this semester's nemesis

so as you may recall from previous posts, i fall prey to a single game every single semester. first semester of law school = freecell. second = spider solitaire. third = plain old solitaire. well, i was still just playing plain old solitaire thru/out most of this semester. but, i'll be honest, it was growing a bit dull.

i saw other people playing tetris (dear GOD i love tetris. much of my college years fell prey to tetris. til my love of tetris fell prey to snood. but anyways.) well, i tracked down eli as the source of the tetris, but i was too stupid to put it on my computer. [this paragraph is just a sidetrack from what becomes my downfall. tho it does remind me that i need to get him to put it on my computer. tho the following paragraphs will explain why this is a very very very bad idea.]

one day, in PR, i look over and notice that jenny is playing text twist WITH HER KEYBOARD. so i had played a bit of text twist in the past, but i always thought you had to click the letters and that was a pain in the ass. BUT THE KEYBOARD! so i thought i would give it a try.

what a mistake.

so hours of my life are now being eaten by this game. mostly b/c i am soooooo good. i mean, you think, "hey, i'll just play one game of text twist." and that sounds find. but when you are THIS good at a game, one game can go on for hours.

now tiff says (tiff has a lot to teach people about various games) that you're just supposed to get the 6 letter word and then read while the time wiles away. but i am going to take issue with tiff's tactics. for starters, that's no fun. generally the 6 letter word leaps off the screen at you. so that would really minimize the enjoyment. but the other thing, is that just doesn't help your score. getting all the words is what really spells success in text twist. and so that's really what you've got to try to do. also, this way you don't have to waste your time with things like admin reading. and i think that this may be why tiff still refers to the 100,000 point mark as "elusive" or "impossible" or some such nonsense and i had achieved it within about a week.

during my freecell phase, i had manage to rationalize it that freecell was really going to help me with finals. b/c freecell is about being given something, a big picture. and then you have to find what you want, and get there, strategically working thru the little pieces and building each of the themes (those are the suits of cards) to reach the final goal--a nice, clearly organized consolidation of everything that was given to you in a big jumble. and that's a lot like law school finals. or so i rationalized. (for those of you interested--turns out this only helps with crim law exams.) i suppose i could kinda use the same argument for text twist; something about pulling the pieces out and making sense of them and finding everything lurking w/in the jumble. but even i realize that's a bit attenuated. there is really no way for me to convince myself that i will have 5 exams of professors giving my jumbles of words and asking me to find a slew of 3 and 4 letter words within them. i'm screwed.

and i wonder why eli won't give me tetris....