Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

Well! The exams--my third round of them--begin in a little more than two weeks now. And I'm still woefully unprepared: biofluids is arguably the most worrying one, unintelligible as it is despite the genius of the lecturer--in fact it's quite possible, I'd say, that his sheer genius is the reason I can't understand it. After all when a genius talks, mere mortals must necessarily be confounded until such time as they meditate on the talk and, with glorious snapping of the fingers, understand what was said. Unfortunately time is not a resource I have in large quantity, and biofluids is only one of the many things that worry me. And then? Mechanics of materials, which the Pig apparently has already studied and has most kindly attempted to help me with--the most recent example being a voice call over MSN re: the Mohr's Circle; but with the number of diagrams associated with it and the numerous variables and unknowns, not to mention the fact that he has absolutely lousy

This morning was not a good one for me; well it wasn't an entirely bad one, but it was still very irritating as well as time-and-money-wasting... You see, my church has this shuttle bus that leaves a certain bus interchange at 8.40am, which behooves me to take an 8.15 bus from the nearest bus stop to the interchange (it's a fifteen-minute ride) and then wait the ten minutes until the shuttle turns up. Generally I make it on time; in the past year I've only missed the bus two or three times and even then it was my fault for waking late. Today, on the other hand, it wasn't my fault. I woke at 7, was at the bus stop by 8.10... and remained there until 8.30 when a tiny little thing trundled around. By my conjecture the bus company decided that this route brings in too little revenue, and they seem to have reduced the frequency of the buses without having the courtesy to say so--and heck, the frequency as it was, was low enough already! There are two bus routes in the Unive

I have been pounding my desk quite frequently today. I woke at 9am, or thereabouts--unlike Crazy Scary, I don't tend to wake very early on weekends. Especially not on weekends (although I make an exception for Sunday since I have church). Actually the pounding is days overdue: my computer, again, is having troubles. I've been assured by various sources that these troubles are likely to be recurrent, especially since I'm using a Dell; also these same sources advocate any one of three or four remedies that will be both time-consuming and expensive and I really cannot afford to carry those out at this time in the semester. The troubles, specifically, are: slow start-up time (this has been going on for a little over a month now)--the computer takes about 15 minutes between the time I press ON to the time I can actually begin using it, and I take only 2 seconds to enter my password; and more recently, spontaneous shutdowns/restarts regardless of conditions, as well as inability