Right ... I had this post all ready and everything yesterday afternoon, and then someone hit a powerpole and caused a bit of a power dip which reset all the computers in the house ... well, except for Demotivator, but without net access, still can't publish ...
I walked out of yesterday's exam early ... earlier than I walked out of Tuesday's exam ... my theory is, why sit there for longer when you know there isn't a chance in hell that you might remember something, or be able to increase your marks, when you have 5/4 more exams to do? If I sit there long enough I might start changing things which then might decrease the marks ... the whole thinking twice thing tends to make me get all paranoid about my original answers and then I don't know who's right so I freak out ... better to leave...
Today's one ... well, I'm doing the essay summaries for past questions this morning ... but I'm typing them. I don't know how the arm is going to cope, given that it was all tired after half a question yesterday and that wasn't even an essay question ... how tired can you get doing dot-points?
Anyways, here's something to distract you for the day: The Mystery of Time and Space ... requires flash, doesn't work too well in mozilla but is ok in NS and IE, might need a bit more grunt than Ernie has here ... and it has sound ... but the little puzzles are kewl ... how do you get out of this room? (: No, I haven't finished it ... I'm stopping myself playing more cos um... I won't get any study done if I play! I knew there had to be some sort of addictive thing coming up during this set of exams ...
Exam timetable for Semester 2, 2002.
And then here's hoping that I don't frighten any browsers with javascript ... it really has been too long since I've played around ... 5 more to go... 5 more to go ... Argh, damn that NS/Moz/IE different thingie... nevermind, it seems to be an ok size for two browsers...
This morning's exam was ... ok? if I didn't pass this time what hope do I have? Um... Hmmm ... Anyways, I took a decent stab at 5 out of 6 questions, a very undecent stab at the last question (what relates B to V? No, I'm not looking ... ), am mostly confident that I got at least 90% of the first three questions right, fairly ok on parts of two of the questions, and am hopeful that I at least get marks for trying on the rest of the bits ... After all that, I'll just cross my fingers just in case...
Oh, and Leo and Tux were sitting on my desk today as well - specifically remembered that I had to whiz past Decay's place to pick them up this morning ... If I'm going to go down in a blaze of glory I'll choose to take the Leo and the Tux with me ... at least I know Leo's been through almost as many exams as I've been through ... and been checked for cheat notes ...
Ok, back to the books ... different ones... with colourful covers ... hmmm ....
via Googlism ... commentage in italics ...
droidy is about to traipse down to the shops to pick up some essential items for decay's lovely group outing ... *giggle* ... this one is actually true ... I did write this one ...- droidy is right ... no I'm left!
- droidy is still up on his feet because it makes her feel taller if she uses decay's steel capped boot toes to stand on ...
- droidy is still walking ... because walking is good ...
- droidy is an esso lorry ... is she? That's surprising cos the last time I checked, I don't have big wheels ...
But wait... there's more!
- priscilla is peeved that all her exams are all in one bunch ... but is glad that they will be over soon for this year
- priscilla is a first year grad um....?
- priscilla is urgently looking for andy I wouldn't say I'm urgently looking for Andy right now, given that I just talked to him last week...
- priscilla is in need of a loving home in ca Actually, I'm quite happy in Melbourne for now ...
- priscilla is in need of a loving home in texasDitto
- priscilla is a first year grad student who joins the group of prof Indeedy? Um... no.
- priscilla is a book of wonder first published in 2002 by exam stress incorporated
- priscilla is about exciting new vistas in science and sociological experimenting investigating how many times they can make someone do the same subject without them going crazy ...
- priscilla is jessica's keypal ... what's a key pal? does it have anything to do with public/private key encryption?
- priscilla is one of those facets So I've a head like an amusingly shaped ice cube?
- priscilla is the story of three drag queens ... haven't seen the movie ... probably never will now...
- priscilla is delighted for she has fallen in love with gerald ... I didn't know Decay's name was Gerald ... !?!?
- priscilla is in the middle of declining a persistent suitor when gavan Well. not gavan, but perhaps any of a number of others ... who is gavan?
