Rebecca has returned home, and the week of the houseguest has come to a close. It was nice to see Becca again, even if I was working for the greater part of most of the days that she was here. We had some good times, some fun conversations, and most of a fun game.
The game - as some of you might have read in Abby's LJ - did feature naked mud wrestling lesbian werewolves (well, mud-wrestling werewolves, one of whom was a lesbian), but it wasn't entirely my fault.
The game was a sort of pseudo Iron GM competition. Iron GM, for those who don't know, is when an ST is given three games (traditionally, three random GURPS supplements) and told to concoct from those three disparate parts a working setting and a playable one-shot. Also traditionally, the books are assigned at 9:00 PM one night and the one-shots are scheduled for the next morning at 11:00 AM. On the one hand, I had a little more time. On the other hand, I was working with Werewolf: the Apocalypse, GURPS IOU, and GURPS Castle Faulkenstein.
Now, most of you will know what Werewolf is. GURPS IOU is a game of weird magic, weird science, and college life, and GURPS Castle Faulkenstein is a GURPS edition of a 1800s fantasy steampunk game. The setting I concocted from these games was a fantasy steampunk setting where the garou were about the only supernatural still a secret, and set the game at a weird Oberlin, whose open admissions policy had earned them a very strange student body. This is why the game ended with a battle between the PCs (the naked werewolves) and a despair powered robot made by an evil sidhe out of cold iron and malfean stone.
What else is new? As many of you know, I've been working as the TAG Initiative Specialist (Jew-stuff) at a Jewish day-camp in the area, splitting my time between camp and Borders. Camp has been a lot of fun - often challenging, but a lot of fun. I'm teaching groups of ten to twenty or so kids, roughly between the ages of five and fifteen. The challenging is the age range, the time frame, and the setting - In addition to being vastly unfamiliar with some of these age groups, I only have fourty-five minutes with each group and I'm the content guy at a summer camp. Nobody wants to learn at summer camp, so I have to be tricksy. The kids, however, are great. I mean, a lot of them don't want to be in my activity, but a lot of them do want to be there, or at least don't mind. I'm even developing a following. The job pays well, and on the days I work there, I get to wake up at eight and I'm home by four, which is sweet.
The news is that I just quit my job at Borders, and starting next Monday I'll be working full time at camp. The story is a little complicated, but I'll tell it anyway. I had requested Abby's birthday (June 29th) and the Fourth of July (um... July 4th) off, and the last time I looked, I wasn't working on the Sunday in between. Of course, at some point during the four days I wasn't going to Borders, they added the Sunday, apparantly without checking to see if I would ever be in to look at the schedule. Someone also forgot to actually take me off the schedule for one of the two days I got off - I don't know which. That makes it two days in a row that I didn't show up and didn't call. Three days of that, in California, is job abandonement, which is grounds for immediate firing. So, when I returned to work on Thursday, I saw that I wasn't scheduled at all for the next week. A little investigation uncovered what had happened.
Now, I have had a standing offer to work at J-Camp full time, but if I wanted in for the next two-week session, starting a week from Monday, I needed to act by that Thursday evening. To complicate matters further, the only person with the authority to tell me what was what wasn't in, and wouldn't be available until Saturday (that is, yesterday).
So, I told Borders I was done, told Tracy at J-Camp that I'd like to be put on the schedule full time, and that was that. I mean, Borders has been grating for a while. It's time I find someplace to work with better hours and better pay, and possibly the vague feeling that I'm working towards something worthwhile. This does mean that I'll be without health insurance for a while. I'd better just stay healthy.
In shinier news, Becca got me this really awesome necklace. It's a little silver sephirotic tree on a black thread. It's my favorite necklace, up there with my love knot/tree of life bronze coin and my 'zion' star of david.
Other important things have happened since I last posted life news, but that can wait until the next time I feel like LJing.
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