with Nick, Steve, and Jo)
3. Prince Caspian (with Sara)
4. Iron Man (with Nick)
5. Iron Man (with Nick)
6. The Incredible Hulk (with Nick)
7. Iron Man (with Nick)
8. Prince Caspian (with Mom)
9. Iron Man (with Kelly)
10. The Dark Knight (with Nick)
11. WALL-E (with Nick)
12. Iron Man (with Mom)
13. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Two (with Kelly)
14. The Clone Wars (with Nick)

• black with pink polka dots and ribbon trim
• black and white hounds-tooth
• black and yellow with angular hem
• black with red buttons
• purple and brown spaghetti strap
• short red

• "Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)." -Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• "My son reached his tw...

• find a job
• move off campus
• successfully GM a complete D&D campaign
• get a 4.0 every semester
• graduate a semester early
• get a doctorate in Economics
• visit the Czech Republic
• complete the Cambridge Latin course on my own
• become president of Role Playing Guild
• make the boy happy - or, if I can't, help someone else do it

• Mat Osman
• David Bowie
• Becki Pipette
• Billie Piper
• Bernard Butler
• Kevin Barnes
• Dusty Springfield
• Britney Spears
• Monster Bobby
• Marvin Gaye
• Tammi Terrell
• Jarvis Cocker
• Annalee Fery
• Johnny Marr
• Lita Ford

• Jonny Lee Miller, "Avenues and Alleyways"
• Buzzcocks, "Oh Shit!"
• The Libertines, "Arbeit Macht Frei"
• The Clash, "Career Opportunities"
• Elastica, "1 2 X