BOOM

[slemslempike]

If you were to say to me "Clare, do you want to do a phd?", I would be rather affronted at the question, and reply "of course! Have I not self-funded a year of study, do I not need this qualification for my chosen career path, do I not get slightly high in a Bookerish way from finding things out and putting things together in my mind, do I not love the accoutrements of doctoral study like inter-library loans and making wanky notes in the margins of articles, have I not been beavering away at my panel work?"

And then you might say "right, so why, in the last week, have you installed Commander Keen 1, Commander Keen 2, Duke Nukem 1, Duke Nukem 2, the shareware version of Doom, Doom II, and Final Doom onto your laptop when you should be writing busily, and by the way only losers cheat when they suck too much to complete the level on their own?"

And I would say "did that man just say Margaret Thatcher had died?" and while you were looking eagerly at said man, I would turn and run away as fast as I could, so that when the disappointment descended and you looked back at me to find out what kind of a monster would raise your hopes only to dash them so cruelly, all you would see would be a wheezing girl bent double about three metres away.

Comments

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Aaargh, that used to infuriate me, too: oh I'm doing fine, no need to save....BOOM. I think it was not least that sort of frustration that eventually stopped me playing games.