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Salutations! I thought I'd check in and say hello, since I've now moved back to university. It was relatively painless moving back, since I had already moved half my stuff over, which was nice. Now I am just settling in before lectures start next week.

I've needed to keep myself busy until then, so what better to do than some baking? Here are my latest bakes, being chocolate scones. These were inspired by the ones I had at Mocha Chocolate Studio when on holiday, which you can see my review of on the Cuppa Conquest page.

I have also been filling my time with some gaming which has been nice. I'm replaying Super Mario Galaxy 2 on my Switch which has been really fun. It's a game that's very important to me so I'm so glad to be able to play it again.

Beyond this I don't really have that much to tell. Just a small status update to let you know I've survived the move!

Greetings, all. I don't have too much to tell right now. I just wanted to say I have returned from my brief holiday last week and post a picture.

Though, one other important note: since I have been on holiday, I have been off to various cafes. Thusly, new entries are available in the Cuppa Conquest page. Enjoy!

Recently I discovered that there is a group of people that run MTG events local to me! It's very important because I don't really have an LGS... The closest one is like a 40 minute drive, which is such despair... But, it was my first time going to one of their events today and I had so much fun! I met lots of nice people and played some very good games. I also got some good testing data for my Chromium decklist which I now need to update. I even came 3rd place overall, and in my victory pack I opened Rise of the Dark Realms, so I am royally chuffed!

Ever since exam season of this year I sort of lost my baking mojo... I lost the time and energy to really do any. And, ever since then, I've not really had enough of a motivation to really get back to it. But, finally, I have something that's kicked me back into gear.

I have some friends at home I meet with whenever possible to play Monopoly and watch a movie. It's a very old ritual called Monopoly Monday, despite rarely being on a Monday. We haven't managed to do it since April, but now we're all back together and going again. For our return to form, the duty to bring baked goods befell my shoulders, and so I'm finally back in action!

Hopefully I'll have more baked goods to share soon!

I went to a friend's house and they had a perfectly sized frying pan for a mega pancake. It's really improved by the edges being cooked properly by the pancake being fit to the pan!

Hi all. It's been a hot minute since I've posted a proper update of how I'm doing. The answer is that I am very well! But, what have I been up to?

Well, my internship has been going pretty well. It's good experience and I am enjoying learning R. My CV is looking more ravishing than ever! I have the day off tomorrow and I'm very much looking forward to just getting some time to myself, though.

Outside of that it has mostly just been the usual. I have started a new D&D game with my friends from home which has been going great. I've been playing a tiefling warlock which has been very fun because it's been ages since I last played warlock. I love customisability and that comes in spades here!

In other tabletop game news, I'm working on an artifacts decklist for MTG right now which is fun. I had the epiphany that I sort of only really play creature strategies most of the time (reanimator, flicker, control with a beater as a win-con, etc.) so it's awesome getting to change things up. Also, on Saturday, I went to London with my friends which was great fun. I got lots of tabletop gaming loot that I'm really excited to use!

Today was the Kirby Air Riders Direct also, and now I'm super duper hyped for that game. I'm such a huge fan of the original and I am pleased by every change and new thing! I really wasn't expecting a main theme with vocals but it's so very good! I have ripped the mini-soundtrack they put on Nintendo Music and put it on my iPod and am thoroughly enjoying listening to it. I can't wait to hear more about the game! And I also am really excited for Pokemon Legends ZA... So many cool things coming out! Now I just need Fire Emblem news... T-T

So yes, everything's going pretty well, really! The grind isn't bad, and I've still got lots of time to chill, so I'm doing just great. If I get up to anything more cool over summer, I'll be sure to post again. Until then!