... in which the fool wastes time

Ah, yes... Instead of attending to piled up schoolwork, what do I do?

Why lounge about in the house, and have fun at night... Yes... I'll be able to finish all my work that way. (Note the dripping sarcasm)

Why there's nothing wrong with my wasting time. I seem to be able to do all sorts of other things! Like go online, write down a new article on the journal, read a book, borrow a book to read, watch a movie, watch TV before I watch a movie... I can even worry about my impending deadlines!

See? There's nothing wrong with wasting time!

Anyway, to be more serious...

Watched "Pirates of the Carribean: The Curse of the Black Pearl" last night... It's a pretty nice movie. Cute actually, if you're not looking for an intellectual pirate movie. There's just something about seeing "the worst pirate you've heard about" that would make you laugh ("at least you've heard of him"). Either that, or the movie is just a little too brainless that people would just naturally laugh about it. I'd recommend watching the film if only to get stress off your mind for the day...

Anyway, I now have the Demon: The Fallen trilogy here at home and am currently reading through the first book. It looks quite like an interesting read but I'm only about one-third into the first book (making that around one-ninth of the entire work?) so I can't really judge it, yet. I'm just hoping that it doesn't turn out like the Year of the Scarab trilogy where the second book is boring and dragging as hell... I seem to recall that the author for both series is the same.

Reading the Demon books right now just make me want to go look for a copy of the Demon: The Fallen main rulebook just to see what it feels like to play a Demon...

Is it just me or does White Wolf have something about "sharing souls" with a supernatural entity? It seems like a lot of their work focuses on people sharing their bodies with something that would give them power... For instance, Werewolves are a combination of human, wolf, and spirit in a single body, which gives them aspects of both human and wolf, and lets them interact with the spirit world. Mages on the other hand, have an awakened "avatar" that lets them bend reality to their desires... And then, things get weirder from there -- there are Mummies who are immortal spirits loyal to the cause of good reincarnated over and over to accomplish their goals and to be reincarnated they have to fuse their essence with a human (or at least, i think that's how they work these days). There are the restless dead who return to their own bodies as punishment for a terrible crime that they've made. And then there are the Demons -- who take over a person's body and use it as their own to further their own goals.

Sometimes, outside of the World of Darkness looking in, just how many people are still normal in there? It seems like for every corner you turn, there's a vampire, werewolf, mage, faerie, ghost, mummy, monster hunter, or demon just waiting for you. No wonder the human denizens of that world are so depressed...

I'm blathering now... Must get back to reading. Or downloading. I can't form a decent sentence right now...