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Stuff I've been up to.

Yeah, one of these posts.

Well I read Brandon Sanderson's Warbreaker yesterday, and really enjoyed it (well of course, I read it in one day. lol). He has the knack of drawing you in and not letting you put the book down, quite amazing. I also watched Exit Through The Gift Shop - the Banksy film, and Only Yesterday - another Studio Ghibli film, over the weekend. I should probably list what I got for Christmas:

• The Cat Returns (my favourite Studio Ghibli film), Grave of the Fireflies, Spirited Away, Only Yesterday, and Tales from Earthsea.
• Exit Through The Gift Shop,
• Brandon's Warbreaker and The Way of Kings,
• Dan Simmons' Illium-Olympos,
• a new copy of Tad Williams' War of the Flowers,
• t-shirts: '[pacman]//omnomnom' ,  'meh', 'keep out of direct sunlight', and 'I love vegetarians//more meat for me'
• a couple of jumpers and some trousers, and socks and underwear.

I got a book, t-shirt (the 'meh' one) and demotivation calendar off Meesha, and about £200 from relatives. Other than that I spent the weekend with my mothers family, and spoke at length (both Skype and gTalk) with Meesha. Twas a rather magical Christmas all in all. Oh, and we ate (and are still eating) plenty :D

Other stuff I've been upto? Well I've been at uni pretty solidly, since I'm really trying to apply myself this year to salvage as good a degree as possible. I've been working one day a week since the start of term (and worked the start of last week too), and enjoyed that, finishing up the Sonar, doing some C# and messing with Android etc. Now I'm on holiday I've going to keep the maths we did last term fresh for my exams, which means practising/revising, and also I have to write a File System for my Operating Systems course. 

Excuses

Yeah, I know, I havent been round much as of late…., too much doing shit all tbh. Havent had chance to program, havent had the motivation to do anything. I’ve read far too many books, spammed too many forums, and generally been too relaxed.

I doubt I will pass this year at uni and tbh, I couldnt care less… its doing nothing for me, I’m not even really enjoying music and computing societies THAT much. I didnt even attempt to go in for the last week of term.

I emailed my last summers work again, to see if he would take me up again this year. He hasnt emailed me back and its been about a month…guess that shows how good I was.

I’ve had programming tasks swimming round in my brain for a while, fleshing out. Some of them I would love to see made/used/etc. but I have absolutely no motivation to sit down and work it out. Whenever I do, I end up getting sucked into configuring my server a little bit, or writing a library to reinvent the wheel.

I also have tried to make a few scripts for things like exposing a forum database as json, and backing up a thread, but nobody wanted them, so I gave up and went home.

Man, I miss having fun.