My name is Chrisy and I'm a 25 year old born-and-raised Virginian surviving in Phoenix, Arizona since August 2006. I have been a self proclaimed nerd for the past decade, wasting away the majority of my youth in front of a computer. If I'm not playing World of Warcraft then I'm watching movies, playing the Wii, or obsessing over my 2 cats. I am currently employed as a Data Entry Specialist for a payment service company with the goal one day becoming a Database Administrator.

I have been leaving footprints on the internet since the winter of 1997. In it's early stages, during my late teens, my relationship with this website was an unhealthy obsession that I couldn't live without. As an adult it has been an agonizing struggle not to neglect this patch of the world wide web. This site generates so little traffic that it has become something I do for my own entertainment, so the fact that someone is actually reading this would be surprising.

I’ve allowed myself to become completely and utterly obsessed with Warhammer Online. The past month has sort of been like that last hour of work on Friday before the weekend starts; the fabric of time slows down and forces you to endure the most excruciating hour ever, but at the same time there’s this feeling of relief in knowing that there are only a few minutes between you and 48 hours of doing whatever the fuck you want. Waiting for a release date of a game is a lot like that, with each day that passes getting you closer to the time you can finally log in and play. But that only does the trick until you realize you’d rather log in right now.

Getting hyped about Warhammer Online has been a great way to pass the (ample) downtime I have at work, but it’s a fine line for someone like me to walk. Addiction runs in my family and there's no denying that I'm a product of that gene pool. However, going against the grain, I was never as much into substances as I was… concepts. I become addicted to games, events, information. It’s been like that since I was little, and if anything, has only strengthened as I got older. MMOs in particular have proven to be a bad match for me.

The first MMO I played was Dark Age of Camelot back in 2002, and back then there couldn’t have been a worse time for someone line me to pick up a game like that. I was young (19) and unemployed, so it was all too easy for me to stop going outside or avoid seeing my “real life” friends in favor of spending more time playing the game. Who needed all of that stuff when I had ingame friends in an ingame world, where I could do anything I wanted without the limitations I had IRL? Add in the fact that my boyfriend at the time played the game as well and I was pretty much set. I thought it was a pretty cool setup at the time, but it caused me to lose contact with most of my High School friends and encouraged a lot of my social phobias.

But, I’m older now and I’d like to think that I know better than to fall into that trap again. I may have played World of Warcraft for 4 years, but I did myself proud by keeping myself from getting too “into” the mechanics of the actual game. I’ll admit I fell head first into the nightmare that is guild management, making myself sick under the pressure of commitment and responsibility, but it was yet again an opportunity to learn how not to do something. I think I’m ready to dance the line of involvement again without sacrificing myself or my life. My name is Chrisy, and I am a recovered gameaholic.

That being said… god damnit Mythic, get your Collector’s Edition closed beta servers up so I can log in and get my fix!

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