Grasp at straws that don't want grasping.

The marks checking site is back up! Life is good!

I just woke up, and found out that it's 2:30! What the heck happened to the day!? There were things I wanted to do today!

When I'm with you, I almost feel normal.

I've been spending a lot of time with Civ 4 and WoW and very little else.

Crap, I just realised I haven't left the house since... Wait, no, I left the house on Sunday. That's less bad.

It would be nice to say that this fact renders me sad and pathetic, but, hell, Civ 4 and WoW are fun! I'm living the good life!

Still, I predict it'll get a bit old soon. Maybe I'll find something to do next week.

In related news, the marks checking site is broken.

In other related news... About a month ago I applied for a teller job at a bank. I recently recieved a letter telling me that my application failed. I really should've, like, applied for more jobs. Well, I'm still... Thinking about it.

Tell Tchaikovsky the news

Exams are over.
Now begins the period of obsessively checking the results page every day.

Oh yeah, and that whole trying to get a job thing.
*sigh*

Consumerism.

Yesterday I did some shopping for goods to assist three of my greatest interests, reading, playing computer games, and listening to music.

Thus I purchased The Player Of Games, because I wanted to read something by Iain M. Banks, and that one had the only plotline I recollected hearing about. It's always tough buying books on the spot... As in, without choosing beforehand with the aid of reviews or recommendations. But I think I made a good choice. I haven't started reading it yet.

I also purchased Civilisation 4, because... Because it's Civ 4, and it needs purchasing. I haven't played that yet, because I need a new video card to run it.

And I additionally purchased the new Kate Bush album Aerial, because... I like Kate Bush music. This I have listened to! My opinion? Welllllll... Lessee... I guess my opinion is that I'm... underwhelmed. Actually, that's not quite the right word, and I don't mean to say that I don't like it, but rather... Every other Kate Bush album is very... Overwhelming. As in, there's a lot of loud, solid, wall-of-sound kind of music, with buckets of instruments, and the narratives behind the songs are usually very complex and melodramatic, as is the singing/banshee wailing. This one, on the very other hand, is mostly very subdued. The music is still quite complex, but not so dramatic. The themes and plots of the songs are much more domestic. All this isn't too surprising, seeing as it's her first album in 12 years, she's said to have spent those 12 years leading a domestic life, having a child, etc, etc. But... Yeah, that's my opinion. That said, there still are some reasonably dramatic moments, particularly the first track, King Of The Mountain, and the last, Aerial. Right now, although I'm liking it a lot, I'm not loving the album quite as much as I might've hoped. But that said, most Kate Bush songs tend to grow on me over time, so this album probably needs more time to do so.

Actually, it's growing on me more as I write this.

Huzzah!

The Room Was Humming Harder

Now I'm going to go do something productive!

Screaming through the coloured walls.

I feel rather dull right now.

I think it's mainly... Anticipation of a boring summer holiday... Or at least one month of one. Things might liven up a bit around February, especially if there's some good Sydney Festival action.

But it's not really just that. There are also some things, some involving some people, that I need or want to get done, organised, decisionified and/or closurerised... About which I'm unfortunately going to be all oblique and mysterious, at least until they are dealt with... And which are worryingly lurking around my thoughts.

In completely unrelated news, I've nearly finished my essay. It'll probably need some serious editting, but it's nice to be not at all worried about that.

Actually... It's not really... When I was worried about that, I wasn't so much worried about all these other things... *sigh*

Edit: I just remembered another thing that's probably making me feel dull; I haven't left the house, except once to buy some groceries, since... Tuesday. Urrrrgh.



(I had to look up the spelling of February.)

The last one is a-green!

I neeeeeeeeeed a joooooooooooooooooooob!!!

The problem with a word like job is you can't really extend it like I did just then without it sounding like another word... Like Jube....

"That was a great jeeeeeeeooooooooarrrrrrrb!"

Anyway... Still doing essay. I have 1700 words now. At this rate I'll be done by... The time it's due. Wee!

In the future fun is fun!

Man, logic exam tomorrow... And I haven't done a damn bit of preparation. Well, actually, I opened my book and read a few pages of stuff that probably won't be in the exam... Just enough to confirm that I can't be bothered to do any real preparation.

It is open book, but that's no real excuse... After all, I could, like, get my notes organised properly so I don't have to hunt through my books for stuff while I'm in the exam... But, well, I can't be bothered.

Also, it would probably be more forgivable if I was doing other work, like reading for that philosophy essay, but I haven't been doing that either.

And... Well, I think even that would be forgivable if I was actually having fun, but I'm not even doing that. I'm playing Freecell until my mind goes numb, then wandering around the house a bit, then going back to Freecell.

Sometimes I think that if I do something really fun then I would be able to get back to work with renewed vigor!... But I don't really think that's true. I think I just don't want to study for logic, but can't properly work on the essay because logic is too close to feel comfortable doing that. Besides, in past experience, when I do something really fun I end up... Not doing work afterwards. I find I typically I the most work immediately after a shower or a meal.

Anyway, that's my compulsory Rant About How Little Work I'm Doing post for this assessment period... Now I'll go... Do... Something that isn't playing Freecell...

Rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace?

Well, I handed in my syntax exam.

Yup.

Nice to have one assessment out of the way. Now it's just the logic exam, which I am not tempted to do any preparation for... Or, rather, I am tempted to do no preparation for... I'll decide which once I've done it. Or not......

And then the Philosophy essay.

Which I still haven't really started. I think I've settled on the many worlds question though.

Errm...

Yeah, I got bored again.

Sad, but true!

I have a Philosophy of Modern Physics essay to do by the 16th...

I had some trouble deciding which question to answer, and now I've worked it down to just two... Either discussing the Modal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, or the Many-Worlds interpretation...

Unfortunately, I really can't decide between those two... I got a book on each from the library, but I keep reading bits of each... I just can't make my mind up to focus on one.

...
I...
I feel like I'm in a superpositional state of doing two different essays!!!!



*Gets punched in the face... Repeatedly... With a knife.*