Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

It's been awhile since my last post, hasn't it? Or has it? I'm not too terribly sure myself--at any rate it's possibly less time than I think--or possible more. It's hard to tell; I've been in Patience for a little over a week now: my flight here was on the 18th and it's now what, 8 days? 9? since then. It certainly feels like a bit more. But one's sense of time is different when there's no assignments to do, or classes to attend, or suchlike. At the moment I'm not living in my own house, though my family does possess a house here; it's reasonably well-kept because a relative goes down every week or so to hang around it for a bit, make sure all the parts still work, runs the car for a bit and tops it up as necessary. I'm just not going there yet because I hate doing laundry and cooking and especially cleaning--sure, slipping around on soap water is fun, but not the kind of thing you want to do for a whole day especially when you've go...

I'm typing this from Patience, where I have been for the past four days or so... I wasn't expecting to have Internet really but living with friends who possess a router has its advantages. At any rate I'll be online for a little bit, maybe the next two or three days... might be useful seeing as how the exam results are coming out tomorrow (if I remember correctly). Not that I'm terribly wild to see them, but I might as well know the bad news sooner than later. My ability to inflict unknown sorts of damage on electronics all around has manifested itself again, or perhaps it's just the laptop showing its age: something called the SCSI/RAID driver has got itself uninstalled somehow, and now every time I start the computer up, up pops a little Install New Hardware dialogue box that then proceeds to inform me that the New Hardware could not be installed properly and probably won't run. I've no idea what the significance of that is, but attempts to System Restore ...

The holidays are upon me! Well, they've actually been upon me for the past two weeks--it's a strange feeling to have the days pass so unmarkedly. I spent the first week of the holidays in school, naturally, packing things into boxes and moving them into the new room/temporary storage area; that, fortunately, came off okay despite me again falling through the cracks in the bureaucratic wall, not appearing on lists, etc; but all the same I got my new room and accompanying new roommate, with whom I exchanged exactly one line of dialogue: Me: "Uh... hi." Him: "If you'd move your boxes I can take my table away from beside your bed." *moving occurs* And thereafter I said nothing to him and had nothing said to me, which was a pity because his belongings looked like they might have an interesting owner; of course, I was only in that room for a little over 12 hours anyhow, of which about 5 or 6 were spent asleep; so it's not all his fault, I suppose. I spent ...