To-do list

Wednesday, 9 December

• Install patch.
• Update addons.
• Log in.
• Stare at character selection screen swallowing back mounting panic.
• Take deep breath, log in on priest.
• Check talents, glyphs, gems; decide you are too poor to change them even if you wanted to.
• Open LFG, stare with horror at alien interface.
• Alt-tab to wow.com's handy guide.
• Return to LFG with renewed confidence, list for new instance.
• Fly aimlessly round Icecrown looking for new instance.
• When UI freezes with six-figure lag, realise you have found new instance.
• Run into instance, stare with wonder at shiny new interior.
• Start casting spells.
• Panic as ALL addons go MENTAL.
• Perform like brain-dead gold farmer through most of instance.
• Ninja all caster gear.
• Leave quickly.
• Alt-tab to Curse for the bad news on buggy addons.
• Waste hours trawling forums to find fix is months away.
• Realise with depressing clarity that all addons need replacing.
• Log resolving to deal with it tomorrow.
• Go to be early for 5.30am taxi to work (yes, 5.30am).
• Wake up at 1.30am remembering you are guildless.
• Resist urge to log back in to look for guild.
• Dream fitfully about the insurmountable challenge of fixing addons AND finding guild before the entire world has killed Arthas and moved back to Kalimdor to take up farming and crafts.
• Go to work. At 5.30am.
• Resign. Find new job.
• Start to-do list for Thursday, 10 December.