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The weather has turned, abruptly, for autumn, colder quicker and sooner than it did last year. Absent a full schedule of classes - auditing one that meets once a week is very different than taking three that meet twice a week properly - I am having to do terrible things like 'being' an 'adult' and 'making' my own 'routine'. The first bit of that is made harder by the fact that I got ID'd at Morrison's buying gochujang, of all things, last week, which frankly feels like proof that we are living in the silliest timeline - like, I regularly get read to be ~10 years younger than I am, but ... gochujang? Really? Okay sure why not.

Anyway, the silliest timeline has activities in addition to the rain outside.

Knitting

Nothing new this week, as happens when your projects are on 3mm and 3.25mm needles respectively, but good progress on each.

Cumulus Tee by PetiteKnit

Scilly Gansey by Anton Belmonte

Listening

Playing

Torchlight | Hack-n-slash ARPG which promises 'mindless fun', and while you do do a fair amount of button-mashing enemies like 'Headflinger the Betrayer' and 'Eyechewer the Vile' to death, the inventory management is very much mind-involved fun.

Strange Horticulture | Continued from last week, now finished. I got a (the?) good ending, and apparently there's loads more, but unfortunately the replay value just isn't there for me. (I got it when it was free on Epic, so: no regrets though.)

Reading

Books

Private Rites, Julia Armfield | Was holding on to this one for post-dissertation fiction and it is so worth the wait so far. Perfect spooky season reading.

Hedgelands, Christopher Hart | Continued from last week, now finished. I enjoyed it, but it's absolutely bound for the book swap shelf at my local coffee shop next time I'm over there.

Online

I Am An AI Hater | A couple weeks ago I dropped by a Samsung store to ask if they had any phones without Galaxy AI (my eight year old J7 is still going strong, but better to be prepared for its inevitable demise). The lad working there stared at me, baffled, and asked 'Why wouldn't you want it?' and, not really wanting to get into what could easily be a hour-long rant, I just said 'Because I really really hate it'. I feel very validated in my response now.

Researching

Reading for class persists, as does grammar revision. Additionally, lots of unfinished thoughts this weekend about the place-names used for Otherworld boundaries/entrances, but unsure where that's going (if anywhere).

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