girlofprey

My parents are away on holiday for the week. I'm a little bit terrified that that means I won't be able to get to work on time this week - things are still a little difficult for me in the mornings, OCD-wise, and I've sort of come to rely on mum or dad being able to give me a lift to the station on the days when I'm running late. Also, I have to remember to not just be on time, but be on time enough to feed the cat before I leave, since no-one else will be around to do it. But here we are, and I wouldn't want my parents to not go on holiday anymore just because of this, so all I can do is do my best.

The cat is having life, anyway. We have the house all to ourselves since the dog is gone too, so she can hang around with me indoors rather than constantly running away because he got overexcited near her again. The dog is currently staying with a neighbour - he's literally about two doors down. I think I mentioned that my sister got another dog, after we took her previous dog in, but now she actually has two dogs. Because a friend of theirs went to prison, and asked them to look after his dog as a favour, and they just did that. And the new dog is female, and not fixed, and their other dog is male, and not fixed, so probably they're going to have a bunch of other new dogs soon too. And then a regular set of new dogs every year for the next few years. So that's cool. Anyway, because of that my dad laid down the law that 'our' dog couldn't go stay there while they were away, because he thought the male dog would kill him, and I was adamant - and adamant that they would listen to me - that I wasn't going to look after him while I also had to work, because it makes me too anxious. And so our neighbour, who my mum always walks the dog with and also thinks is a bit crazy, offered to let our dog stay with her, since she has a dog too and they could just hang out in the garden together. And so that's what we've done. He's literally down the street from me and probably has no idea what's going on, but so far we haven't had any problems as far as I know, and I haven't heard barking into the night, so it seems to be working out. And the cat is loving it.

My sister might also developing psychosis, I don't know if I mentioned that. Late last year she started having episodes that sounded very much like fits, and had to go for a bunch of brain scans to see if she had epilepsy. Nothing ever came of that from what I heard, so I assume she doesn't, but some other things happened that made the social workers involved in the family insist to her and to doctors that she needed to have a mental health assessment, and now she's on quite a lot of medication. Phrases mum has told me she's used recently have included "I feel like I'm in the Jetsons" and "it feels like I've got people in my head screaming at me", and apparently the other week she threw a pan and it accidentally hit her middle son on the head. So things are pretty worrying on that front too. But nothing's suddenly gotten worse lately, as far as I know, so at least the situation is 'steady', and that's something.

It's E3 this week, which is the big news week for computer games of the year. I normally take a week off to stay up and watch, but Playstation aren't there this year (because they don't need E3, at present), so I've not for once, which feels weird. But a lot of the press conferences are early enough that I can watch them anyway - tonight's XBox conference is at 9pm our time, for example, and I don't super care for XBox, but they'll probably announce a bunch of third-party games I'll also be able to play on the Playstation too. For example, Borderlands 3 is out this year and XBox has exclusive marketing rights, so they'll probably be there - and because E3 has had more leaks than a sieve this year, we're all pretty sure they'll be announcing a new DLC (chapter) for Borderlands 2, to tie the story together with what's going to happen in the next game, which I'm looking forward to. The leaks implied it would drop on June 9th, which would line up with the XBox conference, so I'm assuming it's going to be an 'it's available now!' type of thing. Which'll be cool. I'm always happy to find a reason to go back to Borderlands 2 and Maya. Also, they finally announced the tropical expansion for The Sims yesterday, and also a witch expansion which'll be coming later in the year, which is good because I'm pretty sure the people on the forums were ready to coup.

It's also good news for me because I am actually taking some time off this month, and having a week off at the end of June. Having not had any real consecutive weekdays off since January. And since the original release date everyone was guessing at for the expansion was June 28th, that meant I'd get to play it on release day and that weekend and then go straight back to work, which is less fun. But the release is actually on June 21st, the day I go on holiday, which means I can play it for a whole week if I desire! I can't wait honestly. Mostly for the time off.

I play Civilisation 6 sometimes because I love being a queen and settling cities and building them up with world wonders. And then usually at some point the actual game of competing with other civilisations comes along to ruin my fun, and I remember that it is mostly a numbers game. I think I play it sometimes instead of reading some high fantasy with cool cities, which is mostly what I want to do. Gitarja is pretty cool though.

An hour and a half till true E3 begins. My day will last until 3:30am tonight (or maybe more). Excite.

Well, that post turned out uglier than I was expecting. Also I realised that my assessment is happening in the middle of E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, where they announce all the big video game news for the year. It's right at the end though, happily. I'm still planning to stay up and watch Sony's keynote at 2am.