Don't wanna read it in a magazine, don't wanna see it on the silver screen...

Today is a better day than yesterday, at least so far. For one thing, it is Friday! Woo-hoo! And I am within spitting distance of the end of this big boring project at work, and ready to move on to smaller and less boring things. That's always exciting. Mike is perfecting his thesis and turning it in today, which is also very exciting, if a bit nervewracking. I need to remember to stop on the way home and pick up ice and mudslide mix, since I polished off our previous bottle at the Conclave.

So Lauren gave me some questions to answer, so I will answer them. It is more fun than another fruitless Google search for a nursing home way down south that no one's ever heard of.

1. Who is the character you have enjoyed playing the most? Why?
That's not an easy question, there have been a lot of characters in my time, in a lot of different venues. But it wouldn't be fun to choose one no one here but Mike has ever heard of, so I think I'll say Hannah. I had a lot of fun designing the warren, and doing all the research for her cameras, and writing her backstory. She's just a fun, cynical character with a good heart and a smart mouth and sharp claws. I don't know if I'll ever bring her back full time, but I like her.

2. Champaign: give me one thing you're looking forward to and one thing you're worried about.
I'm still tied up in knots over the whole moving thing, that's what worries me the most. Once I figure out how to get the truck down to Champaign, a lot of that worry will ease. After that, it's mostly just hoping that money and jobs and schoolwork all works out. I'm really, really looking forward to a dishwasher and garbage disposal and nearby shopping and nice weather.

3. Do you think you and Mike will ever have kids?
Yeah, I'd like to, eventually. I love babies, and I think I can handle the whole growing up thing as well. =) We won't be ready for a long time, emotionally or financially, especially since we will probably need medical intervention to ever make it possible. But yeah, look for smart, wicked, giant-headed Davis children sometime in the future.

4. Was Knox worth it?
Knox got me interested in gaming and LARPing, so sure! I've got a lot of good friends from Knox, and while I'm not sure the education I got was worth all the money, I don't regret the choices I made. And more people know of Knox than you might think, so it's not a liability.

5. What got you interested in theatre in the first place?
My mom was a theatre major in college before she married my dad, and she's always been active in theatre. My earliest theatrical memory was when I was probably five or six and my mom was the second wife in Blithe Spirit. The lady playing the first wife had a daughter close to my age, and we ran around behind the sets being chased by this ghost-lady (her mom), up and down the stairs. It was cool. My first real play was The Music Man, when I was in fourth grade. I loved acting. It lost a lot of its sheen when I realized I couldn't sing or dance and wasn't exactly cut out to be an ingenue, but I enjoyed set design and makeup. Now, of course, I hate theatre and everything it stands for, but I still like to watch the shows.

I've got a question for you, please grant me an interview...

I am still fantastically bored. This afternoon was shitty, I thought I'd be able to go home early and ended up leaving late. Hate that lots. Oh well. The splendiferous Nathaniel has sent me questions, which I will now answer. Oh, and if you want questions, respond by saying so. But I may make you squirm, just for funsies...

1) How did you get started gaming?
I started gaming online in the wilds of the AOL chatroom gaming forums. This was back in early high school, when the X-Files was still good, and I was part of several FBI Paranormal games. It was a lot of fun, and that's actually where I met Mike. By the time I graduated high school though, the forum had kind of become defunct, and other than freeform with Mike, I kinda stopped gaming. I picked up the LARP in sophomore year on Jasmine Jobe's recommendation, after being assured that there was, contrary to my mother's opinion, absolutely no worshipping of Satan allowed. The LARP was really good for me, since before I joined up and started gaming, I had no friends. I eventually branched out into every kind of game I could get my hot little hands on.


2) Where do you see yourself in five years? In ten?
Let's see... in five years, I'll be two years out of law school, and Mike will hopefully be wrapping up his doctorate in history. I will hopefully be working in a State's Attorney's office close to Champaign, if we are still living there. With any luck, I will still be able to game on weekends. My mom will have been bugging me for two years to give her grandchildren, and it may be almost time to start. =) In ten years, Mike and I will both be well-settled into our respective careers, somewhere that they happen to need both attorneys and historians. I want to have a real house, and someone who cleans it sometimes. And if my mom has her way, we'll have a little kid to go along with our middle-aged cat and senior-citizen budgies. But who really knows?

3) Did you enjoy your tenure as an ST? Why/Why Not?
I enjoy working behind the scenes on the LARP, helping to keep the world running and the wheels turning. I enjoyed that part of being an ST. I also liked helping new players get plugged in and understand what exactly was going on. The actual running the game part... not so much. I was a terrible combat storyteller, I know that much, and I had certain players that I just could not see eye to eye with, which made me endlessly frustrated. Being Head ST was hell, and as we all know, I only made it for a few months. Being a Narrator-type suits me right down to the ground.

4) Where would you go if you could go anywhere in the world?
Australia, definitely. Same language, awesome culture, and of course, Steve Irwin. I am sooo all about the Crocodile Hunter. It seems like a much less, I dunno, stuffy sort of place than most of Europe. The accent is awesome as well. Someday I'll get down there.

5) Which LARP character was your favorite one and why?
Well, I pretty much answered that one in my answers to Lauren. But I have enjoyed all the characters that I've played. Rhiannon was fun because she was my first, and a very difficult concept that ended up working. Hannah was fun for all the reasons I already said. Eleanor had a lot of secrets and a lot of potential, and I was very disappointed in the chain of events that made her unplayable. Moira was very satisfying to me because she was a character who played out her story and left at the right time. I hate having to try and come up with reasons why this character would possibly stay in town. And Karen... well, I'm enjoying Karen a lot, partially for the pure experimental value. It'll be interesting to see how she turns out. =)