Introducing eXtreme Programming: the MMORPG!!

June 06, 2002, 10:00 am

At work, we decided that we need eXtreme Programming: the MMORPG! Just think about it:

It's going to be the greatest thing ever



I had the worst dream ever.

I was playing basketball (weird) on a girls' basketball team (weirder) and the team we were playing had two boys on it, one of whom was this thug-kid-Billy that I knew in 8th grade (weirdest). At first, I was playing really poorly and I was really nervous and scared. At one point, thug-kid-Billy fouled me and I got two free-throws. The first one, I was so nervous and my arms felt like lead and I missed the goal and backbard completely.... all the kids laughed. But I noticed that there was no one in the crowd, and I thought how weird that was. Then I made the second free-throw and things picked up. I stole the ball a bunch of times and scored a lot of three-point-shots and it was weird.

After the game, I walk over to this side area that's all grassy and there are a bunch of baseball bats laying in this little hill right in front of a dugout. And who is in the dugout? Christopher Walken, of course. And we start talking and I tell him how I'm such a big fan of his work and blah blah blah. Then he asks if I saw his "animated film" and asked, "Are you talking about The Nightmare Before Christmas?"

Then he gets pissed. He grabs a baseball bat and leaves. I'm kinda freakin' out, so I grab one too.

As I'm leaving this sports-place-thing, a bunch of trucks and jeeps pull up with dudes in maroon outfits with guns and they're shooting up a bunch of people. I start running and find a place to hide, but it's hard to run 'cause I'm carrying a bat (a black, wooden Louisville Slugger) and also my acoustic guitar case (dunno where that came from).

So I'm hiding out and then Christopher Walken comes around the corner and yells, "Here he is!" Then he kicked my ass.

Alltogether scary.