I aten't not dead
Nov. 17th, 2008 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
binidjJust distracted.
Mostly I've been distracted by writing for Odyssey, though the first rush of that seems to have ended and so it's just setting up discussions for the impending team meeting for now. Still no certainty of a launch date but it feels more concrete than it has done before. It will happen, I just don't know when.
I've also been writing a bit more as I've discovered that an old friend and new neighbour is doing a Masters in English at Chichester, thus I am experiencing the course vicariously through him. Actually I've had thoughts of dipping my toe into the waters of Academia for a while now and, frankly, this course looks like a doddle. Sadly I suspect I'd need to do a Batchelor's before I could jump into a Masters, frustrating but there you go. If they insist I do an Access course as well then that might put me off altogether. Still, we'll see eh?
Soon-to-be-replaced PC notwithstanding, the new expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, has been loaded and despite a couple of very irritating graphical "eccentricities" courtesy (I'm sure) of the dinosaur I am playing on, it is actually running very smoothly. The quest chain in the new zone (well, Howling Fjord) is one of the most entertaining I've done in WoW to date. Though the level of gear Tarranis had managed to acquire before heading into the expansion means that he's having a much easier time of things than if he had just followed the levelling chain and not spent a while at 70 raiding with the Ravens. Of course, trying to catch up with
jul1et and s0b's characters is distracting me slightly from levelling Tarranis. Though, that being said, I am quite enjoying playing a Warrior, though part of me wishes I'd decide to play a Draenei (aka "Space Goat") because Gift of the Naaru in addition to Herbalism and Alchemy would have made healing even less of an issue when soloing.
Healthwise hasn't been great but I shan't bore you with the details. Suffice to say that I must have upset some gods somewhere along the line because my punishment has been, asOxfordgirl puts it, "boring, painful and explosive." On the bright side, nothing appears to be life-threatening so I'm counting my lucky stars and hoping that the pills do their job ... which they appear to be at the moment. Hurrah! On the brighter side, I had an assessment for DLA last Wednesday after an "episode" the night before so I was feeling pretty washed-out. Having a condition as variable as CFS can be quite frustrating because, inevitably, whenever you need to talk to somebody in "authority" it will happen on a good day, never on a day when you are so ill you can barely move or so confused you can barely talk. So perhaps the gods were smiling on me after all.
Mostly I've been distracted by writing for Odyssey, though the first rush of that seems to have ended and so it's just setting up discussions for the impending team meeting for now. Still no certainty of a launch date but it feels more concrete than it has done before. It will happen, I just don't know when.
I've also been writing a bit more as I've discovered that an old friend and new neighbour is doing a Masters in English at Chichester, thus I am experiencing the course vicariously through him. Actually I've had thoughts of dipping my toe into the waters of Academia for a while now and, frankly, this course looks like a doddle. Sadly I suspect I'd need to do a Batchelor's before I could jump into a Masters, frustrating but there you go. If they insist I do an Access course as well then that might put me off altogether. Still, we'll see eh?
Soon-to-be-replaced PC notwithstanding, the new expansion for World of Warcraft, Wrath of the Lich King, has been loaded and despite a couple of very irritating graphical "eccentricities" courtesy (I'm sure) of the dinosaur I am playing on, it is actually running very smoothly. The quest chain in the new zone (well, Howling Fjord) is one of the most entertaining I've done in WoW to date. Though the level of gear Tarranis had managed to acquire before heading into the expansion means that he's having a much easier time of things than if he had just followed the levelling chain and not spent a while at 70 raiding with the Ravens. Of course, trying to catch up with
jul1et and s0b's characters is distracting me slightly from levelling Tarranis. Though, that being said, I am quite enjoying playing a Warrior, though part of me wishes I'd decide to play a Draenei (aka "Space Goat") because Gift of the Naaru in addition to Herbalism and Alchemy would have made healing even less of an issue when soloing.Healthwise hasn't been great but I shan't bore you with the details. Suffice to say that I must have upset some gods somewhere along the line because my punishment has been, as
Oxfordgirl puts it, "boring, painful and explosive." On the bright side, nothing appears to be life-threatening so I'm counting my lucky stars and hoping that the pills do their job ... which they appear to be at the moment. Hurrah! On the brighter side, I had an assessment for DLA last Wednesday after an "episode" the night before so I was feeling pretty washed-out. Having a condition as variable as CFS can be quite frustrating because, inevitably, whenever you need to talk to somebody in "authority" it will happen on a good day, never on a day when you are so ill you can barely move or so confused you can barely talk. So perhaps the gods were smiling on me after all.
