Something to chew over…
This post is coming from a bench outside the library. There’s going to be no other content in this post other than the fact that I’m sitting outside the library making a post in the evening, and it’s nice. I’ll come up with something substantial later.
The general situation of my life at the moment is organising my situation for next year – My provisional results tell me I’m definitely through, which is a relief, though Logic continues to be a problem. Hopefully soon I’ll have my final results which will confirm it all, and justify me trying to sort out accommodation for next year as well as trying to find someone who will supervise me for my final year project next year, which isn’t a job I’d want.Still, things are going well at the moment, if slightly stressful. The only really annoying thing is my loss of an internet connection in my soon-to-be-no-longer-residence, which to me is equivalent to losing several limbs. I’ve been hanging around in the CS labs recently to get connected, as well, and Matt’s been helpful as well, so good for him.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to collapse of exhaustion, so I’ll just fingvtttttttttttttttttt
Recently I’ve been subject to a bit of bad luck – for a start, there was the rain, which I foolishly managed to find myself stuck in yesterday, meaning I ended up completely drenched in the ten minute walk from campus to my flat. I actually don’t mind rain generally, but this was nasty stuff, as you’ve probably seen.
Perhaps slightly related to the weather was the loss of power to the flat this morning, which is potentially devastating to my technology warped mind. Fortunately it came back (for us anyway) reasonably soon afterwards, but unfortunately my laptop was now refusing to connect to the internet for whatever reason, so no luck there. And then, the news comes that the power is going to be off again while they to fix the unknown fault, so cue digging and darkness.
OK, so it’s less bad luck than a series of mild inconveniences, but it’s annoying and unusual (making it perfect blog fodder). Some good stuff has come out of it, though, since it gave me a good excuse to get out of the flat and head to the COGS LAN party, where I am now and likely to remain throughout the night. I don;t know whether they’ve fixed the fault or not, but I don’t intend to trawl back through the rain in order to try and navigate my way through a flat which is hard to see in at the best of times when at the very least I have power here.
So that’s that, I guess. That, and taking far too much pleasure in the directors commentary for Hot Fuzz than I really should take from a bunch of people talking over a film. And it’s good to hear that I’m not the only one who wants to have the music cues played when I walk down a street.
I’ve been wanting to use that quote so much. Doctor Who was awesome.
I’m back in Birmingham now to sort out my final year at uni, which hopefully should go smoothly provided I’ve got the marks and provided I can find a decent final year project. I’ve been sort of hoping the worry over the results would have gone by now, but annoyingly it seems to be getting worse. Not that I can do much about it, of course, but I’m not sure this year has gone quite according to plan.
On the plus side, I’m enjoying the free time, along with the money I got for my birthday, which is being reserved for Hot Fuzz on DVD. Looking forward to that, it’s an amazing film. I also got to see Pirates 3 over the weekend, and I enjoyed it. And I also got to buy Kaiser Chiefs and Clash albums. Go me.
I shouldn’t be so worked up about these exams, but as people keep telling me, I’m an over-thinker. It’s like living with another version of me in my head telling me what to do, and I know for a fact that I can be exceptionally annoying. Still, life goes on.
Right now I’m feeling really good. Not just because I finished my exams, but also because by complete accident I managed to find The Great Wil Overton(TM)’s deviantArt account. And naturally, it contains Great Wil Overton(TM) art as well, which is always a good thing. Admittedly, this is only likely to be of interest if you are a long time reader of NGamer (formally NGC, formally N64, formally Super Play), but if you are, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about.
The final exam took please today, and went…reasonably. I say reasonably because this particular module has gained something of a loathing among the second year CS students for a number of reasons, and no one I’ve talked to has a good feeling about it. We’ll have to wait and see, I guess. I’ll be heading back home at some point this week as for an end of exam/late birthday celebration, which should be fun, before heading back for third year induction, and hopefully good results.
And now, I shall commence with absolutely nothing. Please do not disturb.
You may or may not know about the new applications that Facebook are letting all over their site, with various degrees of usefulness. While I love the idea of them and how some of them work, I’m a little concerned as to how they are affecting me.
For a start, it’s immensely addictive looking at them and putting new stuff on my profile just to see what it looks like. Slightly more worrying, though, is the fact most of these things are turning me into some sort of competitive maniac – “So Matt thinks he can beat with his 567 points on iLike, well I’ll show him, I’ll show them all, yeah, take that Matt!”. That rock paper scissors thing is potentially dangerous too – “We’ve both been rock for the last two goes, so she’s gonna go for paper, so if I go…YES! WOO! I WON! I’M THE GREATEST! YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD TAKE ME, BUT MY SCISSORS HAVE TRIUMPHED OVER YOUR PAPER! I WON! I WON!”
I like Facebook, but maybe there should be some kind of warning on these things?
I am useless at inane conversation. This is why I never write anything in here, because as soon as I do I look at it and think “What? What were you thinking? Nobody wants to hear about ARG’s and Nintendo and how you actually have to do some learning while at uni instead of trying to find yet more ways to tell us how interesting you aren’t.”
So, in a vain attempt at rebellion, I’m going to try and make this post about absolutely nothing at all. Admittedly, it’s an objective that’s bound for failure, but if I don’t write something soon I may go crazy with heat and exam induced delusions. And that is not something anyone wants to see.
I’m still annoyed at the university for having the nerve to put two exams on the Saturday of my 20th birthday. If I was responsible I’d see it as some sort of transition into adulthood, where I “put irresponsibility behind me” – but I’m not. Instead I’m planning on not turning up as a sign of protest…or something. I’ll work out the details later.
If anyone is interested, me and Jon made a film about breadsticks last weekend, which you’ll find here.
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Not much else to report, I’m sorry. At least I’ve manage to avert insanity for a few hours…
(title is random, may explain, probably won’t…)
Today’s been interesting. A lot of it was spent looking at this site and feeling nostalgic at all the old tunes…and some newer ones. Some people might consider a day listening to TV themes “wasteful” or “idiotic”, but I think we know that that’s’ just not true, right?
We also got an opportunity to indulge in some serious gaming with the Wii. A good time was had by all who participated, with Excite Truck, Wii Sports and Rayman Raving Rabbids providing the entertainment and hilarity.
It’s good to be home.
I cannot tell you how stressful this last week has been – last minute projects and other stuff have been keeping me so wound up that I’ve been struggling to sleep properly. However, the semester is over now, and I’ve got a nice long recovery before the exams after easter. I feel I could use one now.
I’ll be heading home for the holidays, which’ll be great. It’ll be nice to see everyone again.
So…tired…
I’ve discovered the problem of having two blogs – there’s no way to decide what should go where. Initially my LJ account was supposed to be for the more spontaneous stuff whereas this was supposed to be for more prepared stuff. I’m not sure that’s what happened in the end, so I’m sort of going by the distinction that Surreality is for everything involving me and the rest of the world and Contextuality is going to be for all the stuff about me exclusively. So if you have a particular interest in what I’m doing outside of being an obsessive Madness fan, check it out.
I’ve been working a lot this week, so I’m hoping to enjoy my weekend off – well, barring some Java work. (As you can see I’m quite clearly breaking my own rule here, but it’s my blog so I can get away with it.) As such I’m trying to debate whether there is anything particularly special I could do for a minor celebration. It’s currently a toss up between a trip to see Hot Fuzz and picking up a new Wii game.
I have some very mundane dilemmas, but that’s part of the fun, I guess.