Well, two weeks after concluding my agent search, I got married. That happened. I’ve got a ring and everything. Today the paperback version of Enter Title Here came out. I have no idea what I need to do to promote that. I’m not even sure that promotion is possible; I think the point of the paperback is that it’s cheap and more suitable for browsing and impulse buying.

I’ve been reading Elizabeth Gaskell, one of the lesser-known Victorians. She is pretty good! I’m not saying she’s another George Eliot or anything, but she, almost alone out of the Victorian novelists I’ve read, actually writes about the middle- and working classes! I just finished North and South, which takes place in a manufacturing town in Northern England and concerns, at least in major subplot, a strike in a textile mill! Pretty good stuff! The book got slightly tedious at times, but it was worth it.

In other news, my closest friends banded together to buy me an XBOX ONE for my birthday, and I’ve been playing Fallout New Vegas. This is the game that I hungered to play during the five long dark years when I was totally video game less (the last game I beat was Fallout 3). It’s pretty good! Took me awhile to realize though that they’d rejiggered the VATS system to make it less powerful, so the game is more of a first-person shooter than Fallout 3 was. It’s an atmospheric game, but after awhile you do get tired of the same old dusty, post-nuclear apocalyptic wastelands. I mean sheesh after two hundred years are there really no forests left in North America? I’m making extremely slow progress with it, but that’s okay.

Oh, you know the weird thing about me and gaming? Back when I was a kid I used to play games for dozens of hours, just faffing around, and never end up beating them. Now I actually beat them! I sit down and play and then the game gets over and I see the ending! It’s so bizarre. In my life, the number of games I’ve actually beaten is not that high, when compared to the number I’ve bought. It’s certainly under 25. But lately I’ve been beating all kinds of games. For instance, I picked up Diablo 2, which I never beat in YEARS of owning and playing it as a kid, and I beat the game in a day.

Being an adult is so great.