elanya

rumplefurskin asked me some questions. Eventually, I got around to answering them! However, it was at the end of a long day, and I was pretty tired and brain dead. I sure hope he doesn't feel too gypped!

1. Where does your nick come from?
I made it up. I started using it on a mud waaaaaay back when I first came online. It's been with me ever since. I dn't even know how I *found* the mud, anymore, or what it was called... I just lept it for other things. I think Ryo-ohki first abbeviated it to Lannie, though, based on a Billy Joel(?) song, maybe?


2. What's your favourate polearm, and why? Would it depend on the circumstances you were in?
Well, I like the idea of the big ones, like a halberd, I really do better with something light and fast, like a spear. This is of the ones I've tried and of the ones that I know the style. I haven't tried any of the different asian varieties, for example.


3. Are you more of an introvert or extrovert in RL?
I'm one of those people who is kind of hard to peg. I can be really outgoing, when I have something to say, or if I am with people I already know. A lot of the time, I am just disinterested in interacting with people. I'm not afraid of socializing, I just don't really care. On the other hand, when I am with a new group that I want to break into, I often suspect other of feeling the same, so I can be quiet because I don't thikn people are interested in hearing what I have to say. A lot of it depends on my mood.... So, I don't know? I am probably less extroverted in rreal life than on the 'net, though, if that is what you are asking.


4. How did you get started gaming? (If you'd like to break this up into several types of gaming, be my guest. :)
I was introduced to roleplaying by Joel, who I can quote as saying it is one of the decisions he most regrets doing. Or at least, it was at one point, probably because I do it so much. It was back when I was in grade eleven, I believe... so 1995? I started LARPing shortly afterwards, since Joel and hazel had gotten involved in NERO (fantasy LARP) while I was away at camp. I got involed in the various writing 'rpg's through newsgroups (does anyone remember newsgroups? Do people still use them?) I was introduced to by a friend who was very into Final Fantasy. And when I started hanging out online more, with the FF and Nurpg crowds, I got in with Bart and them... I think that Exia group 2 was my first 'official' online game. Before that, though, the idea of IC chat develloped, both as a way to have characters from the written rpg's interact in purely hypothetical situations, and also to set scenes. We would roleplay out the scene, and use the log to write it up. The crazy amounts of solo time for other games grew more out of that tradition, I think.


5. Do you think intelligent aliens exist in our universe? Our galaxy? Close to us? Do you think they've contacted our planet?
You know, I realy haven't thought much about it. Life in outerspace really doesn't interest me. I suppose it depends on howthe 'laws' of biology, and evolution and such would apply in outher planetary environments. We see sentience and intelligence as something that helps set us apart, or even make us betterm than other living creatures. We tend to see ourselves as a 'higher order'. I'm generalizing here... I don't necessarily believe these things, nor do I assume that all of the people reading this do. but I thik that it is generally true. I don't think that it is necessarily the kind of adaption that is always going to win out, though. I don't know. I would say if there is intelligent life out there, it is probably not all that close to us, though, or we would have seen more concrete signs of it.


Bonus question: You must fight either a bear or a gorilla, each of roughly equal mass to the other. Which do you choose and why?
I think I'd take the bear. They react to simpler stimuli, and you can play dear with them, in theory, and have them leave you more or less alone.

I checked the weather this morning, twice. I checked by glancing out my window, first. It looked kind of grey out, but the mornings here are sometimes hazy, and it means nothing. I checked online, through the local newspaper. It said that it was indeed going to be hazy this morning, and then mostly sunny with thunderstorms this evening. Okay, I thought, that's fine. It wasn't supposed to be too hot, so I dressed appropriately, in a long sleeve shirt.

Well. After my 9 Am class, you may recall, I tend to go to the history lab, and kill the hour I have to wait on the computer. Usually I look at LJ, and often make an update. Today I thought I would spare you, since I posted so much yesterday, and also because I wanted to go over my notes some for my exam tomorrow. I looked outside when someone else commented that it was raining. Well. Poop on that, I thought! Then she explained that we were actually supposed to get really terrible weather, including winds gusting up to 50 mph. D'oh! I still don't even own an umbrella (though I had three or even four at one point, in F'ton), and hadn't brought my coat.

Well, I decided that my other errands would have to wait, and walked directly home after the class I TA. I got absolutely soaked. It was warm rain, at least, but my skin is now dry and itchy. I changed pretty much as soon as I got in, and my clothes are hanging up to dry. I need lunch, and then I will go curl up with my readings for Theory. Maybe I will also do the dishes... I have no more clean glasses and bowls are getting pretty scarce.

I stoile this of of a lady on Julie's friend's list, because she is apparently interesting and inspirational, and I thought I would peek around a bit ;)
( Handwriting analysis... Mostly fairly accurate, but I don't think I'm that stubborn, or that I'm not impulsive. )

Fuck, things arent going my way tonight. I just wrote this and it got eaten because these stupid computer clocks are wrong.

It boils down to this. My connection at home is dead. I will try to get back on but make no promises. I can't get up to the lab tonight, for various reasons which I can't go into because one of them is that I have brownies baking in the oven atm so can't leave :p


I will do what I can to get on, but I can't make any promises.

Edit I called Airimba, and they say they will try to have it fixed tonight, but can't guarantee. basically, if it is just someone interfering with the signal from the server, they can fix it. But if it is something to do with the server itself, they have to wait until they can access the server, since it is housed inside the TRE office and they don't have the key. Bah. =Are people even playing? Is it worth trying to get on later? Cool either way, I just want to know :)

*Goes back to reading her notes for tomorrow's midterm and munching brownies*