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crantzSo right now I'm in The End Game of the term. Gotta finish my final projects for clay, gotta study for (and pass?) the final test and exam for biology, gotta gotta gotta.
Which means my body has been having weekly migraines and dizzy spells!
Anyway, so while I'm dealing with that I'm also trying to 'experience joy' - I've finished two books (the first Mrs. Jeffries and The Final Deduction by Rex Stout) and I'm setting up a blog like my old blogs mybookreport.net and hasmterbandit.com and goodlife.hamsterbandit.com all as one thing (url chosen and installed, I just gotta... do the thing) because what is life if not a littering of crumbs behind you of past endeavors?
I dunno what I'm doing, honestly. But the url .blog was on sale and that's what's happening right now.
I've been watching a show made this decade, The Midnight Club based on a book (series?) by Christopher Pike about terminally ill teenagers telling eachother ghost stories but there was also a cult at one point and I'm quite enjoying it. I had to stop mid-episode right before Amesh's story and haven't been able to pick it up again yet.
Due South is also on Netflix now.
I'm also doing videogame stuff. My City of Heroes sgmates got me back into World of Warcraft - kind of a paying the piper thing. They played with me on CoH on the understanding I'd come back with the new expansion back for WoW. We're dragons now. Still playing CoH because cold dead hands.
And I'm installing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition because I well and truly fucked up my first run and doomed my entire crew in ME2 and didn't have a back up file and it's been literally years so I'm just gonna reroll my Shepard as a girl and romance Thane.
WoW and ME are HUGE game files. They average 100gb each. So I'm installing them on a SSD I had for WoW before I quit and I hope this helps with my pc being so sad and 'why are you making me run such heavy things I'm just a little guy whine whine'
I still need to finish Outer Worlds, which I love but I've been slowly dying.
I got Pokemon Scarlet today. We spite ordered from gamestop after amazon declared we wouldn't get our pre-ordered copies until the 28th and it was at the house by the end of the day and I admit, I was impressed. I played for ten minutes, got a migraine, went to bed. My character is Areli Mulberry, my latest poke-mulberry. I haven't got my first pokemon yet, but it's going to be Quaxly (Quaxley?). I know surprisingly few spoilers.
I finished the Blackwell series. It made me cry human tears.
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Book thoughts!
Mrs. Jeffries - the premise of this mystery series is that Mrs. Jeffries is the housekeeper of kindly Inspector Witherspoon and actually solves the mysteries for him with the help of the rest of the staff. He's unaware of how strongly she guides him and is convinced everyone will find out he's a fraud. It's fairly charming although I get a kick out of the times Mrs. Jeffries turns to the camera and goes 'I actually disapprove strongly of Victorian values and politics but I don't dare say it. But just so you know, I'm on YOUR side.' and truly, it's charming.
Anyway, a solid cozy. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.
The Final Deduction - Rex Stout - this is my first Nero Wolfe and I have to admit I didn't expect how easy I was able to imagine a passionate story between Archie and Nero. Anyway, the mystery was fine. They're both kind of dicks. I've got others I intend to read. I liked it.
Which means my body has been having weekly migraines and dizzy spells!
Anyway, so while I'm dealing with that I'm also trying to 'experience joy' - I've finished two books (the first Mrs. Jeffries and The Final Deduction by Rex Stout) and I'm setting up a blog like my old blogs mybookreport.net and hasmterbandit.com and goodlife.hamsterbandit.com all as one thing (url chosen and installed, I just gotta... do the thing) because what is life if not a littering of crumbs behind you of past endeavors?
I dunno what I'm doing, honestly. But the url .blog was on sale and that's what's happening right now.
I've been watching a show made this decade, The Midnight Club based on a book (series?) by Christopher Pike about terminally ill teenagers telling eachother ghost stories but there was also a cult at one point and I'm quite enjoying it. I had to stop mid-episode right before Amesh's story and haven't been able to pick it up again yet.
Due South is also on Netflix now.
I'm also doing videogame stuff. My City of Heroes sgmates got me back into World of Warcraft - kind of a paying the piper thing. They played with me on CoH on the understanding I'd come back with the new expansion back for WoW. We're dragons now. Still playing CoH because cold dead hands.
And I'm installing Mass Effect: Legendary Edition because I well and truly fucked up my first run and doomed my entire crew in ME2 and didn't have a back up file and it's been literally years so I'm just gonna reroll my Shepard as a girl and romance Thane.
WoW and ME are HUGE game files. They average 100gb each. So I'm installing them on a SSD I had for WoW before I quit and I hope this helps with my pc being so sad and 'why are you making me run such heavy things I'm just a little guy whine whine'
I still need to finish Outer Worlds, which I love but I've been slowly dying.
I got Pokemon Scarlet today. We spite ordered from gamestop after amazon declared we wouldn't get our pre-ordered copies until the 28th and it was at the house by the end of the day and I admit, I was impressed. I played for ten minutes, got a migraine, went to bed. My character is Areli Mulberry, my latest poke-mulberry. I haven't got my first pokemon yet, but it's going to be Quaxly (Quaxley?). I know surprisingly few spoilers.
I finished the Blackwell series. It made me cry human tears.
Book thoughts!
Mrs. Jeffries - the premise of this mystery series is that Mrs. Jeffries is the housekeeper of kindly Inspector Witherspoon and actually solves the mysteries for him with the help of the rest of the staff. He's unaware of how strongly she guides him and is convinced everyone will find out he's a fraud. It's fairly charming although I get a kick out of the times Mrs. Jeffries turns to the camera and goes 'I actually disapprove strongly of Victorian values and politics but I don't dare say it. But just so you know, I'm on YOUR side.' and truly, it's charming.
Anyway, a solid cozy. I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.
The Final Deduction - Rex Stout - this is my first Nero Wolfe and I have to admit I didn't expect how easy I was able to imagine a passionate story between Archie and Nero. Anyway, the mystery was fine. They're both kind of dicks. I've got others I intend to read. I liked it.
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Date: 2022-11-21 04:33 am (UTC)a bestie intro'd me to the Nero Wolfe tv series and that was a lot of fun! I've only read a couple of the books, back in college.... ^_^
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