Timing...

[magicaddict]

...is everything.

There is a distinct, unlikely yet present prossibility that I won't be able to make Renewal. The International Union of Crystallographers (the Big Society in our field) is holding its massive, week-long, triennial meeting in Madrid on that very same weekend.

I blagged not going to a smaller conference last year so I could get ranted at, fail to monster, have some exquisite IC abuse thrown at me, watch my charge get shivved up, and walk out of a faction vowing never to return. Unfortunately, that makes it sort of my turn to stay around this time and miss out on playing a new guy in a new faction, as part of a close-knit group doing the only choreographed stuff that ever happens in LARP.

I'd rather stand in a field waving my arms around and chanting than go to Madrid, in August, stay in a posh hotel and eat for free. Do I need to re-evaluate my priorities, or are they precisely where they should be?

Comments

[flickums.livejournal.com]

Will you be at the other CP events this year?

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

I plan to be, though we're doing it one event at a time. This might still all go horribly wrong horribly quickly.

[halo-dust.livejournal.com]

I'd say your priorities are spot on, sir. That said, as I've walked out of a job just to go to Fayre before, I may not be an impartial advisor.

Ooh, new group sounds fun! where goes this?

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

I hope is was a really, really crappy job.

The idea is a bunch of head-shrinking south sea island elves in the Jhereg - to be extra-specially stupid, we decided to make ourselves ritualists as well.

[xanthipe]

It's the group I talked to you about last summer, only evolved somewhat - we've acquired Hannah, another ex-Teutonian (ex-militia, was at my first Wigan and the first Wolfsburg event) and Stu, one of our local lads who's a good roleplayer and a game bastard, and set up as the initial ritual foursome.

[pujaemuss.livejournal.com]

Trade you.

PJW

[magicaddict.livejournal.com]

I'm not cheap.