I semi-did NaNoWriMo this year and used it only to finish my story from last year and not to write a new 50k word story. So, while I officially didn't 'win', I did finish my RoD story titled Secrets, Lies and Private Eyes. It's already partially posted, but there are still around 30k words left to edit and post. I'm hoping to have it all online by ( Read more... )

As of yesterday afternoon, I am officially done with the academic year 2010! Almost four months of freedom await! All I will have to worry about is work, but that amounts to a max of six hours a week. The printed copies of my final assignment are in the post and the electronic copy has been sent off as well. I have plenty of plans for the free ( Read more... )

...or why I haven't been around much lately - both here and on the various websites/communities you might know me from. The academic year is about to wrap up in roughly two weeks time, and at the moment, I'm very busy with my mini-project (due on 7th October, but needs to be in the mail a few days before that). I have finally finished the data ( Read more... )

It's been one of those few weeks again that have left me seriously wondering what on Earth I'm doing in grad school and the only answer that I have been able to come up with is that I'm here because everything else would only have sucked worse. (at least that was what I was thinking last December, now I'm not so sure anymore). It doesn't help that ( Read more... )

but I really needed to catch up on uni work, so the last week or so has been mostly about work. Not just my studies, which take up the bulk of my productive time (I am a full-time student, even though I study exclusively on-line), but also one of my old employers needed someone to fill in a for a few weeks at least and I agreed to do it. I can ( Read more... )

Break week was fairly uneventful, and unfortunately far too short. Now, uni has me back in its clutches and somehow, I have managed to get behind once again. I am catching up, but between a bad day yesterday and general lack of concentration, it might take a while until I'm on schedule once again. Part of it is my fault, for example, the bad day ( Read more... )

Easter break has finally started, but unfortunately, it wasn't off to such a good start. Yesterday Lady Blue, one of my pets, died :-( Also, I got my first s802 assignment back. While it certainly could have been worse (and I definitely have produced worse), I'm not too thrilled about the 63% that I got. Well, I had no idea what I was doing when I ( Read more... )

For example, this morning, when I should have been studying some paper on antimony and SIDS, I was browsing around and happened across the website of my ISP. I was pleasantly surprised to read that they've lowered prices and upped speed on their plans. Needless to say that I've put in for a change in plan - paying the same monthly fee as I do now, ( Read more... )

Less than 2 full weeks into my course and I'm already starting to think that I might be a bit too young for it ( Read more... )

Mainly because I have been busy with my studies, very busy in fact. But the good thing is that I finally finished my thesis/research project yesterday! Woot! Not that I will have much free time coming up, since I have one more TMA and then revision for two exams to deal with. But at least I can enjoy the weekend :-D Or what is left of it ( Read more... )