First day of school

Well it's February 27th. I start Uni again tomorrow. It feels like the first day of school. I'm a bit sad but I know I have to go anyway. Here are some of my fears at the moment:

• This thesis will consume my life
• This thesis will suck out my soul and destroy me emotionally
• This thesis will make me wanna quit Uni and become a bum (ie: spiritual advisor ie: Steven (no that's too harsh))
  
• The music subject I'm doing will be hard and take up all of my spare time
• Not knowing whether to do COMS4200 or COMP4602
• Going to Uni 5 days a week for an hour at a time (Fucking timetable)
  

There.

Last night I saw Ross Noble stagger around a stage for 2 hours. He wasn't that great. I never thought he would be. There are a few lines I did like though. For instance, he's talking about how there'd be a bouncer guarding the pearly gates in heaven.

Bouncer - "Sorry mate, not in those shoes"
Someone - "But you let a guy in wearing sandles!"
Bouncer - "He's the boss's son"

He talked too much about the audience. Whenever someone walked in or out of the theatre, he'd crap on about them for the next 10 minutes. Argh! I'd rather someone have material to recite, instead of imrproving all the time. It was the first comedian I've seen live, and it's kinda coincidental that it happenned on the anniversary of Bill Hick's passing. 11 years ago he died. How bout that.

fucking over

I really should stop swearing but fucking hell I finished work experience today. I only technically did 58 days, but fuck who gives a crap? One day I took off to recover from the Big Day Out, and the other was Australia Day. This afternoon, everyone threw a surprise afternoon tea for me. I gave a little speech saying "thanks for having me" pretty much. I made some joke about not wanting to drink with Barry. ha ha. Aren't I funny? I received 2 Brisbane Water glasses as my retirement gift. I also got a reference from Iain. Super. I'm all set for my final year of uni which will be a "fucking-son-of-a-cunt" to get through. I'm doing a music subject to bludge in, though I think it could be a challenge. Anywho I'm doing these subjects:

	Course Code	Course Title	Units
	COMP4500	Advanced Algorithms & Data Structures	2
	COMS4200	Computer Networks II	2
	ENGG4801	Thesis Project	2
	MUSC2600	Music Techniques 3	2

Wow, it copied the formatting and everything. The hardest will be COMS4200. My brother took it and said it was hard. Aww poor Bradley. The algorithms one is more maths based, so I'm looking forward to that. I'm getting sick of computers. Yet here I am on one. I'm a slave.

20th

So I'm admiring the speed of my new computer, inherited from my brother. It should make uni a bit easier. Less frustrating anyway. I went to Kristy's on Saturday and saw the TISM video Gold Gold Gold!!! It's pretty good. The Shaun Mcallef bit's great. Actually it's all good.

"Do your shoulder blades ambulate like curves in the Gobi Desert?"
"Go-Karting is the 2nd worst thing a human can do"

God last night I had the most intense headache. I still kinda have it. I hope I'm not getting it from this giant antenna sticking out of my computer. Earlier today I had this strange realization that throughout the entire history of the universe, the human race has existed for a very short period of time. Also take in the fact that the Earth is a tiny planet amongst a seemingly infinite reaching universe. Therefore, all life is meaningless and I should just stop caring.

I really should start thinking less.

I also made a commitment to give up coffee. Yes, hopefully coffee is the root of all problems. Thus eradicating caffeine from my system will make me feel less anxious and more relaxed, and tired I bet. Fucking hell, I'm only 20 and I'm giving up all the drugs I do. Fucking hell, how boring. I should take up cocaine or something. No, I shouldn't. What about alcohol? I don't drink it very often. Jesus. I bet Jesus drank alcohol in his day. How the hell else would he believe to be the son of God? Pfft, he must've been ingesting a lot of wacky things.

work

Here i am at work making a post. Apparently the brisbane water proxy doesn't mind me making posts now. It used to block me. Anyway, I've nearly decided upon this thesis (the Academic Advisor). Uggh, anyway I hope it's not too challenging. But I want depth in a topic, and this has depth, though I'm just scared by the enormity of it. Is enormity a word? I've never used it before. I will also have to do things I've never used before. Like making a GUI in Java, and interfacing Prolog with Java. Though I'm fuckin awesome at Java. Also the supervisor for that topic has to be one of the coolest people I've ever met. When I first met him, we was talking about the thesis, and he was going on and on about study plans. And he said something like:

"Study plans are great. When I was at university, I was trying to spend more time with this girl. She was doing mathematics, and I was saying to her: hey if you do these courses you can spend more time with me. And now in 2005 we're celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary!"

