I re-discovered Tetris at the weekend after one of my friends on Facebook challenged me to game. 

Oh. My. God.

For me, Tetris is like crack.  Worse than crack.  I just couldn’t leave the game alone.

I (again) had SLT reports to do on Sunday, but just wasn’t able to get them done.  I managed to write a sentence or two and then had to quickly flick over to Facebook for just one more game … 

During my ‘comfort’ and food breaks I continued to hear that annoying music playing in my head and saw the coloured blocks falling down in front of my eyes. 

Disaster struck mid-afternoon on Sunday when the Facebook ‘Tetris tournament’ stopped working.  I went for a whole 2 hours without a game and was begining to get serious withdrawl symptoms … And then I discovered a  website where you can get old fashioned video games like PacMan, Space Invaders and (crucially) Tetris for free that doesn’t seem to crash! Hooray!

I’ve played a few less games over the past couple of days as I’ve been feeling really ill (cold/ flu type thing), and have also had to work.  Realistically, this can only be a good thing.  The last time I suffered a bout of Tetris addiction was in 1993 when I ended up continuing to go out with a bloke (who I really did not fancy AT ALL) for much longer than I should have because he had a Game Boy with Tetris on it.  Nightmare.