I need to play just to make it today...

...oh yes, I play. This is a modification of an 80's MC Hammer song, "Pray." I suppose I could have instead modified Cyndi Lauper's "Girls just wanna have fun" to "Learners just wanna have fun." I have always been a bit jealous of the language teachers for the creative fun they get to have while teaching; I, on the other hand, just came from an intermediate algebra course in which I had to spend 75 minutes torturing the students with algebra on hideous rational equations. I found myself actually apologizing for the curriculum. I cannot imagine in what universe this is a reasonable skill to force all college students to possess. Of course, the vast majority never actually do, but it doesn't really matter in the end anyway.

But enough whining. Let's get back to WOW. I still love WOW, but find myself getting bored with it especially if I try too hard to employ conscious high-level strategizing to my play. I happily incorporate some strategy and enjoy discussing methods to improve gameplay with friends. When it starts feeling like too much forced work, however, I definitely find my sense of fun waning. I still don't eat many vegetables, either. I prefer ice cream and pizza. Pizza has vegetables. Ice cream has protien. And calcium. So I agree with the authors of "Eat Your Vegetables..." - learning motivation has a complex psychology to it. There is no perfect recipe. I have met people who don't like pizza and ice cream. There are even occassions when I don't want pizza and ice cream.

Still, this girl does like to have fun. At play, at work, at home. I wonder if Tapper would eat her vegetables? I wonder if Tapper knows what a vegetable is? It is 7:16 and I am still at work....time to go home and play.

Cheers