And... I Didn't Get to Go to a Homecoming

My apologies for not paying too much attention to life in general. The Department just celebrated a post-silver anniversary, at the new building. I hadn't kept tabs on it, and thus did not go.

I hope all you guys had a great time! I want pictures!

Time in for Confusion?

On the first day of assignment, I found myself, at the middle of the day: sleepy, then anxious, then confused, then hella confused, and then somewhat progressive. Now I still have the vestiges of the confusion still a haze in my mind, so I guess all of this can be solved by one thing: sleep.

Where are the Peeps?

It's 8, and I went up here at around 7:30. I know people were around at 6:30, but there's supposed to be people left. Where?

Freebies!

Finished and presented the final exercise yesterday, told that I should learn AJAX next, then went off to the nearby mall to join a Sudoku tournament. Whoops... it's at another mall, so I take the train, walk through two other malls, and end up waiting to see if they'd let walk-ins participate.

Good thing, too, otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten the gift pack from getting into the finals. :)

Two Days to Go

My todo list for the exercise has considerably shortened, and lengthened mostly due to those "creative" choices I've recently made. Now I have one technical problem to solve, one small screen to make, a dynamic stylesheet to partly code... and lots of documentation.

Make that one day and one-and-a-half hours before the presentation...

Ekeing the Value Out of a Project

Just when I thought that I would just be focussing on the lighter side, I make a bug in one of the interfaces I'm using, which is weird since it uses the same tools as another interface, and that other one works fine (at least with respect to the problem of the first). Anyways, most of what I want to do is done, and soon it'll be rigorous testing, documentation, and maybe still some more tweaks.

And I realize that I now have two days left...

Another Disaster Averted, Thanks to... Paracetamol

One Biogesic was sufficient to get me through the rest of the day, and here I am, well, doing nothing but watching and waiting.

On the work side, it's about time to get creative. Will be doing some cleaning up, some documentation, and then the flexing of very very small creative muscles.

Illness Takes Me Once a Month

Apparently, my time of the month sees me under the weather, like last month. This time, it's the new sleeping conditions in the room. I thought it was just the combination of computing excitement and lack of sleep, but last night saw me sleeping early - and waking with an aching body.

I've had this before. It's the stiff neck where only your neck feels okay.

Urgh... Sleep...

The past few nights have not been early sleep nights, and despite the fact that it was the weekend, it made me rush around doing things in half-daze mostly, but with some amount of progress.

Speaking of progress, my first brick wall has arrived, and I'm still trying to see how to get around it. I'm sure there's a door or a gate here somewhere...

Cradlin' the Headache

Okay, now I know for a fact that staring at a program for longer than twelve hours in two days cannot be healthy. So I went online to look at stuff that actually works.

Start of a Long Day

Actually, of the longest single programming project I will undertake, barring the thesis program I am now planning to port to Java. I will now expend all I have learned over the last five weeks to make something.

And, boy, I hope it won't be ugly.

Time Out for Bad Behavior?

This weekend saw me lugging home a satisfying new box that is still slightly underwhelming me, maybe because even though it is technically fully functional, one of its major raison-de-etre has dissipated, at least for another month. No, I don't mean that I still have no broadband, although I may plug that the service has gotten cheaper, which I am looking forward to.

I needs me some mad budgeting skillz. :(

High on the Wing

The upper floor at night is a lot looser, more comfortable than the work hours. And Friday is full of people resting and playing.

I really do think I like working here. :)