Stone Devils (Day 297)

I think it would be wise to get started on this entry now, because I feel like I could fall asleep at any second. I'm catching up on the second day of EU LCS matches for this week, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if I dozed off right in the middle of them.

I'm finally feeling better, although my stomach hasn't completely settled down. I can definitely tell the last vestiges of the sickness are seeping away, but I still don't have any clues as to what might have brought it on. These things just happen sometimes, I guess. I'm glad I was feeling better today, because it ended up being a very stressful day. We were very busy and I ended up staying over my scheduled time by about an hour. I don't mind that at all since I left a few hours early the other day. I'm eager for any opportunity to make that time up because I need the money pretty badly.

I feel like I haven't had much time for gaming lately because of my weird sleep schedule and working, but I don't really mind. I know I'll have plenty of time do catch up. I have Tuesday and Wednesday off this week, so that'll be a nice block of time to invest into progressing in Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden. I really want to finish that so I can move on to Final Fantasy X. I don't really have enough free time to play them concurrently, and I know if I neglect Alpha Gaiden I'll never finish it. Granted, I've been neglecting Final Fantasy X for a number of years now. . .

Recently I watched X-Men: First Class and enjoyed it a lot more than I expected I would. I have generally not been a big fan of the X-Men films and especially not X-Men 3, which I thought was terrible. I mostly enjoy superhero movies at least on a superficial level, but despite being familiar with the X-Men mythology, I just could not get into those movies much at all. I think I was never very convinced by the casting, with the major notable exception of Patrick Stewart as Professor Xavier. First Class has an entirely different cast, however, and I loved how they mixed it up. Michael Fassbender as young Erik Lensherr (Magneto) was particularly convincing.

I'd like to go see X-Men: Days of Future Past but I don't particularly want to go see it by myself. I'm considering asking a coworker to go see it with me, but. . .we'll see how that goes. I'm still not all that comfortable with initiating social situations, considering the extremely long period of time I spent in self-imposed exile. It's not a big deal, but for some reason the idea of proposing the idea and being refused is somewhat disconcerting.