Too Much Fun Monday, August 16, 2010

The blog strips the teasing, private diary of its context and secures it as public. Believe me, I have no problem pumping out unsupportable opinions. In this respect I'm like a minor-league baseball mascot, blasting t-shirts with an air-gun over the beer-numb fingers of the crowd.

Yet I'm having too much fun in Amherst to notionally bronze its baby booties! Typical day--write some, read some, hop on the bike and do some errand, come home and play or learn some new game*, all the while taking time to make slightly more elaborate meals than normal.

Reading list: a Robert Sheckley omnibus, Michael Schmidt's clumsy but informative The Lives of the Poets (with The Penguin Book of English Verse at close hand), lots of Emily Dickinson.



*Cribbage and two-handed Euchre have re-entered my repertoire, and Ish and I have been circling around the great Amherst gamer's collective at Worlds Apart Games. Of special interest is the intimidatingly rule-heavy but open-ended Gurps role-playing system.