Okédoké!!

Not a huge amount of stuff going on lately, since the semester's almost over... but I think I'll have enough stuff to fill up some space here now. XD

Anyway, the title--not related to my game Okédoké! La Leyenda Mexicana at all, actually.  In Spanish class today, since it's the last day of class, we had to bring in Hispanic-related food of some sort and we'd get extra credit points if we did (along with being able to eat it.)  Made up for the fact that I had a very small breakfast (just Pop-Tarts since I woke up at 9:00 and had to rush to get my shower, breakfast, and tooth-brushing out of the way in time) and lunch (just a salad)... ate some tomato pizza, chips and salsa, and these two desert-type foods people brought in, one of which was like cinnamon sugar tortilla chips and the other was sort of like French-toast-mini-pancake things.  And drank some Jarritos, which were what I brought to the class (I think I freaked the Jonzzey's workers out a bit, coming in there and saying I was going to buy 16 Jarritos... XD)  We also watched part of The Polar Express in Spanish... but it was just the end of the movie pretty much, so I wasn't sure what was going on, heh.

Earlier this week... well, not much earlier, since it was just yesterday... it was Ruth's birthday, and Elizabeth and I had a sort of mini surprise birthday party for her at Carriage.  Elizabeth made muffins (with birthday candles in them!) and I made a birthday card, and there was lots of talking and general silliness for a while before Ruth had to live (and then some more talking afterward, because I have a hard time leaving abruptly when I'm in the middle of talking to people and there is absolutely nothing else to do.)  After that, though... I ended up making the mistake of agreeing to go along with some random people I met in the library, who said they were going to Wendy's.  I thought Wendy's would be open (it's not--apparently the Wendy's around here closes at midnight except on Fridays and Saturdays), just like how I thought there'd be four people going and they ended up picking up someone else along the way, making the back seat incredibly uncomfortable and basically turning a short car ride into torture for me.  The last... 2 minutes or so on the way back weren't so bad, since someone figured out "hey maybe the guy who freaks out in crowded place shouldn't have to sit in the back seat of a small car with two other people," but by that point it was already so bad that there was no way to really make things much better.  Fortunately, today's been pretty good, even though I didn't get too much sleep after that (didn't get back until after 1:00, didn't go to bed until 2:00, probably didn't actually get to sleep until 2:30 or later... bleh.)

And I've finally got my Historic Virginia trip journal turned in (hopefully they'll give those back after the semester's over, I actually had some pretty good drawings of stuff in there and I'd hate to lose them forever), along with my Leader-Servant packet.  That means the only homework-type stuff I have left are those two paintings, a self-portrait (ugh!) and the stained glass window from Main Hall (bigger paper, so it'll take a while.)  They need to be done by Tuesday, and I'll probably be going home to visit my parents this weekend, so... I have what's left of today, part of Saturday, part of Sunday, all of Monday, and part of Tuesday to get them both done.  Shouldn't be too hard, considering I managed to get five paintings done in a week once and I didn't even know what I was going to do for most of those ahead of time.

Also, I got people to playtest The K'hyurbhi Lands! Well, the first little part of it, anyway.  With some advice here and there, neither of them got killed even on their first try playing the game, though they came a bit closer sometimes than I'd expect people who are familiar with OHRRPGCE games to.  I was actually kind of surprised that someone managed to play through Kirber's segment of the "training to fight King Numm" part, since it's pretty long and a lot harder than either Nummer's or Upchukk's, but she managed to get through by running away from every encounter that had Rock Bugs or multiple snails/slugs, using lots of Yums, and usually not wandering too far off the right path up the mountain.  Upchukk's, on the other hand, ended up being a bit harder than it should've been due to the playtester's refusal to buy any armor at all. XD
But still, they both managed to make it through (albeit with hardly any money, due to buying tons and tons of Yums during Kirber's story) without ever having to start over once.  They only found two minor glitches--the chef in Nummy's sometimes gets in the wrong spot and blocks the way during the last part of Upchukk's story, and it's possible to run into random encounters during the "finding the cookbooks" scene of Nummer's story.  Shouldn't be too hard to fix, though I thought I had fixed the chef already...