After last night I feel like not raiding anymore. It's become less and less fun over the past weeks, when not doing my job I find myself reading a book rather than participating in guild chitchat, and I can't wait for the instance to be finished so that I can go and do something fun.

Did you catch that? In a game...waiting so that you can do and do something fun. There's something wrong there.

Rather than make an announcement, I'm going to just quietly be unavailable for a week or so, and see if it's really raiding and the guild that I'm so disenchanted with, or if it's something related to my enormous stress and unhappiness with work. That's possible, I feel like shit most of the time, and WoW is my only release right now, my only escape.

There's been the normal amount of guild drama over loot and such, there's a lot of boring bragging about how much damage people do, even more boring stats discussions, and the people who are dicks are still dicks. Normal stuff, but it's getting to me.

On the other hand, I may do something entirely different, and just go play alts for a while. I may decide to go Horde, and start levelling a horde main. To that end, I started an undead rogue who may become my PvP twink, so I can keep levelling Shadowfyre. I hate not being able to play her (she's on the verge of levelling out of 19). I took her fishing in Ratchet last night before the raid, and someone whispered me and said:

THEM: Twink?
ME: No - why? (offended in some obscure way, even though she is undeniably a twink)
ME: I don't have any enchants
THEM: I was just wondering if you'd like to join a twink guild
ME: (hmmmnnnn...possibly) What's your guild called?
THEM: Gief Healz Plx
ME: lol...I'll think about it, but thanks for asking me

Would I have said yes had they had a different name? Possibly. I'm shallow like that. :D

Ever have someone in your guild that you really, truly despise?

My warlock is level 55 now, soon to be 56, and I am finally thinking about getting serious about making the final push to 60, and attunement for MC, Onyxia, etc. I hadn't wanted to rush it, considering that it's all over after that except for raiding; with my alts still working on quests, though, perhaps it will be ok.

I admit that part of my lack of excitement about reaching 60 is due to my extreme irritation with one person in the guild, who is only interested in raiding and PvP. When I say irritation, I mean irritation to the point of wanting to leave the guild because finding a new guild and starting over would be a more attractive option than listening to her dominating guild chat all night. Quitting the game, at times, would be preferable to listening to the mindless void with verbal diarrhea that will not shut up about herself. When someone congratulated her recently on reaching 60, she said "thanks, well, everyone really wanted me to reach 60, so I did." That's big of you, hun - how generous to do it for the good of the guild. Grrr....

We have had months of her pestering everyone to let her come on raids even though her character was in the 50's. She has been demanding help since I started playing, then typing /cry, /cry more to make it clear that she's pouting. Just recently she was asking for mats for fire resistant gear, and when told that the tanks get that gear first, she got all huffy and said that she'd have to buy them for herself if the guild didn't help her out.

She is the sand in my virtual thong. And I can't let it go, because she's impossible to ignore. I'm not sure what to do.

Ok, rant over. But I dread logging on at night and seeing that she's on.