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The day started out rotten, then gently improved to "aight" and "okay" rating or thereabouts. Which is, you know, perfectly fine by me I guess. I've got more chores now - chores! Sigh.
My copy of the PBF Comics Book came in today; it's really pretty funny! Lots of the nasty humour which typifies the website.
I'm sleepy, so off I'll go, but if you have the time, read the famous Great Outdoor Fight arc on Achewood: you won't be disappointed!
Labels: bored, rotten, sleepy, today
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Yes, once again approached from the wrong side again. Heaven help us.
I did finally get to watch Melinda and Melinda in full: nothing great, but it had it's moments. The plots ended up a little weird, I thought, and I was very disappointed when Will Ferrell's character slowly devolved into Woody Allen. I mean, Woody Allen! In a movie based in Manhatten! With, like, crazy artsy stuff all over. I mean, you could literally - semi-unconsciously, even - imagine him out, and insert Woody in his place, and it would all make a whole lot more sense. Turns out, with good reason: Mr. Allen having directed the movie and all. Still, entertaining enough for 4am, and that's good enough for me.
Also got to finally pick up my Spanish book! Good fun, even if agua is a little hard to swallow at first (so it's: el agua? Although 'agua' is male? But when you pluralise it, it slips back into las aguas? What on earth ... ?!)
So, basically, yeah, the only part of my life not going so swell is the whole money-making side of things? Great, just great.
Labels: morning, sleepy, spanish, woody allen
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So, for the second time in two days, I'm up at 6am, writing something.
Yesterday, btw, I didn't wake up until after 4pm. 4pm! You see why I need to stay away from "conventional" job so badly.
After that it was all pretty crap for a while, as I struggled with the possibility of walking into lab at six p.m. (I eventually copped out; after generally shabby reporting times this week -- although I would then stay pretty late, too -- it was too much to bear). Went out for Black Snake Moan with K. and Y. Later hung out with same and W. Had a little wine. Nice, nice. Promised myself I'd go in to work today, but hey, I was up all night again, too. It's odd, I can't remember being up all night, but I guess if I'm still awake now, I must have been. Right? Right. I mean, I got home at around half past two, so I suppose it wasn't all that long or anything, and then there's the salad and all, but that's later. So, yes.
I like inevitabilities, as I believe I've mentioned before. There is something very rest-your-shoulder-against-the-wall relaxing about them; you know they're coming, and so you're ready, and once they're actually here you can just lean back and watch as things unfold. There's no need to actively do anything - it's inevitable, anyway, right? You just lean back and watch, wonder what's coming next, and - I don't know - think things through or something, I suppose.
The other disturbing thought I've had is: do my crushes run on autopilot now? Not that I don't enjoy them or anything. But it seems like all my crushes run along nearly identical lines now. Is this the discovery of a pattern that works? Or a lack of creativity leading to the playing of the same old comfortable notes? Or is it just that I've found my half of the Dance?
No, how stupid. There is no half of the Dance. The Dance is whole or nothing.
Salad. I had a salad-sandwitch for breakfast. I need to eat this much more often, otherwise my vegetables will all go bad and die. The problem is, salad-sandwitches are so filling, two are more than enough to keep you going for ages. So finishing the vegis can become a bit of an ordeal.
Okay, that randomly meandered for much longer than expected. Should go to sleep now. Well, no: should go to work now, will go to sleep now. Or something like that.
Labels: crushes, inevitability, salad, sleepy, the Dance, today, vegetables
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Bad news first: I didn't get any sleep last night, despite doing all the right things (some amount of exercise, getting into bed around midnight, etc). I should probably be grateful my stomach didn't really act up much until today morning, so there's that. And not going to work today morning is not an option, since there's so much to be caught up on. I guess I might be able to come home early, though, so there's that. And I'm currently getting an acute attack of the sleeplessness heebie-jeebies (difficulty concentrating or focussing, cannot imagine doing the stuff I need to do at home, since it's not immediate absolute top 100% priority, nor the stuff I want to do, like ScriptFrenzy, and of course a general sickly feeling in my upper sinuses). So, yeah. Not in exceptionally good spirits, or anything like. And, as the above implies, not gotten anything I needed to done: clothes washing, photo uploading, ScriptFrenzying, etc. Just, you know. Lying here for now.
Good news: am still high at the thought of leaving my job in fourteen days! And hopefully I'll get to come home early today and get some sleeping done, or something. And maybe if I can come back early enough, I can get some of my other stuff done, too! Also, Apple has finally updated the MacBook Pro line. We were laptop hunting today; and although there's some really beautiful comps on offer, I might end up going for the 15-inch MBP after all, just to give OSX a try, and since after the education discount, the price is almost right. And I've been doing a fairly decent job of keeping myself busy, both at work and at home. So, umm, yeah. So far, so good.
So far, so good. I like that. Must remember to use it more often.
Labels: bad, good, sleepy, today
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is that it's hard to stay pissy for very long.
I went to Bukit Batok yesterday and took a photo of the tower there. It took a while to get it right, which is probably why I'm so proud of it (actually, that last one came out not-so-bad too; hmmm).
My favourite songs right now are Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana and Blow Up The Pokies by The Whitlams.
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Got my visa! All else is crap, etc. I wanted to sit and write down everything that happened, but I'm really just too sleepy right now. Ah, well. Another day, maybe.
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Blogging, according to Diesel Sweeties. So true.
Also: yesternight I managed to sleep from around 2am to around 5am. 'zats it. So now I'm kinda dazed, and wondering whether to sleep some more (and go to work late, presumably), or to go to work now and suffer braindeadiness all day long.
