My life quickly had to adjust to a new rhythm. Even my modest time investment in video games had to be discarded in favor of homework. One of the two tabletop RPG campaigns I’d been running had to be abandoned (for the curious, I dropped the newly started Star Wars game — using the old West End Games system — rather than the longer running D&D 4E game). At this point I haven’t stopped playing in my monthly Runequest game (old 2nd edition rules, I think), and I’m hoping to play in one more monthly game (right now it looks like Risus).

Continuing to train full speed at Capoeira is proving a little trickier. I’ve been training at Capoeira of San Jose since August of 2000, and I’m used to being there for two hours or so, three or four nights a week. I can’t quite do that and keep up with my homework. Right now I’m trying to compromise by continuing to train one or two nights per week while still teaching one night. So far it’s working pretty well, but I don’t feel quite active enough. We’ll see how this plays out.

I’m having lots of fun with the homework, though. The reading is informative and useful, the assignments are enjoyable as well as functional and the discussions on the boards have been pretty lively so far.

To give you an idea about the exercises, for a unit on Point of View, we had to write the opening to the same story using three different Points of View. I found it enlightening to realize how differently I looked at a scene when I was writing it in third-person omniscient as opposed to single character subjective (first person). Since the class is active, I’m not sure how much detail I can go into about the assignment, so I guess I’ll hold off there.

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