Current status: Jobless and borrower of the following books...

Alain de Botton's "Status Anxiety"
Tim Sanders' "Love is the Killer App"
Chris Crawford's "Chris Crawford on Game Design"
Alan Gershenfeld, Mark Loparco and Cecilia Barajas' "Game Plan"

Oh, and I own a copy of Don Norman's "Emotional Design" too. :) So much reading and thinking to be done. Woohoo. Heavenly!