The weekend of being klutzy

Not all of us can be ballet dancers. Some of us tend to stumble through life instead. Unfortunately, I belong in the latter category.

( Falling on my face. Repeatedly. )

( Dinner with the engineers )

And more interviews (of the friendly variety)

From edgehopper:

1. What was your first gaming experience?
Actually, my first experience was a bad D&D knock-off called "Dragonquest" or something that my brother got for Christmas one year. It was very much hack-and-slash, and came with a terrible, terrible introductory video. My family tried to play a game or two. No one quite knew what they were doing. It played like a very awkward dungeon crawl. We eventually abandoned it in slight bewilderment and disgust.

My first actually pleasant experience was a lovely Mage game chuckro ran, in which we were tracking a pair of vampires through Princeton. I played an antisocial kung fu artist with a spirit tiger who had been orphaned and raised by a crazy Chinese monk living in the Andes. He was a very confused monk. My character was also rather confused. It was mad fun.

2. What was your favorite class at Princeton, and why?
I've had a couple of favorites. Hi Tech Entrepreneurship was really interesting - run like a business school class, and about all the different aspects of starting a business. I also loved Mechanical Design, for similar reasons; it was a lot of fairly high level coverage of all the issues that go into product design, from patentability to safety concerns to marketing to business models to focus groups. And I loved my English class with Nunokawa because he was just an amazing lecturer, and my class on early Christian thought with Pagels, because it was fascinating and she was also a fantastic lecturer. And watching the musical Buffy episode in my musicals class was a hoot.

3. Favorite non-grasshopper drink?
Hmm. I'm rather fond of amaretto sours.

4. Favorite vacation spot?
Not sure about that. I've been on a lot of really great vacations. Possibly Hawaii. The scenery's gorgeous, the food's good, and there are a million interesting things to do.

5. There will be a trip to Great Adventure next year, right? Right??
I have no idea. We'll see.