Journal Entry for January
Monday, January 24, 2005

If you want nothing, don't ask for something. Today is a day for a written journal. The gaps between journal entries seem to be increasing exponentially, it would seem I have less time to write about my life on the interweb, or in hindsight I have nothing to write about. Well, at least I'm not like that loser from links.net, did you all see that? Some guy, let's call him David for namesake; David made a video of himself having a breakdown. David filmed himself going crazy and posted it on his journal. His craziness was induced by 11 years of internet blogging and no one to listen to "his shit" in real life. The bawling video was quite pathetic, his speeches and crying were contradicted by the whole filming process. However, look at me now.

My interaction and mingling with words is not of the highest caliber today, so I apologise now for any grammatical errors. It's probably because I had a 9 o'clock this morning followed by three more lectures - four hours of lectures in a row from 9:00-13:00. I have another lecture this afternoon at 5 but I can skip that one as it has printed notes and there is no exam on it, as such.

Let's start with the immediate issues in my mind; then I can be calm after I have sufficiently ranted. I'm currently anxious about a certain laboratory assignment concerning my "Analogue Design" module. It concerns the software program, "Orcad PSpice" which is a steaming pile of bug ridden crash worthy shit. My lack of experience using the program, the program's lack of built in help features and the steep learning curve all contributed to my first 3rd for an assignment in my degree - apparently I plotted the wrong things against each other in my analysis which rendered ALL subsequent work incorrect (who cares for methods, we want results!). The ins and outs of this program are so complex and non-user friendly that there is a whole module telling people how to use it. This module was taught last year, I missed out as I was on a different engineering string at that point. It took me half an hour to actually design the circuit I wanted let alone analyse it. Now I am faced with another PSpice project, worth 20% of the module. I can't do it and anything I have done is most likely wrong because that's how things are going for me. My inability, ineptitude and ignorance concerning PSpice will set me back considerably. It doesn't help that the program crashes every five minutes. I like to envisage the scene from Office Space, the one in the field; it calms me somewhat before I log out and go home.

Work loads this term are getting a little ridiculous. I have three lab reports to start so that they can be handed in next week. I also have some upcoming labs to report on, lectures to write up and questions to finish or at least attempt. I need to write an email about summer internships and blabber for help to my orca dolphin lecturer. Ha!

As you probably do not know, one of my current housemates is moving out next year and we have had to frantically try and find a new student to fill her gap. Our first eager participant was a Miss Di who very kindly backed out at the last moment (opting rather for an illegal sub-letting option with her friends) when we wanted to sign contracts. Thus we were given a week to find a new housemate before the estate agents started getting ratty. Luckily a friend of a friend knew someone and we met him on Saturday, he liked the house and is coming over to sign the contracts tonight. This has been a major headache for all involved, specifically my girlfriend who had taken it upon herself to single handedly sort and organise everything, bless her. So, not counting my chickens, we SHOULD have this lovely (cold) house I am sitting in now as accommodation next year albeit at an extra £10 a month.

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is now blaring from my speakers down the aural canals and rattling my ear drums.

Last Wednesday was my birthday. Hoorah! I am 20 and am no longer affiliated with all that is binge drinking smoking whining teenagers. Hoorah! My girlfriend pulled out all the stops for me this year; a fine candlelit three course meal (A crab and salad starter, salmon steak and exotic vegetable main course and toffee cheesecake for desert), an array of wonderful gifts such as a framed 40inch Godfather poster, a replacement for a broken Kit Kat mug that previously adorned my existence and a ‘puzzling' IQ card game that I completed much faster than I should have. The celebrations ended on Saturday when I was treated to a party at the local bowling alleys with ten of my friends; a package that gave us a free drink and a bottle of champs for the winner. I bowled spectacularly well and achieved a score of 131 in my second game (I won). Our procession of student prowess moved onto Frankie and Benny's pizzeria/italiana restaurant for pizza, steak, lasagne and helium filled balloons. Thank you Samantha for organising everything.

Samantha is ill at the moment with a very nasty and painful stomach problem which isn't just indigestion as she had thought. I have an inkling she is in so I am going to wrap up now and go see her. CIAO.

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