The last couple of weeks...

This will be the first time of many I break that fine line between professionalism and my personal life. 

I'm looking back on the last two weeks and they've been rather productive - certainly been intense enough. I'm sitting here at the back end of them minus 1 delightful, beloved girlfriend who has just scurried back to Uni, but plus a shiny new PC, a handful of new PC games (Chaos Rising, Dead Space 2, Borderlands: GOTY to name a few) so I definitely have plenty of entertainment. Not only that; but DoW II: Retribution comes out on the 4th of March, which is quickly followed by Dragon Age II on the 15th. I'm going to have to game double-time to wade through all of this!

I've fallen behind a little bit with college work and my usual reviews, but I managed to get four or five articles written from my laptop in Farnham. I spent quite a lot of time up there, and I had my Journalism interview halfway through last week, which actually went pretty well. There were very few things I would have said or done differently, so now begins that nerve-rending wait until I hear back from them. I'm expecting the positive but I'm a pessimist at heart, which in a way is good, because my soul won't be shattered if I don't get what I want.

The majority of yesterday was spent assembling my new PC with a couple of friends I game with every Tuesday evening. There was one of those terrifying moments where it looked like my computer baby was dead on arrival, but tinkering, rewiring and poking around eventually brought it to life. I've never been so relieved to see a blue LED, and my girlfriend (Who must have the patience of a saint, she was sat around witnessing something of totally minor interest to her for a good four hours) took a couple of pictures of me grinning like an idiot. An entire evening later and I'd managed to move the entire contents of my 250GB laptop I've been working off of for the past two years onto my new terabyte HDD.

So this is all pretty mundane stuff. I'm pretty happy about that, because these next few weeks are going to be pretty demanding. I'll still be blogging (It's becoming a little obsessive) and putting random thoughts on whatever I play to words, alongside updates on the music video project for Centralia DC and the college magazine work I'm doing. I'm going to sign off and get on with some coursework - that way I can justify gaming for the rest of the day. 

-L