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Haven't been 'round for a while (a week? it's all a blur).

How's tricks, Frizz?

OK I guess. Getting a bit panicky about approaching dissertation deadline (scary!) - but apart from that things are cool.

How's you?

Judging by the date of your post and that of this reply, I'd have to say I've been...well... busy.

Now, it's not that I have no spare time whatsoever. It's just that the church posting slowed to almost a stop and work got rediculously complex. I suppose I fell out of the h2g2 routine and so, when I managed to get some free time, I wound up playing Diablo II or sleeping (mostly sleeping).

I heard a really stupid joke:

A duck walks into a pub. He goes up to the counter and speaks to the man behind the counter (a big surly guy):

duck: Got any grapes?
man: Grapes? No, this is a pub, we don't have grapes here. Wine, but no grapes. Sorry, pal.

The duck turns around and leaves. The next day, the duck walks into the same pub and goes up to the same man behind the counter:

duck: Got any grapes?
man: You were in here yesterday. I told you, we don't have any grapes here. I'm not telling you again.

So the duck leaves. The next day, the duck walks back into the pub:

duck: Got any grapes?
man: Look, I'm telling you for the last time. We DON'T HAVE ANY GRAPES HERE! If you ever come in here again and ask me that, I'll nail your bloody feet to the floor! Now piss off!

So the duck leaves. The next day, the duck walks back into the pub and goes up to the same man behind the counter. The man looks ready to explode as he notices the duck approach:

duck: Got any nails?
man: THAT'S IT! I'M...what?!? Nails? Of course we don't have any bloody nails!
duck: Good. Got any grapes?


That's the joke. I don't know why it made me laugh.

Funny.

Well, I hassle you to show up more then I disappear. Neat trick.

Dissertation panic is now life-threatening - eek!!

Well, I seem to now be averaging a visit to h2g2 somewhere between every 3 to 6 days. Is that acceptable?

I've just been given one month to write the technical design document for a new project I've been put in charge of. I asked for three months, but they wouldn't haggle.

One month - that's heaps of time. Especially for someone of your calibre (and surely not a hint of sarcasm in sight).
Well I am supposed to be studying but, well... er.... looks like I'm not doing very well. Bugger.

I have today (monday) off, but I suppose I could be working on the technical document anyway.

But I'm not. Instead, here I sit, doing laundry, surfing h2g2, and listening to Peter Gabriel's "Us" album.

While it's certainly more fun, it's not helping me get any further on my document this weekend. Oh well.