| Poor old Wigan |
[Mar. 6th, 2006|11:04 pm] |
At least they got close this time. I wish they'd won today, it would be nice to stay second for more than a day :P ... even if that goal did gain me three points in the old predictions game.
You know, if games were only 85 minutes long there'd be so many results that were different! |
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| All done |
[Jun. 10th, 2005|05:52 pm] |
Yay, finished! I finished yesterday at lunchtime, actually, but I spent all of yesterday drinking and stuff and today recovering, so it's only just time to get around to updating. Results come out on Wednesday but until then I've got plans to do a whole lot of nothing! There might be some progress on Seria, too (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) serian_fiction), depending on if I get in the mood for writing. |
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| Argh! |
[May. 31st, 2005|09:39 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| |  stressed | ] |
The eve of Judgement Day. Ok, the eve of my first exam, let's not go overboard on the melodrama, but scary enough all the same. "I'll never get it all done" is winning, because half of what I look at goes in one ear and out the other, but hopefully I can blag sufficiently to do OK.
By Saturday I'll either recover or be in the pits of despair, as this week I have all the written exams, which are hard. Next week it's the practicals, and I can usually do pretty well in those, but it could be damage limitation by then. |
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[May. 19th, 2005|07:24 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| |  worried | ] |
It's really getting close, now, and I'm alternating between 'OMG I'll never get all this work done' and 'it's nearly finished'. I'm not sure which is more dangerous, to be honest, but neither involves getting as much work done as I suspect I should be. I'm pretty resigned to not getting a I, but I don't want to cock it up so badly I come out with a II.2, which is a possibility no matter what the parents and El think of me.
Tomorrow, the day of the BAA AGM, I am meeting Morten (over a beer, by the sound of it) and we'll see if there's any chance of getting something sorted over summer.
Can't wait for the 15th. |
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| Oh yeah |
[May. 13th, 2005|01:15 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| | accomplished | ] |
Warning. Intense geekiness ahead.
Yesterday and today I finally mustered up the courage to fight off System.Reflection.Emit, after finally convincing myself that it really was the only way to get delegates to work. (The text in the namespace description – "... of use to script writers" – was the clue that there wasn't something hiding in the Framework that I was missing.)
So, for your (OK, who am I kidding, my) edification, here is gui.rws in its full glory.
#using "System.Windows.Forms";
gui.createForm⍅{// Create a simple GUI testpiece
f←#new $Form [];
f:Text←"Rowan form";
b←#new $Button [];
b:Text←"Press me!";
b_onClick⍅{⍇(⍵⌷1):Text};
b:Click←#delegate $EventHandler b_onClick;
b2←#new $Button [];
b2:Text←"Hello, world";
b2:Click←#delegate $EventHandler b_onClick;
b2:Location←#new $Drawing.Point(b:Size:Width, 0);
f:Controls:Add b; f:Controls:Add b2;
f;
}
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[May. 9th, 2005|06:20 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| | depressed | ] |
Bleh, not a good week; I've been feeling pretty crap and unproductive, and so as a result not much has got done. Rowan has gained a lot more primitives (and a bug fix or two), but that is because it's a great way to procrastinate!
I'm getting a bit worried because I don't quite know what I'm supposed to do for these exams. I might not be doing it anyway, but at least if there's a clear list of things that need doing it's not possible to waste time doing the wrong thing, whereas our course is so open-ended and somehow vague that it's impossible to know what we're supposed to know.
The weather has been bizarre – cold clear days and convective storms, even thunderstorms yesterday. I guess it's because of the clearer air and hotter sun, but I'm sure it never used to do this in May, certainly not for a week straight. |
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[May. 1st, 2005|08:07 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| |  weird | ] |
Well, now I have used my bed for its recommended purpose. I'd forgotten how soggy and uncomfortable it is; if I thought I was going to use it a lot I might actually take up the maintenance department on their offer of a board to put across the base.
I've felt really weird today – I'm not even sure what I'm feeling! I was a bit depressed last night, for no good reason, and whilst that's gone away today I've been left ... kind of empty. Oh well, there's not a lot that can be done about that.
I'm trying to write a good little website for Rowan to promote it to the big wide world, and it's surprisingly difficult to step back and write about it for someone who doesn't know the first thing about it, having been so deeply indoctrinated in APL for so long. |
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[Apr. 28th, 2005|08:42 pm] |
Hehe ... I haven't slept in Emma yet this term. Not bad going considering it's the 7th night tonight.
I've managed a reasonable blend of work and laziness the last couple of days, creating condensed notes for the C1 course so far (I plan to go through each coures and make 6-7 pages of essential notes for each one). While 2 pages might not seem that impressive for a day, when there's thinking behind it it's probably useful to do it slowly so it has a chance to go in.
The first Parker's Piece Kickabout was yesterday, and good fun, although I wasn't really fully in the mood for it. Hopefully this year will be like my first year, when we had kickarounds every couple of days; the weather's certainly good for it at the minute.
Must go, there is food on the stove for me :) |
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| :D |
[Apr. 25th, 2005|04:14 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| |  satisfied | ] |
Ah yes, another long absence from the virtual world ended by the first post of the new term. Tim and I did survive the week of managing the house on our own, with the only casualties being the amount of gas needed to relight the Aga once, one strike of the church clock and one piece of broken wingmirror glass – Tim's fault, that one.
Unfortunately El couldn't find the time to come up, which left me disappointed and also slightly worried that she just didn't want to see me that much. However, the daffs weren't even that good: Tim and I went up to see them just before I came down South and they really weren't as good as they usually are; it would have been slightly sad to show El them in a bad year.