Sigh.
Labels: blogging, diesel sweeties, sleepy
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This is pretty weird, but really, not hardly out of place in India at all. No, what's really weird is the fact that Virgin Comics' Chief Creative Officer has a singularly appropriate name.
Also: how weird is this? How weird is that?! Wow.
Anything else to report? Not really. TaxonDNA is chugging along - a lot of interesting new features are going in, as well as some truely ancient bugs being fixed Which is nice. I've been at lab all night, so maybe I'll get some time off tomorrow, giving me a chance to catch up with odds and ends: probably not the passport stuff, but some of the paper stuff, hair cuts, phone fix-ups, etc. Well, actually, the visa dept has pretty respectable opening hours, so, you know, maybe.
Let's see! It's such a relief to feel like I actually have time! Real, live, actual, living time!
Labels: links, sleepy, taxondna, time
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Setting up the computers went smoothly; after two hours of usage, none of them have given in, so hopefully things will go okay. Staying up all night so I could come to campus on time: not so great. Am totally dead, although - as happens occasionally - this puts me into a strange, half-lucid state. So I've already had a large (hot!) coffee this morning, and am currently crashing while trying to pull the bits of my consciousness into a semi-coherent muck. To help, I'm listening to my "Mornings" playlist: I'll probably continue listening to it until I leave.
Oh, and-and-and: in about ten-thirty minutes, I leave to return a CD to the computer center - across campus! Fun. Seriously, if I manage to get back without falling asleep somewhere, it'll be quite the achievement.
Finally did something I've always wanted to do: set up a CafePress store. Why? No particular idea. We've got this idea for a 'What Would Leonides Do?' T-shirt, but that's it. Still, it's free, so what'm I complaining about? And hey, I didn't think Flickr would go anywhere much, but I've gotten almost 6,000 hits on 2,800 photos! It's not an award winning ratio or anything, but for somebody who's still in diapers as far as photographing goes, it's not too bad! So, you know, who knows!
I'm sorry, I get like this when I'm incompletely slept. Once I'm done sleepy, I'll be back to normal, I promise.
Labels: decomposing, monday, sleepy, today
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I'll make this fast, because I've got to be to bed, there's work to be done and so on. 'Twas a nice weekend, watched 300 (the movie) with a whole bunch of friends, and their friends, and their friend's friends, and so on. For my money, it was one heck of a movie, beautiful visuals telling what is - at the end of the day - one heck of a story. Before the which, we had a fairly satisfactory, possibly final webadmin course, which was followed by a long and extremely pointless conversation, the type I seem to have fewer and fewer of each day (or perhaps I have so many pointless conversations at home that having some outside of here is a big thing).
I've (finally) started thinking about what to do, post June 2007. I have to schedule some time to just try different things this time, I just have to. I'm sorry. Computer programming and system administration-type stuff and all is nice enough, but there's gotta be something better than this. The nice thing is, even if the whole grad school thing gets underway, there's still a convenient gap between end-June (when my contract ends) and next year sometime, when I'll either get in or not.
What'll I do? I don't know, anything; anything, really, will do. Something I can wake up late for, that's for sure.
Labels: 300, crapping, movies, sleepy, weekend
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Was in a rotten mood yesterday; much better now. I'm not sure why, exactly, really. Probably just talking to somebody I wasn't expecting to talk to did it. Oh, well. Now it's 12:50am, and I'm really proud of staying up from 11pm until now, I was dead sleepy but I shouldn't sleep too early. In Rome:TW, Ifty (playing the Julii) just got declared an outlaw, and fought his first Roman vs Roman battle. Good stuff.
Am going to read a bit as usual, but probably not for long, I really am dead sleepy. Good night!
Labels: good night, sleepy
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Like, you didn't want to sleep, because you weren't in the kind of life you were comfortable with leaving alone for seven hours or so without any feedback? That you didn't really want to wake up to, because that is just about the most depressing thing you could imagine?
I am to some limited degree therapeuticising myself by writing; it's not very helpful when you're fictional characters have more life than you do. Ah, well. Tomorrow will be tomorrow.
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It's eight twenty in the morning, and I've been up all night (sleep schedules funky again, etc.). Funnily enough, it's the whole household: Gerard, Ifty and me were up until seven this morning, and watching House for the last hour or so of that. Consequent to the sleep dep and run around etc., I'm in a very blissful state at the moment, where everything seems like ... just the best it could all possibly be, all of it, stars and constellations across the infinite spaces of planet Earth.
Yay.
Labels: happiness, sleepy, yay
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... that this is amazing, this is astounding, and this is my favouritest constellation ever. That will be all.
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Google Zeitgeist's out. Matt will be glad to know he was the second most searched for 'where is ...' phrase last year (the most? 'where is togo'. Hmm.)
What I like most about getting up at 12 after going to sleep at 10 is ... err, is 'nothing at all' an option? Seriously, what a pain. I wish I could just stay asleep all the way to the morning like most people. Now it's going to take me hours to get back into a 'sleep' state of mind.
Another head-ache fuelled wasted day of lying around and groaning. I guess the fact that it was Sunday helps a little, as I could lie around and groan in the comfort of my own home, but seriously.
I hope that blood test comes through soon, and I hope it friggin' says something. Otherwise, we could be in for a rough January.
Labels: just another lazy sunday, migraines, sleepy
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"A beach house," he said, "doesn't even have to be on the beach. Though the best ones are. We all like to congregate," he went on, "at boundary conditions". "Really?" said Arthur. "Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where body meets mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other."