The Takeover

It's an enigma, all right. How does this continue happening?

That was a little vague, so let's start again.

It's Day 90 here at Massey, and with my lectures coming to a close this week, it's high time for some hard studying to take place. Now, I know that it's usually best to not get distracted; but hey, it's me... what did you expect?

So for one thing, I'm still whitling away at this website, although still having trouble with XML, XSL, PHP, HTML, ASAP... ok, that last one was a joke. But the thing is, to me, I prefer having time for studying, projects, and free time. Not just the first two. Now to clarify, the category 'projects' already sounds like free time, but here's the distinguishing and important factor: I usually can't stop myself from not saying no. English majors would go mad from all those double negatives, but it's true - ask me a voulunteering-related question and I'll most probably say yes. And it gets me into tight spots sometimes.

Like last night, a programming assignment was due in for those taking the paper, and I had four, that's right, four people asking me for help. Now, I'm flattered that you think I'm capable of magically fixing your program, but to be honest, it's my compassionate nature that gets me to help, as around that time I was hoping to continue whacking away at that website mentioned earlier. And this doesn't mean that I would turn you away, because I don't do that.

But when the time alloted for 'projects' increases, something has to decrease. And disappointingly, that just so happens to be the 'studying' allotment, becuase for some reason I feel compelled to have a minimum amount of personal free time; which I am currently in no mood to measure for scientific purposes.

And that carries over to when I get to sleep - I've been slacking off a bit, admittingly, since I'm almost always, and I mean always thinking of something. Seriously. Even during lectures, walking somewhere, or just sitting down, it starts off with some visual or audial reminder, and that gets linked to another, and another, and another... then I zone back in to whatever the original situation was and hardly anyone even notices that I just 'wasted' the last 5 minutes thinking about 'stuff'. Kinda similar to reason number 1 of being delusional*.

But I digress. It's coming up to Winter now, which means I'll be wearing shorts less than usual, and of course we have exams and the offical announcements of games being released in several months that I wont be able to play because I never followed Nintendo when I was younger*. But there's always my birthday, and I can tell you that a Nintendo DS is listed rather high this year...

Apologies for the late post, but last night was spent catching up with Moritz in Germany, so you can't say that I don't socialise, thank you very much. And Moritz, I didn't cause the call to cut off, I tried calling back afterwards but couldn't get through so I left a message.

The Mid-Week Website
Six Degrees of Wikipedia - Ah ha, I knew I'd find something like this eventually. Just like how people can flow from one topic to another in a conversation, I'm sure many of us have had a time where we randomly click on page links, resulting in a long chain where the end has no apparent relation to the start. But, according to this page, it's apparent that you can indeed get practically anywhere in 6 clicks (or less). Scroll down a bit and give it a try! Click Here.