I was impressed. He also managed to quote Basil Fawlty by saying "Now here's the tricky bit".

I nearly didn't get out of bed this morning. I didn't want to get out and do stuff today, but here I am. I drank an insanely strong cup of coffee just then. Whoope dee doo

grrrr

so i went to uni today to clear up some matters. i totally cleared up my course selection problem. yay, i can do a music subject if i really want to :). i also talked to Roger Duke about this thesis. it seems so trivially basic, i'm thinking of doing this harder one with Paul Bailes. grrrr. this is such a hard decision. i don't want to make it. kristy is telling me to let go. i can't do that. i'm just so pent up filled with anxiety. maybe i should start listening to angrier music. too much polyphonic spree could be the problem. maybe i should start using proper grammar and punctuation in these posts.

that was fun

Went to the 2nd house warming party at Sarah's house. Jamming on a recorder with Daniel was great! I can't believe I managed to fool everyone into thinking the recorder is a musical instrument outside the school environment. I only had about 8 notes to use. They must be all the natural notes. Fuck yeah, anywho I also had a part of my leg waxed. It feels abnormally smooth.

I will be seeing Ross Noble doing stand up at the Powerhouse. Hooray, I've never seen a comedian live before. Henry Rollins isn't exactly a comedian, but he's funny. He'll probably be funnier than Ross, because Henry can yell really loud. Henry was $40 and Ross is only $24, so what the hell. Other concerts that look good to me at the moment are:

• Prodigy - March 8th, Riverstage, $77.90
  
• What is Music? - March 12th, Powerhouse $77
• Joe Satriani - March 14th, Arena $71

All of them are too expensive for me to go to them though. I'm hoping Henry does another speaking tour here. It's been almost 2 years. He comes to Australia all the time.

PS: I put in "Hitler" into google image search, and I got a couple of George Bush pictures. hardy ha.

linky

I finally got a reply back from Roger Duke. I can't do the thesis i asked about, but apparently I can do a similar one. So that's some good news. I'll meet him next week. Last night I went to Sarah's and watched some awful shit movie. Kristy wanted to knot up my leg hairs, but I was too strong for her. hehe. Umm, I started some new work at work. Though I'm continually finding myself listening to music and doing nothing. So that's great.

indecision

oh i can never make up my mind. What thesis topic should I do? Argh! It's hard to get excited about any of the topics that look good. I also want a new chair, even though I bought this chair about 6 months ago, and it cost me about $90. Grrr, couple this with my ailing back, and my possible inability to do a music subject this semester. Everything is just fine and dandy.

I did nothing at work today. Just attended a meeting, browsed the net, talked to kristy, enjoyed air-con. 10 days to go now, and then I start uni a-fuckin-gain.

Nothing really that interesting has happenned to me in the past few days. I just felt like talking on here. ***10 minutes elapse*** oh shit I forgot about this post. Umm, I was watching Shaun Mcallef videos. So yes, what else I should be exercising my back now. I'll do it when I get off here. Ummm, blah blah yadayada. That'll do for today.

shaun of the dead

i saw closer on thursday. It wasn't that great, but it had some real funny moments. Cybersex is funny. Though it's funnier when your Mum asks you what cybersex is. After the movie I managed to score a Shaun of the Dead poster for fuckin nothing. I was willing to pay something for it, but it was 11pm and they were closing up. Here tis:


I saw a Garden State poster in there as well, so I'll try and nab that next time. hehe. I love movie posters. They're my favourite piece of visual art. I already have Pulp Fiction and Fight Club posters. The poster I've always wanted is the German poster for Run Lola Run:


It's $10 on ebay, but shipping would cost $15. so meh, my parents wouldn't like me paying that much for just a poster. fuck.

Saw the doctor about my back. He said to keep on doing exercise, and he also thought I might have Scheuermann's disease, which means my back curves moreso than usual. So I'm getting an x-ray done on my back. He also said my right leg is shorter than the left. So that's why it hurts when I stand up for long periods. Uggh, I also got a new mattress for my bed. Hopefully I'll be ok. The mattress salesman was pretty funny. I was lying down on a bed, and I was saying "Oh I can't make up my mind" and he said "Well you can sleep on it". How pathetic, yes.

So that's what happenned to me in the past few days.