in which I find more time sinks

About 2 months ago I started playing World of Warcraft. It was a terrific way to avoid thinking about certain guys but it was also, predictably, disastrous for exam preparation (Regulation exam? April 17, 2010 deadline for passing the other 3 parts? what exams?). Well, my time ran out about 1.5 weeks ago and I miss playing my tall, graceful, sprightly night elf druidess Morwaen ever so much. I want to hop back on and get Moonkin form and level her up to 80 and find good gear and kick the Horde’s collective butts. I want to get back on and play before the landscape gets torn up with the release of Cataclysm. I want to buy more time but I know this is not a good idea, because (HELLO) I need to pass 3 parts before my FAR credit expires next April, and I have no self control as far as limiting my time on WoW.

So I started playing Mafia Wars. The nice thing about MW is you’re limited to how much time you spend playing because you run out of energy fairly quickly.

I still miss WoW.

To ease the pangs I read Druid leveling guides and watch The Guild. I can’t get this song out of my head.

pretty much perfect

time sink

Over the past week, I’ve been obsessively playing Plants vs. Zombies (thanks mim!). Ironically, I think its     helping me study by providing an outlet for those feelings of frustration and impatience. There’s nothing quite like seeing  a pat of butter freeze a zombie in its tracks, or a whole line of them being blown up by a red jalapeno in a fiery blaze. Its really satisfying. The theme song at the end is super cute too! I love this game! It didn’t take too long to beat the adventure mode.  When I’m done writing this I’ll probably try to beat the Whack-A-Zombie mini-game and tend the zen garden.

I never knew zombies could be so cute…

funny

from ThinkGeek.com.

suteki da ne

Romantic theme from Final Fantasy X. I just love this song. Sometimes I sing it (or try to) in the shower.

Even without my obsession with this game, I’d still like the song.

have fun now, pay back big time later

Yesterday I stayed up late building a house on Sims 2. This morning at work was kinda hellish. My mind was sooo slooww. I mean, I’m convinced my brain works slower than everyone else’s, but today it was slow as molasses. Slow as a slug. Spent about an hour today fighting with the hole punchers at work. At first, the top hole puncher came loose, and I had to keep pushing it back into place. Then it started raining paper circles. Confetti! Then, the paper kept getting stuck in the middle hole, so I had to tug and tug and tug. Oh, and I spilled a cup of green tea on my desk. By 11:00am I felt like strangling someone. So, the moral of the story is don’t stay up beyond 2am on a weeknight when you’ve got to be at work by 9:30am the next day and you don’t exactly live next door.

depressing fortune

“You try, you fail. You fail,
you try. So where is success?”

word of the day

While driving home from the supermarket late at night, I thought of a word that describes me to a pinch, particularly when I’m being really neurotic… which is a lot of the time: overwrought.

Main Entry: overwrought
Pronunciation: -'rot
Function: adjective
Etymology: past participle of overwork
1 : extremely excited : AGITATED
2 : elaborated to excess : OVERDONE

Funny for the day

WAYS TO MAINTAIN A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY
~Enjoy~

1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “IN”.
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for smuggling diamonds”.
7. Finish all your sentence s with “in accordance with the prophecy”.
8. heres another one dont use any punctuation
9. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
10. Order a “Diet Water” whenever you go out to eat – with a serious face.
11. Specify that your drive-through order is “to go”.
12. Sing along at the opera.
13. Put mosquito netting around your work area and play tropical sounds all day at work.
14. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don’t rhyme.
15. Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their party because you’re not in the mood.
16. Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Bottom.
17. When the money comes out the ATM, scream “I won! I won!”
18. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling, “run for your lives, they’re loose!!”
19. Tell your children over dinner “due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.”

Stuff I’ve been watching

A Very Long Engagement

Good movie, beautiful cinematography, bittersweet ending. I’m starting to really like Audrey Tatou. I’m also starting to really like the French language.

Spirited Away

I liked Chihiro’s perserverence and courage. Very good escapism. The romance was very pure and innocent. I liked Howl’s Moving Castle better though.

Pi: Faith in Chaos

I got really creeped out twice in this movie. The scene with the brain, and the next to last scene involving a drill.

One True Thing

Renee Zellweger isn’t very convincing playing an ambitious, career-driven journalist. Even though the story itself is sad, I didn’t feel especially depressed watching this. I liked that it wasn’t overtly moralizing or preachy.

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardobe

I loved loved loved this book when I was a kid. This is a pretty good rendition. Tilda Swinton is pitch perfect as the White Witch. Georgie Henley’s also perfect in the role of Lucy.

My grammar is atrocious.