Word: playful
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...agreeing, but I'm moving on. Which Desperate Housewife team are you on? I'm Team Bree. I've always loved the Bree character. Maybe it's because I play those huge characters. I love Bree's character because she's so overdone. I like the extremes...
...surprising hub of compulsive Internet and video-game use, she says. Indeed, the Seattle-Tacoma area is the nation's 13th largest media market, and has the highest level of Internet use in the country; according to a recent study, more than 45% of adults in the area regularly play video games. "There's nothing wrong with this technology," says Cash, who is careful to note that it's not the medium that is to blame, but rather, the lack of education about it. "It's all in how it's used...
Although extreme cases of Internet and video-game addiction have not been widely publicized in the U.S., it's a different story in Europe and in East Asia, where game-playing has even been linked to player death. In 2006 an in-patient addiction facility for Internet and video-game abuse was opened in Amsterdam, and there are several similar programs operating in China. Cash visited one such facility - run out of a military hospital - last November. "It was half boot-camp and half-psychotherapy," she says, theorizing that the wider recognition of the problem overseas may stem from...
Here's a diagnosis: Harvard students suffer from an unfortunate mental disposition to conflate work and play. Now, some of you may be pshaw-ing and pulling out your tattered lexicons to inform us that, no, you know the difference between those two words, thank you very much. Fair enough...
...seriously. We here at FlyBy are no exception. We work until we feel like it's play. Or we tell ourselves that work is play! It's amazing what the mind can do. We've all been there. Nothing feels quite as pleasurable as working yourself into the ground, crossing off that item from your to-do list, and then promptly adding some more items in preparation for the coming week. Man, that was awesome...