Most of my friends graduated today! I was a little jealous :P They’re all out in the workforce, earning money, having a blast and I’m still at uni \: It was really good to see everyone though, there’s a few people that I haven’t seen since last
year I don’t think. We’ve all been busy and I’m guessing that it’s only going to get harder to keep in touch.
So yeah, met up with them and a few other people to take photos and things. For the last photo my friends decided to throw their mortarboards into the air and I was taking a photo of them doing this, except someone can’t throw and the mortarboard came crashing down on my head. Actually, it hit the top of my nose, and must have come down with quite some force because it grazed my nose and it was bleeding. Plus my glasses were knocked off my head and were totally bent out of shape ): I didn’t even really realise what had happened, cos I basically just fell to the ground with pain and was really disoriented for a bit. I’ve still got a headache \: So yes, I’ve decided that those things are lethal weapons and when it’s my turn to graduate I’ll be sure to throw it properly. But yeah, congratulations to all my friends who graduated today!!
Some of us went to yum cha afterwards, which was lots of fun. And then we went to Maloney’s to play pool. Haven’t done that in ages, and it was fairly obvious cos we weren’t playing very well :P I went back to uni after that cos I had to see my thesis supervisor. My meeting didn’t go for long, so I headed back out into the city to meet up with my friends again. They’d gone to CityHunter to LAN. I don’t really find LANing as fun as I used to. I think it’s cos I don’t really play computer games anymore (not that I have the time) and a lot of the games don’t interest me that much. I prefer hosting a LAN at my place because then we can control what games we play and it’s much easier to set things up and everyone knows their own computer. Danny and I ended up playing “Star Wars: Empire At War” because the others were playing Dawn of War and then DOTA which we weren’t interested in. Took us a good 20-30 minutes to really get the hang of the game I think. It plays like Dawn of War – you have to capture these ‘checkpoints’ that essentially determine how much of the map you’re controlling. But, you can only have 8 groups of troops on the ground, but they’re groups that are determined by the game. So you’ll be like “I want speeders” and you’ll get 3 in a group. This kind of adds another dimension to the game, because you have to work out what a good combination of units will be. Danny and I played this for about an hour before I headed home and he headed to the Graduation Dinner. Cherryl’s performing two songs at the dinner, I think, so I hope it all went well.
In other news, thesis is somewhat progressing now. I’ve learnt some PL/pgSQL and (lots) more SQL, as well some theory about indexing and other stuff. I’ve written about 2,000 words and my supervisor reckons my thesis should be about 10,000 to 12,000 words… so I’ve got some ways to go. I’ve been functioning on about 3-4 hours sleep each day for the last week and a half I think. It’s beginning to take its toll as I’m becoming forgetful and rather irritable. At times like this, I always remember reading an article about how lack of sleep contributes to weight gain because people who slept less were more likely to eat unhealthy foods. And by god, they’re RIGHT! In the last week alone I have eaten:
- 2 meat pies (one normal, one king-sized)
- 2 sausage rolls
- 1 small big mac meal
- 1 sausage & egg mcmuffin
- 1 cheese & bacon roll
- 1 bacon & egg roll
- 2 bottles of red bull
- 1 can of v
- 1 bottle of lemon ice tea
- 1 fried chicken breast
And that’s just the stuff I can remember :P Even for me, that’s pretty gross. I mean, I’m all for junky foods, but at some point you have to say “this is disgusting” and I think I’ve hit that point. Needless to say, I’ll probably do it all again next week.
Lastly, here’s something Kurt showed me from a forum he was reading:
1)Iron oxide is rust. 2)Your blood uses iron to transport oxygen. Therefore, your blood is red because it is full of rust.
