girlofprey

( Far Cry 5 )

I went to Eastercon. It was good. Some things I think I'll always remember:

Floor team. Aka 'The Carpet-ears'.

Lucia's.

The food at Lucia's.

Oh my God the food at Lucia's.

Kim Stanley Robinson, and the TERRIBLE INSULT Christopher Priest laid upon him.

Unicorns man, hurray!

Just draw all of your money out of the banks and force all the banks to nationalise, that's a thing we can do.

Always find a cash machine pre- or very soon into con.

Charlotte Carter lives.

It was very good.

Back from Eastercon. Tired. Have a slight cold. But back. I came back to an Easter egg and to the fact that my parents had moved some things out of my bedroom again. Broken things I was planning to move out of it, but still. But I also came back to some brief, hopefully good news for America. OH HAPPY DAY.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

We went to Cannon Hall Farm on Saturday. It was only a slight debacle - my mum was working until 2 o'clock, and the night before I asked mum if she'd told dad what was happening, and she said yes, and that morning I asked dad if he knew where we were going, and he said yes. But mum didn't know dad was expecting her to call when she got out of work, rather than just turning up at 2.15 like she'd told him. And then when we picked her up, dad didn't know we were going all the way to Barnsley, he thought we were just going to a local farm shop, and he didn't know exactly where it was and he didn't have his sat nav. I ended up looking up the webpage on my mum's slightly old-fashioned phone, and we ended up driving up and down looking for it for about half an hour, on the right main road but on the wrong side of Barnsley. But anyway. We got there in the end. At about 10 to 4 when my mum hadn't had any lunch and they were claiming the cafe would stop serving food at 4 o'clock. But everything was fine. And I had some quite nice onion rings.

And when we got into the farm there were plenty of animals and baby animals about. Baby goats, a few baby donkeys, piglets, one single calf, and lambs, lambs everywhere. Right up to proper newborns that had apparently only been born the night before. The goats were probably the best value for money - they all kept fighting each other, even the ones that looked heavily pregnant, and they had just two kids running around, harassing the adults, sneaking under fences and leaping up in the air. The lambs did plenty of springing up and down though. And in one building there was this one single little chick running around on it's own. Apparently it's brothers and sisters hadn't hatched yet, and it didn't need it's parents around, so it was just there on it's own in a pen. I hope it has some company by now. Or soon. Also we were promised baby llamas, but we didn't see any. Only adults, hanging out with goats and looking like they might spit at any moment.

Also I have started playing Infamous 2. I had sort of forgotten how much fun it is playing Infamous. I have some issues with the story, but the gameplay, kdjfslk. It's basically just flipping around and having superpowers. Playing as a guy who can be either good or evil, so they have him just be sort of flippant and annoyed as a baseline. Annoyed but basically good superheroes are one of my favourite things. Also, I think the games are really good because you always play in a city, and they REALLY go to the trouble of making their cities beautiful. I mean, it's not like it's all their own idea. The first game is set in "Empire City", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW YORK, and the second game is set in "New Marais", which BEARS NO RELATION TO NEW ORLEANS. But also the graphics are beautiful, and all the building sort of look like they're part of the same neighbourhood but are all different, and they have billboards and ads around, and little details like plants climbing up walls and grills on the windows and stuff. It's lovely. I really love the Infamous games.

I'm also waiting for a game to download, which is why I'm writing a slightly rambly post. Black March is also over, and I went a whole month without buying any entertainment products, which is quite a long time for me, woo hoo! I've also gotten interested in Prison Break, after finding out that Peter Stormare is in it, but the boxsets are weirdly still expensive. It's also Eastercon on Thursday, and I need to pack at some point, yay. My game has also finished downloading.

Current Mood: energetic
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

Nowadays, for some reason, by the time I am finished playing games and checking various websites/Tumblr, I am too exhausted to do anything else, and it's usually about half past 11 at night.

I have been meaning to post, essentially listing things I love, and not just things that are annoying me in Coronation Street at the moment. The basic list is:

Art Nouveau jewellery.

Art Deco buildings.

Harpies.

Beautiful, colourful art.

Bits, though not all, of Two Best Friends Play.

However the main thing on my mind at the moment is that I'm really not looking forward to this week. I've got an interview, out of the blue. The application that I possibly talked about the other week, which massively stressed me out and which I was supposed to be doing the Tuesday I eventually decided I was too exhausted to go out for, and which my Employment Coach ended up sending in based on a personal statement I had written for a previous job - that application form got me an interview. However, the last interview I got I had a couple of weeks to prepare for. This one's on Friday. At 9.30am. Plus the fact that I have a few extra appointments I don't normally have this week - I don't have counselling, because my counseller's on leave for a week, but I still have my jewellery course and Confidence Course, and I also have a dentist appointment that I've already rearranged once on Thursday, and I just got a letter reminding me that my current sicknote runs out on March 23rd, so I really need a doctor's appointment at some point this week to get a new one. If there's one available. And if I want to do any interview prep, which I pretty much do, I'm probably going to need to make an appointment to see my Employment Coach at some point this week as well.

So basically I have a week where my routine is going to be different than usual, and fuller than usual, which will probably already have me a bit tired and unsettled, and then I have an interview at the end of it. Plus the fact that I'll have to wash my hair on Thursday night and go to bed earlier than usual, to get up way earlier than I normally do to get there for the interview. So...yeah. Plus the fact that, since I had a really hard time getting into gear to do the application form, I never really properly read through the person specification, or actually read the personal statement my Employment Coach sent in for me. And aside from that, I'd probably still need to do some research on the company to really be properly prepared for it.

So. Yeah. I don't really know whether I just need to prepare myself for a pretty gruelling week, or start accepting right now that I'm probably not going to be properly prepared or in the right mindset for this interview, and to look on it as more of a practise thing. And start thinking about maybe ringing up and cancelling if I do start finding the whole thing too stressful. I don't know. It would be kind of a shame though, because it's local, it's the kind of work I'm looking for and the kind I have experience in, and it's the kind of hours I was looking for. But yeah. It's just the fact that I only have a few days to prepare for it that's kind of a problem. Sigh.

Also, I'm going to Eastercon now, so I'm having to start thinking about preparing for that as well. I'm looking forward to it and glad I'm going, but at the moment it's sort of another thing to suddenly remember I haven't done stuff for and start feeling bad about it. Happily though, I can do a lot of that stuff now, and am planning to do some of it tonight. And I'm going to call my Employment Coach tomorrow to hopefully at least try to get some stuff sorted, and talk to her about it. So yeah. It'll probably be fine. Ish.

At least it's my birthday next week, I guess. I still have no idea what to ask for. I was thinking actually of a refurbished/secondhand Playstation 2, if they were easy to get hold of, or maybe a Netbook. But I'm more and more leaning towards just asking for money, to spend once Black March is over. Aww yeah.

Also I have been learning that when it comes to Oz characters, trying to put them into any AU pretty much instantly makes that AU about 50% more violent. I was looking at some of the Harlequin book descriptions for one of those Harlequin fic challenges the other week, and naturally did some imaginative merging. Even Regency AUs almost immediately felt like they needed criminal underworlds and violent shootouts to really work. Even my traditional Labyrinth AU attempts get slightly darker when you apply Oz characters. Dude.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: None

I went to Eastercon over the weekend, with Jen, Alice and Liz. It was great, I stayed in a hotel, and went to panels about european fandom/s and all the unstranslated books from other countries we can't read, and steampunk, and alternative sexualities in sci-fi and fantasy, and proper science, where I learned stuff about hydrogen atoms and the Herschel telescope and black holes, which was nice. We watched Doctor Who and judged it slightly, and saw the new Universal Soldier film. We discovered a brand new game called Apples to Apples, which involves arguing that things are like a certain concept, even if they aren't, and which is brilliant. Unfortunately, the cold that I hoped would be gone by the time I went to the convention, or would go away over weekend anyway, is still here, though not as bad as it was. But overall it was very good.

However, on the way back from the con on the train, a man sat down across from me who I thought was a jerk who didn't mind making massive gestures in everyone else's personal space/line of vision. It turned out he was actually deaf, but while we were on the train he tried talking to me even though I don't know sign language. I worked some of it out, and we ended up writing back and forth to each other in my notebook for a bit. But he eventually ended up writing his full address and mobile phone number - which he already shown me on a card while trying to tell me his name - in my notebook, and either asking me if I would, or telling me to, come to his house or call him. He was quite nice about it, he said I was his friend and didn't ask me for my details or anything, but it was a bit weird. He seemed to be friends with the ticket conductor, who did know sign language, and he'd already told me about his 40 year-old girlfriend and teenage children and stuff, so like I say it didn't seem dodgy. But I did notice that his tobacco tin did have a picture of an attractive woman with her t-shirt pulled up over her nipples on it. So. I told him I had a lot of friends I didn't keep in touch with like I wanted, and others I did go see a bit, so I probably wouldn't call him, and like I say I didn't give him my address or many details about myself, so it's probably fine, but still. It was a bit strange.

And then when I got home, I found two letters waiting for me. One was a letter from Nottingham City Council saying they were paying me back some Council Tax or Council Tax benefit or something, with a cheque inside for £145. The other was my final bill from E.On, saying that having compared the readings my landlords had gotten off the dude who owns the garage where the meters are to my previous, estimated readings, I now owed them £327. So today hasn't been AS good, really.

Current Mood: annoyed
Current Location: My bedroom
Current Music: Within You - David Bowie

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