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Sort of spoilers for tonight's Coronation Street )

I did manage to see some of Emmerdale tonight though. So, Declan's just a dick, isn't he? I can't tell if he's gotten worse since Nathan left, or was just always like that. And Mia thinks that her relationship with Adam should be more important to him than the fact she helped her dad try to evict his family. Okay. There's hardly anyone I really like on Emmerdale anymore, except Carl and Val. And it's just difficult to like Carl at the moment. And I don't even know what is happening with Cain and Amy. He doesn't know who she is or how old she is despite the fact they've been living in the same small village for a few months now, and she was working with his dad at one point? Hmph, Emmerdale.

Anyway. In other news, music I have learned I loved lately. Mostly it's You Think You're Cooler Than Me by Mike Posner. I heard it first in a garden and home centre on Monday, I think. I thought it was by Mika on hearing it, and I was so convinced about it that when I came home and looked it up and heard it on Youtube, I assumed Mike Posner did the original, or an earlier version, and it was actually a song from the 90s or 80s or something. But anyway. No. It's totally a new song, and I quite love it. It's funny actually, because I was thinking pretty hard about Blake/Jayden from Heavy Rain at the time, and it in some ways fits their relationship quite well. There are even a pair of high-tech glasses that Jayden wears to help him solve cases, which will probably make more sense if you've heard the song. But mostly I think it's probably Ryan Howard's theme song. Or everyone who knows Ryan Howards' theme song.

Otherwise, I finally listened to 19 by Adele, which I bought about a year ago, ahead of/around the same time I ordered her new album. It turns out it's really good, as I thought it probably would be. I really like Adele.

And speaking of Welsh people, it turns out the Newport State Of Mind vid from Red Nose Day is up on Youtube. Complete with Michael Sheen. Hurrah!

In other news, what the hell is happening with The Event? I knew it had come back, I saw it on the TV communities and stuff, but I don't know what my dad's download limit is like in terms of entire episodes of stuff, and I knew it would be coming back to Channel 4 at some point. So I waited, assuming I would hear about it, or that it would be back in it's old slot at 9 o'clock on a Friday. I'd heard something about it coming back on March 28th, and I looked out for it around then. But I heard nothing. Then a week or so ago I noticed in a TV guide an episode on one night at about 10.50 or 11.50, which I assumed was a repeat, but which didn't have the (rpt) symbol in the blurb. I forgot it was on and missed it anyway. Then I checked the Channel 4 website to see what they said, to find out they totally had started screening the second half of the season, and they had some episodes on the 4 on demand service that had already been on, but when I checked an episode guide it seemed that I'd still missed out on a few episodes before that. So what the hell? I'll probably have to man up and just download it. If my dad has enough downloading limit, obviously. But I really thought they might have MENTIONED it was back on somewhere. Man.
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So. On the advice of my flist, I have now downloaded AVG free antivirus protection for my virus protection needs. Although Norton will probably still make me pay to renew it somehow in May, but I shall have to deal with that when I get to it. And actually, I was going to get Avast, on the reasoning that one of my friends (as far as I knew at the time) was actually using it and having no problems with it so it was probably fine, but I told my dad about it and he found some review that said that AVG was the best free one, and I think it upsets/irritates him that I take the advice of my internet friends probably more than I take his, so I ended up getting AVG. But anyway. I have downloaded it and been on the internet with it and nothing has exploded so far. And I'm even getting those nice little page status reports that Norton used to give me to tell me if a page was safe or was probably FILLED WITH VIRUSES, so that's nice. And essentially, I'm back on the internet in my room again. Hurrah!

In other news, Family drama )

So yes. A fun day. I've got a Jobcentre appointment tomorrow, and an appointment with my Back To Work service thing again in Wakefield in the afternoon. When I may or may not be going to Pinderfields with my mum to see my grandma and staying on afterwards to go to my appointment, but she doesn't know for sure yet if she's going, and she doesn't really want to drive and park so we might be going on the bus, and blah blah blah. We'll see.

In other news:

  • I have pretty much totally finished Black And White 2. I used a cunning mix of expanding, building impressive buildings, and throwing a hurricane at the Aztecs. I had a feeling it would make their city less impressive and mine more impressive in comparison. It totally did. So yes, I've finished that. All I have to do left now is to charge up my volcano miracle and set it off and set off my hurricane miracle one more time, because I really never got to see the effects of that enough.


  • Given how often I fall in love with jewellery and how much time I spend whining that I can't afford anymore, it's probably a bad idea for me to look at designer jewellery websites. But that hasn't stopped me doing it anyway. Mostly I love the Turandot pendants on that first page, and the XIV collection on the second. Which are pretty much equally as expensive (as far as I can tell).


  • Other things I have finished recently: Season 3 of the US Office, although it was an episode I'd seen before. Vague spoilers for the finale of Season 3 of the US Office ).

    And I both started and finished No Heroics, which I was mostly interested in because of a) Nicholas Burns, and b) rubbish superheroes. My thoughts for the whole series )


  • Last Thursday my mum had the radio on on Sky while she was tidying, and while it was on I heard Nick Lowe's Cruel To Be Kind for the first time. Which is, for me, one of those songs that when you hear it you can't believe you didn't hear it years before. I kind of love it.
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I have been watching more of Season 3 of The Office, having seen a Pam/Ryan fic on the current porn battle, and then a few episodes on Comedy Central HD. Spoilers sort of )
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