11/30: What I Accomplished Today

1. I was supposed to go to meetings this morning, but the cable people and my Co-Vivant both had changes in schedule, so I couldn't go anywhere.

2. Level 39 Night Elf Druid. Alterac. Dinged 40. Trained and mount. Stats check and mail check.

3. Television and Pogo badges. Watched the Biography on Emma Thompson among other things. I really like this show, but it has two very irritating tendencies (and it shares them with many shows): it has a sort of breathiness to it, a need to instill drama or potential drama into every possible moment of a person's life ("Thompson seemed to have it all--perfect marriage, perfect career. She was about to know perfect heartache." That sentence verbatim wasn't in the show, but that's the way every act ends: with a cliffhanger, like they're afraid we'll forget we were watching a show over the commercial break.); it also summarizes after it returns from each commercial break. We have Tivo; we're not watching the commercials, so we just heard the end of the previous act about four seconds ago. Even had we watched the two or three minutes of commercials, we're capable of retaining the minuscule amount of information we'd been given in the previous act. Both of these tendencies have as their source the assumption that people who watch television are idiots. In many ways, this may not be an inaccurate assumption, but I hate being insulted.

4. Level 35 Night Elf Hunter. Stranglethorn. Dinged 36.

5. Today's Big Fish Game was Farm Frenzy. Oh, my gosh. Sort of a cross between Insane Aquarium and Grimm's Hatchery, although it's a better game than either (and I really like Insane Aquarium). Absolutely addictive; it's stupidly early in the morning, and I should have gone to bed two or three hours ago, but this is a just a good, clean, silly, fun game.

6. Read more in The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot. As with the Robinson book, the discussion is both on the contents of the book and the history of the manuscript, and the latter is quite a bit more interesting than the former (to be fair, I read the Gospel itself a few months ago, and reading two additional books about it relatively soon thereafter is beginning to make the information feel rather old hat).

11/29: What I Accomplished Today

1. Was the third for a job interview committee, so I helped conduct three job interviews.

2. Level 38 Night Elf Druid. Stranglethorn. Dinged 39.

3. Television and Pogo badges.

4. Level 39 Night Elf Druid. Stockades and Bazil Thredd sequence.

Not particularly interested in going to bed, but I have a meeting tomorrow morning.

11/28: What I Accomplished Today

1. Prepped a class, graded two classes, taught a class.

2. Television and Pogo badges.

3. Level 37 Night Elf Druid. New quests in Theramore. Dinged 38.

4. Read more in Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot.

11/27: What I Accomplished Today

1. Cable people had to fix something with the phone lines, so I had to be up early to let them in.

2. Took a nap.

3. Level 36 Night Elf Druid. Desolace. Dinged 37.

4. Television and Pogo badges.

5. Read a magazine. Finished Robinson's book about The Gospel of Judas last night, so I started Ehrman's The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot. They go well together.

6. Level 37 Night Elf Druid. Fished in Feathermoon.

11/26: What I Accomplished Today

1. Prepped a class, graded two classes, taught a class.

2. Television and Pogo badges.

3. Read more in The Secrets of Judas. This is an interesting book; I'd have finished it by now, but I don't want to miss information. The strongest parts are the discussions of the history of the actual manuscript. People should be beaten with wet noodles until they understand how to care for papyrus.

4. Level 36 Night Elf Druid in Desolace for a bit. Server will be down for a while because Season 3 of the Arena starts tomorrow (I don't play Arena, so this is irrelevant to me), so I thought it'd be a good time to do some auction junk.

5. Today's BigFishGame is Fashion Craze. Ugh. a. The whole game plays as though it's in the dark; it's like no one turned on the light in the work room. b. The onscreen avatar is incredibly slow and unresponsive. c. There's no way to fix that; the only upgrades are cosmetic and totally unrelated to performance or money earned. I like the actual idea behind this one, but I'm not sure how it got out of beta in this clunky stage. (I'm not convinced it did; I think it's going to be another rip-off like last year's Believe in Santa, which released what was apparently an alpha and then, two months later, released a version that worked better. Made me furious.)

11/25: What I Accomplished Today

1. Puzzle Day. We came in last; we had 20- or 30-odd blanks in the puzzle. Mojo-free week.

2. Participated in the Stranglethorn Fishing Contest! Only got to do the second hour, so I knew I wouldn't win, but I got 25 Tastyfish and a mace fish; I thought that was pretty cool.

3. Took a nap.

4. Got level 40 Human Mage her mount and leveled blacksmithing a little. Stats and mail checks.

5. Television and Pogo badges. Watched Catch 22, and then watched it again with the commentary. Very funny, dark movie. Too often, we all do work for Milo.

6. Level 35 Night Elf Druid. Finished the Tower sequence, dinging 36 in the process. Started Desolace.

7. Finished a magazine. Read more in Secrets of Judas.

11/24: What I Accomplished Today

1. Tired of the Stranglethorn quest taking up 15 inventory slots, so I started running everyone else through it.

2. Went to see Tony Bennett; just fantastic. I didn't know hearing him sing "Maybe This Time" needed to be on my "Things to Hear Before You Die" list, but it did. Check.

3. Finished reading Tomorrow Will be Bright, a book about the migration of my ancestors' migration into Ohio. This is a comfort-book chestnut, a nice little break from The Secrets of Judas, in which I also made a little progress today.

4. Got everyone else through the Stranglethorn quest; auction work.

In absolutely no mood to go to bed, but Puzzle Day comes early.