So much for my "teaching" debut

I'm both a bit irritated and relieved at the moment. I thought I'd be leading my first discussion group in SL this afternoon, but I just cancelled it. They're apparently have some major issues with the system, turning logins off and on, etc.

I knew I was having a hard time getting the question slides to load inworld so I could then place them into the slideshow viewer (which took quite a while to rez, itself). But then I couldn't teleport into Covenstead, at all. I'm thinking that if I can't, others can't, so what's the use of attempting to have a discussion group?

I sent out the notice informing everyone of the postponment until next week. Five minutes later, the infamous blue message tab from Linden Lab appears saying that they're giving the all clear and that everything should be working normally now. This begs the question...what is "normal" to Linden Lab?

I finally managed to teleport into Covenstead...after the postponement notice had gone out. I just wanted to make sure I could still do it, I suppose. (After all, I do have a cottage there still!) Once I was in, then I couldn't get back home to Morgaine. I finally had to teleport into the hub directly across from the treehouse and then fly up.

Gee, and I thought Wednesdays were bad for SL! These Sundays are killers!

First official post...at home in Caledon

As typical for me, my little av is sitting up in my treehouse in Caledon Morgaine while I'm working in another window. Periodically, I'll peer in, read back on the CalChat and comment (desperately hoping not to royally embarrass myself as I am quite well versed in doing).

Tomorrow afternoon is my first lead for a book discussion group in Second Life. We're doing Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah over at the Covenstead Conservatory. I still need to finish the notes for it, etc., etc. I'm a bit nervous, but halfway figure that no one will show. If I were doing something on the Sanguinarium Code, I'd draw all the little vamp RPers, but there are no Qabalistic RPers (or not that I know of, anyway).

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I must somehow keep myself from shopping tonight. Last night's pillaging of Grendel's Children set off a shopping frenzy. I couldn't find a Minotaur avatar there that I liked, so I found myself at Sense, getting the Dark Unicorna Angel and the Neko Angel avs (which I had said before that I wouldn't do because they were too expensive, but I *wanted* them!). Sure, they're not avs I can wear around Caledon, but I'm not always in Caledon. ;)
BTW, upon returning to Sense, I wandered outside the main building and found that they have lots of other offerings at various price points, including a freebie area.

If that weren't enough, after a bit of egging on (truly, it didn't take too much), his Duke-ship Constantine dragged me (okay, maybe dragged is too strong a term) to Material Squirrel where I picked up the Israfiel Angel and Jinx wings.

I still haven't gotten through all the loot!