My divinity is caught between the colours of a butterfly.

I went to the Bad Religion gig at Manchester Academy 2 on Tuesday night with Mike.  It was absolutely amazing.  I've never been to a gig before so it was automatically the best gig I've ever been too, but Mike also describes it in that way and he's been to loads.  I can't stress how good it was.  The setlist was fantastic - we couldn't have asked for anything to be different.  It would have been good if they'd played All There Is as it's definitely up there as one of my favourite songs, but I don't know what I'd have swapped for it.  It's probably for the best that it was left out though because I can't sing it at the best of times and if I'd tried belting that one out at the gig, my throat might have exploded.

When it was over and we were making our way back to the station I could barely hear anything and my voice had dropped about two octaves.  Throughout the course of today (yesterday) my hearing has returned and my voice has shifted up about one octave.

While I wasn't up for listening or speaking, and since it arrived the day before, I got on with reading Mass Effect: Retribution.  It was good, as these books usually are.  I was, however, slightly disappointed that some of the decisions you make in the games had been assumed to have been taken in a specific direction, rather than being left out of the book or made intentionally vague.  For example, at the end of the first game you choose who should become the Human Councillor - Anderson or Udina.  As only one of them becomes Councillor, but which one depends on your choice in the game, the second book didn't mention who had been selected.  In this book Udina was mentioned only once, but he was referred to as "Councillor Udina".  It wasn't even necessary - it would have made perfect sense to have just said "Udina".  As such the book didn't quite follow the story from my game in which Anderson was Councillor.  I also noticed a spelling error which had me cringing - one of the planets, Sidon, was referred to as "Sion".  The mistake was only made once though and I didn't notice any more apart from possibly a missed comma, but that might just have been me failing to read the sentence properly.  I still enjoyed the book. 

Tomorrow (today) I'm going to start reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.  I'm not so determined to get it finished the same day I start it, as I have been with Mass Effect 2 & 3 and The Hunger Games.  At the same time I'm not going to stop reading just so I don't finish it in one go.  I'd like to make these last five books last until Liz gets here though because if I don't I'm going to run out of things to do.