Besides being a complete failure of blogging, 2011 can be describes as the year I could have done without.

( An unblogged year )

I really should learn never to promise posts in quick succession... Telstra has botched my pending phone and ADSL connection, and thus I have suffered from NO INTERNET all week (except at work, which doesn't count because it was only my second week, and LJ from work is hence Not Done ( Read more... )

Ever get the feeling that you needed to stop your life and start over? I did - for most of last year in fact - and so now I've gone and done it. The jury is still out on whether it was the right decision or not, but it hasn't been disasterous yet, so fingers-crossed things will fall into place in the next few weeks...

( The year that's gone )

Wow - it's been a while, hasn't it? I'm not going to apologise, though, because I really have been busy enough that little things like sleep and grocery shopping started to get pushed off the priority list, and I'm afraid that LJ really didn't have a hope. I have spent the past month or two in a haze of near exhaustion, missed deadlines and other ( Read more... )

March has always been the busiest month of the year for me - I used to blame Guides, since there's a bunch of annual events that are always on in March, but then I got to uni and joined the SCA and the pre-Festival panic put that to shame. This year has left all those preceeding months of March in the dust.

( There is always work. )

After 8 moderately stressful weeks and no leftover brainspace, I have just turned in the formal software design document for the project I am currently working on. At 107 A4 pages it's the longest thing I've ever written: half again as long as the honours thesis that took me 6 months (6 years ago, now *eek ( Read more... )