Week in review: Week to 17 January
Jan. 18th, 2026 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherBack to work this week, but it's been fairly quiet.
I've been seeking distraction from an ongoing situation that I'm not going to talk about here, so I've listened to a lot of podcasts (nearly caught up on Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics) and got a lot of reading done (see separate post). Immersing myself in a computer game would be nice, but I haven't been able to make up my mind to try anything new, so I've mostly been occasionally trying XCOM 2 again and finding that I'm not in the right frame of mind to do well at it.
Movie reaction videos have been a useful distraction in the past, but I seem to have reached a saturation point with those: there's a limited number of movies that are popular to react to and that I know well enough to get something from watching people react to them, and I've watched enough reactions to them for the time being. I'm still watching some TV series reactions, including Sesska's Doctor Who reactions (which reached their final episode this week) and yet another run through Babylon 5.
I've been watching a bit of actual TV, too, mostly The Traitors, which has been quite dramatic this season. And Jet Lag, which worked its way northward this week and, despite my prediction last week, actually crossed the border into Scotland at the end.
Rehearsals continue, and have been a useful way to get away from things and enjoy myself for an hour every few days.
The weekly board game meet was also a nice break. We played another mission in Leviathan Wilds, and a few rounds of Coup: Rebellion G54.
I've been seeking distraction from an ongoing situation that I'm not going to talk about here, so I've listened to a lot of podcasts (nearly caught up on Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics) and got a lot of reading done (see separate post). Immersing myself in a computer game would be nice, but I haven't been able to make up my mind to try anything new, so I've mostly been occasionally trying XCOM 2 again and finding that I'm not in the right frame of mind to do well at it.
Movie reaction videos have been a useful distraction in the past, but I seem to have reached a saturation point with those: there's a limited number of movies that are popular to react to and that I know well enough to get something from watching people react to them, and I've watched enough reactions to them for the time being. I'm still watching some TV series reactions, including Sesska's Doctor Who reactions (which reached their final episode this week) and yet another run through Babylon 5.
I've been watching a bit of actual TV, too, mostly The Traitors, which has been quite dramatic this season. And Jet Lag, which worked its way northward this week and, despite my prediction last week, actually crossed the border into Scotland at the end.
Rehearsals continue, and have been a useful way to get away from things and enjoy myself for an hour every few days.
The weekly board game meet was also a nice break. We played another mission in Leviathan Wilds, and a few rounds of Coup: Rebellion G54.
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