EPTI haven't played 1v1 for 5 weeks because of finals, then moving, then starting my new job. Things ended with Evan, so I screwed up my sleep schedule (am now sleeping from about noon-8 p.m.), made a carrot cake, and started laddering.
The carrot cake is super delicious-- I baked it in little sweet bread loaves, and then can put cream cheese icing between two slices. It's pretty tasty. I plan on baking it in this fashion in the future, cause I don't actually care what the cake I make for myself looks like.
After not playing for 5 weeks, I was afraid of sucking pretty hard, but I went 13-6, and got promoted to gold super fast. Yay! :D I felt like all the games were pretty easy except against Toss, so after I lost about 3 in a row to Toss I switched back to my old strat of crackling >>> overkill corruptors >>> broodlords, and then won the rest of my matches against Toss.
I was happy to catch all of the cheese I got, lol. Caught a spine crawler-7? pool, and was able to prevent the spine from going down with my drones until my lings popped, after which the guy was like-- "why do you take so long to kill me, your so rude!" (I waited for two rounds of lings to pop because he had a spine crawler in his base, lol?) Got cannon rushed, and held that with roaches, also held off a super fast stargate tech (lost later because my natural got denied three times .____.).
Overall it felt really great. I am playing with a mouse now for the first time, so that's been really hard to get used to. Previously I was playing on my trackpad, which I actually did pretty well on. (averaged around 65 apm). I have barely used a mouse before, so I find even with my mouse set to the lowest speeds I have a lot of trouble with control/precision. It also screwed up my hotkeys, because I am used to playing with both hands on the keyboard. :/ I am adjusting quickly though, and I hope I will see some improvement in my play as a result!
Tonight Evan will be back from seeing some friends over the weekend, and we had planned to watch day9 together like usual. Not sure if I want to right now. I have a tendency to compartmentalize things until they get thrown back in my face, and then my reaction is anyone's guess. I feel fine/haven't missed talking to him the past two days, but am wondering if seeing him will make me super upset again. :/
Especially concerned about this because I am flying to Dallas tomorrow morning to see my little sister graduate. I have a very poor relationship with my family, and so I am looking forward to an extremely stressful time. If things go well when I see Evan, I will feel better about flying home, as he is very supportive of me with my family issues. If things go poorly though, I will be an emotional mess so to speak, and it will only get worse flying home. Maybe it is better not to risk it, but it would be so strange to watch day9 by myself.
Anyway, I am excited about returning to ladder. As time went on, I was more and more afraid to start up again because of being out of practice, but now I feel pretty comfortable about playing.
When I get back from my sister's graduation, I'm going to schedule a lesson with Mr. Bitter and see about moving up to Plat. I want to be Masters by the end of the summer!
