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...with a side order of blither.
Posted Jul 26, 2004
As an extra to the journal I wrote six hours ago... I've done almost all of one assignment, and probably would have finished it if it weren't for stupid java errors which shouldn't be happening. Still, it leaves me with some bugfixing, testing, and report-writing to do, and one other assignment, before friday. Should be sweet.
The councelling was pretty much a waste of time; I'm in too good a mood at the moment to be able to think of any deeper issues troubling me.
I'm looking forward to going to underwater hockey tomorrow, for the first time in about five years.
And I have a possible job lined up; I'll call them tomorrow and see how keen they are.
I'll keep you all posted. (Not that anybody reads this, but what the hey. What else do I have to write about? Certainly nothing interesting...)
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The goodness is lasting
Posted Jul 26, 2004
Still trying to recover from not sleeping on thursday night; I probably shouldn't have gone to bed as soon as I got home on friday. Since then I've only been able to sleep during the day and not at all at night.
So I made an effort to stay awake all night saturday and all day sunday, in the hope that I would actually be able to make it to my lecture this morning (monday).
I made it, but I had to leave an hour and a bit into it 'coz I was falling asleep anyway. Admittedly that probably has less to do with lack of sleep than the fact that the lecturor was rabbiting on about the comparisons of search algorithms on a heap sort ADT. I figured I'd be better off working on my assignment instead.
Not that I've actually done any work on it yet, but at least my e-mails are all checked, and I'll come back and do it after my councelling in ten minutes.
I've been working on the workstation chair over the weekend; I need to find some wood and some way of cutting it now. But it's looking good, and I'm feeling nicely productive too. My mood is still good. This is the longest-running mood-peak thingee that I can ever remember, and no sign of it dropping anytime soon. Sweet!
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Still good.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
For the love of dog I hope this lasts.
I got a phone call asking me if I was at all able to work last night; I need food so I said yes. The shift started at 11:30pm, and finished at 8am this morning. My lectures started at 9am, and finished at 1pm.
I am so. very. tired.
I haven't slept since wednesday night.
I'm going home to bed now.
But I'm good!
Yay!
And Nyssa will be in James' arms by now. I am pleased for her.
'Night all! Have a good weekend.
Bleugghhhmmmmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Latest reply: Jul 23, 2004
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Posted Jul 19, 2004
I'm pretty good just now.
I had dinner with my father on friday, and was still amazed that we're suddenly getting on so much better than ever before. 
A cousin of his called him on the saturday, and organised to visit them that night, so he asked me if I wanted to come back for dinner again saturday night as well, so I did (as a bonus I got to see mum too - she was working friday night.)
Things went well, possibly even better again.
Mum dropped me off home (I won't drive) and we spent an hour talking before she left again... you have no idea how weird this is for me. I have NEVER talked with my mother for more than twenty minutes at a time before in my life, and NEVER any kind of deep conversation. Usually she'll decide to start attacking everything I say and every opinion I have within ten minutes, usually leaving me storming off to get away from her.
But saturday... we just talked. And it was good. She even talked about her feelings (again, NEVER happens) her dreams (ditto) and her worries about dad (happens, but rare). I even discovered what their wedding was like - and it was completely the opposite of what I'd thought.
Add to that the conversation(s) I had with dad last week, similarly stress-free, and it sums to comfortable, yet strange.
I hope this continues... it's nice to have them on my side for once.
I figure one of three things have happened; either they're getting lonely in their old age, or stressed (I was the last one of their kids to move out of home, six years ago) and they both need someone to talk to who isn't the other; or this is the face of their relaxation showing, after having their home invaded by my sister, her husband, and her three kids for six weeks before they moved to Australia; or they're getting used to life as it is, and getting content too, and thus easier to get along with.
I hope it's the latter.
Uni is good; although four hours of continuous lectures on mondays and fridays are boiling my brain. Still, it means I only have to come in on tuesdays wednesdays and thursdays to do assignments, which is nice.
I miss Wendy. And I wish I could talk to Ambrese. Wendy called last night; it sounds like she'll be okay, which is also good. And Ambrese has a boyfriend who sounds perfect, so it's also nice to know that she's happy.
And I currently know more people who are pregnant, than who are dying. So that's nice too.
And it's nice to be writing nice things in my journal for once.
So everything's nice.
I wonder if I can write the word 'nice' just one more time. Oh, I did already. Nice.
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Things which make you go 'hmmm'
Posted Jul 16, 2004
This is interesting... I was polishing off my new entry on A Hypothetical Reality (go check it out! Nudge! Nudge! A2841158) and trying to find a link to a definition of anthropocentricity.
So I searched H2G2 for the keyword 'bigot', and the second entry, with score 14%, is the one at A1949097. BUT the subject is the same as the subject heading of my own userspace ("The earth is taken; this is not your home."). My interest is piqued, so I click on it to see who else thought this little quote makes a good subject heading.
I end up at my own page.
Well that explains the subject, but where the heck did the Entry number A1949097 come from? It's not mine, and even if it was one of my entries the link would have taken me there, not to my user space at U520822.
Is it a link to an entry which has been removed, yet somehow remains available to the hootoo search engine? Surely it's not a - Gasp! - bug in H2G2's otherwise perfect veneer?
Any ideas, anyone?
Incedentally, I'm feeling much better for having written the entry. And I forgot to mention in my last journal (a couple of hours ago) that I'm getting on better with my parents than I ever had before, so that's good. I think my father's recent unemployment troubles have made them more sympathetic to my life as a broke student. And they're getting more comfortable in their lives. I am pleased again.
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