i am a huge online gaming nut. and i’m here to say i have an addiction. i play WAY too much, and get carried away to the point of tracking my stats and joining a clan of other players online (kind of like a club, only geekier). right now my guilt pleasure is halo 2, a futuristic shoot-em-up#–only instead of saving the world, you run around shooting people and listening to ten-year-old’s say things to you like "how come you’re so bad at this?" my favorite part of the game is when i look at the clock and realize i’ve been playing for three hours and need sleep, only i have to play more because "i wouldn’t want to let the clan down."

so we’ve heard from all but two of the bands and the response is good#–we get to use the music! yay! and they like us, they really do! yay! now we just need to finish our sound mix and send off to festivals#–then begins the hand-wringing and the gnashing of teeth (also the hair-pulling and the biting of tongues…at which point we will decide which color envelope to use and actually do the submissions).

james is in florida, seeing family, so i’m all alone with nothing to do except work. and…that box…with the flashing colors…it beckons me…it’s calling…yes…yeessssss….