- priscilla is listed first five of those times first in what?
- priscilla is the daughter of the town?s founder and is respected by all for her good deeds There is something you guys aren't telling me, right?
- priscilla is a high yielding semi Great, first I'm a bus, now I'm a truck
- priscilla is a 23 is that my erdos number, or something? given that I haven't published anything I don't see how that's likely...
- priscilla is listed with the police as missing and abducted abroad *waves* ... over here!
- priscilla is a southwestern delight Um....
- priscilla is a lovely Um...
- priscilla is through mail using addresses listed above ?
- priscilla is able to use humor Absolutely not! I have no sense of humour whatsoever! Hmmph!
- priscilla is able to travel to conduct corporate groups for smoking cessation Smoking is bad... mkay?
- priscilla is joel's brother mark , ok, I'm a bus, a truck and a transsexual. what next?!
- priscilla is process oriented as opposed to object-oriented?
- priscilla is excited to have become a distributor of these fine textiles ... so excited that Big Kev is suing ...
- priscilla is determined however not to become the wife of jake blarney and sets herself up in the town until she can find a way to avoid marriage to the man Well, of course not, she's marrying Decay! Geez...
- priscilla is often mentioned by early authorities of the history of the church of rome as one of the touristy people who forgot where she was going ...
- priscilla is a beautiful 2 year old silver persian a transsexual bus-truck with a resemblance to a cat.
- priscilla is captain of the australian women's volleyball team because she got the most bruises ...
- priscilla is about the acceptance of difference and the willingness to not take one I'm about stuff now am I?
- priscilla is satellite linked to sources everywhere and highly connected ... where's that synapse link now?
- priscilla is back with the poop and scoop about that special hearts and flowers day !
- priscilla is a puppet used in the sessions for children ages 3 Mr Hat?
- priscilla is a member of the north shore association of realtors ...
- priscilla is fsli's exclusive multimedia based training system which supplements the use of all pd partner programs ... would you like fries with that?
- priscilla is married to her husband jeff Wrong guy, dudes ...
- priscilla is a such a wonderful girl I choose to disagree with this statement
- priscilla is ever submissive to his desires Um...
- priscilla is the behind the scenes power as it is she who sets the rules that guide the valley *evil grin*
- priscilla is all of these and more , and if you ring in the next 10 minutes, she'll throw in a free set of steak knives!
- priscilla is willing to look beyond a single company on her quest to take over the world ... *evil laugh*
- priscilla is an anishinaabe a what?
- priscilla is described as confident and happy with her life without michael and so she should be... who is this michael?
- priscilla is the epitome of a good time band; flashy For a good time, ring ... actually, don't.
- priscilla is connected to the following things the knee bone's connected to the ... thigh bone ...
- priscilla is automatically designated a wesbrook while her computer is designated as an "ernest"
- priscilla is to remain there for a month while further "plans" for her future are being made , such as which subjects she needs to take in order to graduate next year ... or something
- priscilla is available for performances and workshops at schools ... she is also available for pointing and general ridicule
- priscilla is a large white fluffy cat. Oh hang on that's a chinchilla, isn't it?
- priscilla is a member of the liberia annual conference and served as a pastor there from 1982 I get around, don't I? No, not *that* way!
- priscilla is half british nope ...
- priscilla is truly one of a kind I'm unique, just like everyone else ...
- priscilla is a 17 year old with a 22 year old brain
- priscilla is exploring the delights of almost full use of the remains of her brain
- priscilla is now working at yooralla in carnegie 3163 ... I think?
- priscilla is a real estate agent that is known in the community of windsor for her dedicated client service quite.
- priscilla is also a certified group exercise instructor who teaches at a number of commercial and corporate fitness centers in the new york city and northern ... Now, if only she could get back into the whole fitness thing ...
- priscilla is missing Decay's hugs very much ...
- priscilla is a media fan who enjoys not watching television
- priscilla is nothing like a dame ...
- priscilla is in the proximity of via veneto ?
- priscilla is lively if, by that you mean I'm alive, then yes.
