Facebook Dialogue

Susan wrote an interesting blog post, and when my response hit, like, half a page, I thought that maybe I should just write about it here...

I accidentally introduced my parents to Facebook. In the Summer of 2008, a group of friends and I went to Vancouver, British Columbia for vacation. Every night I uploaded all the day's pictures to Facebook, mostly to get them off my camera and to make room for new pictures. When my mother called me to ask how the trip was going, what we'd done, I mentioned I had uploaded pictures to Facebook.

"I don't have Facebook," she had said. So I told her to have my brother log in to his account so she could see the pictures.

And that's where I went wrong.

Exposition is everywhere

I took a break from working on my final exams and booted up Star Wars: The Old Republic, an online role-playing game that allows players from all over the world to play together. As I cut down enemies and completed quests, I kept thinking about my exams, what's going on at work, whether I'm going to pass all my classes... And then I realized something.

My go-to stress relaxer is nothing more than an exercise in expository reading and writing.

(Stick with me on this.)