Time-sink

Now, seeing as I'm sitting at night/morning in a general state of post-Christmas/pre-exam depression, I might as well push away all daunting notions of having to do any sort of work.
Taking Christmas into review, I'd say it held a couple of nice surprises, the main surprise being a FANTABULOUSLY GORGEOUS digital camera, with which I hereby vow to go completely nuts.

Secondly I've been afflicted with various forms of addictions to several games; something I'd really like to call a manner of a OCD, but that'd just be one big fat excuse of a self-deceiving lie. I'll use that excuse anyway.

Now... I'd like to send a message of lovehate to developers Popcap and Infinity Ward. Yes, you time-stealing, dirty, ridiculously talented douchebags, I'm talking to you. You all ought to be in line for a painful tour of a rusted medieval torture chamber while listening to every single abyssmal boyband ever to rise from the infernal depths of the music industry. Making such a ludicrously addictive simple puzzle game as Peggle should be outlawed. It's not even particularly exciting or rewarding, but I can't get my fucking eyes away from it unless I'm playing Call of Duty 4, which is another display of stupefyingly entertaining fireworks in the form of multiple kinds of armed mayhem in various ruined oriental cities or, to spice things up, on a cargo ship.
And as if the horribly high entertainment value wasn't enough, they've also included a deviously satisfying experience and challenge system, which keeps you glued to the screen until you've achieved "just one more promotion". Given my current rate I might just as well assume that I won't get any bloody amount of revision done for my exam, and that I will remain a spawn-camping killerbum for the rest of my sorry caucasian life.

NOW I'm going to force myself to get some rest before I get some stupid idea like trying to improve my skills with some godawful and completely pointless shotgun - that no sane man would ever use - simply because using it gives XP.