Demons I get, people are crazy *

Latest read: Joshua Guess's latest zombie book. Unlike many in the field, these are good; decent characterisation, spelling, grammar and plot - all the important stuff. This was Exodus in Black, number five of The Fall series. My main beef with these books is they're too short, around 70,000 words, I think. Still novels, but I can get through one of them in a day if I'm keen and have no social life, which is sometimes the case.

Today's a chilly winter day in Perth [stop laughing, gillpolack] and I've devoted it mostly to getting the house in order and the laundry done, so I don't run out of underwear and socks, which are also the important stuff. Food shop done also. My pet rats are still asleep but will soon begin demanding dinner to stave off immediate starvation. I've been reading a lot of stuff online, general friends info, and also about Brexit, which seems to be on everyone's minds.

I didn't see that coming, not until the vote was almost counted. Though I was at work and supposedly out of contact doing court transcription, we had one team member working from home and feeding us info via the chat function, supposedly so we could discuss the job. That wasn't the fastest audio transcription I ever did and in fact I had to banish myself from the chat due to inability to focus on both jobs. Our informant is an expat with dual citizenship, and he reckoned Britain was going to become a tiny, isolated country with no friends, or words to that effect, since by that stage the Leave vote had its nose across the line.

I knew basically what the European Union is, but until I looked hadn't been aware that its history dates back to just after WWII, which I guess was a good time for countries to decide it might help if they developed closer links with one another. I admit I have no real idea of how things will change now, except that I'm sure a lot of people are going to be very confused for a long time.

Tomorrow I'll be getting out of the house to meet up with a few friends. One is about to go overseas and has promised not to cry (g). I'm trying to be a bit more proactive with socialising, as I have to do because I live on my own. At the moment the goal is one event (meeting a friend/friends or going to something) once a week. Friends I have tried to socialise with and failed because schedules, I would still like to catch up but I'm worried about being a nuisance if I ask again. My confidence re people actually wanting to see me is not so good.

For instance, I put my details into a friending meme someone ran on one of the Supernatural LJs, but although everyone else there was chatting, no one friended me and I got too worried to push things. So I decided to leave that LJ. There were a lot of photos and gifs, but nobody who actually wanted to chat, far as I can tell. So I will keep looking. And thank you to folk from previous memes who are still with me! I'm now wondering whether I actually want to follow season 12 as closely as I have the previous seasons, and whether I will just wait until Netflix picks it up and not worry if I get spoilered. Basically so long as Crowley, King of Hell, is doing all right, I'm happy :-)


* Subject is, of course, a Supernatural quote, which I also have on a T-shirt