So, I suck.

I never write anymore. Like, anywhere. Not here, not in Word or Notepad, not anywhere except sometimes, maybe, a notebook I carry around with me.

I was thinking it might just be because it's summer. And then I looked back at last summer's posts. Well, it was a busy summer, last year. JB, school, work... I have nothing to post about because I'm pretty much doing nothing right now. School starts up again on the 5th, and it's my thesis year, oh yay.

My friends haven't been in town this summer. I mean, most of them don't live here anymore, but I missed drsnicket's visit, PF hasn't come in, CB left for Cambodia, JB's been out of town pretty much all summer... Those are my closest friends. Not having much contact with them sucks. CB is my phone buddy. I would talk to her on the phone like, 14 times a day. JB is my in-person buddy. I would see her all the time. PF has been busy with a move into a house with her husband, and this is somehow preventing her from emailing and phoning. And drsnicket and I don't always talk a lot to start with, but I know the poor girl is stressed out about various things.

So, in view of my ultimately boring life, I've been moderately silly and I have thrown myself into yet another online community. (Pretty much anyone reading this knows exactly how I am prone to doing this.)

Except this time, it's not a web/email/chat based community over some OTP. No, no, it's a stupid, addictive game called World of Warcraft. I got sucked into it last October/November, and once school was out, I really got into it.

I'll spare you the lame details (and there are many), but in short, if I'm online, I'm probably playing WoW. Or researching stuff about WoW. Or posting on the message boards I created for my guild. Or something else related to WoW.

I usually have a browser open while playing, because there's a lot of waiting in the game. (Flying places, waiting for other people, etc, etc.) So I flip over to the browser, I read LJ, I read some MeFi and that sort of thing. Just quickly, which is one of the reasons I rarely comment anymore -- I'll have read the entry and then I arrive at my destination in-game and then I go riding to where I need to be or whatever. And while I'll have absorbed the information, it's rare that I have enough time to both read AND reply. Which is silly.

I'm enjoying my time playing this insidious game (don't start, you'll never stop, I promise), and my GPA was not harmed by it, so that's all good, but my other hobbies, so to speak, are suffering. Writing? Reading? Designing? Chatting? Even watching TV? All have taken a nosedive. I've been pretty good about managing RL plans vs. in-game plans, though, which is something that would have been an issue in the past. I don't give up RL social events for in-game ones. Do I try to manage it so I have no conflicts? Yes. :) Does it always work? No, and I'm cool with that.

One of the good things that's come out of this stupid game is that my brother plays it, too, so we always have something to talk about. We're in the same guild so we're always doing things together in-game, and we're both officers in our guild, so we both work on strategizing (there is a stupid amount of thinking that goes into certain parts of this game) and I think it's kind of brought us closer together, which is nice.

But yeah... that's basically what's been up with me. On the plus side, I've gotten a lot accomplished in the game, but on the down side, it was in the game. Ah, if only success in the online realm would translate to success offline, eh?

Anyways, I hope to get back to LJing more frequently, because at least you people know how to write without making me cringe (did u noe dat dere r ppl who acutlly type lik dis and i feel lik i must kill dem!!!1!!!1!), and I hope to be, you know, more interactive with you all soon. I miss you, and I'm thinking good thoughts for each and every one of you (especially superswank!). I know I'm late and forgetting other things, but happy birthday to trexphile, congrats to shiningmoon, sorry about the roomie situation to hambam, feel better to slammerkinbabe, happy birthday to poisininjest...

(Also, obsessed with The Office, OMG, and it's all moireach's fault.)

And now, off to shower and tidy, because JB is finally back in town, and we're going to have a nice evening together with our friends Chocolate Ice Cream and Weeds. (The show, not the, you know, plant.)