i am addicted

...to snood, that is

at some point in undergrad snood was all the rage... everyone had it on their computer, everyone played it as their procrastination technique of choice, everyone talked about it for a portion of nearly every conversation. it was crazy.

it's also a highly addictive game.

some people were smart, and noticing their lack of productivity, removed it from their computers again. i was not one of those people.

i had kicked the habit years ago. it's been happily on my desktop, mostly untouched. from time to time i would open it, play a few games of "puzzle" or medium, or evil, and then put it up again.

but at some point in the past week, i opened it up and played a game of "journey" (where you get a succession of games: child, easy, medium, hard, then evil until you lose, and rack up points from all the consecutive games you win).

i have not been able to close the program since.

i wake up, i play a game of snood.

breakfast cooking in the kitchen? time for a quick game of snood!

come home and don't want to start math immediately? play a game of snood

shuddering to balance that checkbook and see just how little $$ is left after paying the bills? play a game of snood.

the thing is, often "play a game of snood" turns into, play repeatedly until i feel guilty for not doing my other work or until i get on the high score list again for journey. me (and my mom and brother from borrowing my computer when i made it home with it throughout undergrad) have a mighty impressive high score list for journey ranging from 60,029 to 101,887. while in my recent efforts i've been able to get up to 57,000ish, beating even that 10th place 60,029 requires beating 2 consecutive games of evil or having the best streak ever on the lower levels. so yeah, i'm obsessed. i keep getting close, but i'm not quite up to my previous record highs of years ago.

computer games... such a bad drain of productivity time.

oi.