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I wasn't sure whether or not I should go to the Sunday thing today, but I decided to head down there because, hey, I needed to leave the house to get lunch anyway. So I sit down to eat, and haven't taken two bites before Skye challenges me to a game of magic.
I did bring my cards, but I can hardly play while eating -- not in a place as crowded as that mall food court, anyway. But once I'm finished, I get out my cards, and... wait. While he talks about random things and this guy across the table demonstrates complete unfamiliarity with Magic the Gathering. So I say I'm going to go brush my teeth while I'm waiting, and he insists that no, he's ready to play...
...then keeps on shuffling and talking to other people, and crap. Then finally deals himself a hand. Then takes a mulligan. Then takes *another* mulligan, despite having plenty of land, just not the deck's combo actually in his opening hand. "See how sucky a hand this is?" he says, when I complain.
"If you can't play without taking five mulligans every time, your deck sucks."
"Then how come it always wins?"
"Because you keep taking mulligans until you happen to draw the one hand that works!"
"But look how sucky this hand is!"
*sigh*
On the other side, Kitsunetaur was giving that annoying grin of his and getting out his own cards, while Ravyn (or whatever she's calling herself this week) acted all bored, reading a comic book... and past Skye, three people were engaged in heated one-upsmanship about who'd shocked their parents more by coming out as gay...
"I can't take this anymore, I'm leaving." And I did.
It wasn't until I was out in the car getting ready to drive away that I realized I had a splitting headache, bad enough that I was starting to get sick to my stomach... it slowly faded as I put distance between myself and... those people, although it took drugs and several hours before it was gone completely. Maybe that's what was making me so snappish.
I've often said that I hate everyone, and that's true -- but it usually doesn't keep me from liking them, too. They're not diametrically opposed to each other, although they do tend to cancel each other out. Today, though, there was none of that -- everyone I looked at I just hated, and the like part was nowhere to be found.
Maybe playing that MMORPG is using up all my social energy or something.
I did bring my cards, but I can hardly play while eating -- not in a place as crowded as that mall food court, anyway. But once I'm finished, I get out my cards, and... wait. While he talks about random things and this guy across the table demonstrates complete unfamiliarity with Magic the Gathering. So I say I'm going to go brush my teeth while I'm waiting, and he insists that no, he's ready to play...
...then keeps on shuffling and talking to other people, and crap. Then finally deals himself a hand. Then takes a mulligan. Then takes *another* mulligan, despite having plenty of land, just not the deck's combo actually in his opening hand. "See how sucky a hand this is?" he says, when I complain.
"If you can't play without taking five mulligans every time, your deck sucks."
"Then how come it always wins?"
"Because you keep taking mulligans until you happen to draw the one hand that works!"
"But look how sucky this hand is!"
*sigh*
On the other side, Kitsunetaur was giving that annoying grin of his and getting out his own cards, while Ravyn (or whatever she's calling herself this week) acted all bored, reading a comic book... and past Skye, three people were engaged in heated one-upsmanship about who'd shocked their parents more by coming out as gay...
"I can't take this anymore, I'm leaving." And I did.
It wasn't until I was out in the car getting ready to drive away that I realized I had a splitting headache, bad enough that I was starting to get sick to my stomach... it slowly faded as I put distance between myself and... those people, although it took drugs and several hours before it was gone completely. Maybe that's what was making me so snappish.
I've often said that I hate everyone, and that's true -- but it usually doesn't keep me from liking them, too. They're not diametrically opposed to each other, although they do tend to cancel each other out. Today, though, there was none of that -- everyone I looked at I just hated, and the like part was nowhere to be found.
Maybe playing that MMORPG is using up all my social energy or something.
