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Feb. 16th, 2012 10:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
girlofpreyHello. I seem to be finding so much of my time taken up recently. Apart from the four hours a day of computer games I'm still playing, I now have my jewellery course and counselling on a Tuesday, I've started a new Confidence Course on Wednesdays (at 10.15am!), and every other week I usually have an appointment with my employment coach on Thursdays. Altogether, this tends to mean that the middle part of my week is very, very packed, and I spend most of the rest of the week trying to get over it.
It woudn't be so bad, but it's the combination of having to get up slightly earlier on Tuesdays to go the course, then not getting back in until about 8.30pm that night, and having to get up at 8 on Wednesdays. While still trying to fit in my computer games so I feel like I'm getting my leisure activity time, and not varying it in a way that might get difficult when it comes to my OCD. Sometimes it seems a bit rubbish, given that by 12.30 on Wednesdays I have nothing else to do, and every other week I have nothing else to do for the rest of the week, aside from have my MN over on Thursdays. But by 12.30 on a Wednesday I'm usually slightly exhausted, and I do feel myself still feeling that way a couple of days later. A part of me keeps feeling like I want to jack in the Confidence Course, because I have (sort of) been on it before. But going out for earlier starts is supposed to be the kind of thing I'm challenging myself on and trying to work more into my regular routine. And I do like the course. So I probably won't. It's mostly just that when I planned to have more things I was doing every week, I sort of also planned to have them a few days apart so I could recover, not sort of all squashed in the middle. But it hasn't turned out like that, obviously. It's not that bad, and I can always stop going to things if I want to, and I have had a bit of a whinge about it to my employment coach. It's just sort of exhausting, that's all.
Anyway. There's still not a lot to report, unless you really want to hear me bang on about everything I love and hate about Skyrim and Saints Row 2. I have a list of things that annoy me in both if you do want to hear about that. At the moment I'm mostly trying to go through my quest backlog in Skyrim, which is sort of interesting and gives me a sense of achievement, but is also starting to feel a bit perfunctory. Still, I do feel like those imaginary people have been waiting for me to complete their quests for long enough. And in Saints Row 2 I am almost finished with the gang storylines, I have gotten rid of two of the three gangs that were in the city when I started it, and I am probably going to finish off the last gang tomorrow, at which point I will presumably start on the Ultor storylines. There are only three Hoods owned by Ultor, although it seems like there's going to be more to it than that, seen as how the game keeps mentioning them and they're like this massive company. So I genuinely don't know how close or far away I am from finishing (and I don't really want to). My save game information says I've completed about 60-something percent of it, but a lot of that is to do with side acitivites and jobs and things, so I still really don't know. Hmm.
Most of what I want to say about Saints Row 2 is just how much better it is when you play as a female character. From a gender standpoint, obviously. I know that's going to seem incredibly obvious, but just - everything's gayer. It's passing the Bechdel test left right and centre. IT'S AWESOME. And so on. They have some decent female secondary characters, whoever you play as, but they also have quite a lot of problematic stuff. And obviously it's not really the same as making a game like Saints Row 2 with a specific main female character - the same as it's difficult to be fannish about Skyrim or Saints Row 2 (which I am) when there isn't really a specific main character to discuss - but just the option makes it so much better and ksdjfklsdjfkljfklsd it's great. I LOVE DARCY.
Anyway. Other than that, I was sort of planning to go down to Nottingham last Saturday for the ACTA protest, but then I didn't. Like I've said, I sort of want to go travelling about a bit before my Young Person's Railcard runs out, and it would give me a chance to go to the Focus Gallery and maybe see Alys Power as well. But then I remembered that those types of protests tend to start at 9am or something, and I was exhausted, and it was possibly about to snow again, and even if it didn't it was still kind of cold. So I didn't. But I was there in spirit. Sort of.
And the other main thing that's happened is that - if you've been reading this LJ for awhile you may have noticed me previously complaining about having to buy a new version of Microsoft Word soon, because I couldn't register the copy of my mum's I had installed on this laptop, and it was telling me I could only use it 22 more times or something. Well, as is my usual way, I didn't buy a new copy of Microsoft Word, I just stopped writing on it or saving fic I liked to it or reading old fic I had saved on it. But the other night I decided I did want to read some old fic, so I opened it for what it told me would be the last time. And then when I was finished I closed it and decided to open it again just to check that it definitely was unusable now. And it started up just fine, and told I just wouldn't be able to use certain features now! Those cunts. I mean, obviously, the point is to make each and every single person go out and buy their own copy of Microsoft Word. But they had me thinking it would just SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY after my allowed uses were used up. And now it's just fine. Set of bastards. skdfjkdjskl.
And the other main thing that's annoying me is that, it's really nice that there are websites set up so that little-known artists can sell their prints to people who like them. But it might also be nice to have somewhere - somewhere VISIBLE - a page telling you how they ship them, and where they ship to, and how much it generally costs, before you actually try to buy something. The two I have seen seem to ask you to pay using Paypal, and I know I've seen on sites before that they can somehow use your address on Paypal to send things to you, so I'm guessing that's how they do it. Still. A page EXPLAINING that or even SAYING IT SO YOU KNOW might be useful. Grrr.
