I was so shattered when I got home from school yesterday that I hit the sack at about seven and woke up again at three. Unable to get back to sleep, I estimated that I had an hour to play WoW before server maintainance kicked in.
I loaded it up.
"Fuck..." I muttered as i saw the "breaking news" panel on the login screen. "Maintainance from 03:00 to 11:00 CET". It had been extended by two hours. I twiddled my thumbs for a few minutes before settling with Civilisation 5. Two hours into the game, everything felt the same. The world map didn't hold the wonder that Civ 4 did and the AI didn't do anything bastardly or interesting. Playing as Russia though, it did occur to me that my situation sort of mirrored reality (during the cold war at least). I had a tense relationship with Siam, who were suspicious of me for some reason I couldn't fathom (Civ 5 has AI that works in mysterious ways; once a faction whose borders were ten tiles away on a different continent confronted me, claiming that I was moving troops near his borders) and war seemed fairly likely. I did, however, have three city states, which effectively formed a wall between myself and Siam. Meanwhile, I shared borders with an Amicable China on the eastern side, whom I formed many research and border agreements with. None of this could save me from the grinding boredom, though.
I've been feeling really weird lately. Yesterday, I lashed out at my friend for no good reason. I wanted to break things. I don't have a good reason for feeling like that, I don't have any reason at all and I can't explain it. Today, I just feel resigned and low. More on this later i guess.
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