h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Posted Aug 9, 2004

So what do you do when you go to a party, correction a GREAT party, and you have a great time and you catch up with some really cool friends, and one of them you haven't seen in ages but you've always liked her and always wanted her but she's always had a boyfriend before. Except this time. And she hits on you, so you go along with it 'coz she's... well she's really cool and you get along really well and she's really sexy too.
Normal boring teenage-style love interest story, so far.

We had a great night and it was really comfortable, like it was meant to be, you know? Just like it should be between friends. But I KNOW that it was only for a little while, and that within about a week or so she'll probably be back with her @$$hole ex-boyfriend who cheats on her and treats her like sh!t, and makes her feel that she's not worth anything better.

And of course I don't want her to.

Now I know that she doesn't want to be with A Nice Guy, which is fair enough even though it counts me out. And I know I shouldn't push the issue 'coz I want to keep her as a friend, and after this we'll probably catch up a bit more, even if I'm just her bitching post or crying shoulder, or she just wants to go out to watch a coffee or drink a movie or whatever. And that's cool. But I don't WANT to be just a one-night distraction.
At the very least it was so much fun (for both of us) that we really should do it a few more times. I figure we have about a week.

I'm just... ...speechless with the stupidity of it all. Why would she want him back? They've been going out about two and a half years, not counting the times she's broken up with him 'coz she found out he cheated on her or got another girlfriend or three without breaking up with her first or whatever, and he still can't remember when her birthday is, or, for that matter, find her clitoris. Aparrantly.

Why???! Dammit! why?

She's SO smart, and she's SO funny, and she's SO gorgeous and could have any man she wanted (assuming availability, of course), so why the hell would she want to be with him? You can't BE that scared for that long, just ask my sister.
She really deserves better, and could have better too, so why would she choose not to?

GAH!

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I've discovered...

Posted Aug 6, 2004

...that accidentally getting toothpaste in your eye really hurts. However it still somehow tastes like mint, and leaves your pupils feeling REALLY clean. ..

...that hanging wet washing out when it's freezing gets it dry faster than when it's warm.

...that the algorithms I'm trying to test at home would work much better if I wrote them in Java instead of C++, dammit.

...that I don't like people assuming mainstream qualities about me on the basis of first impressions, because it makes me uncomfortable. I have to think about this some more, so I can find out why.

...that there are still people in Hamilton I don't know! This is a shocker; a city (town) of 380,000 and I thought I knew everyone worth knowing. Aparrantly not.

...that the rule of thumb that there are six degrees of separation or less, between any two people anywhere on earth, is probably true. It would make for a good drinking game, too.

...that my umbrella is broken. D'oh!

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Latest reply: Aug 6, 2004

Woo!

Posted Aug 3, 2004

Finished my assignment! Finally!
Admittedly it should have been finished this time last week, but those blankkety-blank java ing code wouldn't compile properly.
And then the spreadsheet graphing function wouldn't work, so I had to go to the technical support guys.
And then the compression packs wouldn't work properly, so I had to go back again.

But it's done now. I can relax a little, and look forward to the upcoming vampire ball. Assuming I can get tickets from somewhere. And can get my other assignment done in time. Piece of . mmmcake.
Anybody know where I can get a silver shirt from?

Everybody's leaving. Why do people have to move to stupid cr@ppy Australia? And not reply to my texts?

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Still procrastinating.

Posted Aug 2, 2004

I forgot I had a test this morning, and spent too long checking my e-mails. I figured it wouldn't matter if I was a minute or two late for my lecture... except when I got there it wasn't a lecture. Bugger.
Never mind. It went okay. Except that I got mixed up between a binary tree and a heap, and answered the entire first section completely wrong. At least I realised in time to change my answers, but it cut me short of time and I feel kinda silly. I'm just going to take solace in my belief that 95% of the world wouldn't have any clue what the difference was even if it was explained to them. Probably.
Okay maybe not but don't burst my bubble, man.
Still haven't found out what AVL stands for. Or whatever that acronym was.

I have two new entries and it looks like nobody's seen either of them yet. I need to build a better mousetrap, I think.

Dammit, run out of stuff to say and I don't want to go back to my assignment yet. I suppose I'd better; it's either that or dribble on and bore myself.

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It feels like sodit today

Posted Jul 30, 2004

I've spent most of the week working on an assignment, and now that it's 5 minutes away from working I don't care any more. The lecturor just gave us a four day extension, twenty minutes before the deadline, because the computer labs were MIA for about three hours on Wednesday.
Very nice of him, though.

I'm also drained from my lectures today; first a two-hour discussion on Metaphor and other creative linguistic features, and their place in developmental behaviourism; and then another two-hour lecture (no break between them), this time on trinode rotation on inordered AVL trees. Still haven't found out what AVL stands for, though.

I think I'll go home and pretend I've finished my assignment. Until monday.

Have a good weekend, hootoo!

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