- priscilla is busy preparing for her next adventure with carol ? the holiday live show carol? as in carol, who lives by candlelight? *groan*
- priscilla is just beside herself with worry about her mother , or perhaps her grandmother's preference for setting the thermostat on the central heating to 30 degrees ...
- priscilla is very encouraging and realistic I am a realistic life-sized model of me
- priscilla is largely responsibile for the spelling of responsible being merged with the bile coming from her brain
- priscilla is always seeking new directions for growth as a writer , in that she just wants to be able to string a few coherent sentences together
- priscilla is a strong believer in the effectiveness of advertising they'll brainwash you all... just you wait ...
- priscilla is a 13" bear A transsexual bus-truck that resembles a cat but is a small bear.
- priscilla is the only child from ann beaulieu?s marriage to her first husband Um...
- priscilla is on the comeback trail and intends on introducing her style of patented insanity to the rest of the world
- priscilla is as active as ever because activity is inversely proportional to the amount of time left before the first exam ...
- priscilla is featured in the singapore version of sisters' pictorial Um... I think I've seen the hong kong version of the sister's pictorial ... it was full of those ads for skin lightening and eyelid surgery...
- priscilla is married to congressman amo houghton whose name is actually Decay
- priscilla is a clinical social worker and is prepared to help families with a wide range of issues
- priscilla is that wonderful thing in showbiz known as the backstage lurker
- priscilla is one of the most internationally accomplished and admired women of our generation um...
- priscilla is happy to be working at the co ... well, I would be if I had a job?
- priscilla is interviewing prospective employees to work for her own business in this field ... yes, yes I am.
- priscilla is the type who falls easily in love ... I wouldn't say that ...
- priscilla is fluent in romanian as well , a strange dialect of romanian that sounds almost exactly like english ...
- priscilla is holder of the award for silliest names given to inanimate objects
- priscilla is our first baby ... my parents had a webpage?!
- priscilla is a graduate of prep for prep as well as riverdale country school ... no that's *next* year ...
- priscilla is the project administrator for the office of geriatric medicine ... how to minimise your gas and heating bills when living with someone who turns the thermostat up to the max ...
- priscilla is mostly white with a black tail and black markings on her face ... but you should see her when she's not dressing up for halloween ...
Not at the moment, I'm not... although I might be studying til I'm blue in the face, my brain's not being particularly helpful at the moment ...
hee hee ... Klein Bottle paraphernalia! Wear it on your head! Measure Nothingness! MetaFilter was probably responsible for this lapse in concentration ... it's lunchtime, so it's a sanctioned lapse ...
back to your scheduled broadcast...
Via Zannah, some people with waaaay too much time on their hands : How much is inside stuff ? Popcorn, lipstick, vegemite ... oh dear (:
I'll get back to the books now.
Yes, it's another Friday. Things were due for a pile of my Engineering friends today... the lack of sleep for the last few weeks should pay off soon ... really ... makes me think I'm not going to look forward to when it's my turn to hand in the big one ... I've already submitted my preferences for the thesis project for next year... hopefully I'll get what I picked ...
Given that it's Friday, and something is due today (but I'm handing it in next week - I'll take the 4th year extension while I can), I'll take a break from doing a crash course in Flash and chuck together some semblance of a brain dump ...
The Friday Five ...
- How many TVs do you have in your home?
Um.... which place are you talking about ?
- Where I sleep: 2
- Where I am most of the time: Um... one TV, two laptops that can plug into a USB TV tuner thing (only one at a time though), one computer with a TV tuner card. Does that make it 3? 4? 3.5?
- Where I live for voting purposes: 4. I think. Or was it 5?
- On average, how much TV do you watch in a week? Probably about 1-2 hours all up, with the TV being on while I walk through various rooms and stuff, and the odd bit of news I might catch for the weather forecast ...
- Do you feel that television is bad for young children? I don't know ... there are things that might not be appropriate for little kiddie-winkles to see yet, but I don't see the harm in letting them watch play school, sesame street, whatever else is considered kiddie winkle programming). Oh yeah, and Square One! I loved watching that ... mostly for MathNet ...
