Randominity

So, it would seem that the Nerd King and I are moving. We have just put a hold on an apartment only a couple of city blocks away, but at which we would be able to rent a two-bedroom instead of the one, and for less monthly to boot. The place looks all right; there's nothing to complain about, really.... any lack of enthusiasm on our parts is because we love just about everything at our current place except the monthly rent. We'd been doing some house shopping as well, but nothing fell into place in time for us to go straight from this apartment to a new home just yet. Such is the economy, I guess.

I've been AWOL on this IJ for so long that I was scared to look up the date of my last post. I have no excuse but writer's block these days; even the NK encourages me to keep up posting, but I just can't summon up the will for it. We've been all right, and gaming mostly. We're still hanging in there on Warhammer Online (though we play far FAR less than we used to -- and that's why I have such a problem with monthly game subscriptions in the first place! It's not that I don't want to play the game EVER, just that I find myself thinking, "sheesh, at the rate I'm playing it's like I'm paying $7.50 per gaming session per month!"). We also briefly tried Age of Conan (!) which I enjoyed more than I thought I would, and yes it really is gorgeous, and I wouldn't have cancelled my subscription to THAT game, EITHER, except that I really was just that lazy and couldn't justify spending the money.

My latest poison is City of Heroes/Villains, which I have done two free trials of in the past and it just never caught on with me. This time I seem to have done something right, because I'm having a grand old time at the moment. My free trial is still running, so we'll see how long it is before I'm distracted by something else that's shiny, but I reeaaaalllly like the bite-sized content in the vein of Guild Wars, where you can log on and do a mission and then decide you're done for the evening if need be. PLUS YOU CAN FLY WHAT WHAT

Also ran: varied free to play MMOs such as Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine and Atlantica Online, both interesting in their own right but not interesting enough to win me over (I guess). Gee, I wish Guild Wars 2 would freaking come out. *stare*

/gaming

..... ugh, see, I have nothing else. I'm doing very well, I think, given the shittiness of the economy and my general "meh"ness towards the universe as a whole.... That I have a job that challenges me and yet doesn't make me want to kill myself, that pays me well enough to save up some money while not enough to make me think I can afford a new car. That I still look at my boyfriend and think, "heee. he's MINE!" after a year and a half and I've let myself start to feel pretty again. That I still get feedback for a fic I wrote like a bazillion years ago (people still read Hexed! y'all - I'm floored and flattered).

I could still use some faith, though. I think when I let go of religion I lost a lot of hope as well, and I don't really see a non-supernatural-intervention way of getting it back. This serves me well when I'm in a misanthropic mood, but when I wish to consider the greatness of the universe... not so much.

Anyway, I'm still reading my friends lists, watching people have babies and post about them, watching people move from fandom to fandom, watching people discuss the myriad ways in which people fail at race life (see: misanthropy, above - though I have had several very interesting conversations with the NK about the whole thing), and watching our President be generally awesomesauce, almost proud to be an American, and definitely proud to be black (yeah. I went there).

So, uh, has this entry been random enough?

I really do miss you guys a lot, you know. I suck.

See everyone in six months or so (at the rate I'm going)!