Wedding Watch '08 + miscellaneous

The lack of blogging is a combination of three things:

1. I'm getting married.
2. I'm in a play.
3. I've been playing World of Warcraft.

All three are time consuming, hectic, thoroughly enjoyable and horrifically detestable at the same time (Actually, World of Warcraft is just time consuming).

Here are my main points I learned which I will pass down to you for edification.

1. Weddings are a sham. They are a lie prepetuated by the wedding industry so that they may feast upon the entrails of your bank accounts and credit lines, while taking advantage of you while you lay enthralled within the throes of twitterpated love. Beat the system - elope.

You think I'm joking, don't you? No, I'm really not. If you want to preserve your sanity and any sense of financial stability after your wedding, elope. It's all about the honeymoon anyway. Your parents will forgive you once you have kids. This also couples with an added bonus of the fact that they won't want to see you after the eloping fiasco, just your kids. They then unwittingly become great free babysitters.

2. Theater (or theatre, if you're British) is fun. Try it out once for the experience.

Then never do it again.

Actually, this is a lie. If you really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really like theater, consider doing it as a hobby. Add fifty more reallys before "like theater" before you even consider any type of career in it. Because you will be married to your job. Or marry another drama geek, and you could live out your blissful married days backstage. You could bring your children along, too. You could be a family of traveling carnies, except with a slightly higher social status.

3. Sometimes World of Warcraft is like a bad relationship with a whiny, high maintenance girlfriend. She requires a lot of time investment, but about 50% of the time, it's not really enjoyable, because you're crafting things to up your skill level (which involves pushing a button and watching all those regeants you've collected for two hours disppear in minutes) or traveling (flying on the back of a griffon gets old after thirty seconds of staring at the screen).

Reading is certainly more enjoyable. I recently finished "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time" in a day. It's a beautifully disturbing and brutally honest story told in the point of view of an autistic boy. He begins investigating the murder of a neighbor's dog and gets sucked into something much larger - the absurd, strange world of adults and the stupid games we play.

The only problem is, when I start reading a book, I have to finish it. Luckily, this book was only 226 pages long. In reality, books are much more addicting to me than World of Warcraft will ever be (sorry, Blizzard!).