for those that were wondering...

[staxxy]

I am going to the Vogue tonight. I will be there all night. come see me and tip the bartender ;)

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

Hrm, maybe I can convince Aron to have Kate and I come along clubbing some fine night...

Only prob is Kate works weekends.

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

that would be fun

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

We've been needing to get out and do stuff more. I's just that her work schedule usually has her working 7am-4pm Sat and Sunday, which makes doing late night stuff problematic.

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

lame

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

Not as lame as being unemployed.

Though she's been there for a while now and I'm thinking she needs to start agitating for some weekend off time...either one day a weekend, or every other weekend, or something. She's only had a nadful of Saturdays off, and almost all had to be requested.

And, just to complicat ethings, i have a M-F office gig (7-4, too).

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

that does make it hard to have social time and quality time too

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

Aye, that's really been the ongoing major stressor on the relationship, pretty much. But we've been working on it and I've been finding that balance between doing my own stuff (*cough* gaming) amd spending time together.

Too bad she has no interest in SFB or it'd be lots easier :)

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

well SFB is more of a strategy military type game as I recall. Not exactly the sort of thing *most* girls get into. Women tend to like games they can wrap their mind up in... Hence the role playing/dice games. Not *all* women, but most. ugh... a sweeping generalization about women and gaming...

Let me say this instead... that it seems to me and my experience that this is the case.

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

Yes, SFB is mad old-skool hex-grid and cardboard counters wargaming. At this point, my treatening to teach her SFB is just a running joke between us. Though we're trying to see if her schedule will let her get in on my Exalted campaign. Mmmm, Exalted...

And while sweeping, your generalization is pretty spot on. Yeah, there's female gamers out there (even some female wargamers), but the gaming hobby is still greatly male-dominated. The fact that there is still a fair bit of sexism present doesn't help either. I've have a female friend that plays in the Friday night Magic tournament at CardHaus a lot, and she gets a fair bit of "girls can't play Magic" static, mostly from the teen kids there. And when she goes on to beat them, instead of actuallying learning something, the kids rag on each other for "losing to a girl".

Of course, the breakdown of civility and sportmanship with in hobby gaming is a rant for another day (and would probably make a good post, hrm...).

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

it's just another bad example of what "good sportsmanlike behavior" is all about apparantly. Healthy competition gives way to loss of prowess issues.

a lot of boys have issues with being beaten by a girl. a LOT.

It's pretty sad really. I mean, god forbid that women be good at things. *sigh*.

I have had store clerks *hover* over me when I am shopping for gaming stuff, and when I am shopping for video games. They ask me if I "need any help with finding a particular game" (apparantly girls don't fucking BROWSE)and the ever popular "are you shopping for someone in particular" (accompanied with a pointed stare}... It is easiest to deal with this if there are boys shopping near me and looking at games I have played. Then I can use the oppportunity to wax rhapsodic about the good and bad parts of a particular game. Nothing kills a good sexist ideal like product knowledge. And of course, I don't shop there again for at least 6 months, if ever. ;)

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[alendrel.livejournal.com]

Hee, and I bet it proves most amusing when you turn out mor eknowledgable then they about a game :)

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[staxxy.livejournal.com]

that is the most fun, yes. :D