Christmas Chaos

The lack of blogs recently is largely due to the fact that I'm either running around like a headless chicken, impressing Pete's relatives, dealing with my own family and trying to catch up on some sleep. It's been a busy few days, families and friends all trying to make some time available and catch up. But it's been fun. :)

Not much to "report" on lately. The weight loss plan is on hold thanks to Chirstmas. *sigh*. Thesis isn't going anywhere either thanks to Christmas. So hopefully everything will resume its normal schedule once the holidays are over. But I won't bet on it. :P

Slacker

Yeah I think I've started adopting the holiday spirit, stopped working even that half day. (I still work a few hours a day when I can. Christmas shopping and all, and my brother decided to get me to do things like shopping for him since he's working full time. Go figure)

I've started writing a story. Probably gonna be a short novel sorta length. Something that keeps my head thinking I guess. I like things like that. Pete read a bit of it and he thought it's good, then again of course he's going to be biased.

Christmas shopping all done now. JUst have to do the last minute things and I'll be sweet... *sigh*

Then it's New Years time. :P

Working the week before Christmas

The engineering building is so quiet. So very quiet.

It's scary, even the cafe is closed. I have to walk
outside to get my coffee fix. The toilet lights were
off. It's like no one expect me to be workign here
today.

Well, no one except my supervisor and psuedo boss.
Bummer.

So far for the past two hours I'min uni, I've written
one paragraph, played a few games of spider solitair,
changed my saving acocunt to a plan which give me
better rates, read and edit a bit of my story, had
half of my lunch, and replied emails.

*sigh*. REALLY don't feel like working man...

The problem with electronic library

My psuedo-boss sent in 3 papers references to me today.
Which is actually a good thing. I can't do my side of
the research without knowing much about the clinical
side of things. The paper references looks innocent
enough, so one of them was written in 1985 but then again
that shouldn't matter. So I click on my trusty "Uni
Library" link and clickety-click-click my way through the
electronic journal site.

Ok, they don't have the journal all the way back to '85
(that's sad! IEEE has electronic journal all the way back!).
And the other one missed the volume I want (well, it has ONE
issue of the volume and alas! It's not the one I need). The
third is even stranger. The pager number is there (EXACT one
too, like both the starting and ending page) but the contents
is different.

So I go back to the normal search site, hoping we'll have the
paper version in the medical library. I can pretend to be a
doctor while doing so! Okay maybe not. But as fate would have
it, the journals are only available in electronic format.
*sob*

I wonder what would happen in like 100 years of time. I wonder
if ALL library would be electronic. You just subscribe to some
sort of library and you can search and download information as
you like. Would it ever replace paper?

And what happen in 100 years time if they don't read some of
the storage system we use now? Don't tell me that it'd never
happen. It's already hard to find something that read 5" disc,
let alone things like punch cards. The information is bound
to be useful someday. I'm trying to find something 20 years
ago (I was still alive then!) and already am having problems.

I'm an old fashion sort of girl. I like reading on papers. In
fact most of the elctronic papers I read were printed out
already. I can't stand reading e-book. But one of these days,
maybe I'd have to be converted.

I'm just hoping it won't be anytime soon.

9 days til Christmas

... and I still haven't finished Christmas shopping. Yikes! One more to go.

Been organising catch up and whatnots. So reasonablly busy. Plus the literature review. It's not going TOO great but it's not looking too bad either I suppose.

Ah well. Spider solitaire, then work :P

Good idea and bad timing

Thought of a good idea, which may involve using blog as a "game". Although coming up with a good idea when I'm supposedly busy is never a good thing. I'll see about it, I might implement it later.

Dear lord did I just used the work "implement" without thinking much?

10 days til Christmas people! I guess I better start writin Christmas cards soon huh...

Eek!

Caffeine Overdrive

It's been a lazy day, I've decided to compensate for it by caffeine, in hopes that the caffeine would actually speed up my train of thoughts.

Well, so far all it's doing is... nothing really. Maybe I'm immuned to caffeine already. The real test would come when I start writing. Last time I was drinking V when I was writing my final year project report and I had sentences that ran for 3 lines straight.

Okay, after I stopped being distracted, I'll get to work. :)

/Can you blame me? It's almost Christmas! :P

The LONG road of writing a literature review...

I've finally started to write the litrature review.

The table of contents is more or less done, now I just ahve to write it all in. Problem being there are still a few paper that I haven't really read. But that's okay, I can just skim though those and jot down some main points and make some comments along the way...

It's going to be a LONG week :P

It's that time of year again!

Christmas shopping is a pain in the butt. Especially if you're anything like me who can't quite quit worrying about things, so in the processing of organising things sometimes it's hard to not give away what you're getting people. I'm doing pretty well so far... my brother's present is the tough one but meh, I'll get there.

Allergy reaction at an all time high again. It's like this last summer too, and maybe I AM allergic to that sunscreen, and once the allergy starts it goes on for quite a while. It's a viscious cycle: skin gets itchy, scratch, skin gets sensitive, any little thing will trigger the next reaction, rinse and repeat. Think I'm on a strictly no chocolate diet again. *sigh*

Stupid allergy!!!

The Evil Network Program

Yes, so it WAS Novell that cleaned my folder, and it did it again. T_T

ALL my stuff in the "PhD Thesis" folder: Gone.

*Sob*

For the whole day I was just attempting to restore thing, reconcile all the reference papers on the computer, and tomorrow I'll ahve to read a few papers and summarise things again.

*sigh*

Wish me luck...

Spider Solitaire

ARGH! Honestly spider solitaire is addictive! I've been playing about an hour of it everyday, instead of actually working. It wasn't too bad when I was playing on the easy level. But once I thought I'll try the medium one, it's getting out of hand. People said I should try free cell but it's probably just a little bit too complicated for me. :P

But I really need to figure out a way to stop being addicted to it...

I think I can. I think I can.

Just back from the holiday. It was a very good break indeed. Although the work that's been waiting for me once I get back isn't exactly exciting. Trying to summarise as many papers as I can now for this week... yikes.

Not to mention that my allergy came back after one day in the sun. This is getting absurd. But it seems to be dying down today. Which is good. Think if I stay home today tomorrow I should be fine again.

I'm just gonna try my best this week. I think I can do it. So long as my mind don't decide to drift off again. (Curse this short attention span thing!)

Early summer holiday!

Since I'm more than likely not getting major time off this Christmas, I'm taking an early "long weekend" off to Pete's bach. :D This should be fun. :)

I'm just gonna do a little bit more reading, than I'll finish packing and off I go! Yay!!

The mystery that is the missing files

Okie... so the music files aren't the only ones that
are missing. I still don't know WHY that happen, but
I guess I'll just scan my laptop for spyware too...

I'm going away to Pete's bach tomorrow. YAY! Of course
before that I have to meet with supervisor and psuedo
boss as well. But the meeting today with supervisor
went well. So that's good. I'll see my psuedo boss
tomorrow just to let him know what I've been up to. And
hopefully I can go home for lunch and pack and stuff
before 4 then I'm off for the weekend! YAY!

*fingers crossed* let's hope the weather will be kind
to us. :)