it's a big, big city and the lights are all out

[extemporanea]

I wish to report the following, in mitigation of a really long post hiatus:

• The complete inability of the campus network to load an LJ post page, suggesting I have to flee this sinking LJ ship sometime soon, this is ridiculous.
  
• A return to work after two days at home battling the sinusitis/glandular fever/chronic fatigue Trifecta Of Doom, which

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[stringgeek]

House hunting process? I think I've missed something here.

Yay for digestive biscuits!

[extemporanea]

I am, indeed, thinking very seriously about moving out of the EL's house: the addition of a third person to the domestic arrangements has catalysed my vague and ingrowing need to have my own place. You haven't missed anything because I haven't mentioned it before, but I will probably burble about it at some length in future blog posts, it's causing me inordinate amounts of angst :>.

[pinkthulhu]

I love Skyrim. Which type of Skyrim collector are you?

http://kotaku.com/the-six-types-of-collectors-in-skyrim-1538098637

Personally, I'm the kind that loads down my follower with as much as he/she can carry. :-)

[extemporanea]

That's a cute list, thanks for the link! I am a weird combination of minimalist and sentimentalist, with a side order of poor Lydia being sworn to carry my burdens. For the first 10 levels or so I pack-rat a bit, just to build up capital, but thereafter I'm fairly selective in what I grab. I play heavily towards maxing out Enchanting, so I have a lot of Carry Weight effects available when necessary, but that's mostly for dragon bones, which I hoard for smithing; by level 15 or so I'm not picking up anything that isn't magical and have a highly selective ingredient-grabbing algorithm. I can't bring myself to sell Significant Items, like thaneblades or any major quest objective; most of these end up being horribly underpowered for my combined smithing/enchanting effects so I won't actually use them, but my house is littered with the things.

My weird sentimentalist quirk is soul gem fragments. I have containers of the things all over the show in my house, mostly for aesthetic reasons. They're so shiny! and purple!