Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

So, the semester's officially ended. I know it ended more than a week ago; I do apologise for tardiness, and I know it's been 16 days since the last update. But for whatever reason, the NTU network decided to block Blogger, or at least make it so difficult to access that the browsers simply gave up on trying to load it; and today's the latest that I thought to check and then I decided to write a post. And it'll be a nice long one, too, since it's got 16 days to cover--that's the entire last two weeks plus a bit, which means the last of everything... the last lecture, the beginning of exams and the end of them, and how I am now... and of course I'll be detailing them all in obsessively overabundance of detail. After all, I've got plenty of time to type up the post. So we begin... let's see, April the 27th was the day of the final lecture--I'm not sure how that managed to not be mentioned in the last post--but at any rate I attended it, partly beca...

The semester is rapidly drawing to an end, and by now there's only a very little left of it to be gone through before I say goodbye to student days forever and then it's (as I keep telling everybody who asks what I think will happen after I graduate) homelessness and unemployment for me, I'll just sit on sidewalks and hold out a little tin cup jangling with change. Well, really, one hopes the job market will be better than that. But I don't like living on hope; I'd like to live on certainty; but certainty is a precious scarce resource in the world we live in, and so I'll take hope as the next best available thing. So what's been going on? This is very nearly a token update--the last two weeks haven't really contained anything of note: I wake, I do some studying, I sleep, it goes on and on; every now and then it's interspersed by events, like meetings or birthday parties or all-night board-game sessions that last nine hours or more and leave everybody...