angharad_gam

 ...when a combination of hayfever and the increased light in the mornings means I reliably wake up around 5:30am, regardless of when I actually went to sleep the night before. You would think that I would compensate by going to bed earlier, but that would be too much like common sense. So, sleep deprivation is the order of the day. On the plus side, the garden is awesome at the moment. Also, daylight savings came in this morning, which may help with at least one part of the problem. 

I have also been rather busy lately, but I am hoping that the period of busyness will more or less wrap up after I give my cooking class tomorrow, and to help that along  I am taking some time off work in the second week of the school holidays. 

I spent half last week at a Women in Maths conference. I was a bit nervous going into it, for some reason, but it turned out really well. There was a surprisingly large number of people there, the talks were interesting, and I met some really interesting people. Normally I only get to go to statistics conferences, so it was good to see what people are doing in other fields of maths and maths related subjects. I even went to a physics (well, technically astronomy) talk and was pleased I hadn't completely forgotten everything. 

I finished Mass Effect: Andromeda. That game has gotten a lot of flak and negative criticism, but on the whole I thought it was a perfectly fine and enjoyable game. I can see how it compares unfavourably to some of the other Bioware games - it didn't grab me anywhere near as much as the Dragon Age games have (then again I have always preferred fantasy to sci-fi) - but taken on its own merits it was ok (if not amazing). It kept me engaged through a fairly thorough and complete playthrough,  but I am in no hurry to play it again. So I am back playing Dragon Age: Inquisition again. Since I have now played the first two games I have been wanting to do a run through with the characters and choices I made in those games, rather than the defaults. It's weirdly satisfying being able to do this. 

I am really rather looking forward to having some time off. In the same week we shall be having my parents visit, celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary, and heading to the biannual plant fair with dirtygreatknife . It's going to be a good week.