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May 29, 2003
The Games of Life...
Well, I've decided that I'm not going to go into a departmental meeting later today that I was otherwise planning to attend. I will go on Friday (it's a two-day 'retreat' meeting), though. The meeting is a must-attend for full-time faculty, a should-attend for Visiting Faculty, and a may-attend for those who would be adjuncting. I'm definitely in the "may-attend" category... I was actually attending these yearly "retreat" meetings while I was still a student because they had invited some of the very involved among us to attend and to give their impressions of what was going on in the department, etc. This will be the first time in quite some while that I'm not going. I guess it's yet another sign that I'm moving on.
My world sure has been rattled up recently. I have learned things on three different fronts that have been quite un-expected. I can tell you the fronts, but I can't tell you what I've learned. The fronts are: Work, Relationships, and Ministry. None of these things are catastrophic or are going to cause me great hardship, but they do make life a little more interesting.
Games@Six (this past evening) was quite an event! There were 17 people (I think) that stopped by and played at least one game. Here are all of the games that were played (that I can remember): Crokinole, Family Business, Bean Trader, Amun-Re, Mystery of the Abbey, Chinatown, M, Zendo, Battlefleet? Gothic? something like that?, Connect Four (as a tournament), Cosmic Wimpout, Corsairs. Anything I missed?
I was killed quickly in the game of Family Business, allowing me to join the game of 'M' (the one game that Christmas... hi, Christmas!!... played with us). I tied (with Christmas... hi, Christmas!) for 2nd place. After that it was time to try the new game, Mystery of the Abbey (which I clearly have no clue [pun not intended] how to play well). I thought it was an interesting game, but I need some better strategy for getting information without giving it away to everyone else in the process. My next game was Amun-Re, which was a really good game... LOTS of pyramids this time... I won, but not by a whole lot. Then I played Chinatown, which I also won(!)... It was a very good match. And that was pretty much it.
Just to recap my previous days, Tuesday Night I went to a yummy dinner and bible study at the house of another couple in Capax Dei... it was a really nice evening. On Monday Night I was at the Boardgaming "Monday Madness" Night at Millennium where I was joined by 4 other Games@Six regulars and 2 other folks that we didn't know who also turned out for the games for the first time... so the 5 to 10 other folks who had come out in the two previous weeks didn't show up at all... the theory was that it was because perhaps people would have expected the store to be closed on Memorial Day. On the bright side, we did get a nice chance to talk to and get to know the couple that owns the store (Ed & Samantha) a bit more. If only they had another person working at the front desk, they could have joined us for a game or two.
That's probably enough said... Graduation came and went... I thought about taking a bunch of photos, but I didn't... I think I took maybe 2 or 3... I may post them in a little while.
Posted by Andrew at May 29, 2003 04:02 AM