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l33tminion) wrote2005-01-24 04:34 am
l33tminion) wrote2005-01-24 04:34 am
Mixed Emotions
This weekend was interesting...
On Saturday, there was Earth Defense Force (with humans, robots, aliens, and gratuitous simulated violence (yay dart guns)), which was fun, but a bit disappointing (I really like the more roleplay intensive games better).
In the evening, I watched Shaun of the Dead, which is best described by its tagline: "A romantic comedy. With zombies." Seriously, that was an incredibly awesome movie. Horror, comedy, realistic characters, vague references, implied social commentary, and hordes of undead. W00t!
On Sunday, I went to the Betrayers of Kamigawa Prerelease Tournament (Magic: the Gathering). The main event started before I arrived, and there was limited attendance because of the crazy blizzard (which made it a pain to get to the T). I didn't get to play in the tournament itself until late, and then played only one round (which I lost due to some technical misplays, despite having some excellent moments (like dropping an Eight-and-a-Half Tails the turn after my opponent played a Horobi, Death's Wail, seriously damaging their board position)). The second round I lost my sideboard (spare cards from the tournament) and I had a bye (a pass round), so I decided to just go back home.
Train service was rerouted as I was coming back (one branch of the Red Line was closed, and a shuttle bus leaving from the end of the other branch replaced it). The station had two platforms, and due to the reroute, some people were on the wrong platform (as they had trouble understanding the English-only announcements). I helped direct people to the correct location, and asked the operator to summon some transit police to do crowd control, which he did. I hope that everyone was able to get home safely, despite inconvenience from the snow.
Finally, I returned to Senior House for random conversation and cranberry juice. (Which was quite silly. When arguing against Patty's paranoia, I dramatically stated "There is no Cabal!", but could not resist adding "Fnord!")
I return to Olin tomorrow. (Okay, today...)
On Saturday, there was Earth Defense Force (with humans, robots, aliens, and gratuitous simulated violence (yay dart guns)), which was fun, but a bit disappointing (I really like the more roleplay intensive games better).
In the evening, I watched Shaun of the Dead, which is best described by its tagline: "A romantic comedy. With zombies." Seriously, that was an incredibly awesome movie. Horror, comedy, realistic characters, vague references, implied social commentary, and hordes of undead. W00t!
On Sunday, I went to the Betrayers of Kamigawa Prerelease Tournament (Magic: the Gathering). The main event started before I arrived, and there was limited attendance because of the crazy blizzard (which made it a pain to get to the T). I didn't get to play in the tournament itself until late, and then played only one round (which I lost due to some technical misplays, despite having some excellent moments (like dropping an Eight-and-a-Half Tails the turn after my opponent played a Horobi, Death's Wail, seriously damaging their board position)). The second round I lost my sideboard (spare cards from the tournament) and I had a bye (a pass round), so I decided to just go back home.
Train service was rerouted as I was coming back (one branch of the Red Line was closed, and a shuttle bus leaving from the end of the other branch replaced it). The station had two platforms, and due to the reroute, some people were on the wrong platform (as they had trouble understanding the English-only announcements). I helped direct people to the correct location, and asked the operator to summon some transit police to do crowd control, which he did. I hope that everyone was able to get home safely, despite inconvenience from the snow.
Finally, I returned to Senior House for random conversation and cranberry juice. (Which was quite silly. When arguing against Patty's paranoia, I dramatically stated "There is no Cabal!", but could not resist adding "Fnord!")
I return to Olin tomorrow. (Okay, today...)
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