Kouvola Chronicle is finally (and regrettably) over. Now for the traumatic recovery.

I’ve been writing larp characters for some time now. It’s been taking a lot longer than I suspected, partly because I’ve changed my way of writing a bit. I used to write with a flow-of-consciousness method, but I’ve been slowly learning and adopting process writing. I think the result is a bit better (and there are less typos and mistakes), but the downside is that I have to use more time to get (roughly) same results. Nevertheless, the characters are mostly written. ...

I managed to present my bachelor’s thesis last week’s Tuesday. The final topic was a bit cumbersome “Play: the philosophy of art and play by Gadamer”. It also had a subtitle of “comparison to a different concept of play”. We have a mysteriously silent tutor (apart from the furious attack on this weeks presentation, something that caught us all by surprise), so I have no idea how it went beside the fact that it seemed to have been accepted. ...

We’ve played Mike Pohjola’s new game Tähti (Star) for a few times. ...

I’ve been writing my bachelor’s thesis since spring and it is nearly complete. It should, since I have to present it next month. I started with the vague idea that I want to write something related to gaming and I’ve more or less accomplished that. The topic is ‘Play in the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer’. ...

We’ve started a new role-playing game, with an interesting subject. It’s a game of Shadowrun, ...