Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

So it's Friday night, and the... let's see... it's nearly four days and a half since I moved into this new place, and of those four I've only spent one full day in the house; every other day I've gone walking out to explore or get stuff done; my schedule of living hasn't changed, much, though. I suppose I should introduce the people I'll be living with for the next year, barring giant surprises that send me off to goodness knows where and force me to forfeit the month's deposit... so first off I'll start by saying that I don't live alone. It's a small unit: two bedrooms, one living room, one kitchen-cum-dining room, one storeroom; both bedrooms are rented out, and I (and the roommate) occupy the one nearer the kitchen. It's very clean--the landlady has a thing about germs--and most of the furniture is pretty old. There's piles of stuff around the kitchen and store room, apart from the space on the ground where the landlady sleeps. The...

...has it really been only half a month since Australia? It seems so much... longer . My sense of time has gotten warped, what with not having anything occupying my time... Let's see if I can piece together any sort of coherent memory of the last two weeks. I'm sure I'll be able to. Not in as much detail as the Australian account, of course, but that's to be expected. Let's see what I can remember. We might have to throw coherency out along the way, though... I suppose I might as well lay out a baseline, so you don't imagine me living the footloose and fancy free life, all bobance and bounce and fricasseed Freakazoid and come away with entirely the wrong impression and start thinking that the events I tell you about are just the tip of the iceberg and really I'm doing all sorts of really amazing things I'm just not telling you about. So here's my new "average day"... On an average day I wake up anywhere between 10am and 12pm; the first thin...

I got back from Australia a couple days ago, and have a great deal to write; fortunately for everybody I brought a notebook along, and filled it up every day with an account of expenditure (mostly for the parents' benefit, so they know how the money went) and activities, and so you're about to be told about five days' and four nights' worth of strenuous activity! ...well, not quite strenuous. But the benefit of having a notebook to record things in is that I'm going to be able to go into a fair bit of detail, and that means you have a lovely big wall of text to look at! But first the... Record of Expenditure (all figures in AUD; these items not listed in chronological order) 26th May Return ticket (Brisbane Int'l-Nerang): 57 Go card: 40 Lunch (rump steak) 9.95 Dinner (pizzas) 5.60 Observation tower ticket 21 Running total ≈114.55 27th May Theme park and farm tour tickets 157 Breakfast ("big breaky") 7.95 Tiger...

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...

I have just... well, not quite just ... I have been awake for about 1.5 hours at this point, having gotten about five hours of sleep. You're unlikely to be able to do the math, seeing as how this post will show up at different times on either Blogspot or on Facebook (someday I think I will actually just start using one and find some way to share posts other than through Facebook Notes--just keeping the link to this blog in the profile should be more than adequate for those who actually want to read it), and so I'll tell you I slept this morning at around 6am. It's surprising how the symmetry of life works, isn't it? I've gone through the whole cycle of see-be amused-be bored-be annoyed with that email about how babies just want to not poop in their clothes and children want to be with their families and so on and eventually old people just want to be with their families and very old people just want to not poop in their clothes; also that one about how life should g...

I woke at 10.30am today, 2.5 hours later than usual--and in fact I only woke at 10.30am because I have an alarm setting on my phone for when the 8am alarm goes off and I want to sleep in a bit more. Left to my own devices (no pun intended) I would probably have woken up a long time after lunchtime; not that I'm particularly hungry at the moment, I did plenty of eating yesterday and the fullness has got carried forward. I think it's the sleep debt forcibly paying itself off, though; I haven't been sleeping very early for the past few days, mostly because I and a friend have gotten hooked on playing board games and we've been spending a fair bit on new ones. Well, we've only bought two, so far, but they're pretty addictive games--the first one was Shadow Hunters, which I played twice or thrice a long time ago at the Settlers' Cafe and liked, and the second was Munchkin Quest, which we've been playing over and over because the rulebook is just that difficul...