The past Friday I came down to make use of my return train ticket, dropped my hefty cases in College and promptly went back to the station for transport to El's house. It's always weird going there because there's a lot of things (mostly sex-related!) that you just can't say there, but it was very nice and we didn't embarrass ourselves!
Yesterday the two of us came back to Cambridge, leaving me with two rooms to sort out as I've taken to helping El with hers since we've been going out so I can spend more time with her. Last night, of course, the five week break was broken in style :) ... damn, it was good!
I'm having to get back into some sort of working mood now, and I should probably try to spend at least an hour a day or so in the library from now on. There are no scheduled sessions for a while yet but I really need to look over the stuff we've done this year. I've never really had to revise before so hopefully I can work out how it works! |
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| Weirdness |
[Apr. 11th, 2005|12:53 pm] |
The parents have been whisked off on a last minute 'working trip' to Madeira this week, so Tim and I are all on our own in the house. It feels really odd, much more so than I'd expect since I've been on my own in Oz and at college; there's a lot of daily maintainence involved in running a house, too.
El is hopefully going to come towards the end of this week, although I'm still waiting for confirmation. |
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| Rocks! |
[Apr. 6th, 2005|11:53 am] |
Yes, I've actually found some rocks in our very own woods – a pleasant surprise by any standards. There's even a rather nice series of 6 foot crags in one beck, and the unit is correlatable across 4 nearby ones.
In Rowan the Grades and Customise are done, although there's some major speed-up work needs doing with custom functions.
Still having logistical difficulties with getting El up here this holiday, although I have secured an invitation to hers at the end. It's a shame she won't catch the best of the Farndale daffs though; there's always next year, I suppose, and maybe it'll be an extra incentive for her to stay with me! |
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| Nothing to report |
[Mar. 29th, 2005|05:53 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| |  apathetic | ] |
It's not that I'm bored, exactly, just that I don't want to do anything at the minute. I don't think the perennial grey skies and damp, chilly weather are helping; I often feel like this when I'm inside a lot, but there isn't really anything fun to do outdoors alone. Damn, I wish El could be up here for the whole holiday, although of course that's impossible.
Rowan is still going forwards slowly (Comma is today's achievement so far) but I just know that if I could really be bothered I could do a lot more a lot quicker. Some would say that's the story of my life. |
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| Home |
[Mar. 25th, 2005|12:10 pm] |
Ahh. I've returned to the outpost of laziness and fun that is my home, and it feels so good to get out of Cambridge this time.
Updates will be infrequent from here on. |
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| She's gone ... |
[Mar. 19th, 2005|07:38 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| | sad | ] |
El has gone home, and that's left me feeling really empty all of a sudden. I've got three days left in Cambridge without her, too, before I go home too; hopefully I won't feel like this for all of them! I haven't gone more than two days without seeing her (or three without sleeping with her, I think!) for the whole term and now there's something like three weeks ahead :S
At least I got a damn good send-off last night. |
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| Sunshine! |
[Mar. 18th, 2005|06:59 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| | sun-drenched | ] |
I think Cambridge has clocked its annual sunshine hour average over the last two days. It was literally sunny all day today, although there was some thin cirrus and light alto-level stuff which sometimes reduced the full sun to watery sunshine. I spent a lot of the day on the Paddock (in the sun :D) reading, and El and I went for a picnic 'lunch' (the quotation marks are due to the fact that 3.30 probably isn't lunchtime in most people's books) down by the river later, so I feel I've made the most of a lovely day.
El goes home tomorrow, so tonight will be our last night together for a while. I'm sure we'll make it a good one, but while the holidays are good it's always sad to separate, even for a couple of weeks! (And it's still only the third time we've had to split after being together for a long time.) |
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| Worries laid aside |
[Mar. 17th, 2005|06:09 pm] |
| [ | I am feeling |
| | happy | ] |
Ahh, I've spent a wonderful day enjoying the sunshine with E. We went to the Botanic Gardens (my first time there), and just wandered slowly around, savouring the sun, the gentle breeze, the prettiness of it all, and each other's company of course. It's really so nice to do extended nothing together after having had so much time taken up by work and so on.
And a factette from last night: garlic breath doesn't put me off! |
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| The season is over ... |
[Mar. 16th, 2005|07:04 pm] |
The Cambridge University collegiate league season, that is. It's the end of Lent Full Term and all the games have been played. The firsts just miss out on promotion, and the seconds come second-bottom but we think only one goes down, so the status quo should be maintained for next year. Our last game was a good send-off for Acting Captain Jonesy (who took over in the absence of Kav and Tom), with us winning 9-1 against CCSS and Jonesy scoring a last-minute goal.
I'm slightly worried about E – there's something playing on her mind recently, but she won't tell me what it is. Hopefully it's just end-of-term overload and after a week or two at home she'll recover ... nicely in time to be invited up to mine again.
The WoC affiliate programme, which I'd forgotten I'd even signed up for, delivered $13 to me today, so presumably someone followed the link from the Noon Plaza and later spent some money. |
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| First team call-up! |
[Mar. 13th, 2005|07:33 pm] |
Today I made it onto the pitch in the hallowed colours of the first team! Admittedly, I only got a minute or so (up front!) and didn't touch the ball, but my name is now indelibly marked down in first team history! (For real, it's on the website and everything.) We won 3-0 as well, keeping our promotion hopes alive.
My legs are pretty tired, from yesterday's game and then the cycle up to Wilby and back. |
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