Time to relax: Guilds Wars are an odd way to relax, though
The week immediately after the UFE was a refreshing change of pace - no more studying!
I was lucky in that I didn't have an excessive amount of work to do either. It's getting busy at work, but having been gone for well over two months, it's easy for your assigned job to slip through the cracks.
I got additional work to do, but it wasn't a huge assignment. The next few months are going to be another story, though, which was why I was glad to relax and do nothing this week. Nothing, that is, aside from the regular 9 to 5 work and playing a few computer games such as Company of Heroes (amazing), Rome: Total War, Barbarian Invasion (took over both capitals of the late Roman Empire's world playing as the Huns), and this weekend's free demo of Guild Wars: Nightfall.
I've only played it for a few minutes, but it seems interesting. A lack of time - due to having something resembling a social life and the fact that I already have too many games to play - is one of the main reasons I won't be actually buying the full version.
That, and the fact that playing an online game is way too much of a commitment for me these days. If I'm going to play a game, it had better be fun, and not a chore. I'm sure Guild Wars may be fun, but the entire genre of online games makes me feel like I'm "wasting" the game somehow if I'm not playing it all the time. So I think I'll pass.
Compounding matters is the fact that the demo requires you to download huge chunks of data, that interrupt gameplay. This entire post was composed while waiting for an entire level to load.
I imagine that if you actually bought the game you would likely have all this data already sitting on your computer from the CD that would come with the game - still, this whole set-up isn't especially impressive. I'll stick to Oblivion, now that I finally have a computer capable of handling that game!