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I had an anxiety dream, of sorts, where I got so upset about . . . something . . . that I held up a convenience store with nothing but a carton of eggs and a raspberry pie while wearing an evening dress and a long scarf. It started out as a semi-serious threat, but the clerks caught on to the fact that I didn't want to hurt anyone and helped me chase everyone out of the store while I brandished a pie at them. The hold-up ended once everyone was out, and the clerks were congratulating me on a hilarious afternoon; suddenly I was just too tired and depressed to stay standing anymore. I ended up cuddled up to my scene partner from last year, Asia, and falling asleep.

When I woke up (dream-wise), there was more stuff about how I thought I'd slept for about fifteen hours and missed the talkback I'm leading on Tuesday, and one of my actor friends hugged me comfortingly (second time I've dreamt about him hugging me in the last few days), and then there was something about a car inside a bus? And then I woke up for real.

In other news, my parents are here in Pittsburgh!

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You know what I thoroughly enjoy about writing a paper about video games? I thoroughly enjoy citing people going by SH_Algernon and CurryKitten in proper MLA format.

Oh, yeah, uh, I'm writing a paper about video games, theatre, the performativity of each, identifying with a video game's protagonist, and video game narrative. Anyone have any stories? What's your favorite video game? (It doesn't have to be something with a proper storyline!) Do you identify with your character onscreen emotionally? Do you talk to the character like s/he's a different person?