RIGHT, THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE I SAW YOU ALL LAST AND ALSO MY BRAIN WENT A LITTLE SIDEWAYS. (This is in date order, not order of how squeeful it made me, JUST TO BE CLEAR.)
- IT WAS MINE AND LEX'S ANNIVERSARY! We have been together for ten years and married for five! (This is such a long time, where did it all GO?!) I'm glad we made it, and I love him. ♥ ♥ ♥ We ended up going to the Imperial War Museum North and then wandering around Manchester for a while, so that was a pretty good way to ring in our anniversary? Or at least it was VERY US, so it's appropriate. (It's great when a trip has all of my favourite things and people in it, and this one had LEX and FAMILY and FOOD and MUSEUMS and ALL OF MY FAVOURITE SHOPS, so it was good.)
- Way #341 I can tell that the fluoxetine is working: the Imperial War Museum North has a map that shows how far the fallout would go if a nuclear bomb fell exactly on the museum, and I was fine! Last time I saw that thing I had an anxiety attack! ... I didn't realise why Lex was like "Oh, we don't have to look down this bit if you don't want to" until AFTER WE LEFT. I was awake.
- Fanboy3 (our Friendly Local Gaming Store in Manchester) has moved, and the space it's in now is SO MUCH BIGGER and laid out so much better! Lex managed to convince me not to buy RPG systems that I'm not going to run (because I don't DM), and I managed to convince him to buy Kodama Duo so we could build trees for cute little tree spirits.
- The lady in charge of Travelling Man is the same lady who was in charge of it when I was fourteen and first started going there, this is AMAZING to me. Also they have so much GOOD STUFF that I didn't even know was out yet!
- We had so much good food, omg. We had a like, two-day quest for noodles, because day one, I was too potato-brained to be able to face going out and looking for food, and when I'd recovered it turned out that the restaurant we were going to had not only been closed, but was also being demolished. We EARNED our noodles.
- Waaaaah I want to go home now and hug Lex and tell him how glad I am that we're still married, DAGNABBIT STUPID WORK.
- Jilly graduated! We are now both MASTERS OF THE ARTS! Hers is in Theology, mine is in Librarianship, so I'm pretty sure that by D&D logic she's a divine caster and I'm an arcane caster. I AM SO PROUD OF MY GENIUS LITTLE SISTER!!!
- This time me and Mum both got to be there! Last time she graduated, the car broke down on our way to the graduation ceremony so we had to go back to start AND get a train, but lo! This time we made it!
- We ate SUCH FOOD afterwards, because how else do you celebrate major events but with massive amounts of Italian food? And because Jill and I ARE magic, we both managed to wear lipsticks that could tank the entire meal without so much as a smudge.
- Jill also took this chance to show me the beginning of Until Dawn, which made me think of
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splend so that he can do all of the scary or difficult bits and also listen to me complain that these teenagers don't LOOK like teenagers in any way.
- (I feel a little bad, because I've recently developed this problem where I start dozing off the instant second there isn't something that I need to be doing, which meant that as soon as Jill had finished her walk
of brain and we had waved and whooped appropriately, I started falling asleep. Like I was awake enough to keep clapping, but I would close my eyes, the speaker would say something like "International Jewel Thief, such-and-such," and I would jerk awake because THAT'S NOT RIGHT. I'm sorry people who graduated after Jill! Your accomplishments are valid! The fact that I couldn't stay awake is no reflection on you!)
- ... Me and Jill both had the reaction of "Wait, YOU'RE the chancellor of this uni? But I've seen you on BBC panel shows, wtf," so I'm glad I wasn't alone in that.
- Seriously Jill is so smart and so good and I'm really proud of her, and I'm interested in seeing whether her housemates DO successfully con her into doing a PhD somehow.
- (Unrelated, but Jill, if you're reading this: YOU ARE VALID AND GOOD AND I WILL FIGHT ANYONE WHO SAYS OTHERWISE, EVEN IF IT'S YOU.)
But yeah, that's the main beats of what I've been up to lately! I took my mum to see Les Misérables, which I booked all the way back in June and it was
still worth the wait! I've been lured into FFXIV, where I'm playing a Gladiator whose two main traits are BIG and PURPLE! Captain Marvel was actually good and a perfect anniversary movie! Svetlana, my new laptop, is working SO MUCH BETTER now that I uninstalled McAfee, which had somehow managed to lock both my start menu AND my task bar! I do in fact have blood, my blood just doesn't have Vitamin D in it! (I'm not saying that I was five points off the medical intervention cut off point, but if the recommended amount is 50, and the medical intervention point is 30, I was on 35.) I haven't felt up to doing anything lately (like, I haven't been properly on twitter in nearly a week now), but I
did read twenty volumes of manga in four days as part of that, so maybe the key to recovery for me is "Read manga until you hit your kill limit" and "listen to
Shine My Shoes on repeat until you can embody the concept of being a big band number about stepping on people!"
I think I'm doing okay. Or at least I think I might be escaping the change-of-season doldrums that I fall into every year and still get surprised by, so that's good! What's everyone been up to? How have you been?
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