Today: I love tea time! Mary started the Tea Time Club this year, which is basically just an excuse for a bunch of us to get together and try each others' tea and play Scrabble and watch things on each others' computers. I look forward to these Scrabble games all week long, even if I do get my ass handed to me by Phillip just about every single game. Seriously, he plays like some people perform surgery. It's all precision and the absolute best possible move. If I wasn't always playing against him, I would like to just stand behind him and watch him shuffle tiles around. I am pretty used to dominating at Scrabble, it's kind of astonishing to me to lose so often. And today I was punished for my arrogance with hands full of vowels all the time, and barely broke 100, it was pathetic. But I did get to play "lieu", which is a pretty awesome word.

Also, I love roleplaying. I haven't done paper-and-dice roleplaying with people I actually like since I was playing D&D and Little Fears with Pedro and Sunny and Cindy and Kim back in like 2003-2004, and Phillip's games are just so fantastic. He is a really great GM. This Little Fears game is SCARY AS FUCK. So far I'm the only character who's made it into Closetland, but he killed off two other players' family members tonight so I feel like I got off fairly easy. I have an ACTION PLAN for getting my sister out of Closetland and punishing the douchebag kid who makes fun of my autistic sister, and I have a probably false sense of security that he won't kill off an autistic kid or a single mom. I could be wrong. Tonight he brought us into this tiny room in the basement of Zabriskie and by the time we left four hours later I had a migraine headache from being hyperalert and terrified and also there were spiders. And next session he said he's going to bring us into an even worse place. I'm pretty sure wherever we go there will be more spiders. Have I mentioned that I really hate spiders?

But, as awesome as the Little Fears game is, I am SO MUCH MORE EXCITED for Spirit of the Century. Because that game is not scary at all. It is 100% awesome and fun and badassness, and I get to be snarky and heroic and super cool, and right now I am stuck in a room that is slowly filling up with liquid mercury! and I don't know how the fuck I'm going to get out of it, but I know I WILL get out of it, because this is Spirit of the Century and the whole point is doing impossible shit and making it look good! I am probably about 300% more into SotC than I am into Little Fears, and I am still really into Little Fears.

So anyway yes: today I love tea and roleplaying, and by tea and roleplaying I really mean my friends. Two years ago I had nobody to talk to. Now I have friends EVERYWHERE I GO. I see people I like on an hourly basis. I never go a full day without seeing at least five people I really appreciate. I have eaten maybe one or two meals alone in the past two weeks. I am going to miss my social life when I have to leave Wells. I am going to miss these people. I almost started crying today thinking how much I'm going to miss these people, but it is stupid to cry while I still have them, so I am going to appreciate the fuck out of them until May, and then I will start crying.