The hour of Twilight

No this isn't going to be about the new Zelda, although it is partly to blame.

I'm sitting at my PC it's 2:10am and for the third night in a row I know I'll be up till far too late or early depending on how you look at it, either way it'll probably be sometime around 4am before I fall asleep. As such it leads me to ask, how dose a new toy make it nigh-on impossible for someone to go to sleep at a "normal" time, I say "normal" because my normal bedtime is about 1-2am, later on the holidays, much like the times I'm going to bed now.

I mentioned at the beginning that Zelda is partly to blame for my current state of affairs and it is, for I can't stop playing it, well at least until the coldness of the house makes my hands seize up. However it would be unfair of me to solely blame Zelda for WiiSports has been taking up an equally large amount of time, curse WiiBowling for being so close to the real thing yet not quite being there.

I suppose I should give credit to Nintendo, yet again they have managed to cobble something together that has kept me up night after night. Of course the real challenge will be, come Monday, will I be able to get any work done, or will my mind be consumed by all things Nintendo and Rayman?...

Of course being up late does have certain... perks, for starters you don't have to deal with anyone else, the house is yours, as long as you keep the noise down, which in it's self is nice. I find that if I play a nice calming song at a low volume it's so much more calming and relaxing than if it were played at a "normal" volume. Another perk of being up late is all the snacking you can get away with, who's going to notice the odd biscuit, or chocolate bar, go missing?

I have found in the past that I tend to do most of my work in the twilight of the day, don't know why, I guess I'm more of a evening person than a morning person of course the Wii has shoot down any chances of actually doing any work at least until the "newness" of Wii has worn off some. I should really just get back to work and leave the Wii as a reward for a hard day’s work but who can resist the lure of Zelda? Or a new console for that matter? Each on their own is hard enough to resist but together and you may just have a force stronger than God himself.

Normally I wouldn't be so worried about not doing any work, I mean who really likes to do work? Really? But that's because normally I'm the only person who needs the work to be done but this year I've got a group project, a big group project, and although I'm not as far behind as some I'm still feeling as though I'm lagging behind, which is a problem because it means I won't be able to enjoy the festive season as much as I would have liked, which of course has a knock on effect in that I won't be able to enjoy my Wii as much as perhaps I should (can a man enjoy his Wii too much? Answers on a postcard). Not to mention I actually have a big written project to hand in early in January and so far all I've done on it is decided which sections I want to cover. I need to cover four sections of the games production process, each section has to be covered in detail and be at least 4000 words long, that's longer than my dissertation I did last year. Having said that I did do my dissertation (all 11,000 words of it) in a week, I guess I should set aside two weeks for this, oh how convenient, my Xmas holidays are three weeks long, that means I can go at like a mad man, get it done and go like a mad man on the other stuff I have to do. Who said the festive season was fun? He was lying, or he was a sado and worked like a mad man during the rest of the year...

My Wii is calling me...

This is Benji Dude, asking you to take a walk in my shoes.