It woudn't be so bad, but it's the combination of having to get up slightly earlier on Tuesdays to go the course, then not getting back in until about 8.30pm that night, and having to get up at 8 on Wednesdays. While still trying to fit in my computer games so I feel like I'm getting my leisure activity time, and not varying it in a way that might get difficult when it comes to my OCD. Sometimes it seems a bit rubbish, given that by 12.30 on Wednesdays I have nothing else to do, and every other week I have nothing else to do for the rest of the week, aside from have my MN over on Thursdays. But by 12.30 on a Wednesday I'm usually slightly exhausted, and I do feel myself still feeling that way a couple of days later. A part of me keeps feeling like I want to jack in the Confidence Course, because I have (sort of) been on it before. But going out for earlier starts is supposed to be the kind of thing I'm challenging myself on and trying to work more into my regular routine. And I do like the course. So I probably won't. It's mostly just that when I planned to have more things I was doing every week, I sort of also planned to have them a few days apart so I could recover, not sort of all squashed in the middle. But it hasn't turned out like that, obviously. It's not that bad, and I can always stop going to things if I want to, and I have had a bit of a whinge about it to my employment coach. It's just sort of exhausting, that's all.
Anyway. There's still not a lot to report, unless you really want to hear me bang on about everything I love and hate about Skyrim and Saints Row 2. I have a list of things that annoy me in both if you do want to hear about that. At the moment I'm mostly trying to go through my quest backlog in Skyrim, which is sort of interesting and gives me a sense of achievement, but is also starting to feel a bit perfunctory. Still, I do feel like those imaginary people have been waiting for me to complete their quests for long enough. And in Saints Row 2 I am almost finished with the gang storylines, I have gotten rid of two of the three gangs that were in the city when I started it, and I am probably going to finish off the last gang tomorrow, at which point I will presumably start on the Ultor storylines. There are only three Hoods owned by Ultor, although it seems like there's going to be more to it than that, seen as how the game keeps mentioning them and they're like this massive company. So I genuinely don't know how close or far away I am from finishing (and I don't really want to). My save game information says I've completed about 60-something percent of it, but a lot of that is to do with side acitivites and jobs and things, so I still really don't know. Hmm.
Most of what I want to say about Saints Row 2 is just how much better it is when you play as a female character. From a gender standpoint, obviously. I know that's going to seem incredibly obvious, but just - everything's gayer. It's passing the Bechdel test left right and centre. IT'S AWESOME. And so on. They have some decent female secondary characters, whoever you play as, but they also have quite a lot of problematic stuff. And obviously it's not really the same as making a game like Saints Row 2 with a specific main female character - the same as it's difficult to be fannish about Skyrim or Saints Row 2 (which I am) when there isn't really a specific main character to discuss - but just the option makes it so much better and ksdjfklsdjfkljfklsd it's great. I LOVE DARCY.
Anyway. Other than that, I was sort of planning to go down to Nottingham last Saturday for the ACTA protest, but then I didn't. Like I've said, I sort of want to go travelling about a bit before my Young Person's Railcard runs out, and it would give me a chance to go to the Focus Gallery and maybe see Alys Power as well. But then I remembered that those types of protests tend to start at 9am or something, and I was exhausted, and it was possibly about to snow again, and even if it didn't it was still kind of cold. So I didn't. But I was there in spirit. Sort of.
And the other main thing that's happened is that - if you've been reading this LJ for awhile you may have noticed me previously complaining about having to buy a new version of Microsoft Word soon, because I couldn't register the copy of my mum's I had installed on this laptop, and it was telling me I could only use it 22 more times or something. Well, as is my usual way, I didn't buy a new copy of Microsoft Word, I just stopped writing on it or saving fic I liked to it or reading old fic I had saved on it. But the other night I decided I did want to read some old fic, so I opened it for what it told me would be the last time. And then when I was finished I closed it and decided to open it again just to check that it definitely was unusable now. And it started up just fine, and told I just wouldn't be able to use certain features now! Those cunts. I mean, obviously, the point is to make each and every single person go out and buy their own copy of Microsoft Word. But they had me thinking it would just SHUT DOWN PERMANENTLY after my allowed uses were used up. And now it's just fine. Set of bastards. skdfjkdjskl.
And the other main thing that's annoying me is that, it's really nice that there are websites set up so that little-known artists can sell their prints to people who like them. But it might also be nice to have somewhere - somewhere VISIBLE - a page telling you how they ship them, and where they ship to, and how much it generally costs, before you actually try to buy something. The two I have seen seem to ask you to pay using Paypal, and I know I've seen on sites before that they can somehow use your address on Paypal to send things to you, so I'm guessing that's how they do it. Still. A page EXPLAINING that or even SAYING IT SO YOU KNOW might be useful. Grrr.
