Nothing happening.

Nothing much has been happening in my life lately. With luck, though, the holidays won't be quite as boring as I'd thought. Every night (usually starting between 12 and 3 am) me and a couple of friends play several rounds of WC3. I've also received requests to join teams of Games students working on mods over the holidays, and an invitation to go see some movie called 'Serenity' - I've never heard of it, but apparently "I'll like it". There's a LAN party being hosted by a group of Games students (the DAP - Designers/Artists/Programmers) on the 9th, and with any luck my counsellor (psychologist? I dunno) will help me get a job, get a driver's license, maybe get a boyfriend, and who knows what else across the holidays.

I gotta go for a game of Warcraft 3 now - I might later post again to finish off what I wanted to say, but ran out of time :/

Stressful Fortnight

And so ends the most stressful fortnight of my life. All the assignments are in - the Games Studio mod on Monday, the Imaging and Animation on Thursday. The mod still wasn't really complete - the last level was so full of bugs it was pretty much non-functional (if you're really interested, you can download it from my team's website - yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~jhead/ga/). The I&A assignment was good by my standards, but looking at some other people's I'm not so confident. In any case, that's all over with now. Last day of RMIT attendance was Friday, when I had to give a presentation for the mod. That went OK - not great, but not bad enough to stress over. We then had a fairly good time in the Sutdio, playing Warcraft 3 and then CS: Source. After that, I went to Brad's 20th birthday - that was extremely quiet for the first half-hour or so, but picked up pace a bit after that. Sadly, I left about 2 am, which was about the same time a whole bunch of people showed up.

So, now I'm enjoying (or not) that tediously, boring tediousness of the holidays. I still have exams on the 4th of November, and a LAN party the Games students are organising on the 9th and 10th, but overall I'm feeling bored to death already - and it's only the first day. So I guess I'll just catch up on the 40 or so hours of sleep I've missed over the last fortnight, and hope for something unusual to happen to my life to make it more interesting.

Bad Week

In short, this last week has been absolutely terrible.

Monday: Afternoon: Received back my not-very-well-done Imaging and Animation assignment with a mark of 29/60. Result: Need to do well on the second assignment, which I'm now much less confident about.
Evening: Handed in my programming assignment, after furiously trying to add at least some validation to it (one of the requirements). Discovered far too late that my last-minute additions broke one of my functions, so I've probably lost quite a few marks for that.

Tuesday: Discovered that skipping my Imaging and Animation class on monday (curse Warcraft III!) could lead to a penalty on my second assignment... just what I needed. Missed Programming lecture due to a student-staff meeting.

Wednesday: Finally received the mod from my group to begin scripting for my Games Studio assignment. Stayed up most of the night working on it.

Thursday: Intended to come to Imaging and Animation class this day, but overslept. Skipped maths to continue working on mod, and stayed up most of the night.

Friday: Missed Maths practise class (assessable) due to oversleeping (despite intending to not sleep at all that night). Intended to come to second practise class, but missed that also due to leaving something at home when I left for uni, that I had to go back for. Missed Maths lecture, programming lecture, programming tute, and programming lab. Decided with group that finishing the mod over the weekend and copping a 10% penalty was better than handing it in incompleted.

So, bluntly put, my week has been a total fucking shambles. I'm relieved that at least I don't have to be overly concerned about skipping any more classes (since the mod's going in on monday), but I still have my Imaging and Animation assignment due at some unknown time next week - I've heard it's Friday, but I don't know if that's accurate. If it turns out to be Monday, then I am screwed fullstop.

All I can do now is wait for next week to be over - then I have the boring, mindless, tedious tediousness of the holdiays to look forward to.

agh!

Assignments are driving me crazy. I have a Games Studio assignment (a mod for Neverwinter Nights which my team and I left to the last minute) due this coming Friday, not to mention a presentation summing our progress (!) on Monday. I also have an Imaging assignment due at an unknown date sometime in the future. And just to wrap things up, I have an almost-completed Programming assignment due on Monday, which everyone is bugging me for help on. Still, it's great fun. Except for trying to make all the hodge-podge components of Neverwinter Nights work together, it's been great fun.

Onto other more juicy news, I have a crush on someone at uni. I won't put his name on here (my paranoia has reached a new high), but in short I can't stop thinking about him. I wish I could (it would help if I actually slept instead of just laying in bed thinking of him), but I can't. As my MSN name says - "love is a bitch". What irritates me most of all is knowing he's probably straight and has a girlfriend and all that jazz. Guess I'll just have to wait for another day...

About me

Yes, I'm bored enough to post quiz results on my Blog.

Your Brain's Pattern

You're a simple thinker, and this is actually a very good thing.You don't complicate matters when you don't have to.You look for the simplest explanation or solution, and you go with that.As a result, your mind is uncluttered and free of stress.

What Pattern Is Your Brain?

Sounds about right for me.

What Your Sleeping Position Says

You are calm and rational.You are also giving and kind - a great friend.You are easy going and trusting.However, you are too sensible to fall for mind games.

What Does Your Sleeping Position Say About You?

Dunno about the sensible bit :/

You are a Self-Discoverer

You're not religious, but you've created your own kind of spirituality.Introspective and thoughtful, you tend to look inward for the divine.You are distrusting of all forms of organized religion.You especially dislike religious gurus and leaders, who you feel are charlatans.

What's Your Religious Philosophy?

Down with religious leaders! This is 100% accurate.

Your Personality Profile

You are dependable, popular, and observant.Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness.In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do. You are unique, creative, and expressive.You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while.And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming!

The World's Shortest Personality Test

Creative? Uh-uh.. but everything else was close enough.

Now that's aside... sorry it's been a while (or a few geological eras) since I last posted, but uni has really kept me busy. I'll try and post a bit for any readers. I may also change my blog template further in future... one of the quizzes I didn't post up there claimed my blog should be themed in blue :P