Shaman on Ramen

It’s not going to happen, but part of me wonders if I should take a week-longish hiatus from Wow. Ironically, my reasons for doing this: TO GET CAUGHT UP ON MY WRITING ABOUT WOW.

What can I say, I’m crazy.

So, I was leveling my super cute  (actually, really not so cute) female troll mage this evening. Due to some technical difficulties (read: bad decision making), I did some things not condusive to leveling: letting my health bar hit 0 a few too many times, running a 40 minute av where we didn’t cap more than two towers, spent a good 30 seconds every 4 inutes youtubing a new song, etc. It took me something like 6 hours to power my way through the latter half of zangarmarsh and the first few long quest chains in Nagrand to get grom 64-66, and I ended up not achieving that beautiful “OMG I CAN FINALLY ICELANCE” level until 5:00AM, EST. (For those of you keeping record, it is actually 6AM for me, as I am writing this. :S)

Ideally, had I not made a large number of stupid decisions (honestly, spending an hour trying to solo three level 67 mobs who could crushing blow me for 1500hp when I only have 4500 and can’t be rooted was not my best idea), I probably could have done it by 3:00, which was my original plan. After that, I was planning on catching up on my two “survey” blogs that certain guild members have asked me to do before calling it the night at a ripe 4:30am-shockingly early for me. O.o (Note-I have class Mondays and Wednesdays, and work T-Th-Fri. On the days when I do work, it’s often 12-8, 1-9, etc., which is why I can have a schedule where I’m up until stupid hours of the morning. )

However, things did not work out as I planned. Upon exiting wow at like 5:15 and deciding to call it the night, I proceeded to read (NON-WOW :O) blogs for like 30 minutes, while pondering what my next step is. For, you see, this is what is on my plate right now:

A) Wow-related.

• Tank Survey
• DPS Survey
• Continued Coverage of 3.3 PTR information
• EnhSim Documentation Page, I needz 2 make it.
• TankSpot guide to PVE Enhancement DPS, I needz 2 write it.
• Articles for Big Hit Box.
• Articles for a currently-secret new blog, that I can’t let you know about, but that I got asked to contribute to today.
• Planning out my own second blog, which I think has real potential, about issues of gender/sexuality and mmoing.
• Getting Aching to level 80. (Honestly, now that I finally have ice lance, which I’ve wanted for like a year, my drive to push myself to level her as quickly might have died down a bit, which is a very good thing.)
• Raiding. Anub hard needs to go down.
• Raiding on alts. Notelam, Grazeless, and Darwinism are each just shy of a 4500gear score. Not that gearscore matters, but I want them ready for ICC10 in case we ever do alt runs of that. xD

B) School related

• Revised Proposal for my Shakespare Paper
• 10page Shakespeare Paper
• Shakespeare final.
• 50 minute lesson plan for sex. ed on social networking.
• Urban Anthropology final.
• Romanticism 10page paper, no topic yet.
• Romanticism final.
• Graduate in 3 weeks?

C) Work related.

• “Action Plan.” (Details of this are boring.)
• Resume’.
• Not having-a-heart-attack because my boss of six years decided this week that she’s leaving.
• Planning to get bosses’ job.

D) None-of-the-above-related.

• Feeding the needy on Thanksgiving. (Fun fact: My family hasn’t had an actual family Thanksgiving for like 4-5 years. We run a food-bank sort of thing every Thanksgiving where we make sure everyone who doesn’t have the means to feed themselves a Thanksgiving meal gets one. It’s pretty awesome.)
• Exercise moar. If I’m not the best looking person at Sarielle/Keaton’s wedding next December, I’mma be pist.
• Sleep.

I think I can start working on that last bullet nao, right? Since it’s 6:30 am and stuffs? Also, some fun psychological stuff to think about: did I put the wow stuff first because this is a wow blog, or because the wow stuff is my highest priority. And, if that’s the case…how bad is that? xD

Wtb the end of December, pst.