by Professor Beej on March 10, 2010
As I ease myself back into blogging after my literature-teaching-enduced hiatus, I figure I’ll start with something relatively easy to write about to get me back in the swing of things: World of Warcraft.
Well, my Paladin is level 80 now. I spent some time in instances and got him a 4600 gearscore, which—while not great—is more than enough to PuG anything that Malygos-US is capable of pugging. I have been doing a little of this and a little of that for the last couple of weeks.
And then I got bored of running random dungeons just after I became “Beej the Patient.”
So I started to PvP. Paladin PvP is neat; I have a lot of tricks. Counterspells and Silences are my bane, but I was having a pretty good time. Honor grinding was a much needed and enjoyable break from the monotony of the random dungeon finder (which I still hold is the single greatest feature Blizzard has ever implemented into World of Warcraft).
One day not long ago, I see my best friend log on his Druid. He’s in Arathi Basin. At level 74. We chat for a few, and he convinces me to join him in some low-70s PvP on my level 73 Priest by recalling days gone by where we had such a good time and made such a good team.
After two or three hours of completely supporting the Alliance team with our healing and winning every BG we entered, I decided that I missed my Priest and needed him to be 80, too.
Sigh.
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by Professor Beej on February 8, 2010
My New Year’s Resolutions have now gone kaput. And it’s barely into the second month of the year. Well, not all of them, but the one I considered the easiest:
Keep my blog’s 3 posts a week schedule. I care about this blog. I care about my readers. And my wife said that my writing has improved 10x since I started blogging seriously in May. All of that combines to make sure that I at least maintain my regular posting. Successfully attaining this resolution means very likely that nothing will change around here (except maybe the quality of the posts will go up).
I failed. I have not been able to keep up with the 3 per week schedule I set myself back when I started in May.
But there’s a good reason! I am teaching literature for the first time, and one of my classes is an intensive, 8-week night course. I’m having to read and prep all of my lessons as we go because I have no premade notes to fall back on.
That course in particular takes a ton of time and energy on top my other classes and work-related responsibilities, so I think everything will be better come the beginning of March when it ends. Until then, I ask you to please bear with me as I sporadically update and work through an incredibly hectic time.
In a month or two, all will be regular again. I make no resolutions or promises because we all now see how that goes, but you all know I’m good for it. I haven’t lost the passion or love for my blog or you guys and gals; I simply haven’t had the time to write anything more than a quick snippet about WoW in my free time (and only that because it’s easy to jumble something together as I take a break in reading and prepping).
Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you as I occasionally pop up for air.