- What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you're heartbroken People who know me would know that I just don't watch much TV at all ... Decay's got to practically drag me over and sit me down infront of a TV and keep me there... nevermind going to see a movie ...
- If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?
Um... I'd switch the TV off and turn on the radio? How about my dream radio lineup?
- Breakfast: Adam and Wil, with Sandman and Mikey Robbins thrown in every now and then...
- Morning: The dudes on RRR Breakfast ...
- Lunch: The dudes on Eat It, mixed with the dudes on Einstein A-Go-Go ... or something ...
- Afternoon: dunno ... silence?
- Night: Delivery + Hybrid all mixed up ...
- Overnight: Whatever... Rage? Creative Alternative Techno?
In other news, we picked up the photos that we had done by Brett Jacques Photography last night, and wow... they are really really good... no pics pnline yet... waiting for digital images to be emailed over... The big pic looked a lot bigger than I remember it was going to be ... but it looks really good at the size it is now ...
After picking up the photos, we went to Sakura for some tasty Japanese food ... we were a bit more adventurous this time... picking things from the menu instead of chickening out and getting the set menu ... the Spicy Gyu Udon was yummy, as was the Spicy Bento box, which had some sort of curry chicken and beef, some salmon baby maki rolls, some cubed salmon with sesame oil and other stuff, and something else... the house sushi platter was yummy too ... inside-out rolls, and a selection of tuna, salmon and whatever the white fish was for sashimi, and yeah ... yummy... And ... that will be our night out for dinner for this month ...
Exams are looming way too quickly... I think I may have missed my best chance at scoring a christmas retail position - the last week has been um... hectic? Haven't done a cover letter, haven't printed anything off... I'm losing my nerve to even apply for anything right now ...
Anyways, back to the Flash MX stuff... I got my lovely trial version to play with ... full functionality, but time-limited ... good thing the assignment's due before the trial ends, hey?
Very tired ... I think I had too much sleep last night. Should've got out of bed when the alarm finished instead of ignoring the lack of noise and drifting back to sleep ...
I'm currently also in the process of drafting up my resume, in order to apply for a Christmas retail job or two. What have a realised from doing this? I really don't have very much experience in anything ... I've been doing office/admin stuff unofficially since I was 13, and I've dealt with my fair share of over-the-counter sales... but how do people go with picking people with pretty much no experience, and are too old to be paid junior rates? Reminds me, I should get the cover letters done and start dropping things in ... I'm feeling a bit too chicken to ring up and talk right now ... The other resume I was working on was the serious one ... I'll have to start looking for relevant work experience soon, so I might as well get it ready while I"m at the whole resume thing. What do you put down in as your skills and attributes if you don't know if you can do anything at all? Perhaps I'm being a tad critical.
Meanwhile, I'll figure out what on earth I'm doing trying to write up the design specs for this assignment ... group project due on Monday, presentation on Tuesday. I'm not sure when I'm going to get study done before exams ... I'm going to worry about them, because this semester seems to have flown by, and I don't seem to have much idea about what's going on, or no way to put into words what it is I'm doing in a couple of subjects ... finishing exams early does involve the whole doing exams early thing also ... but we knew that, didn't we?
Ok, off to dinner at the parental abode ... much yayitude?
Yes, listening to Adam and Wil at the moment... hee hee ... I think I need to think about some food for what might count as lunch ...
Meanwhile... The Friday Five returnth...
- If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?
Hmm... Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of the Bewilderbeast ... I was almost going to say DJ Shadow - Endtroducing, and years ago I would've named Nirvana - Nevermind ... but BDB's first album has enough variety on it ... it's not quite permanently stuck in the CD player in the car I drive (: - If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?
The Matrix... and um... I don't know ... I do go see movies with Decay, but I'm not one of those who has to go see movies ... I did like The Crow though ... Definitely not Loser though ... hee hee (: - f you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?
Um... Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier (mostly because it's going to take me a while to get through it!), The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Obernewtyn by Isobelle Carmody ... Most of my reading is non-fiction these days... - If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?
Um... this is a problem ... can I choose by texture? something crunchy, something soft, something hot, something cold. As long as none of them have mushrooms in them. - If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?
