Im baa-aaaack...

Hey all!!! Back again, back again!
I have been so so so busy recently!! I have had no time to do anything but schoolwork for the last week and a half/ two weeks... hence my not being here and this post being so small... It's a shame, I find that the more I do musical theater Constantly, I begin to miss this blog, and the joy of just Thinking. Constantly. Really Hard. About the most random, nerdy stuff.
There's just something intoxication about an idea bursting into my head like a supernova, creating worlds in my head, or taking other peoples, and creating new sides and elements of those worlds that even the creators haven't even begun to imagine... That and the search, the challenge of searching for the pieces to make what I've imagined come to life, come out of my head and into the world, where I can share those thoughts and concepts with the people around me...
It makes me wish and wonder if I could do something like this for a living... what one would major in, where they would work, what it would consist of... that's why recently I've been investigating LARPing. It seems like running a LARP, creating a world that other people come and live in, putting together all the pieces... I don't know, it's a possibility. (and it involves theater!!)
I really have a terrible habit of taking things that should really be no more than hobbies for any sane person, and trying to imagine and create a life with them :P But that's just the thing, I cant begin to imagine doing something I'm not passionate about. It just so happens that the things I'm passionate about are really not fiscally viable...
I also feel bad that my mind immediately goes to money when I think about the future... I can't help it, being raised by the people I have been, my mind immediately goes to money, and having a career that makes a lot of it. I wont go into specifics here, but yeah, happens all the time.
Which makes me come to the realization. I don't care. Or, rather, I cant... I feel so terrible saying it, but I just can't bring myself to care about fiscal responsibility, or having a career that will make me money. Maybe it's because I can't really comprehend money, it doesn't really exist!! But also because, as much as it's been beaten into my head that money is important, it's been even more beaten into my head that you Have to do what you love. That if you don't 'Wake up in the morning and love what you're doing, it's not worth doing'.
Which leads me, invariably, to trying (and failing) to find a career that would allow me to have both :P

So that's my little rant :) Hope you enjoyed it... and if you would care for a little dose of nerdyness, there's a bit after the break :)
(click on 'read more' over there)
<-<-<--------

Cool wicked weird dream :)

Sitting in a room, with Kieth Joyal, Eric Shaff, Lari Mathis, Travis Corcoran, Me, Hermione Granger and Harry Potter. We're all talking about how lame we are that we keep coming back to high school (Hogwarts) after we graduated.
Suddenly, Hermione's owl (which is a wicked cool, three inch high, owl lion mix creature) flies in. It has a note on it's leg.
"This owl is poisoned. Give it the antidote. Harry Potter is also poisoned. You have no antidote."
We all start freaking out, 'what do we do???"
Hermione: 'Get to the hospital wing!'
Everyone else: 'That's a stupid idea!'
Hermione: 'Then just follow me!' and she runs out
What they don't know is, she really is leading us to the hospital wing! Da-da-daaaaaaa!


Back again, back again, jiggity jog...

Sorry in advance for the title, I'll probably change it soon for something better, as soon as I think of something.

So, it's been a bit, hasn't it? Needless to say, I didn't feel much like blogging, at least not about my nerdyness... The last week and a half were kinda like a void of zero creativity, and zero desire to be creative... but yeah, I'm back again... good sign, right?
The last day or so have actually been a creative whirlwind, the comment in my last post of a 'dream/nightmare' army got me thinking... While I've given up (possibly temporarily) on a dream army led by a sorceress queen by the name of Mab, I've been getting more and more interested in Chaos Daemons.
Recently Games Workshop decided to release the new models and rules for the Blood Angels, which, at least in game play, are remarkably similar to my Angels of Reclamation. This frustrated me. Heh, I don't want to just copy a Games Workshop army, even though, in terms of game-play, I totally thought of it first! So, until I think of something new, or the buzz behind the new rules has died down a bit, I think I shall put my Angels on hold for a moment :P
But as I said, Chaos Daemons! Specifically 40k daemons, firstly because with the temporary shelving of the angels, I'm 40k-less, and secondly, because upon reading the rules to determine the possibility of a dream army, I found them to be so random and incongruous with the rest of the 40k world, they seem like they would be devilishly tricky to play, to play against, and a huge amount of Random fun :)
Oh yeah, and thirdly, because I read the rules for a gentleman by the name of Epidermis. Essentially, he sits on the battlefield, and as units of Nurgle cause wounds on the tabletop, you keep track of them. As you pass certain thresholds, ALL of your Nurgle units get more and more powerful!
I should take a moment to explain, in the Cosmology of 40k essentially the 'bad humans' are those affected by "chaos", raw energy from another dimension that enters into our universe through huge tears in space-time. This other dimension is ruled over by the Four Ruinous Powers, the Lords of Chaos. The are Khorn, God of rage, slaughter, blood and combat; Tezeetch (sp?), God of magic, fate, forbidden knowledge; Nurgle, god of disease and entropy; and Slaanesh, God of excess, lust, and the satisfaction of earthly whims. These four gods seek to lead the Beings of the Mortal Realm (our galaxy) to ruin.
So, back to the new army, I love the idea of an army just getting stronger and stronger the more enemies you kill. The model isn't the coolest though:
Buuuut, then I found this beauty on ReaperMinis:
Beautiful!
This just sealed the deal for me, I knew then that there would need to be serious thought put to an army of Nurgle! Read on after the break to witness my plan unfold!!
(click read more over there)
<-<-<-----------