The D&D game and, ur, all the other stuff

Sorry I didn’t write back on the D&D and stuff. I’ve been rather busy not doing my homework.

My friend, who will be known as Rowiin, since that is the name of his character (who is a drow rouge if your curious). We did a standard dungeon crawl and fought a bunch of kobold zombies. I plan on building in more complex story lines into this campaign. It will involve a small town called Dun dragon Castle. I plan on writing an epic poem to go with it.

So, The weekend was spent getting my homework done and going to see the Lord of The Rings musical in Toronto. It was very impressive, but it would help you a lot if you read the book before you saw it, because it is very hard to understand it without knowing the plot. If you do get a chance to see it, go and do it. It is great.

So, today was pretty usual. I'm starting to write my Dorian Gray essay, and I'm going to do some studies for my humanities class asighnment. In the mean time I'm trying to get some pictures from my Italy and Greece trip to the teacher who was running it so he can put it on the show. It is taking way to much time.

Well, thats about it.

Easter and Homework and upcoming D&D with a player besides my little sister (Huzah)

Hey, how’s it hanging?
Well, bunch of relatives came over for Easter. The party was my dad’s side of the family and we watched The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. I also had much chocolate and ate my entire source in one day. I also got a bunch of cards about classic novels and a necklace of an ankh. I’m going to put a picture of an ankh under this, because Steph gave me directions on how to do that and I want to see if I can get it right.

HUZAH!!!!!! Huzah is a new word that I will use to express victory. Get used to it.

In other news, I have joined an internet Aspie forum. They call themselves the Tribe of the Aspie-Geeks. The subjects are very interesting and I think that this will be a good experience for me. I also put out a post on a dungeons and dragons forum and got two answers. I don’t know about joining any of them yet, but they seem interesting.
In other news I am beginning a massive independent studies project in Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology. I plan on doing it on teenage-subcultures using movies and real life studies as my main sources. I want to do this because I get to watch a bunch of movies and this subject sounds kind of interesting.
Finally, I have begun my first Dungeons and Dragons game without Loncrow, Ruric or Sprite. It will all go down on Thursday. So far all I know is that it will take place in the Northern lands of the Forgotten Realms and my character will be a Half-Orc Paladin named Kulder Palecastle. I’ll tell you all about it and see if I can’t get an epic poem out of it.
Well, got lot’s of stuff to do. I’ll get back to you on the D&D.

Project Teddy Bear

Hey, I saw this linked to Neil Gaiman's blog and thought it was pretty nifty. Go see now.

I want to play D&D

For most of today, I wanted to play Dungeons and Dragons. This was a problem, since I didn’t have anyone to play with except my little sister, Sprite. I just tried playing a game with her and I didn’t enjoy it at all. I have discovered two thing about this. One is not to play D&D with your little sister and second is that I hate being the Dungeon Master. As Dungeon Master I have to pay attention to all the little things and that drives me insane. I would rather just play as a character.
For this, I am writing a post on a Dungeons and Dragons Google Group. In it I ask for any help on getting into an online group. I hope that will give me some help in finding a group to play D&D with.
In the school front, I have to find examples of how men are portrayed in the Media (on commercials) and I have to come up with something to write a really big and important paper on. I find this frustrating since I don’t like working.
Okay, bye. Happy easter.

Some Blogthings

Your Job Dissatisfaction Level is 31%

Your job is not bad, but it's probably not a long term thing. You're just not happy enough to stick around for too long... And there's little that can change how you feel. Start looking around for other options, but only quit for something really good!

Should You Quit Your Job?

You Should Weigh 150

If you weigh less than this, you either have a fast metabolism or are about to gain weight. If you weigh more than this, you may be losing a few pounds soon!

How Much Do You Weigh?

Your Birthdate: November 10

Independent and dominant, you tend to be the alpha dog in most situations. You're very confident, and hardly anything ever shakes you. Mundane tasks tend to drain you - you prefer to be making great plans. You are quite original. When people don't "get" you, it bothers you a lot. Your strength: Your ability to gain respect Your weakness: Caring too much what others think Your power color: Orange-red Your power symbol: Letter X Your power month: October

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

You Are a Traditional Christmas Tree

For a good Christmas, you don't have to re-invent the wheel. You already have traditions, foods, and special things you bring out every year.

What Christmas Tree Are You?

I Hate Essays

Can’t talk for long. My mom and me are doing that essay. I was sick for most of the weekend and didn’t do a thing about it. Apparently I didn’t understand anything about the essay and I’m now in a mad rush to get it done. I feel very frustrated. I don’t know what to do.

Hope to see you soon, Writer.

