Game time

I suppose I should be posting some stuff on here, so you don't all assume I've died or something.

All in all, my silence is a sign of good things: This blog is very therapeutic and I haven't needed it in a few weeks. So that's good! But I owe it to you all, for sitting through my bouts of rampant feelings, to bring the good news too.

I GOT MY ESSAYS TURNED IN! :D HURRAY!

Yesterday I turned in the first 2 out of 7 of my assessed essays that make up the BPhil. Both of these essays could have been better, I am sure, but I am very very very happy to have them off my plate. I won't get the marks on them for a while yet, but as is my MO, it's time to forget that they ever happened and move on. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who helped me with these essays and throughout the itme I've been writing them.

This term I'm switching into aesthetics. This is the study of art, the philosophy of why we value art, etc. This isn't something I have ever formally studied, so right now I'm basically starting a self-taught crash-course on the topic, based on a reading list of my supervisor's suggestions. I'm hoping to focus down on questions surrounding narrative art and more specifically fiction: Can we learn things from fiction? If so, what and how? I want to look at fiction as a sort of psudo-experience: learning what it feels like to be someone else. I am interested in this just as is, but also interested because it could lead me to something really fun: GAMES.

In the past few years, my answer to things like "what do you want to do when you grow up?" "what is your dream job?" or "what makes you happy?" has been ever-increasingly based on games. If you're not a gamer that might sound silly, shallow, lazy, or even a little messed up. And while *I* might be all of those things (especially lazy), GAMES are not.

The study of games as art is really interesting and important to me. So I'm hoping that this shift in topic will really help me out, help me find some motivation again. I need it.

Sorry that this update is so short. Know that I'm doing well, I've had several good days, the weather is starting to get beautiful! And things like rugby haven't started yet, but will soon (I'm so out of shaaaaape).

Thanks for reading, as always.
R

Praise God from whom all blessings flow, praise him all creatures here below, praise him above ye heavenly hosts. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.