Monday, May 12, 2003
Sorry for the lack of updates, because (as things have a habit of doing) after so little happening that you're lulled into a stupor of boredom, suddenly everything kicks off again.
Like work. This week is the annual E3 Expo in LA, where the entire gaming world converges to drop various bombshells that nerdy gaming types like myself get excited about. So I'm expecting a week without work, where I just get to watch what's going on. Instead, I get an email from the EIC of WestEast Magazine in Hong Kong, a friend of my parents and someone who helped me out somewhat (he's the one who got me in to his party to meet Hidetoshi Nakata), asking me to do a story on videogames for his new issue. Great, I get a chance to increase my portfolio (and earn some cash, ahem). Then the penny drops: It's due on Friday. And they need images. By Friday. When everyone with anything to do with games (except me, I guess) -- any developers to interview, any PR folk to send me print-quality images -- are all sitting in LA. Uh oh.
Things exploded too in a sporting sense... in more ways than one. Despite my Lakers pulling the Spurs series back to 2-2 with a couple of outstanding wins, Liverpool lost their final match of the season and miss out on the Champions League, and so I don't want to dwell on this for too long. But it does allow me to segue into my Interesting Link of the Day from Friday's Lakers game involving Jack Nicholson, who's just moved up a few places in my Favourite Actor list.
Ah well, here's to the week ahead not being an insane, stressful mess.
Posted at 1:20 PM
