My job = stay at a desk equipped with a very crappy Mac and wait for the phone to ring, sort the mail, make photocopies.

On good days, I actually get to walk around and make deliveries. On bad days, my job = me, a desk, a crappy Mac, and a clock that simply does not tick fast enough.

Why do I do this? 1) for the money 2) for the resume 3) I'm an international student so I can't even be a waitress if I wanted to.

So, how do I fill my days? I usually go around reading the New York Times, BBC News, Cnet News, Wired News. Once those have been exhausted, I move onto videogame blogs such as Kotaku, Joystiq, and Destructoid.

Obviously, I begin to run out of things to read online and I don't feel like actually reading a book. Randomly clicking around links in Joystiq has led me to one of the most entertaining websites so far:

www.wowdetox.com.

For those of you who have not at least observed the 2million or so people playing World of Warcraft, this will be completely irrelevant. Otherwise, reading WoWdetox is actually extremely addictive. Having been addictied to Guild Wars until 5 fights with my BF resulted in me having to sell my account on ebay and quit cold-turkey, I can at least sympathize with the poor souls addicted to WoW. One of my friends has recently quit - having gone to Germany this summer and thus finding an actual place where she could pick flowers and look at pretty buildings. I do not know exactly what will happen when she returns. I know 3 other ppl who are still feeding off of Blizzard's I.V. and trust me, it's not pretty.

So why WoWdetox? The comments hit very close to home and a lot of them are really funny. If you've played WoW, are still playing WoW, or are considering playing WoW, you should at least check it out before you end up spending over 20 hours a week to get better pixels.

As for why I never played WoW?

1) I have a 3.5 GPA to maintain \

2) I have a BF who actually complains when I play video games.

3) The graphics are crappy;I hate polygonal characters

4) Guild Wars was free

5) Most importantly, Oblivion is so much better!!

I still play a couple of hours of videogames a day but heck, it's my last summer vacation! I should enjoy this before I actually have to earn a living.