Post gaming Horizon- Part 2

I have discovered the secret to avoid playing online games. Her name is Zoey and she is a 3 lb Pomeranian/Yorkie mix. Currently she is 13 weeks old still working on potty training and very feisty!

If you don't smile you have issues...

This is my boyfriends screensaver....and I still laugh everytime. Is that wrong?

The end of a rough week

It has been a tough week for me...and I really hate being right in these types of cases.

I spent the greater part of the week scrambling to get my chapter 3 done, I even took off 2 days to do it, not sure how I am gonna pay my bills this month but I felt I would regret it if I didn't try.

I finished Friday and sent my total 113 pages to my chair for review, then he emailed me and asked for tables...

Today should be good but its not...

So I had my proposal meeting today and unconditionally passed. Which means I don't have to make a whole lot of changes and I am green lighted to go ahead with the rest of the dissertation. Great news right? Should be, but it instead I just feel bad. It's like one of those times you get good news but you feel like there is a huge "BUT..." following it.

Progress....I hope

So the dissertation continues, and I finally set a proposal meeting for March 21st. A week later then I had hoped because someone on my committee has to go get their freak on in Vegas for some bachelor party fun....

So anyway I am looking at this weekend to finish up my Chapter 3 and next week start on Chapter 4. Then I have to assemble a power point presentation for my meeting. I am thinking of using some colorful online gaming media to spice it up a bit, but I haven't settled on what to use just yet. I am thinking a short clip of South Parks WoW video to depict media stereotypes on gamers. Any other ideas?

Post gaming horizon- Part 1

It has probably been 30 days since I have been on an online game, I canceled my WoW account, and of course FFXIV is still running free so no need to there. I haven't logged in, but I admit I still check my guilds private website to see whats going on. I try not to visit any of the community sites or news pages for online gaming, because frankly the pictures try to lure me back in. So far so good...except I traded one obsession for another, a puppy! A co-worker at work has puppies she wants to give away and asked if I was interested. I thought long and hard and decided a puppy might give me something to do in my free time once my dissertation is done. After all, what do other people do when they don't play online games, aside from work, because I already do that.

However, true to my compulsive nature, I traded looking at online sites and forums for looking at puppy and pet boutique sites and making wish-lists for puppy supplies... Its just anticipation right? When the puppy comes I am sure my attention will shift away from the PC and onto the puppy and going out with it. or at least I hope...

Who doesn't love a cute face like this?

Into the swing of things

I am currently in full dissertation mode, trying to finish up by the end of the semester. I decided it was time to wrap things up, barring any unforeseen circumstances. The casualty of my dissertation is of course my online gaming. Also, it seemed a bit too ironic to be working on a dissertation involving problematic online gaming while I was online gaming....


Currently my finished proposal draft is being held hostage by my committee chair until this Tuesday when he either gives me feedback or gives me the ok for the official meeting. Crossing my fingers for the latter of course. We are on a time crunch here people, and I have an addictive personality! Don't leave me too long or else I will find something else to do.