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July has come, and I now have less (fewer?) than three full weeks of freedom before school stuff starts up again. Official Teacher Pre-Planning will start in three weeks, but my department is going in for two extra (paid!) days the week before, so I can now count my sleeping-in weekdays on two hands.

Insulin pump continues to be amazing. I have committed some Diabetic Sins, namely eating a donut that was FAR too sugary and staying high for at least 6 hours, and also eating a serving of Pop Corners out of the bag my sister left behind when she came to visit. Popcorn and Donuts-- not even once.


I checked out The Ministry of Time from the library on a whim (it was on a table of staff-recommended books) and binged it in two days. I clocked a couple of the reveals long before they were made explicit in the text, which I was proud of after going in spoiler-free. You could tell the author was a Tumblr girlie who got really into The Terror tv show, but not in a bad way. I wouldn't have minded if the novel had been about three times longer-- I'm tempted to see if I can find her username, just to see if she's posted any extra stuff, like how the Alexandra Rowland did for A Taste of Gold and Iron.


I bought Star Wars: Outlaws in the Steam sale. I wasn't planning to-- I've had the game on my wishlist ever since it came out, because I love a Star Wars single-player RPG, but was irrationally irritated that it, like the Jedi Survivor series, didn't let you customize the PC at all. Points in its favor that at least the PC was a girl, but I wasn't at all sure that I'd like the gameplay, so I didn't want to buy it until there was a good sale.

As I was looking at the Steam store page, though, I saw that it had a demo? So I downloaded that and within 15 minutes, was absolutely sold. I love her little ship and the costume design and the location and mission design of what was in the demo, and getting the Deluxe edition with all the DLC and everything was $5 cheaper than getting the base game at regular price, so I said fuck it and got the deluxe.

I've made it to the point where I can actually wander around and save, and I'm torn between wanting to explore everything and wanting to progress the main quest. It's open enough that you feel like you CAN explore, but not so open as to be overwhelming. I think I'm going to end up siding mostly with the Crimson Dawn, because they give the most bonuses to stealth and that's my favorite play style so far. (I love crawling in a vent and having Nix steal shit and hit switches for me.)


I was able to catch up on all the MCU movies of the past five or six years while working on my cell quilts-- as soon as Thunderbolts comes to streaming, I'll watch that one too.