Obviously, Decay. After that, I don't know. Either I'd drive them completely mad or they will drive me up the wall and back down again ...
That was difficult. I'm not good on coming up with lists of favourites ...
Do as the bloggers do?
The list of 100 ... next challenge is to attempt this for Em as part of the redesign and assignment I have for a subject ... next week, ok?
Go and read about some urban legends ...
100 things
- My name is Priscilla, please, no Elvis/Queen of the Desert comments
- I was born a few weeks early. Means I made it into 1979, rather than 1980.
- I'm left handed, but spent about 5 years writing almost exclusively with my right hand
- At around this time, I also started learning to play tennis. Right-handed. It took me three years to figure out how to serve
- I wish I could play tennis left handed also ... that would be kewl ... switch sides in the middle of a set and confuse people
- At the age of 13 I decided I'd go back to writing left handed, because being right handed didn't make my handwriting any neater
- ... besides, pretty much everything else I did was left handed, except for the tennis thing
- You know that thing about how some people remember school days being the best days of their lives? I'm not one of those people
- A lot of the time I felt that people were friends with me only because they felt sorry for me
- I was fairly shy, and was teased by the popular crowd. I can't remember what they were teasing me about though
- After a while I realised I didn't really care what *they* thought, just as long as I was ok with who I am
- I have never consciously been on a diet, to lose or to gain weight.
- Despite this, I weigh less now than i did when I finished high school
- I had a favourite white shirt from when I was 10 that would still fit me today, if it hadn't died an over-worn death
- I have been a gym junkie of sorts before...
- At that point, I had a BMI of about 20
- And a resting heart rate hovering around 50 bpm
- The BMI is still the same
- The resting heart rate however ... add about 15-20 bpm
- I miss being fit and alert
- I did the International Baccalaureate in my final two years at high school, to minimise the results comparisons that would be made between me and my parents friends children
- My school was disappointed that I did not achieve results to rank me in the top 10% of the state ... I think they felt it was a scholarship wasted
- I went to uni, to study for a degree that wasn't my first, second, or third preference
- In hindsight, I'm glad I didn't get into the Pharmacy degree
- The option of working with computers did not occur to me until I'd missed the cut for pharmacy, but now I'm happily a geek in training
- I have been at Uni for the last 5 years, 3 of them part-time
- The degree I'm studying for is a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering
- Every year I've been at Uni, my course has changed its tack. The current version bears little resemblance to the course I originally enrolled in.
- Even the name of the degree has changed. It's now known as a Bachelor of Computer Systems Engineering
- Because of all this course restructuring, subjects keep flitting in and out of the degree ... at this point, if it's ever appeared in a course schedule, I'm probably still allowed to take it
- Next year should be my final year
- I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, finally
- I met my fiance online
- But it's not like that ... we didn't think of each other in that way until after we met ...
- We realised that we used to live a couple of streets from each other at one point
- And that he used to take a shortcut through the primary school I went to, on the way to high school
- I asked him out first... to my housewarming party
- He suggested meeting up prior to this though
- So we sat drinking trendy coffee, and listening to bad music
- He ribbed me for bringing along a geek mag... I said it was just in case he didn't turn up!
- He asked if I'd like to see a movie with him ... this would be the second meeting ...
- Something clicked on our second meeting ... I guess Loser wasn't particularly engrossing watching
- I broke up with him a week after we first met in person
- This was because I was afraid of what my parents would do, given what happened with the last boyfriend
- He was persistent, however ...
- He asked to borrow my CD collection, and came to watch me play tennis the following Monday night
- By the end of that week, we were back together ...
- 6 months later, he asked a particular question
- Of course I said yes!
