Since last posting I have:

[kiya]

- gotten learner's permit
- registered to vote at new address
- replaced my dying cellphone
- failed at lunch with autumnesquirrel
- gotten the henna block I need to treat my hair
- interviewed for a temp job at Harvard
- signed up at the relevant temp agency in the event of job offer
- gotten tea for keshwyn
- managed to go to Cardullo's without coming out with maple sugar candy
- gotten all the phone numbers from the old phone into the new one
- gotten autumnesquirrel's phone number into the new phone
- lost at hand and foot
- informed meranthi that we needed to play hand and foot sometime against each other so one of us would have to win (barring game called on account of earthquake)
- had a mildly embarassing meltdown at games
- prepared food with arawen, including protecting him from the onions and generating cheese dumplings that make whispercricket grin alarmingly
- done full Feri open-court circle cast, including invitation of Guardians
- ogled arawen cheerfully
- become twenty-nine
- done a seriously half-assed job of witnessing a dawn vigil
- failed to get the job
- existed in a state of moderate broken dissociation
- gotten better
- been taken out to lunch by arawen and whispercricket
- been to Pandemonium and ordered a book
- learned what the new phone ring sounds like when keshwyn called to wish me burning cities
- watched The Thirteenth Warrior again, this time pondering it as Discordian exegetic material
- gotten Majnun (human warlock) to neutral with the furbies
- gotten Majnun to level 59
- gotten Samhchair (NE hunter) to level 64
- gotten a happy birthday email from Peter "to within the usual epsilon", which tickles me mightily

Comments

[kiya]

It's a card game, I'm told like canasta, not that I know anything about canasta.

Basically, you are dealt two equally-sized piles of cards; one is your hand, one is your foot. Goal is one of the standard ones: get rid of all your cards via certain protocols. You cannot pick up your foot cards until you have gotten rid of all of your hand cards. We generally play with partners, which makes it somewhat easier.

It is, when explained out, a surface-complicated game, but isn't actually all that complicated; it's sort of a default game when there are four slightly braindead people kicking around.

[larksdream]

Oh, canasta is great fun. I don't actually remember anything about it, except that donperros and telixen and vectorvillain and I played it once and it was a lot of fun. *G*