I've gotten together my friends to plan a DnD game on Thursday. Always wanted to try it out and it seems like a good time to try it. Today was spent making our DnD characters. We had one of my friend (Henry), get his co-worker to DM (Dungeon Master) for us. Surprisingly enough, it takes a while to create a character for DnD. First you pick the race, the class, then the backstory. The backstory being the most time consuming, as each on of us ( I have 4 friends who are playing, Henry, Jan, Alain, Alton) wanted to make our character wacky or unique. The DM (Roger, Henry's co-worker) gave us a lot of leeway of what we could make are characters to be like. For example I made a human paladin that was blessed by the gods 2 millenniums ago but was stripped of his power for his questioning of the gods actions and imprisoned for 2,000 years. But now is free with all of his powers stripped and wanders a new land with a world vastly different. 

My other friends made a human wizard, dwarf fighter, and a human thief/rogue. I'm not too sure what their backstory is as the DM told us to not reveal anything to each other, but only in game. 

At this point with no forms of media at my hands, I'm just looking for any way to kill time in this period with activities. I realize how bored I would be if I didn't have a group of friends who shared interests as I do. Our media today seems to encourage behavior of staying at home with little real interaction with other people. Watching movies, playing video games, twitter, etc. They seem so impersonal. Having none of that and forced to find other ways to have "fun" has made me realize how attached we all are to our current media.