moongirl

I finished my 10-day trial of World of Warcraft, “just to get it out of my system,” a friend told me. When I started, everybody warned me that WoW had a 100% conversion rate, that it would suck the life out of me, etc etc. Everybody also said it was a great game. I told them, “I will be the first person to do the 10-day trial and NOT buy World of Warcraft! I will prove you all wrong!”

I eat my words now, of course. (But I’m not buying WoW immediately.) Here’s why. (more…)

The neurologist cleared me today; she said I am now well. The words “now” and “well” must be used in conjunction, however, as the neck injury will recur every time I am stressed. In fact, it’s the first thing that will react to stress. So, aside from not lifting heavy things, I am to avoid being stressed.

For those of you who know me at all, and how I multitask and overwork myself, you must think that a stress-free Moongirl is a miracle. But I don’t mind this lifestyle change, not one bit. Stress-free doesn’t mean I do nothing all day - it just means I listen to my body more, and care more about my health than usual.

It also means I must find and maintain balance in my life, which is something I am excited to do. The two books I’m currently reading are all about that. Ricardo Semler’s The Seven-Day Weekend is about balancing work and play - when your job is built on your terms that it stops being a job and starts being something you enjoy in life. Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love is about coming to terms with who you are and forgiving yourself for things past, so you can joyfully discover what lies ahead. I am enjoying both books immensely and am also simultaneously in the last 20% of both.

All in all, May is turning out to be an interesting month, and June should be even better

“So, what’s it like being unemployed?”, everyone keeps asking me.

“I don’t know,” was my typical answer. For the first few days, I didn’t feel whatever it was I was supposed to feel. Now that I’ve been officially unemployed for six days (five, if you discount the holiday; in fact, three, if you also discount the weekend), this is what it feels like:
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Some people have been asking where I’ve been (by “where”, they mean, “why have you not been online?”, as the Internet is a real place to many of us).

Well, this is where I’ve been.

I haven’t been on YM for the longest time as YM is banned from the office (we use an internal IM client).

I haven’t been online from home much as PLDT’s DNS problems have made it almost impossible for me to do anything from home (by “anything”, I mean surfing, blogging, etc, as these are real home activities).

I haven’t been going out because of my neck injury.

But enough of that. This post is about Where I’ll Be.

Starting May 1, I will no longer be working for Anino Games. This may be a shocker to some, as I have been a game developer for about five years now, and a public one at that! (By “public” I mean traveling around the country, and also internationally, spreading the word about Philippine game development.) But people move on, and I’m no different.

I will be online much more often, seeing that as of this morning I’ve circumvented the PLDT DNS problem (hint:
208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220).

I will be recovering from this neck injury so I can return to my normal activities (by “normal” I mean driving, walking long distances, and hopefully traveling again!).

I will also be changing some things, things of a personal nature, which I will not post here. But this is Where (and Who) I’ll Be.

So while I’m in limbo, the “now” part in between Where I Was and Where I’ll Be, please bear with me. I’m quite incapacitated at the moment. I miss my friends though, so please holler and visit and (after my meds are done) bring alcohol! I miss you all

Just when I thought I couldn’t get any poorer, Converse is releasing 100 new designs of shoes. ONE HUNDRED. Each design is purty. Plus, it supports a cause.

This Sunday I’m going shoe-shopping as I heard they brought back an XHi - a momentous occasion!

And then I have to figure out how to make enough money to buy the rest…

(Share in my shoe lust by visiting Converse.com.)