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Well, I haven't updated in over two weeks. Here's what has happened in my life:

I finished Dragon Age Origins again, the same day I posted about hopefully getting it finished soon. I still feel a little bit cheap about wanting a happier ending, or an angsty ending of a different sort, but it's what I wanted and it's what I did. Then I finished Awakening, mostly get frustrated because I kept expecting [spoiler] to appear even though he obviously wasn't going to. Then I played alllll the other DLCs, other than Darkspawn Chronicles, and I loved them. And my Player Character.

I went away for the weekend of Eurovision, to Jen's house. I saw Jen and Sarah and Clare and it was lovely. People voted for Denmark inexplicably, and didn't vote for Finland equally inexplicably, but overall the show was grand, and so was the weekend. On the train home I saw some sort of bird of prey, I think, and a fox. It was win.

Then I started Dragon Age 2, and I have spent most of the last week or so equally wanting to complain about it, and wanting to give it more of a chance, and also not wanting to bore people on my flist who don't know anything about it. I have given it a proper chance now, I think I'm some way into Act 2 - I will not properly know how long it is or how many acts it has until I've finished it - and I like it better than I did at the beginning, but still not as much as Origins. Although, it's always confusing, because I could never be sure if I loved Dragon Age Origins itself, or just Alistair. I REALLY LOVED ALISTAIR. But either way, nothing has inspired my massive love in the way that Dragon Age Origins did, and I have spent quite a lot of my time playing Dragon Age 2 wondering what Alistair and my PC are doing, and how THEY will react to the events of Dragon Age 2. It is not my most stunning recommendation for a game. But I am genuinely enjoying it for itself now.

Further details and complaints, incl SPOILERS )

So. That is Dragon Age 2. And most of my thoughts on it. Other than that I fannishly mostly been watching Community, up to series 3.

Things that were unexpectedly hot )

I haven't finished series 3 though, so no spoilers ok?

I HAVEN'T BEEN WATCHING ANYTHING ELSE. Really. Maybe some Rules Of Engagement.
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Hello. I went to [livejournal.com profile] jekesta's for the weekend to watch Eurovision with her and [livejournal.com profile] cakesy. Which was lovely. I was rooting for Iceland and Moldova and possibly Ireland, but Azerbaijan stormed through. Somehow. Also we watched MANY OTHER THINGS. I can now proudly say I have watched all of the paintball episodes of Community, and the latest Parks and Recreation (I am a fool to not keep up with it), and roughly half of Crusoe. Neither Crusoe nor Friday are kings of Narnia (probably). But that doesn't mean it would have been weird for them to make themselves crowns.

Also [livejournal.com profile] jekesta watched Vera with me, which was lovely of her. Now she too knows how lovely Vera and Joe are, and how slightly incompetent at being police they sometimes are. Also I saw some of Summer Holiday for the first time, and was only squicked out by some of it, and while [livejournal.com profile] cakesy was there we saw one of the weirdest episodes of Columbo ever. Apparently if you date the main witness of a murder you commit, you can nearly get away with pretty much anything. Also, sharks help solve crime. Fact. Um. Sort of.

Anyway. We also watched So You Think You Can Dance (oh, Rithy), and Doctor Who. Well.

Spoilers for The Doctor's Wife )

Anyway. I'm back now. I got the Settle-Carlisle line back to Leeds, which sadly now appears to be the Leeds-Carlisle line. It was still lovely though. There were all sheep and lambs in the fields, often getting spooked by the train running past. I quite love the train journeys to and from Lancaster.

In other news, money. After accidentally leaving a gap in my sick notes and not hearing anything from the Department for Work and Pensions about it, I wasn't sure how much I had last week. So I checked just before going to Lancaster, tomake sure I had enough for train tickets and food and stuff, and they had totally paid me, and I had £300. I'm pretty sure I have quite a lot less than that now though. After going straight out to New Look to buy some clothes I'd been wanting but didn't think I could afford, and then some random bits of jewellery from Topshop, and then some t-shirts when Threadless reprinted some designs I'd wanted. But I'm hoping to keep it a bit more under control from now on, and I should be getting paid again on Thursday anyway. Yay.

In other news, next week isn't looking like it's going to be a fun week for me. I was thinking last week that it was going to be tough, because I had a doctor's appointment that week, then my first new counselling session, then my disability assessment, then my confidence course. But then I remembered that no, my doctor's appointment was this Friday, so it wasn't so bad. Then this morning I got a letter from my doctor, saying that sadly my doctor's appointment on Friday would have to cancelled, so could I call up to arrange another. I called up and the earliest they can see me is next Monday. So it is pretty much going to be like I thought it was going to be. Hmph.

Also, re: this week's Oglaf: askdfjklasdfhjkasdfnhj what?
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