One more exam ... and it's in the morning ... much fun to be had ... or something. PrattCam is showing fishies, or Decay, at the moment ... and I'm munching on seaweed ... Hmmm... all gone. I really should finish up on the notes and get me some sleep ... There isn't much I can do now...
Mmmm... I just had a couple of bacon and brie cheese on english muffins ... much yummitude for breakfast/lunch courtesy of Decay (: Yesterday was pretty much a write-off in terms of study ... woke up with a massive headache, tried to sleep it off, took two panadeine in an attempt to tell it to GO AWAY, which it patently ignored by attacking the other side of my brain instead ... eventually it disappeared...
Then we went to visit Decay's parentals, which was actually an effort to go borrow the lawn mower from them except that we decided to come back the next day ... then over to my parentals for a dinner of roast duck, pork with blackbean and chilli, fish with tofu and bok choy and mushrooms, with pig tail and peanut soup ... the soup was declared weird by Decay (:
After that, we traipsed over to S&G's place, to play 80's Trivial Pursuit ... Surprisingly (well, after a fair few clues, including a fair few attempts at simulating flying, or hanggliding, or things related to surnames that sounded like flying ... hee hee), I wasn't coming last! ...
And now, for my next trick, Decay's off to find some speakery goodness ... whether it be for the computer or the stereo we have yet to decide ... the mission today is to make sure he doesn't break the bank (:
This just found in the recent referrers list:
http://www.google.com/search?q=goldfingers+melbourne+pics
I should be a bit more careful about what I talk about lest I be lumped in with the pr0n? *giggle* (: I dunno, I worry too much about what people are searching for ...
While I'm at it, I'll post up some procrastinatory stuff... behold: Text Twist! Hmmm... I just jumped on the Stirfry Ninja's computer (hey, the net connection was up! I don't have the password! Hmmm... ) and it needed a plugin, but this is a freshly re-made machine, so it's missing a lot of thingies ...
There have been people knocking down walls at the parental abode, in order to incorporate what used to be Dad's practice driving range into a bit more bedroom/study for someone who is supposed to be moving back ... I just had a look-see at what's been done ... how on earth are they going to fit the old double bed in there? A U-shaped desk would be an interesting thing to put in there... Ok, I'll go and get some study type stuff done ... hopefully not interspersed with too much dungeon siege...
Oh yeah, five down, one to go ... !
I always seem to be so much more tired once the weekend begins, to the point where not much at all gets done til perhaps maybe in the afternoon ... and then the tiredness hits again in the evening well before I'm ready to zonk out... however, once Monday arrives, the body clock kicks me and wakes me up before 7am again ... even if I end up going to bed at some undeity like hour the night before. Must be all that time hanging around with Decay... yeah that's it (:
I was going to write about dinner on Thursday night, but since then I think we've had a few dinners worth writing home about or something (: Thursday night Decay cooked up some pancakes, and reheated some of his pasta sauce, and we had stewed apples with the spice of the month - Cinnamon! Friday night we had Steam Boat dinner at Tai Chi Chinese Restaurant, which was really really yummy and good value too ... the steam boat offer wasn't meant to start until Sunday, but mum rang up and especially asked for it, since Friday night was really quite chilly, and steam boat dinners are a really good way to warm you up ... having eggs poached in satay soup at the end was really really yummy ... Saturday night the parentals decided to dig out a Jamie Oliver cookbook and try making a Fish Pie... Yum. (: I think they're trying to find different ways to make me eat fish ... Hmmm ... Last night? More pasta ... Decay's special non-replicable recipe because I can't remember exactly what he put in it.. there were lots of chilli flakes though ... (: And for late night dessert, we had pancakes made with Big M Chocolate milk (: Much yummitude with lemon and sugar (:
Yes, so after all that, I should get to studying for today... exams tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday afternoon ... then 8 days to the next one ...
Ok, three exams down, three to go ... that was 9 hours of people looking over my shoulder at my ID card, while I'm trying to remember stuff ... but wait, there's more! Another 9 hours of the same! Much fun ... At about the 8 hour mark, my head decided it felt like exploding, which wasn't very nice since I still had an hour of the Perl Programming exam to go ... Which, for not having studied, didn't turn out too bad all things considered. It was long, it was hard-ish, but cross my fingers and anything else available that I knew enough to pass...
Last night was pretty much written off as a no study night as soon as I walked in the door ... I didn't even look at a computer all last night ... instead, I took two panadeine and waited for my brain to shut up, except that it didn't ... fragments of thought flying everywhere, not stopping so I could figure out what they were trying to tell me ... light on was no good, light off wasn't much better... I needed a pillow that wasn't a pillow ... one that suspended my head a few centimetres above the bedspace...
