This evening, my landlady was showing my apartment to a prospective tenant, so I decided to make myself scarce by hanging out at work instead. I started out reasonably enough, checking my personal email and such, but in the end somehow wound up spending well over an hour reading through my own livejournal's archives. Which was entertaining enough in its way, although I kind of can't believe how many entries I've dedicated to bemoaning my own lack of focus and work ethic over the years. (Given how much anguish that particular personality flaw seems to have caused me over the years, you'd think I'd have gotten around to fixing it by now.) At any rate, embarrassing as some of those old entries can be, I find I really do like knowing that I've got some sort of record of the last 6+ years, no matter how patchy and indifferently written.

That's not the only nostalgia kick I've been on lately, though. Playing the Miles Edgeworth DS game demo has done a fantastic job of reigniting my indefensible fascination with the Phoenix Wright series of games. Which has actually been kind of frustrating since I happen to have no access to said games at the moment, and there's surprisingly little interesting fan work available online, at least that I can locate. (Although the fan video set to 'Schadenfreude' is pretty good if you know the characters.)

I've also found myself doodling MAIOS, my D&D character from earlier this year, despite the fact that I haven't played it since the group decided to shake things up by starting a d20 modern campaign several months ago. While the shaking up was (and continues to be) good, I do kind of hope that we manage to get back to that original campaign at some point. I might not actually be all that good at playing MAIOS, but I've rarely had so much fun inventing a backstory, psychological profile, and physical appearance for a D&D character.

In less pathetically geeky news, the relationship thing is going well. The dude, let's call him MB, is incredibly sweet and earnest and makes my hormones go 'ping!'. I worry sometimes that it's not going to last, and that the longer the relationship goes on the more painful it will be for both of us when it eventually runs aground on some rocky shoal or other, but for the moment at least I'm enjoying it all too much to care.