| If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, I will follow you into the dark... |
[Nov. 2nd, 2007|10:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Lonely At The Top, The Ordinary Boys | ] |
This may (read: will) be a little disjointed. I don't really feel up to making it cohesive; it's been a long couple of days. I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff (there were some quotes that Thomas wanted me to note down that escaped, if nothing else); but hey, that's what the "Edit" button's for.
Tuesday:
* Church sign at All Souls church: Love your enemies; it messes with their heads
* Bumper sticker that I don't know quite what to make of: "Poverty" is owning a horse
* Work from nine till five. Every time he tells me to do something, I can't, either because it hasn't been set up yet or because I don't know how. Sigh...
* CompSoc AGM. Nobody really wanted a role, but an enthusiastic first year put her hand up for President, and the rest of us more or less fell in line. I wound up with Vice President. Whatever.
* We cleaned out the CompSoc room. With Rob twitching, saying "Stop taking stuff". Except we weren't really taking stuff. Though we did throw out things like the biscuits that were probably at least a year old.
* The bus I caught home claimed it was going to The City. I pointed this out to the driver, and he was bemused, given that the bus was full up.
Wednesday:
* Had a craving for muffins for breakfast, but didn't have time to make them.
* Work from nine till one. Managed to get lost on the way to picking up lunch.
* Headed back to the room, to discover Adam furiously trying to complete re-affiliation for CompSoc. With his blessing, I went through and threw out a bunch of extra stuff; like the expired Microsoft Office trial CDs.
* Cisco newbies dropped by, and waited around expectantly for me to help them; when I didn't, they wandered off again.
* Headed over to the Union with Chris, to drop off the re-affiliation documents for ProgSoc, CompSoc, and UCATSA.
* Ran into SDP teammates, who said something like "Please haave the doc finished by Thursday 6PM".
* Spent the rest of the evening trying to finish off the doc. Borrowed Chris' laptop and Office 2007, because Tristian was being retarded. Enlisted Chris and Brinton's help in coming up with creative lies for the sections I couldn't find content for.
Thursday:
* Baked Wednesday's muffins. Shared a few with Dad, before taking the rest to Uni.
* Spent most of the day in the CompSoc room, attempting to complete IAJ. In between procrastinating. Actually did fairly well; finished around 10:30.
* Watched Thomas and Chris play car crash video games on their laptops. Thomas was in a particularly good mood.
* Visited EGG, briefly, to give away the remaining muffins. Hung around for ten to fifteen minutes, before I took Brinton's hint to go home: "I can't surf 4Chan if people are trying to talk to me!"
* Ended up catching the same bus as my father, who'd gone out to dinner with his work cronies. We discussed my IAJ assignment, and how it felt too simple for something worth sixty percent of a subject.
* Printed out various documents, then crashed.
Today:
* Got to Building 10 around eight thirty, which was just enough time to pick up a few bits and pieces before I had to head over to Building 5.
* Met up with teammates. Discovered that one of the documents was missing a couple of vital appendices. Quickly set them up and saved them... Only to have the files vanish. Like, literally, "You made a change? Fine! I will eat your file!" So, the version we handed in? It doesn't have those vital appendices. Argh!
* Attended the presentation. It was a little more stumbling than the mid-semester one, but still quite acceptable.
* Reviewed another team. They seemed to skip over most of the criteria, and ramble about whatever the Hell they wanted; which didn't help us give them marks.
* Chatted with the team about the review, and handed in my verdict.
* Hurried back to Building 10. Made the necessary grammar edits to my IAJ report, and then headed over to the room to demonstrate my assignment and "Ooh" and "Ahh" over other people's. I was really impressed by Kris' almost production-level product recommender; but I'll probably do my minor on one of the other guys' ones: it had a fair level of polish about it, but still had improvements that could be made (which is more or less what the minor is supposed to cover - "How this could be improved with extra time").
* At three o'clock, sent a flame to Rob saying "You were supposed to be here at two o'clock, you moron", before heading to the ProgSoc room.
* Chris and Will were right behind me. We all needed to go shopping, so I grabbed ProgSoc's cash along with the trolley and luggage straps, and we headed over to Broadway.
* There are far too many birthdays in (/around) November. I ended up buying gifts for:
- Leena (belated, split with Chris)
- Matt (belated)
- Liz (split with Chris)
- Lucy
- Nora (split with Chris)
- Justin (split with Chris)
I tried to get Chris' birthday present, as well, but they didn't have them anywhere. I also bought some chocolates for Andrew, because he deserves them; and some powerboards for ProgSoc, because searching for them had driven me crazy. Once we'd got the rest of it, we headed to Coles to buy drinks.
* Lugged the lot back to the room. By the time I'd sorted out the cash and stuff like that, it was time to head back and watch more IAJ presentations. I dragged Chris along.
* Nora and Hagan demonstrated their Robocode assignment; it was apparently the wrong version of Hagan's code, because it actually locked onto and shot at Nora's bot. The newer version "only shoots hers if it gets in the way".
* We watched a few more presentations, and then headed over to visit EGG. We took a slight detour to the computer lab to show him the Wikipedia page about John Hartigan.
* Hung out at EGG for a while. Chris and I played a few rounds of Super Smash Bros Melee. Two Kirbys was a miserable failure, but did more or less put us onto the same level; especially given how out of practice I am at that game.
* When Nora and Hagan left IAJ, we went with them and Will to dinner. Will was barracking for a Korean place he was a fan of; but after we'd stood in line for something like half an hour, we gave up and went elsewhere.
* We wound up at a Thai place in World Square. I looked at the menu, and just ordered a Coke. The rest had various things.
* The waitress managed to knock my glass of water over me; and kept apologising, even as I told her that it was fine and not to worry about it. Sigh...
* Chris and I headed out around nine o'clock. We walked to George Street, and started walking towards Central so that he could catch a bus to Newtown (he was attending a party this evening as well). However, a 438 pulled up just as I was at a bus stop, so I hopped on.
And that's pretty much the last four days. Feel inspired? Whatever, I'm going to bed.
-Mmaster |
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