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Nov. 30th, 2008 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radlilimDriving though the campus today on the way to work at the mall I got to remembering how I spent my Saturdays (I know, today is Sunday, no one said I was totally logical) at Platteville.
I'd wake up late, maybe squeeze in some homework, and grab breakfast. Then I'd walk over to the old Student Center, sometimes by myself but more often in the later years with roommates and we'd go to the PGA (Platteville Gaming Association) meeting. The meeting was in an upstairs conference room, and started at noon, which ment people would be done slipping in by 12:20. We'd have announcements about anything important (Homecoming plans--we were very active and won the Spirit award for all organizations, including Greeks, for 4 years, or what was happening with the Convention that was in the spring, etc.) and then we would open the floor for people to announce any games they were running that day or the next week.
I remember my first meeting vividly. I was mostly alone on campus the first few weeks. I was kinda friends with my roommate. We had been randomly assigned and he ended up going more greek, so we'd talk about classes, but didn't hang ot. Then one day walking though the Student Center I saw a flyer for a gaming club. Now in High School I owned some D&D books, but only read them, never had anyone to play with. So I knew what the flyer was talking about and decided to check it out.
I showed up on a Saturday and remember thinking that everyone was in a lot of black, and kinda scary. They made me stand up and introduce myself, there was some teasing about being freshmeat, and then this tall kinda dorky looking guy with a mustache announced that he was running a "newbie" game. So me, along with like 4 other bewildered looking freshmen followed him to a dorm and we played Star Wars. The GM was Chris, who is still one of my favorite people and good friends. I also met a guy I mentally termed "the clueless Jedi" in that session, who ended up being one of my best friends, Jeramie.
Life has never been the same since. And I don't regret it at all. Meeting those people and starting a life/hobby of gaming I think was a big step into me leaving behind the country kid who didn't really fit in in northern Wisconsin.
And that is your introspective moment of the day...
I'd wake up late, maybe squeeze in some homework, and grab breakfast. Then I'd walk over to the old Student Center, sometimes by myself but more often in the later years with roommates and we'd go to the PGA (Platteville Gaming Association) meeting. The meeting was in an upstairs conference room, and started at noon, which ment people would be done slipping in by 12:20. We'd have announcements about anything important (Homecoming plans--we were very active and won the Spirit award for all organizations, including Greeks, for 4 years, or what was happening with the Convention that was in the spring, etc.) and then we would open the floor for people to announce any games they were running that day or the next week.
I remember my first meeting vividly. I was mostly alone on campus the first few weeks. I was kinda friends with my roommate. We had been randomly assigned and he ended up going more greek, so we'd talk about classes, but didn't hang ot. Then one day walking though the Student Center I saw a flyer for a gaming club. Now in High School I owned some D&D books, but only read them, never had anyone to play with. So I knew what the flyer was talking about and decided to check it out.
I showed up on a Saturday and remember thinking that everyone was in a lot of black, and kinda scary. They made me stand up and introduce myself, there was some teasing about being freshmeat, and then this tall kinda dorky looking guy with a mustache announced that he was running a "newbie" game. So me, along with like 4 other bewildered looking freshmen followed him to a dorm and we played Star Wars. The GM was Chris, who is still one of my favorite people and good friends. I also met a guy I mentally termed "the clueless Jedi" in that session, who ended up being one of my best friends, Jeramie.
Life has never been the same since. And I don't regret it at all. Meeting those people and starting a life/hobby of gaming I think was a big step into me leaving behind the country kid who didn't really fit in in northern Wisconsin.
And that is your introspective moment of the day...
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Date: 2008-12-08 01:39 am (UTC)-Your paranoid sister