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Status report

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I can’t remember the last time I’ve just been sat around, being bored. (Though, that’s probably accountable to my awful memory.) I’ve either been working, or doing university work, or just general being around friends. And I’m not annoyed or bored of any one of them; I think I’ve found a really good balance.

I don’t feel stressed at all either. Knowing that there’s a safety net of a few hundred pounds overdraft available if I need it is really calming. I have spent a little more than I wanted to so far this month, but it’s nothing that I can’t afford thanks to the work I’m doing. Also, living with girls has definitely made me start eating more. Especially since Laura continually offers to make food, so I typically eat at least one good meal a day, which is an improvement on snacking when I’m hungry.

All in all, I have a pretty good life at the moment.

Sweatiest. Day. Ever.

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I went to Laura’s this weekend, having not seen each other for weeks — since we finish university actually. Happiness definitely ensued. Chris came too, and Bryan lives right next to Laura so the gang was almost complete! ‘cept for Luke who just didn’t put any effort in.

High points included:

  • More pizza than was really necessary
  • Discovering they do Southern Comfort in a can
  • Rediscovering lemon slices
  • Making that egg in bread thing in frying pans that were clearly too small
  • Being enraged by Dr Robotnic!
  • Getting zeros for the first few sets of bowling, and then half strike it all the way home (and still losing)
  • Being able to tick off Clockwork Orange from my list of films to see — fucked. up.
  • Chris kicking a hedgehog so hard even the RSPCA would be impressed
  • Finding out Dagny Taggart likes it rough
  • Deciding to want to become a professional laser tag player, and becoming very hot whilst deciding.
  • Meeting Charlie!
  • Battling with Laura to keep her clothes on
  • Being yelled at in a forest, and fleeing for our lives

Good times. :D

Last minute coursework again…

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Now I’ve finished that freelance gig I was given (well, almost finished, I just need to convert the guy’s old pages to new ones) I can actually start on my coursework. Which is due in Friday.

It’s basically a website. So long as it’s valid XHTML and CSS, and has form pages, I’ve been told anything can pass. I’m actually not going to be putting much effort into content due to that. I just want to make sure that I have it finished. Maybe later, when I have more time I’ll add better content.

It’s basically a website about Leicester from the prospective of a fresher – someone how just needs some information about Leicester and where to go and what to do.

I’ve already done the actual template. I just need to add content. Laura and Chris have already taken photos, which we need to include in our website, so I’ll just use some of theirs. They certainly took enough.

Stupid course is stupid.

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I’m actually feeling productive today, and I’m fairly certain I have a multitude of work to do.

I woke up with the intent of creating this database we need for Database Design Concepts. Well, I say need, but it turns out we might not actually have to hand it in. Because I thought it was integral to my learning, I sat through it and slowly knocked up a few tables following the instructions letter by letter.

When it started explaining, in great detail, how to change the freaking font of a label I gave in. Not only was it offending me, but flicking through the book I can’t see anywhere where it’s telling me to hand the finished database in. Even if it did, what would be the point?  You can’t vary from the obnoxious instructions; even if one person created the database and then gave a copy to everyone in the class the person marking it would never know. They’re all identical.

So, I gave in with that. I’m pretty sure there’s more work to be done, so I asked Laura. Apparently we have a Systems Analysis assignment that we’ve not been told about yet.

The final assignment we have is from Computer Tech, to create a website. I’m not sure why I can’t just give him the URL to one of the many websites I’ve designed and coded to prove my work, but meh. I have to create a guide about Leicester for freshers of DMU, which I’m okay with actually. I might even be able to make some money from it. Even if I do feel slightly underestimated.

Why can’t university be as hard as I actually expected? Why do people walk into a degree with zero knowledge of the course? There are people that have blatantly never even used a computer before on my course; wtf? Just make A Level Computing a requirement of the course entry, and teach with that as a foundation. Don’t freaking teach it me again! Grr.

I’d switch to Computer Science if I wasn’t so worried my math would let me down.

Catch up

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I’ve not done a personal update here in a while, which is odd for someone that comes from LiveJournal where it’s common practice to note down everything you’ve done since your last update, a few hours ago. I actually have a lot of drafts for computing articles piling up that I should really finish up soon. Recently though, I’ve just not had the time.

Luke and Laura are now fairly frequent guests, so over the past week or so I’ve not been alone much. I love that, really. I’m definitely a person that likes to be around other people. When I’m not for a period of time (especially if I’m just sitting at my computer all night) I get mildly depressed. I’m not sure when that change happened in me though. I used to remember loving having so much time to myself, and if I were with people for too long I’d get angsty. It’s the opposite now really.

Although, I could totally do with more “alone time,” if you get me.

I’d been playing around with polysleeping for a while, sleeping more than once a day, but in short bursts. You can generally save around two hours sleeping a day and not suffer any sleep debt. Since Luke and Laura have been around though that’s totally gone out of the window; I slept from about two till twelve today.

People being around you all the time also means you don’t really get time to do chores. Today, I actually ran out of clothes to wear (that came faster than expected due to the snow) and two days ago I resorted to eating a meal out of a Tupperware container. So, today will definitely be a tidying up day.

Against Nik’s advice, I’ve decided to try and start reading Twilight. I got to the first page an immediately regretted watching the film first. It’s exactly the same. I find it hard to read a book which has no mystery. I don’t earn anything by reading those pages, and so it seems like a dull chore to me. I doubt I’ll actually finish the book, but I’ll try before the next film comes out.

There’s new TED content out which will definitely give me a few hours of things to think about and watch. TED’s always freaking amazing, and I’m constantly blown away with how awesome each of the speakers are, and how innovative their ideas are. I really hope that I create something that I can be that passionate about.