Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

The room is in a shambles; there are boxes all over the place, full and semi-full and empty, and dust is everywhere; tomorrow I shall go out for a flu vaccination and then come back and empty out the semi-full boxes to see if I can't throw away some of the things and compact some of the others, and more or less in the end get all my possessions to fit into the various containing-things I own. It turns out boxes aren't free anymore, at least not large ones; most of my boxes are now the kind that A4 paper gets transported in, small and squat and packed with paper and books. I have 6 of those boxes and they're all packed absolutely full and they're all much heavier than any box has a right to be, apart from the Very Large Box which is overflowing with clothes. Essentially at the moment I'm something of a nervous wreck, worrying about at least four things, of which at least three are school-related; whoever said school was easy and relaxing? I was so much more relaxed w...

It's 1:39am; in about 10.5 hours I will meet the Gobbler for lunch, and then we will probably discuss the merits and demerits of the Macintosh; but it will inevitably end in me giving him some money which he will use to buy a Macintosh for my father, who wants one for whatever reason. What will happen to the current laptop is anybody's guess. It'll probably go to one of the siblings currently living with the parents. Personally I disagree with the decision, but it was made without my input; not that I'm a great supporter of Bill Gates and Microsoft, but Apple isn't any better, and in fact is quite often worse. But it's not like my father will do very much on it anyway. I spent most of yesterday and today out of the room. Yesterday I spent a good 13 hours out at the local closest-equivalent to a beach with a couple of friends--well, one was a friend and the other was a friend of the friend. We spent, I think, a good four to five hours in the water; as the two of ...

It's an hour and a half--well, an hour and fifteen minutes, maybe even an hour if I choose a leisurely walk--'til my meeting with the assistant professor whom I hope to cajole and persuade into pre-allocating me his project on glass textures and stuff. Tee Four said it sounds more like an arts project than a bioengineering one, but I think it sounds fun, which is really the biggest reason I'm applying for it. ...well, well. It's been raining since morning, though it sounds like it's stopped. I'll find out later; though with the way the weather relates to me, I'll probably not need to even step out for it to start raining cliches. Still, the cold weather's a nice change from the hot, sunny kind, though I do wish it'd give my clothes a chance to dry. I wish I had a theme song sometimes. Something I could put on my phone as an .mp3 and play before entering any room... It would probably look more than a little silly to the people in the room I was just e...

Well, the internship's over and done with. And now it's the Tuesday after the internship ended... The last day of interning was relatively fun, but a bit guilt-wracking since I had to hand over the remainder of one of my main projects (it's about 80% or so done) to the supervisor and hopefully he'll get the rest of it done. Other than that there was a lot of paperwork to run around and get signed and so on; it being a large company, there were things to sign off and things to turn back in and suchlike. At any rate I made it, along with all the other students; I wonder if I should have done what the other student in my department did and bought going-away gifts for people. Maybe it's one of those unwritten rules of etiquette; I certainly didn't think of it at least... I did write a nice thank-you email to everybody I could think of, though. ...the days have passed quite relaxedly. I thought for awhile that I had lost the ability to sleep late, since I slept at ar...