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rallamajoop) wrote2006-03-13 10:37 pm
rallamajoop) wrote2006-03-13 10:37 pm
Life update
*insert sounds of medium to large mammal coming up for air*
Ye gods it's nice to have some free time again. It has been a hectic month.
In a roundabout sort of way, I'm back at uni again.
As of sometime soon, when they get all those pesky forms sorted out, I will officially be working two part time jobs. This is not at all a bad thing as the one job I was previously working full time (at a small engineering consulting firm, for anyone who hasn't heard yet) is, despite muffiny perks, rapidly getting rather tedious. The new job involves expanding on my final year thesis topic back at the university, and even though I've only been away a few months, damn if it isn't weird to be back. Like, I walk into the CWR computer lab now, and there's no-one I know madly working on their thesis. That's just wrong, yo. Any of those of you still at uni interested in catching up at lunch some time? The class I went through my last couple of years with were a fantastic bunch of people, but have now virtually all deserted me on account of that little graduation thing, and possibly the desire to get as far away from that lab and as quickly as possible.
In other news, last weekend we all went to Swancon.
I'm starting to suspect that the trouble with most Swancons from here on out will be that no matter how good they are, they will be stuck with the shame of not being Swancon 2004, which will probably long remain really tough act to beat.
Still the con was fun (despite my managing to wind up seriously sleep deprived before it even *started*, which is certainly a new personal best), complete with foyer-wandering daleks, live j-pop concert, truly kick-ass weapons panels and, of course, the masquerade. We wore our FFVII costumes, ran into someone else cosplaying as the Amano-art version of Aeris and posed for many photographs, most of which we must sadly accept will probably never resurface. Better still was finally seeing the Zaphod Beeblebrox costume that ate scary proportions of our last month turn out so well! I believe I can summarise the whole affair in three poings: it was entirely worth the effort, that I am never starting a costume that late again, and I can now confidently assert that that should movie-Zaphod ever cut his hair and spend an evening dancing at a Swancon masqerade, I know exactly what it would look like. ^_^
While I'm at it: John, can we interest you in a new icon?
And then I got home from the con and... had to miss nearly three days of work with a headache that would not go away. Yeesh. I don't think the con was directly to blame, but still - trying for some more regular sleep patterns in future.
On a final note, yesterday we finally got around to seeing Brokeback Mountain, about which I will say only this: it lives up to nearly all the hype about it. Wow. Also: ow. That is all.
Ye gods it's nice to have some free time again. It has been a hectic month.
In a roundabout sort of way, I'm back at uni again.
As of sometime soon, when they get all those pesky forms sorted out, I will officially be working two part time jobs. This is not at all a bad thing as the one job I was previously working full time (at a small engineering consulting firm, for anyone who hasn't heard yet) is, despite muffiny perks, rapidly getting rather tedious. The new job involves expanding on my final year thesis topic back at the university, and even though I've only been away a few months, damn if it isn't weird to be back. Like, I walk into the CWR computer lab now, and there's no-one I know madly working on their thesis. That's just wrong, yo. Any of those of you still at uni interested in catching up at lunch some time? The class I went through my last couple of years with were a fantastic bunch of people, but have now virtually all deserted me on account of that little graduation thing, and possibly the desire to get as far away from that lab and as quickly as possible.
In other news, last weekend we all went to Swancon.
I'm starting to suspect that the trouble with most Swancons from here on out will be that no matter how good they are, they will be stuck with the shame of not being Swancon 2004, which will probably long remain really tough act to beat.
Still the con was fun (despite my managing to wind up seriously sleep deprived before it even *started*, which is certainly a new personal best), complete with foyer-wandering daleks, live j-pop concert, truly kick-ass weapons panels and, of course, the masquerade. We wore our FFVII costumes, ran into someone else cosplaying as the Amano-art version of Aeris and posed for many photographs, most of which we must sadly accept will probably never resurface. Better still was finally seeing the Zaphod Beeblebrox costume that ate scary proportions of our last month turn out so well! I believe I can summarise the whole affair in three poings: it was entirely worth the effort, that I am never starting a costume that late again, and I can now confidently assert that that should movie-Zaphod ever cut his hair and spend an evening dancing at a Swancon masqerade, I know exactly what it would look like. ^_^
While I'm at it: John, can we interest you in a new icon?
And then I got home from the con and... had to miss nearly three days of work with a headache that would not go away. Yeesh. I don't think the con was directly to blame, but still - trying for some more regular sleep patterns in future.
On a final note, yesterday we finally got around to seeing Brokeback Mountain, about which I will say only this: it lives up to nearly all the hype about it. Wow. Also: ow. That is all.
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(How do I get it? ^^;)
Shall we have lunch soon?
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