 When I first started asking around about what my friends and family found most interesting about my work, I kind of hoped that as a professor at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications whose research focuses primarily on video games and esports, that those around me might just assume that I play games all the time. That would have made for a better story, but unfortunately, in reality, it does seem like most people had an incomplete but accurate grasp of what I do. This probably means that I talk way too much about my work, something I'm going to need to work on, but talking about work gets very easy to do when it involves things like developing new video games to use as experimental stimuli and research, or teaching a class on the many different ways that video games and game industry influence players and society, or even working with local youth organizations and communities to use video games and competitive esports as a means to engage with teams and build on their interests to teach them valuable creative and organizational skills. Well, you know what they say, do what you love and you'll be grading a ton of essays on Minecraft and Fortress.