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So: I woke up at 6pm, slept at 12mn the next day, then woke up at 5pm the day after that. Apart from being darn near impossible to translate into anything resembling a normal work schedule, this implies an 18 hour work day, followed by a 17 hour work 'night'. I have no idea if this is even possibly supposed to be sustainable.

Pan is coming along fine, and Objective C is really a beautiful language to work with. I hope I can pull off working with it more, although I don't entirely see how that's possible.

I also have to call home tonight, which obviously I'm enormously nervous about. What could they possibly want to say that they haven't said before? Why now? Oh god.

Labels: objective c, sleep, today, work

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Bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored bored. Work ends in seven days.

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Heh, heh - another one! My last things-to-do post must be atleast a year old now, if not more.

Sometime this week, I'd really like to apply for a visa to the United Kingdom (but it's Thursday tomorrow, and Friday day after, so not much time). Sometime this week, I'd really like to get the GenBankExplorer's multiple export working, as well as the probably-more-important BaseSequence import system. Sometime this week, I'd really, really, really like to either get my bicycle fixed, or just throw it away and buy a new one. That's a big one. A lot of my friends are doing fun and interesting things with their bicycles, the weather is - if you can catch it when it's not raining - beautiful, and I'm bored. Besides which, I really feel the need to exercise, and this is about the easiest way to make me do it.

So, yeah. If I can get up early enough tomorrow (is it really 3:30am already?) I'm getting my bicycle fixed. UK Visa can wait for Friday, I think/hope. Or even next week. If you think this week's going to be busy, next week's going to be much worse. Good thing I'll have my bicycle by then, though.

Labels: bicycle, todo, visa, work

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Okay, in the last two hours, I've set up a mailing list, refurbished a blog, and e-mailed everybody about it. Is it unfair that I feel happily satisfied?

Also, as of today, both the retrofit-TaxonDNA-to-handle-morphological-sequences hack and the GenBankExplorer-should-extract-everything-to-files hack are officially "done". And they are really, astonishingly bad hacks. I mean, really, craptastic, horrible, disgusting, sorry excuses of hacks. In the timetables I had, though (one week and one day, respectively), they're the best I can do. Hopefully, they won't step on other code's toes too much. Personally, I doubt this. The universe moves so as to maximize the amount of pain it causes you. Sod's law.

Still, however much the fiddling with the lab computers remains on my mind, and how much ever I don't like walking home at 2am, there's a nice buzz in the air. Smells like ... beginnings.

Labels: beginnings, hacks, success, work

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We're officially giving up on getting SheepShaver working, since we managed to get enough old Macs from all around NUS that we don't need to get PAUP* working on Intel Macs. If you're looking for how to go about it, you could look up the non-official homepage, this great article, or ask on the forums.

And, very gratuiously, Merry Old Inn from the Fellowship of the Ring.

Labels: nus, paup, sheepshaver, tolkien, work

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