thursday march 20

today i played a little too much of the game 2048. i initially hadn't been that enamoured of it, since i was under the impression that the goal was just to get the highest score you could. however, when i realized that the goal was (as the name suggests) to create a 2048 tile, and that you would "win" when that goal was achieved, i became determined to earn that win. it took me a few more tries than i would've liked -- after staring at the giant numbers on the game board for 20 minutes at a time, the rest of the text on my computer and phone looked abnormally tiny by comparison, and even when i wasn't playing, my imagination would run wild with nightmare scenarios where i gave up the corner. still, by the end of the day, mission accomplished: