girlofprey

Rationally, I do think that joggers who huff and puff past you without staying the suggested 1m away should have their legs cut off.

I'm still doing the shampoo detox on my hair. Mostly my hair just looks and smells greasy. I suspect I might have hair that's too naturally greasy to look nice without chemicals, or I'm not living healthily enough to have my body send it generous nutrients. But then I also had a weird half-period for a week or so, which obviously messes with your hormones, so I've been trying to wait it out and see if things improve after that. Life is obviously a lot simpler without having to shampoo my hair, as well. But I think I might have to go back to the shampoo this weekend if things don't dramatically improve.

I was half-interested in the Xbox showcase that's happening on Thursday, but now hearing that it'll be some third-party stuff and not just Xbox's own games makes me genuinely look forward to it. I suspect that Bethesda will announce things there, if they have anything to announce, given that they love Xbox. I'm guessing a Starfield update is due. But who knows. Given that I'm not an Xbox person or planning to get one, I'm not too interested in the Xbox games, but I'm always willing to be pleasantly surprised. It bothers me how everyone seems to act like we have to give the same credit and attention to Xbox as to Playstation, despite Xbox not having done half the things or having half the success Playstation has. And they're starting to make me hate the term 'consumer friendly'. I feel like I don't want to just consume. And games-as-a-service and subscription services make me feel nauseous, but that's just me I guess. Plenty of other people seem to enjoy their approach. My big concern is that they'll continue on with their old tactic of waiting till a game or studio is popular, and then buying exclusive access to the sequel or the rest of their work. There's nothing to say that Hellblade 2 is an exclusive yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. But again, I am always willing to be pleasantly surprised. I love it, in fact.

The social worker came by today and more or less said there's no chance of having my nephews over to stay any time soon. As far as she's concerned, there's a blanket restriction on all inter-household visits for our whole district. Which is a little frustrating for my parents, because my ON is living with another foster child, and the foster parents have been taking him to see his sister and having the sister over to stay for months. I think while the most severe lockdown was happening actually, but I don't know for sure. The social worker also knows about that, and is confused by why it's happening, but she says as far as she's concerned no sleepovers. We can go see them outside, but we can't have them over. So that's a bit of a shame. Also a relief, from a health anxiety point-of-view, but still a shame for the kids and our family and the foster parents as well. My YN's foster mother is still really struggling with him, but hopefully something might get worked out school-wise to help her out tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

I had a haircut today. Hurray. I actually quite liked how it looked, but I really can't bear it on my neck when it gets warm, and now that the weather's gotten more summery I figured it was time to get in. And now it is short. Hurrah.

I will probably finish Far Cry 5 today. I need to get to 10,000 resistance points to force a confrontation with the current, final area boss, and I currently have 9900. And then I am told - by a man at work who knew I was playing and is also playing it, and kept trying to talk to me about/around how it ended, despite me repeatedly asking him to stop - but I am told it is over pretty quickly after that. A part of me doesn't want to finish it - partly because there's still a lot of side stuff today, and a big beautiful world to keep wandering round. But I probably should, and see what the story actually is and how optimistic I've been about what it might be, and be free from the risk of spoilers forevermore. I think it will probably be dark. But we'll see. Also, I still have no idea who I am in this game. Do I live there? Do people know me? Do I have a house I've just never been to since things kicked off? Do I have a dog no-one is looking after while I run around the woods? Because I'm part of the Hope County Sheriff's Department, and the map is supposed to be all of Hope County. So...what? Where? Also, a lot of locations pop up on your map as you go through the game and explore. Not one of them has been a Sheriff's department. There's been a jail. We have a jail. Maybe the Sheriff's department is based out of the jail? But that seems like a terrible idea. Maybe we are based just outside of the map. It doesn't make a lot of sense. But that is Far Cry. They had a whole country with basically only one town in the last game.

Infinity War is out next week. It looks so boring. Just a lot of people I don't care about, having feelings I don't care about. But I will probably go and watch it, to see what happens to Peter Quill and Gamora. Annoyingly, I think it will be busy, so I will probably have to fight to see it if anything. My least favourite way to see films. But at least I will know spoilers. Sigh. On the other hand, Deadpool 2 looks super good. I get more excited for it every time a new trailer comes out. Maybe it was worth sitting through the basic and slightly boring first film for. I didn't realise Cable was going to be a villain in this, and Domino looks great.

And then after that things are looking pretty happy. We're almost into May, at which point we have 2 long weekends to enjoy - then Detroit: Become Human is out - and then it's June, and I have a week booked off for E3 again. And we will see what people announce that I can get excited for and obsess over then. I think it's going to be a big one this year. Bethesda's supposed to have a new series starting, which might be coming out this year, going up against Red Dead Redemption 2. All the signs point to them announcing Cyberpunk 2077 again, and possibly releasing it soon. It feels like Rocksteady might announce their game finally - fingers crossed it's Superman - and they'll probably announce Borderlands 3 as well. I am excite. I might be disappointed, but I am excite.