Halls of the Dark Muse

So I got an ipad over the holidays, and I am someone that never really feels like I need or want whatever the new technology is, when the ipads first came out I thought to myself, what is the big deal, it is just like an iphone, but dosen't make phone calls, if you have a phone of a computer why would you need an ipad? And it was the same when ipods first came out, I was like whatever I have cd's why would I need an ipod?

But inevitably someone comes along and "forces" this new fangeled technology on me, and usually it is my sister, or under her influence. Then once I have one, I am like wow this is the coolest thing even now I understand why people wanted one.

I have become totally obsessed with this game called Draw Something. It is a pictionary type game, where you are given a selection of different words, subjects, objects and you choose one and than try to draw it to get someone else to guess what it is, and you earn coins which you can use to buy different colors, or special words, or other helpful things in the game.

I started out playing with my sister but she has two kids to take care of, and so she doesn't have a lot of free time so she cannot really play regularly and I do not know anyone else who has an ipad, and so on the game they have an option where it will pick a random person to play with, but the thing is with playing with someone you know, like my sister, there are inside jokes, movie references, things I know I can do to point her in the right direction we know where each other are coming from, with a complete stranger there would be no report, I would have no idea what type of references they might be familiar with so it is harder to get a game going with a stranger.

At first I was having no luck and could not get any games going, I had a few for a while but they fizzled out because I couldn't guess their stuff, or they couldn't guess my stuff, but I kept trying to find someone to play with and after my last favorite effort I had another potential gamer pop up and she had a photo of herself because you can play through your facebook if you have one, and at first I almost just deleted the game before it started because she looked like this bubbly blond type of which I would have nothing in common with and I will admit a part of me was hoping to find a guy I could get a game with. But I was desperate and I reasoned with myself, I just wanted to play a game, it is not like I need to get along with this person or socialize with them, and likely never have a conversation with them.

And I have to say in the world of picitonary we are really on the same page, I will draw things where a part of me is like, ok I won't be surprised if she doesn't get this one. Like one time I accidentally selected dentures, and once you pick your word, you cannot go back and change you have to draw it. I had no idea how I was going to draw that or get someone else to know that is what I meant, but somehow I did. A few times she would draw something where I don't even know how I knew what she meant but it just popped into my head.