And now, luxury of luxuries, I have a week before my next two exams ... and then more than a week before my last exam for this semester ... I think I'll go curl up somewhere warm now...
In other news, Decay helped me fix the disappearing front page entries thing ... I knew what it was, I just didn't know how to fix it ... I haven't read up on the internals of Movable Type because I've been managing to study instead. Just don't remind me about it til after exams then I'll read, and redesign, and all that stuff... Hmm, that was lunch over quickly ... time to peruse over some books ... urgh ...
Good morning, this is your friendly neighbourhood Droidy speaking here... I'll be your chauffeur for today, and today we'll be leaving from somewhere in Mount Waverley heading to Jordanville ...
Decay's got a lovely group outing today, I hear there is much alcohol involved... meanwhile, I'll lock myself in at his place all toasty warm and such, cramming random hopefully useful bits of exam material into my brain. Speaking of brains, my brain seems to have an unlimited capacity to absorb useless information from places such as E2, but as soon as I need to learn something quickly for something like an exam ... brain gets to capacity very very quickly ...
Meanwhile, your friendly neighbourhood Droidy is about to traipse down to the shops to pick up some essential items for Decay's lovely group outing ... cigarettes and batteries ... makes sense to me ... not nicotine and gravy, or coffee and T.V. ...
It's another Friday, and I should be doing some stuff for my prolog prac this afternoon, but I'd like to get this out of my brain first. Decay's been watching the World Cup, and every now and then I'll look up from my books and watch for a bit as well ... The other night when Saudi Arabia were playing Germany, we got a zoomed in shot of the No. 20 player for Saudi Arabia, a Al Yami Al Hasan ... who I thought looked a bit like Dean Hutton, who used to host The Curiosity Show with Rob Morrison ...
I should think about getting out of this house ... someone's after their wallet ...
Thursday again ... only one lecture today, and I went ... it was a nice overview of what we were supposed to have covered over the semester in Signals and Systems II, and for the most part I was nodding in comprehension ... in between reading the newspaper and trying to get up to the crossword page ...
A couple of my friends remarked thatt they were talking about me before I walked in (funny, I didn't feel my ears twitch), and they commented that I didn't smile very often ... I don't ? Does my neutral face look too down? Although I know I've been rather stressed of late, and then have been a little bit sick, which has put a bit of a dampener on my moods recently, I always thought that generally I kept a relatively happy face out for the rest of the world to see... then again I don't often catch myself looking at myself from the outside, so how would I know I'm looking happy, or not, as the case may be? In any case, my friends saw me smile today, they're an intelligent bunch (:
From um... somewhere? Things that have been sold in vending machines. I'm sure I've linked it (or something similar) before, but it's fun ... ok, off to bash my brain...
I'm in the engineering computer labs at the moment, killing time, and trying to avoid having to carry my backpack on my back because it's rather heavy today and my back's not feeling too nice right now for no particular reason ... I've also just realised that I've been putting the wrong date on the top of my notes for all the lectures I've been to ... Yes, today is the FOURTH of June, not the THIRD ... Ahh well, I'll get over it.
I'd do something other than kill time right now, but my brain's not into it... I promise I'll get something in the way of study done after the lectures this afternoon ... And lots tomorrow ... no, really ...
Fine then, don't believe me!
Right now, I'm pretending not to be sick. My brain's fine, except for the stuffy bit, my nose is fine, except for the drippy bit, my throat's fine, except for the sort of weird dry and slightly sore feeling in it, and I'm generally fine all over, except that I'm a bit cold... but that's normal. I'm just thanking someone that I don't have something that might knock me out for 6 this week but will leave me feeling OK but unnervingly underprepared for exams next week ... am I disguising my state of panic sufficiently?
Actually, I'm more worried about the fact that I'm not panicking, even though I have every right to be panicking given the amount of brain-cramming I'm going to have to do in the next week ... I'm contemplating something approaching a lunch-type meal at the moment, but my stomach has forgotten how to be hungry... I think I'll stick to the fluids...
Yet another one of them ... Cannot Find Server ... to go with the Zork 404, the pr0n 404, the Marvin 404, the one that sucks, the one that tries to pick you up ... it's ok, I won't go collecting anymore, someone else has already done so for me (:
In other news, Ernie's migrated over to Decay's place for a little while... much fun? Now there are way too many computers in this house for just the one person ...