We are at seventeen pages of workshop and we are stopping for the day, because hello, brain, where have you gone?
BRAIN: La la la, I can’t hear you. Besides, I’m zonked. I gave you nine pages of workshop. Nine. That’s above and beyond. Also, I reorganised it all for you. I deserve a break.
ME: But but but — I thought we had a thing. We were in synch! We were flying!
BRAIN: Yeah, well, that was then. This is now. And my now consists of a demand for a piece of cake and some Eternal Sonata on the Xbox, kid.
ME: We only have one more work day after today!
BRAIN: Your point?
ME: What if something goes wrong tomorrow?
BRAIN: Kid, you have enough material to carry you for two hours. Factor in a break and some discussion, and you’re fine. Besides, I’m working on a meditation, but it’s still brewing. Two of ’em, actually, one for the symbol of the flame, and one for the cauldron.
ME: Really?
BRAIN: Yep.
ME: That’s so sweet of you.
BRAIN: I know. But it’s only gonna happen if you give me cake and Eternal Sonata.
ME: I don’t know…
BRAIN: Look. It’s feed me sugar and a really pretty video game, or wring the last drops of use out of me today and have me be nothing but a brick tomorrow. Fat lot of good that would do you.
ME: Do you really think so?
BRAIN: I know so.
ME: Could we do something else? Something that feels less like skiving? Like, oh, practise the cello?
BRAIN: Again? We did that twice yesterday, plus had a lesson. We’ve practised once already today. No, no cello for you.
ME: Sorting through tax stuff, maybe?
BRAIN: No, we did that on Monday. Not a lot of it, true, but even a bit is more than enough for a week like this.
ME: You won’t be moved?
BRAIN: Nope.
ME: Fine. Have it your way. I give up. HRH is bringing beer home tonight because we’re both home to watch Bones, so maybe we’ll have that last glass of red wine I’ve been saving while we play.
BRAIN: Wiktory!
Glad to read that you and your brain could come to an agreement. My brain is currently too tired to even enter into a coherent discussion, so I’m giving it the night off entirely.
Bones and beer, you say? Sounds like the perfect combo!
Enjoy your evening, m’dear. Sounds to me like it’s more than well deserved!
xox
Dammit, my brain was taking notes throughout that.
This was made of win. And, apparently my brain was taking notes, because I’m now hungry and my fingers are refusing to type.
Your brain is so much more erudite than mine. All mine says is:
“No. Don’ wanna!” *pout*stamp foot*pout some more*
Heh. Sadly, my arguments with my brain never end well. They usually involve whether or not to go to work. My brain doesn’t feel like it, but the paycheck usually wins out. :)
Well, if you need an excuse, Eternal Sonata is clearly keeping up on industry trends, for those times when you freelance in the games industry.
*nods a lot*
Ha! I’d like to think that, but I work on edutainment and ES doesn’t exactly slot into that category. Also, the team who signed my services for development last April hasn’t called me back since I handed my initial work to them in May. (I have been in communication since then, as there was that whole ‘hey are you ever going to pay me’ thing, but no actual work.)
thanks for the good laugh. Unfortunately there’s no new Bones for a few weeks, but then there’s 11 straight new episodes.
When’d you get Eternal Sonata?
I’d had my eye on it for some time (was interested when it was released in Japan, actually) but I picked it up secondhand two weeks ago after Marc Mackay told me he was playing the PS3 version and confirmed that I’d love it. It’s awesome. It’s like someone went into my brain and said, “Hmm, let’s give her jaw-dropping animation, a good story, cinematics for lots of rest between play, base it on a composer and his music, and design a stupidly easy fight system with quirks she can understand.”