And that means: allergy season. I suffered greatly about a month ago; there was some uncommonly warm weather, and whatever it did, something was released into the atmosphere which just wrecked me. And I mean wrecked! Puffy eyes, drippy nose, the whole kaboodle (which, by the way, is an awesome word). As I recall, the initial 'hit' was on a Thursday and started off with some sneezing. It got worse on Friday and then, my whole weekend was predominantly spent in bed trying to wheeze in enough oxygen. Fortunately, there's been enough rain recently to drive all those annoying, floating contagions to the ground. Granted, that makes for a soggy walk to work and occasionally wet socks, but I think the mild dampness is an easy trade-off for the misery that is allergies.
In other news, I'm ridiculously busy at work. The thing is, I don't know if I'm ridiculously busy because of all the work that's being shoveled onto my 'plate' or if I'm ridiculously busy because I'm just ridiculously incompetent. (I hope it's the first one!) Either way, ridiculous + busy = stress! And, I don't like it.
On the improv front, I'm enjoying these classes I'm taking from Washington Improv Theater (W.I.T.). It's a tad expensive and a fairly good distance away (about an hour between driving to the station, grabbing the metro and walking the final two blocks), but overall, a lot of fun. Just a few more sessions of this one then off to the next in the series. I don't even know when the next session begins! I'll have to remember to ask the instructor.
Speaking of improv things, some Comedy Spot folks and I began a D&D game (yes, that's right, D&D, suck it!) and while we were chatting, we started discussing an improv show that would essentially be a D&D-type game, but have short form improv games in it that would advance the story. So, it's really a long-form improv set (i.e. the characters stay the same) but since were mostly short form people we've tweaked the games we know to make them fit into the gimmick we're creating. Wow, that was a lot harder to explain than I thought it would be. I must have retyped that about ten times. Anyway, we've been holding practices and each time one ends, I leave thinking "We might have something here." Our first outing is tentatively scheduled for the end of June. We want to add other genres, but for now we're sticking to the tried and true fantasy/D&D type setting. I think SciFi (for Star Wars and Star Trek) and Super Heroes (for Heroes and Comic Books) have the best chance to get in the mix, but we'll see. We may crash and burn on day one and decide to fold. It's fun now though!
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