Panthera Sapiens Ellipsis: The Blog

The electricity got cut off again the night before last: the third time in a week and on the same day as the previous post, too; it was terribly annoying, especially since it was night and everything was dark as well as humid. But the afternoon was okayish, because a short time after the previous post, the family was bundled into the car and we went off mall-strolling until we found a KFC with WiFi, upon which we settled in for the next three hours, during which we caught up on as much as possible of life beyond these shores--the nature of the family's lifestyle means that a large part of all our contacts live in a different time zone or continent altogether. I watched Transformers 2 last night; it was pretty good, even if it began to start throwing out--I can't decide if those were loose threads or plot holes or sequel hooks--near the end of it, what with suddenly having teleportation and robot ghosts (plus an afterlife!) and the idea of lineages and robot families (I can'...

It has been a month since I typed the above post, or very nearly so; it's not all me being my procrastinating self really since I only got my laptop back yesterday (it was with a technician for the past two weeks) and I'd not thought to do the typing during the two weeks before that. Also, the laptop was a bit busted up: some time after the previous post, I had a fit of destructive experimentation (it's what I call it when I get the idea to study something by completely taking it to pieces, though usually it's limited to rather more easily replaced things) and began unscrewing the laptop in an effort to see if its internal bits were running okay. The Pig, when told about it, decided I needed semi-professional-bordering-on-amateur help (apparently he started his university days as a computer engineering student before deciding he hated studying electronics and switched to mechanical engineering), and so I screwed everything back on and took the whole lot to his house the...

My last post was May 21st, which means I have--let's see--16 days' worth of typing-up to catch you up on, plus whatever ramblings I come up with on the side. Essentially you're in, dear reader, for another wall-of-text post that might just eat up my next three hours in typing. You'll probably take about one-sixth that to finish reading it, of course. Life is still much the same, but reading the May 21st post--mostly about the RAID driver--I feel it behooves me (that's a nice word, actually, behooves is. It sounds as if I were about to turn into a cow or some sort of cattle.) to elaborate about the life I lead here in Patience, or have led for the past two weeks-odd. I commonly sleep around 12am or 1am, waking around 11am or thereabouts (today I slept at 3am and woke at 11.48am, making it my latest yet), after which I descend the stairs. I am currently living with church friends--the exact relationship is friends-of-parents and parents-of-friends, but their children...

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 ...

So, the exams are over--the very last one was yesterday afternoon--and already I'm quite bored out of my mind with nothing to do. Well, technically I do still have a roomful of items to catalogue and boxes to obtain and pack it all away in, but I've three or four days yet to do that in and I'm in no hurry. I've still got the best part of 35 centiliters (about 350ml, or roughly 3/4 of a 500-ml bottle) of liquor yet to go--it's about three months old really since I bought it in late February and it's now almost May. I don't really plan to let it last longer than the next week, which means about three shot glasses a day of Creme de Bananes (as it is labeled) a day for the next few days after dinner before bed: I should have some interesting dreams. I've also got a lot of other comestibles to polish off, which shouldn't be so much of a problem either as long as I've got water to wash everything down with--or so I think. ...I'm bored. Very bored. ...