Interesting times in North Georgia

[kellinator]

Whenever I make the mistake of thinking my life is boring, something happens to remind me how interesting my life is. And when I say "interesting," I mean in the ancient-Chinese-curse sense of the word.

Late last night I was driving home from gaming in Athens. sujata had written out reverse directions for me. This would have been great, except for a few factors: it was pitch-black, raining (at times heavily), foggy, and oh yeah, the biggest one: I have been described as "unable to find her way out of a wet paper bag." I have no sense of direction whatsoever. I get lost so easily that the first time I made it to a Club Atlanta event less than an hour late and without having to call for directions, it made the club newsletter.

So I almost immediately made a wrong turn.

I quickly realized I was not headed back to Atlanta and began to panic. alanator had just called, and his glee at the situation didn't help matters. I believe his exact words were "You're gonna get butt-fucked by rednecks!!" This is why you don't let young children watch Deliverance, folks. You end up with either Quentin Tarantino or alanator.

Seriously, I was freaked. I get lost in Atlanta all the fucking time, but that's Atlanta. I know eventually I'll find a sign for 75 or 85 and figure out where the hell I am. But this time there I was, on backroads I didn't know, going to towns I didn't know, in the dark and fog and pouring rain and lightning. In short, I was about to barf.

My salvation came from an unexpected source: sujata's mom. I called Molly's house and she wasn't home yet, but her mother took pity on this strang hysterical girl and guided me to 316. My gratitude knows no bounds.

And I even got home in time for my Sunday night ritual of watching Adult Swim, which greatly improved my mood.

Comments

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

I think I might be interested, if you can tolerate a total newbie...

[streamweaver.livejournal.com]

We don't really use newbie or oldbie or whatever, we just try to have fun. You'd be very welcome and Courtney would love to have another woman in the game. We're playing from 11 til about 3 every Saturday at our apartment very close to Emory up near the N Dekalb Mall. If you want I can set you up with a character and you can try a few sessions and then decide later on if you want to stay with the game or not. Mostly I'm trying to add some life to the game and I encorage all kinds of interesting personalities to get together for it.

Send me an email at streamweaver@mindspring.com if you think you want to come this week or some other week and I'll send you directions and get you set up with a character and all that.