Sorry for my absence the past couple of days - I came down with a brutal cold and didn’t do much except cough and complain all weekend. (Chris was overjoyed.) One pleasant surprise, though, was the fact that those noxious Cold-Eeze lozenges actually seem to work - I faithfully took them for the first couple days of symptoms, and sure enough my entire cold only lasted four days instead of my usual week.

Not much else is new, aside from the usual Christmas preparations (still haven’t bought train tickets) and Warcraft (still playing a lot of it). With regard to the latter, it’s now been a full year that Chris and I have been playing, although that hardly seems possible. In some ways the game has less of a hold on me than it did during those fatal first few weeks, in that I can go a few days without playing and it doesn’t feel like a big deal. But now that Chris and I are both in the same great guild and we both raid fairly frequently with them, it’s become much more of a social activity than it used to be. So while I play less than I did last December and January, it’s probably a more significant chunk of my life nonetheless. Mmm, addiction.