the g z t gazette @gzt@witches.town

FUCK

so i see some tarot reading stuff - anybody here actually play the game?

#honkball: the only good thing in the world right now.

That "you won't believe this!" comic from The Oatmeal is pretty rich coming from that guy. What an insufferable prick.

Work: do not want.

It's May! The Lusty Month of May! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg4YrOlAkds

This is an awesome list about May Day: https://wonkette.com/616437/raise-less-corn-more-hell-everything-you-need-to-know-for-may-day

we're all doomed.

All right, I've got my lease renewed. Now to figure out re-jiggering summer or what

Update: talked to advisor, he has a grant he wants somebody to work on. Talked to property management, they had not rented my place yet so they'll send me a lease today through e-mail. Hopefully I will only stay one more semester. Do not want to be here a whole year.

Phew! At least I got my funding situation sorted out. But... still. Everything else happens so much.

Like Cortes, I burned the boats, but now I'm uncertain - I'm a little... stuck in my research, I need to get a jorb lined up, but it looks like more work would have to be done beyond a job start date if I'm not going to stay here. I mean, I'm out of here August 1. My lease is up, I need to move, and I was hoping to get a jorb then and move out and defend sometime in August or a little later, but these things are coming up. Also: they just talked about summer arrangements and they seem to have me put at half rather than the full funding?! I thought they had related to me that I would be on this for full. That... is not good.

I mean I like belote but sometimes it's a little complicated to explain and there's a lot to track (and literally nobody plays it in the USA), so it's nice to have something that's a little lighter but keeps a lot of the features that make the game interesting, and I think twenty-nine keeps that balance. Not needing pen and paper or learning an ordering of suits is a big plus.

Rules if interested:

https://www.pagat.com/jass/29.html

Played a lot of euchre on the car ride down to it, then a little bit of a bid euchre variant that's apparently fairly local to our region. At one point in the car ride we only had three people interested in cards, but the only game I know well enough with three players is skat and the car is simply not the place for it and I'm not going to teach the bidding without printouts. So we took a break.

I learned a nice Indian game called twenty-nine - it's in the jass family of games (like belote), but it's a little simplified. I think it strikes a very nice balance. I'll keep it!

Welcome new witches / friend opportunities. Remember, #ACAB and stay hydrated.

I managed to peek into Witches Town a little while at the conference, but I'm so glad to be back here in my usual routine of avoiding work.