Played a little WoW last night but didn’t actually do any questing…instead, I spent like an hour chatting with a friend who normally plays on another server, but rolled an alt on “my” server because she’s awesome like that. Stupid fun, man. The game just continues to amaze me. We spent about an hour or so playing with the emote commands, basically laughing my ass off the whole time. (Btw, Julie, you’re in trouble now that I’ve found that full list. KEE.)

This game is so totally designed and programmed by boys, though. Not that I’m complaining, of course, but have you seen the blood elves? Wowzer. I wish I had taken a screenshot or two. Heh. And some of the commands? Good grief. It seems like half of them are gameplay-related and the other half are sexual. Again, not that I’m complaining. /jk

Work went okay yesterday. Actually, my meeting with Tom went much better than I feared. It was almost like a good, mentoring moment. Crazy, right? Where have these been the rest of the last four years? However, credit where credit’s due, it was actually helpful and I learned something. In short, the problem with our manuscript was more political than experimental, so we discussed how to address that. The short answer is that we avoid it. That is, we rewrite the paper to focus more on the solid data that we have and move the more speculative stuff into the discussion, where we clearly label it as speculation and hypothesizing. And aim for a slightly lower (but still very solid) journal. :-D

Back to work. Type to you later; tonight, perhaps.

PS: I did okay following my deals with myself last night. Emma and I played frisbee for about half an hour before dinner and she agreed that that could count as my exercise. I did not, however, do much of anything towards cleaning the office, so I owe myself about 15 minutes of cleaning before I start playing tonight.