Five hundred years of Art History, Oy

I'm doing an essay in art and it's due tomorrow. The whole dang thing is due tomorrow. Well, I've got an extention because of my Individual Education Plan (IEP), I get an extention till Wednesday. I don't know if this is fair to the other kids, so I'm hoping that they don't read this blog. I'm going to try and get it done tonight though, or at least the rough draft.

The basic idea behind this essay is that I have to choose three different genres of art and write an essay on how they have changed from pretty much every art period between High Renaissance to Impressionist, so basically five hundred years. I find this entire procedure very frustrating and wish to end this whole thing soon.

I find life very frustrating because I have been given a lot of assignments and am doing more homework in one week then I usually do in a month. I'd like a little time out to do some work of my own, like short stories or coming up with an idea for a graphic novel. Sometimes I'd just like to go to a place were I can do things at my own pace.

Anyway, In Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology I am learning about rights of passage. Me and another kid from this class have been assigned with coming up with our own right of passage. It basically consists of going into the wilderness, staying there for a month and then killing the biggest animal you can find, kill it and bring in back to the tribe were there's a big party.

My mom's going on about something. I'm a little confused. I saw something cooking, so we can't be going out. Just got the information, Mom and Dad are going to a flooring store.

Day 2, First Day in Rome

We got off at Leonardo Da Vinci Air Port were we met our tour guide, who will be called A.B. because tourist guide guild laws in Italy are very strick and she could get caught for guiding without a lisence and go to jail, so it added a suspence to the entire trip, especially when we were in front of the Italian parliment.

My first impression of the inner city of Rome was amazement. I figured Rome would have a sort of pride like America, but it was more of an old grandpa who jokes around with you. It was very nice, and we got to see alot of stuff that I forgot the name of, but I was able to get the names of the internet.

The first thing we saw was the Monument of Vittorio Emanuele II, who was the first King of Italy. See, a long time ago, Italy was seperated into several diffrent city states that fought and argued alot and then they decided to unite under King Victor Emanuel II, or he took over or something like that. Anyway, they built the Monument, also known as the Altare della Patrica as a monument to him. It is not really looked at very keenly by the people of Rome, who think it looks over done and like a giant typewriter. Nearbye was the old Embassy for Venice, and these nifty buildings that I unfortunatly forgot the name and purpose of. We also saw this cool building that I forgot the name of, but deserves it's own section.

For this portion of the tour we hade to walk everywere because the inside of the city is off limits to cars. This is because the drivers in Italy are insane. The people of Rome probubly all have Uncanny Dodge to keep out of the way of cars. I liked there system alot more then ours though.

After that we went to the Trevi Fountain, which was built to celebrate the creation of a new water source the Romans found during the Baroque period. According to local tradition, if you throw one coin into the Trevi Founatin, you will come back to Rome. If you throw two coins in the fountain, you find your true love in Rome and if you throw three coins in the Trevi Founatain you will get married in Rome. I only threw one coin in, because I don't want to deal with the complications of true love on my trip. There were also a bunch of middle-eastern guys who were trying to sell us these weird little clay balls that they made into ducks and breasts and things. I hade lunch near the Trevi Fountain at this great little pizza place, hade the best pizza in my life and got locked in the stall. This happened to me alot in the trip, I'm afraid.

From there we walked to the Pantheon, which was an ancient temple to all the gods in ancient Roman times. I didn't see any ancient gods, at least they didn't show themselves, but I did see the burial place of Raphael, a famous High Renisaunce painter who did the School of Athens. There was another important guy buried here, but I can't remember him of the top of my head. According to Wikipedia, King Victor Emanuel is also buried here.

Outside the Pantheon, we saw this old lady who was begging for money. She was having a lot of difficulty standing up. Some of the kids called her a "gypsy faker," because A.B. had warned us about this kind of thing, but I still felt sorry for her.

After the Pantheon, we went to the Piazza Navona which was one of the high points of the trip for me. There were a bunch of artists who did sketches and things, and this lady who would do tableus, and these guys who played Stairway to Heaven. I also got my dad cheated out of two euros when some guy tied some string around my wrist. In my defence I didn't know what was going on. There was also a wicked cool fountain called the Four Rivers Fountain, that has statues representing the major rivers of Europe (the Danube), Asia (The Ganges), Africa (The Nile), and the Americas (the Rio de la Plata). I like this area because it was very artsy and had a bunch of artists selling there paintings and people who would do sketches and caricatures of you.

After that we walked thru some old ruins on the way to the bus so we could go to our hotel outside of Rome. We also saw an old bath house, that I thought would be a great place to play live-action Dungeons and Dragons. The hotel in question was very Catholic, and was frequented by people on pilgramiges to the Vatican. Lots of people complained about how cold the beds were, but I didn't mind.

That is Day 2 of my trip to Rome. To go to Day 1 of my Europe Trip, press here. To go to Day 3 of my Europe Trip, Press Here.

Cool Ancient Ruins