solitaire
the tax code isn't really holding my interest.
so my first semester of law school, i was addicted to freecell. i loved the freecell. i played the freecell all the time. i could not get enough. and then, miraculously, i got bored of the freecell. but then i turned to spider solitaire. i loved the spider solitaire, i played it all the time, desperately craving the win that so eluded me on the hardest level. and finally, i had it. and then, as quickly as it started, i was bored with spider solitaire. so i turned to regular, plain old solitaire. and now, i am addicted. i play it all the time. the beauty of the regular solitaire is that it's just so easy. it's just a 2 minute commitment, and you don't really have to pay a whole hell of a lot of attention.
but here is the question. back when i started, solitaire was something i won every game. but then, somewhere along the way, i started losing. more and more. and i would say that now i lose more games than i win. so here's the question, do you think (1) that i've gotten worse, (2) that my computer realized i had gotten too smart for its previous card configurations, so it upped the level of difficulty on me (of its own accord, mind you), or (3) do you think that this might be my subconscious' way of telling me that i'm actually now bored with solitaire.
i don't know either. but i'm really concerned about what happens once i am. perish the thought that i start to play hearts (hm, do i start to play hearts?) or do i cycle back to the previous games? b/c the previous games kinda intimidate me now. mostly b/c of the time commitment and the attention that must be paid. not that i don't just make up for the time differential by playing 80 games of solitaire, instead of one game of spider. and weren't those the things i used to love about those games? i remember loving the skill involved on both freecell and spider. but now, i just don't know if i can go back. and here, with finals upon me, i've gotta have a game plan.
so my first semester of law school, i was addicted to freecell. i loved the freecell. i played the freecell all the time. i could not get enough. and then, miraculously, i got bored of the freecell. but then i turned to spider solitaire. i loved the spider solitaire, i played it all the time, desperately craving the win that so eluded me on the hardest level. and finally, i had it. and then, as quickly as it started, i was bored with spider solitaire. so i turned to regular, plain old solitaire. and now, i am addicted. i play it all the time. the beauty of the regular solitaire is that it's just so easy. it's just a 2 minute commitment, and you don't really have to pay a whole hell of a lot of attention.
but here is the question. back when i started, solitaire was something i won every game. but then, somewhere along the way, i started losing. more and more. and i would say that now i lose more games than i win. so here's the question, do you think (1) that i've gotten worse, (2) that my computer realized i had gotten too smart for its previous card configurations, so it upped the level of difficulty on me (of its own accord, mind you), or (3) do you think that this might be my subconscious' way of telling me that i'm actually now bored with solitaire.
i don't know either. but i'm really concerned about what happens once i am. perish the thought that i start to play hearts (hm, do i start to play hearts?) or do i cycle back to the previous games? b/c the previous games kinda intimidate me now. mostly b/c of the time commitment and the attention that must be paid. not that i don't just make up for the time differential by playing 80 games of solitaire, instead of one game of spider. and weren't those the things i used to love about those games? i remember loving the skill involved on both freecell and spider. but now, i just don't know if i can go back. and here, with finals upon me, i've gotta have a game plan.
posted by laura at 3:11 PM
1 Comments:
since you asked... i think that all the card games on the ocmputer go through phases of giving you easy and hard games. for example- i couldn't win spider solitaire for hte longest time, then i went through a phase where i could win all the time, then there was a phase where it was intermittent. so i think it just has to do with they random cycling. you haven't gotten sucky and you haven't gotten bored. my suggestion as for possible boredom is: choose the game youplay based ont he amt of break you deserve. if you jsut read a sentence- you get to play solitaire. but if you jsut finished an entire section of the syllabus- well that calls for spider solitaire. and i also find mindsweeper is a good quick game because you ether win or lose within 300 seconds.
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