Three weeks later, I continue to have an incredibly difficult time disciplining myself to focus on schoolwork rather than noodling around in WoW.
I spent about a week and a half doggedly queuing for Kul Tiras dungeons until I got the robe and belt of both the green (Normal) and blue (Heroic) versions of the Kul Tiras cloth dungeon set.
I took Kinevra back to the Broken Isles to finish her Order Hall Campaign and earn the Archmage title.
I took Kaelinda back to Nazjatar and completed the Nazjatar Campaign mostly for RP reasons.
I took Kaelinda back to the Broken Isles and completed the Legionfall Campaign so that she could then get the Mage Class Mount — the Archmage’s Prismatic Disc is the only one of the Class Mounts that I’ve been really and truly envious of when I’ve seen other people riding it around.
Inspired by Gnomecore, I toyed with the notion of pushing Kaelinda through the Balance of Power questline. She already has the necessary Azsuna and Suramar quest progression and Azsuna, Stormheim, and Suramar reputation. I’m mildly interested in the Balance of Power appearance for Aluneth, but I don’t much care for the Balance of Power apperances for Felo’melorn or Ebonchill. So maybe I’ll come back to that sometime in Shadowlands.
While hanging out in the Hall of the Guardian, I saw a couple of other Mages wearing the cosmetic reward set for beating Deaths of Chromie and thought, O, I should go give that a try — and then I thought, nah, I don’t have that kind of time right now. That’s another thing that maybe I’ll come back to sometime in Shadowlands.
I’ve more or less given up on the idea of gathering any more stuff out of BfA LFR; I can’t afford to spend naptime or my nighttime hours idling in a 1-2 hour DPS LFR queue.
What I would still like to accomplish before the Shadowlands pre-patch arrives is A) get Kaelyla leveled and geared and ready to go and B) do some more Horrific Visions with Kerisa and get the second upgraded appearance for the Shroud of Resolve.
But for the next two or three weeks, I’ve really got to be disciplined and do schoolwork.
That has to be tough because you don’t really know your situation, do you? Will your classes be online, will you yourself be at school, will you have a normal class size and what will their mindset be? It feels, to me, that you have to over-prepare to be ready for all kinds of odd moments — maybe ten students need one kind of instruction and fifteen need another. Thankfully you are well enmeshed in the topics! You can do this, it is what you do!
My college plans to do face-to-face — within the limitations of social distancing and mask wearing and so forth. They’ve ordered more cameras and microphones to allow lecture recording in more classrooms, but I haven’t looked at the list yet to see if any of my classrooms got them. I’m also still waiting to hear what the Testing Center is going to do, because that might affect how I need to plan for my Exams…