Yup, I caved. I have re-purchased world of warcraft. My first copy fell out of my hands into my sister's when I stopped playing ages ago. And now, I have caved after months of holding out even when everyone around me was playing. What made me do it? I'm not sure. I'm a little frustrated with poker at the moment. I need a break - I'm not playing my best and I'm playing break even poker even though I know I can do better. That's not entirely it, but it is a start for how I'm feeling.

It's a very odd feeling not playing something that everyone else is playing. With normal games, it isn't too bad. A week or a month pass and no one is talking about it anymore. WoW is entirely different though. It's been out for how long??? And *still* everyone talks about it. As soon as someone talks about it, everyone playing starts talking about it. Increasingly, it has made me feel uncomfortable ... and you'd think that would drive me away from the game.

I have fond memories of playing the game. It is an amazingly fun game - and that is a big reason why so many people are playing it and talking about it for hours and hours ... and hours. I watched my sister playing in the battlegrounds for awhile. I even mentioned to her that I was not all that interested in the battlegrounds because I prefer the content side of the game rather than the PvP play. She wasn't even playing a part of the game that I wanted to play! And yet tonight I was so tempted to go out and purchase the game that I did half an hour before the store closed.

I'm not worried about slacking in my responsibilities. I am too interested in my own success to simply waste my opportunities. My thesis is reaching a first draft stage and will be on its way with my supervisor tomorrow afternoon as he heads to Ottawa. Because I didn't finish in time for the end of summer I needed to pay for another semester anyways which means I've got a ton of time to finish up (not that it will take too much longer). And beside all that, I feel like I need something other than poker to occupy my time. I don't see myself being able to sit down in front of a computer all day playing poker just because I can make money at it. It is fun, but not *that* fun.

So here I am ... installing WoW. It'll probably be another 15 minutes before its installed. Until then, I will ponder why I finally caved...

Heraldk