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You are on a red leather sofa facing a very large and very tempting flat-screen TV. A sheltie puppy is chewing through your shoelaces. There is a laptop in your lap. You have five Word documents open.>look at Word documents
They are titled “Chapter 3 The Ubicomp Games”, “Chapter 4 The Pervasive Games”, “Nintendo Cubes section pergames”, “REJECTED WRITING” and “works cited”.> work on dissertation
You spend five minutes browsing Boing Boing.> work on dissertation
You check the Technorati links to your blog.> work on dissertation
—Jane McGonigal —Disseration Zork (Avant Game)
An ABD fights the dissertation grues.
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Wow…if only I could creatively express my own woes that way! I always love people who possess creative writing skills (or anything creative) because I lack those abilities.
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The work cited grue :)