Friday, December 15, 2006

Adulthood: the Ultimate Stain

What a stainy week. For most everyone else in the working world, having your boss leave is a magical golden ticket to slacking and mindless web-surfing. When my boss leaves, I just have to keep my head down and hope no one notices I'm available to be their office work bitch. Unfortunately, I wasn't so lucky this week. I was immediately pressed into service as a page-checker. In case you don't work in the thrilling legal community, page-checking is remarkably well-titled. I spend hour after hour turning page after page to make sure they go 1, 2, 3, etc. and not 1, 2, 4. This activity is awesome. It only gets back after doing it for 12 hours straight. If it weren't for years of video games, my thumb probably would have seized up with a really bad case of carpal tunnel somewhere around hour 7. By the time Friday rolled around, I was desperately in need of QFS. I haven't really thought up a good way to do that at the office. Talking to girls, doing homework, getting stuck at a lame party, I can QFS and escape all of those. Work is another story. I had to think of a new strategy. I needed BPAS. Just when it looked like everything was ruined... I came up with a brilliant idea, buy a lot of video games. Not just any video games... compilations. Easily the greatest idea in video games since they put The Sims 2 on Nintendo Wii, compilations bring together some of the best video games we played as kids. Sonic the Hedgehog, Street Fighter 2, Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Final Fight just to name a few. They usually put about 20 games on a disc, so it's only a dollar per game. Like iTunes for video games. Why hasn't anyone actually made this happen yet? I know that Gamefly is out there but the whole monthly fee idea really just doesn't do it for me. Given how hugely successful such a venture would be, the title would have to be iStrength.