Busy Dog is Busy

I bought this a few days ago because it was on sale for a dollar or two. While the Super Nintendo-era graphics are really appealing for nostalgia's sake, I mostly bought it because the story sounds unusually deep and moving.

That makes me wonder whether it would be a good idea to play a game that sounds so emotionally affective while in the middle of feeling lots of stress over school stuff. In the end though, it may be moot anyway since I don't have time to play games.

But I thought I'd put a link here for you.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/03/wot-i-think-to-the-moon/

I'll try and write a longer update at some point. When I have time.

Music From My Childhood

Oh wow. A song just played on SomaFM that was a remix and reimagining of the music from the Spy Vs. Spy game I remember playing on the Commodore 64. It was *so* familiar I had to look at the title. I saw it was called "Dream Spy," and made the connection. Then I dug up the original music online and listened to it briefly. That's a blast from the past!

I made progress today, but tomorrow I'm going to a digital humanities workshop followed by a colloquium talk. And then I ought to go to the get-together at Beer Belly Deli that they always have after colloquia. The department covers some food (and drinks, not that I'll be drinking anything) which is nice, and I need to get to know people better. I had a great time talking with a couple people at the department picnic (I need to write about that at some point) ant it would be nice to see them again.

But a big part of me just wants to go home and try to get through the rest of what I need to have done for next week. Losing so much time stresses me out.