- Just over a year after we officially clicked, we told the rest of the world of the answer to the question
- Both sets of parents were a bit shocked, but I think generally happy
- However, two days later, a couple of planes hit some buildings
- Not too many of my relatives actually know of or acknowledge our engagement... No, I haven't figured it out either
- Despite all this, We do plan to get married once I've finished Uni
- Eloping is looking like a really good idea at this point in time
- I have a feeling we'd get lynched if we were to try this though
- I tend to choose my food by texture rather than taste... "What do you want for dinner tonight? " ... " ... Something crunchy... "
- I have a thing for naming inanimate objects
- They tend not to be names that I'd actually name any children we might have
- My current tennis racquet is called Octavia. She's a feisty redhead
- The kitchen table at the future in laws place is called Clive. So is my previous tennis racquet
- My mobile phone is called Elspeth.
- I don't know that I'm particularly girly ... I don't wear make up often, I don't get dressed up very often either, and I don't read Cosmo, Cleo, New Woman, New Idea, Womans Day, whatever else is out there... I tend to read Atomic MPC, Desktop, Juice, Q, whatever other magazines that might be lying around
- Despite this, I do like painting my nails occasionally, even though I'm rather inaccurate in the application of nail polish
- This began when I quit learning the piano and was able to grow my nails
- I learned to play the piano for about 8 years, all up
- I actually wanted to learn the violin ...
- I can't sight-read music very well. This cost me half a grade or more in my piano exams
- I once calculated how much money would have been spent on piano lessons in all those years. I don't want to know anymore ...
- Now I prefer to keep my fingernails short. Very short. They grow too fast for me to keep them the length I like them
- I don't watch very much TV. Pop culture references are generally lost on me
- I have no intention of living anywhere but in Australia
- When we go out for dinner, my default choice is the caesar salad, the reasoning being that they can't stuff up a salad *that* much, can they?
- They have before ...
- I really don't like spiders
- More so if they're actually moving when I see them
- I can handle daddy long legs though ... mostly
- I don't like eating mushrooms or asparagus
- However, if the mushrooms are completely blended up into something, I will eat them ... I think it's the texture that gets to me
- I used to want to be a writer ...
- ... now I can barely write an essay to save my life
- I have 7 piercings, 5 in my ears, but i haven't finished yet
- ... nothing below the belt!
- No tattoos yet, but eventually that will happen too
- I let my hairdresser do pretty much what she wants with my hair ... I get bored with it
- Currently, my hair is black. Apparently it's trying to grow out... but it's driving me up the wall
- Occasionally I wish I had really long hair, but with the easy maintenance of short hair
- That combination is just not going to happen though, is it?
- I like to fold origami flowers ... I was very happy when i learnt how to fold a kawasaki rose
- I also like to make friendship bands ... I haven't actually had the time to make one for a couple of years though
- At times, I do procrastinate
- Like right now
- I haven't been able to sit down and do nothing for a long time... or ever?
- I'm not much of an impulse shopper ... I like to compare all the prices I can find before I fork out the money
- My hands are quite cold if the ambient temperature is below about 21 degrees C
- I find it difficult to match names to faces
- I type at about 70wpm on a good day ... wish I could type my exams ... they'd have more chance of reading the answers
- I have brought Leo the stuffed toy lion into almost every single exam I've sat. He was once checked for illegal notes during an exam ...
- I know way too many postcodes for metropolitan Melbourne suburbs ... I'm trying to forget them still
- I am happy with who I am today
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Hmmm ... that didn't take too long ...
Which Smiley are You?
Created by Jessi.
Indeed. That funness was courtesy of Weblog Wannabe ... while this little monster is courtesy of a number of people ... damn you Decay for pointing this out ... although if you hadn't seen it over at zannah's, I would've seen it at milk and cookies, or one of the other gazillion places it's been linked... argh. 650,950... by the way.
Last week was the mid semester break that was, and shouldn't have been, but still should've been. Decay also took the week off, not that it felt at all like a week off. Regardless of how much work was actually accomplished (close to none, but not quite) and how much actually needed doing (something approaching infinity, but not quite. The end is nigh) I think I slept through most of it. So much so that there wasn't even time to post...
We had G's 0x1e-th (036? 11110?) birthday celebrations, they'll be eating leftovers for the rest of the year, it seems ... We also had Geek Shane's surprise birthday thing the week before ... where it was officially declared that Decay and I should not be allowed to play Pictionary together ever again ... weathervane, anyone?
Ok, need to program.