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 It's been nine days now since I last played a video game. I can't even remember what the last one I played was ... I think it was FIFA 2003, but it may have been the glorious Splinter Cell. But in keeping with my vow to reduce the influence they have over me, I've only fantasized about them in the last week. In short, I realized that if I was at home and wasn't eating or sleeping or watching television, I would flip on the Xbox/PlayStation 2/GameCube and play for an hour or four. At the end of a weekend that I would have begun with a lot of great ideas of things to accomplish, I would have done none of them. And there is so much other stuff I want to do ... work on this site, play guitar, read, ride my bike. Video games are fun, no doubt, but they don't exist to fill any unused moment of my life. So far, so good ... I made some nice improvements to the site last weekend (don't think so? leave a comment!), started reading Fast Food Nation, and made great progress in the two papers I'm writing at work, not to mention the preparations I'm making for my new job at Stanford. The Solid Snakes, Samus Arans, and Super Marios own me no longer.
(yeah, right)
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