Points On The Line

This is just going to be a SHORT post. I'm wondering as I speak whether I should even be doing this. As I write this sentence it's 2:52 AM. I just finished reading a mass of material on a topic that lies at the intersection of IT, computer science, law, and sociology.

This was as some of you might have by now imagined, the homework that I have due for tomorrow. The very homework that I'm hoping will be soo good that it'll be archived to be to the minions yet to enter this course. As you might imagine, producing a work of a standard like that is not easy, especially when you got up at 10am yesterday morning (to avoid confusion here, let me spell something out, after midnight I call the next day).

My essay topic is

How do computers, software, cell-phones, and other kinds of information technology structure your daily lives and experience?

And the essay must be between 300 and 500 words. Which isn't too bad. There is however one teensy weensy problem. You see this is not the only homework that I have left. In addition to the above essay I also am compelled to do the hardest homework I have ever been assigned. This assignment is so difficult I cannot even begin to comprehend how to solve it. The question seems easy enough at first sight, but as I sit in front of my precious and wonderful laptop, all I see is a blank word document, titled - "15 Meaningful Moments I've had playing a Game". Damn it and I thought the Game homework would be easy. Should have known better coming to a prestigious college and taking up a course like Game Design.

Now you think my plight might have ended there, but if you did, woe to you, for this thorn isn't stuck that shallow. Topping off all the above I have to write a resume that will convince the other people in one of my classes to enlist in my virtual firm (for which a name, mission, and everything else needs to be defined).

To those of you who have not yet understood why this piece has been tagged "Mission Impossible", well I must say that you need to exercise your cognitive abilities a bit more than they're being used at the moment (though I will allow a lapse if you're reading this at around the same time I'm writing it, I know that this late in the night, your mind can't be functioning right).

Woe to me, for in addition to this, I have also managed to displace my back. I have a feeling that a few of the vertebrae are still stuck in India. It happened quite innocently, I went cliff jumping, and jumped off what must have been a 30 ft cliff - onto rocks. Well rocks submerged by at least a few feet of water. The water in most circumstances would have been comforting, and would have been a soft cushion on which I would fall like a feather. This however was not to be the case. The fear that comes when jumping off a great height for the first time (even if it is into a pond of very deep and icy water) happened to lock every bone in my body after I jumped, causing me to land butt first on the water. There goes my idea of a feather.

If you ever want to recreate what I went through, try jumping into the water near the arctic circle, from a height of about 30 feet, and make sure that the entire impact is transferred to your spine. I'm pretty sure that immediately after you land, you'll be praying for a polar bear to swim up to you and eat you.

Well, I think I just wrote the basis for the next Mission Impossible, it may not be as action packed, but I'm pretty sure a movie on this storyline would pass as a very sadistic comedy. Damn, wait a minute, thats my life, and I'm at the receiving end of that sadistic pleasure. Ah well.....

PS 1- That was not as short as I intended it to be.
PS 2 - I need to get a HTML editor integrated into this website. Would save me soo much time typing out these articles.