From the water cooler
“What’s wrong with you?”
“I’m not sure. Feeling a bit lethargic. I hate being in a rut.”
“Yeah. I know exactly how you feel.”
“Doubtful.”
“Dude. That’s shitty. What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means that I hate that saying… ‘I know exactly how you feel.’ It’s a lie every time someone says it. Everyone reacts differently to every single situation. As a result, no one knows exactly how someone else feels in any situation. It’s part of what makes us unique.”
“Whatever. Take some freaking Prozac or something.”
So, maybe it was shitty of me to say that. I said it with a smile on my face and I certainly didn’t mean to piss my co-worker off, but damn. We’ve become so freaking used to being completely apologetic about every single thing that people are afraid to speak their minds. We’re so practiced at hearing how some totally innocuous comment deeply offended someone… offended them so badly that the only way to ease their suffering is to award them millions of dollars… that we just seem to look for reasons to be offended.
Ten years ago or so, if I had made that comment, most people would have seen that it was mostly tongue-in-cheek. Today, it is automatically me being shitty because I didn’t respond in a properly fuzzy way to a feel-good statement.
There is a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
I couldn’t sleep again last night. It’s been… damn… 4 days? 5? I can’t even remember. It’s been a while since I’ve been able to sleep for more than about 2 hours in a night. I’m not sure why exactly. Oh well.
Because of how sleepy I am today, I ended up not having to travel. Someone else picked up this trip for me. I will be on the road tomorrow for sure though.
I didn’t do much EQ last night. I quite honestly wasn’t in the mood. I logged on just long enough to level my tailor from 28 to 30, but that was it. I was just too tired to concentrate on anything else.
It was a good accomplishment for me though. With that, I have now leveled 6 crafters to t4 or higher and only have 3 more to go. One of those 3, my sage, is level 28 so it won’t take long to get him to t4. My alchemist is just level 20 so I do have a bit of work to do with him. My weaponsmith, in the strictest sense, hasn’t been born yet. I have a character that I think will end up being the weaponsmith, but I haven’t even started messing with it. I might do some of that tonight because I don’t see me spending more than an hour in game this evening.
I find it curious. Last night, my guild went on a raid to Mistmoore. It was tagged as a retro raid and anyone 67+ was invited to attend. I was strongly encouraged by most to be there and borderline blackmailed by others. All the while, there was a ton of bitching going on from people who couldn’t understand why we were going because “Kunark loot is better.” I am so freaking tired of hearing that shit. Is loot the only thing that matters to people? If so, that is just freaking pathetic in my opinion. But then, I’m just cranky today.
Anyway, I didn’t go. I got home too late to make the start time anyway, but I had about decided I wasn’t going to go regardless. The same tit-baby attitude that keeps people from wanting to raid something just for fun is going to get them whining when it comes to having to go back and kill some of the progression mobs again. The more I think about the whole dumb-shit flagging system, the more I listen to loot whores pitch a damn fit any time they don’t get what they want right when they want it, and the more people try to cram the importance of me playing my dirge down my throat… let’s just say that I am really close to swearing off of raiding in EQ2 completely. I haven’t even been on a single raid yet and I already hate the mentality of raiding more than I did after nearly 7 years of raiding in EQ1.
