seeking the stone

i barely got anything done this morning, for a number of reasons. and reading freud is, as usual, a hassle and a half (not a hoff, thank the gods). i had an absolutely horrid experience with pg's mother's dog, who suffers from an old leg injury that i never thought to consider when i convinced her to jump onto my lap - she got stuck halfway and was so sore afterwards that petting her was impossible and she could no longer climb stairs. she didn't stop staring at me, looking traumatized, and i still feel horrible about it :(

we took siesta, and woke up half an hour before everyone was supposed to arrive for the games / movie evening. a minute or two before my kibbutz cousin called, she and her sister had arrived in tel aviv and pg and i needed to meet with them. after urgent calls and postponing, the two of us met up with the two of them in an arbitrary place for coffee and wine; it wasn't unpleasant, but it was slightly awkward.

we returned home just as the guys were arriving, and we gave up setting up thunderstone: i suspect it would have been easier if everyone had been paying attention. we switched to citadels, which was fun as always but got dragged out by the number of players and the silliness injected by certain players... fun, but much longer than was comfortable.
after scrapper and a couple of others had left, and we had to choose between a movie or a game, i'm well pleased that we decided to give thunderstone another go. we'd missed a crucial point on setup that we got on the second attempt, it wasn't complicated at all and the game, as i remembered, flows smoothly and is a lot of fun!

now back to prepping for class tomorrow.