sudo finish thesis

I got my inspiration from this:


xkcd is FAAAAN-tastic.

Anyway, after much pissing off and whatnot, I've figured out the main problem of my thesis, being that I'm trying to solve the clinical AND engineering problem at the same time. Solution would be to be slightly so selfish and so something on the engineering side to solve something that the clinician already knows, and build a classifier from there. I don't know if it'd work, but we shall see eh? Been trying to get various thing to work on my desktop (which runs Ubuntu and Octave, not Matlab), and surprisingly I found out I missed fiddling with code and stuff. I guess I really have been working on Matlab for too long.

In other news, Jon Stewart is away AGAIN this week. I hate September. I don't get Jon. :(

Right, back to hacking Octave. :)

Time Loop

I was reading my old blog (believe me it's actually the best time waster) and reading this entry... in particular about how I'll stop dwelling in the past and come back to "2004" and listen to Dark of Matinee again... and I was reading that while Dark of Matinee was playing. It's surreal.

I've been really frustrated with my research lately. Gosh the stupid f*cking theory won't work and that means I pretty much have to go back to square one. I thought I'll read the beginning on my blog to remind myself how far I've came along. And then, I realise I'm still listening to the same f*cking song as I was 3 years ago.

More ironic than having 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Heh.

Anyway.

You would've thought being depressed about your PhD will end around 3rd year seeing that I should be used to being stuck in the middle of nowhere. Nope. Far from it.

I swear after my PhD I shall take at least a month off. They better still have that completion award when I'm done so I CAN afford that month. I just need to actually finish the f*cking thesis.


P.S.: Excuse the language. In case you haven't notice I'm frustrated and pissed off at myself.

Flat White War

Gosh, would you believe it almost everyone in the cafe ordered flat whites. Being the cheap uni cafe it is they just call out what the drink is and you go up and claim it. So there I was, reading old magazines (I was bored. It was there) when they called out large flat white. I looked, and another girl was reaching for it already. Fine, back to reading. Then it's large flat white again... no one moved, I went in. Sweet! Got my caffeine. Then it's ANOTHER large flat white and to my horror I realise I got someone else's flat white (I don't recall anyone else ordered flat white after me...) who happened to be head of research in the department. D'oh. Mind you he's a nice chap. I still kick myself sometimes about not taking up his offer to be my supervisor when I was doing my master. (I'd have to go to the dark side and do my master in software though. Eww! Java! Not that I can talk now that I'm working entirely in Matlab. Java would be nice.) Gosh I hope he didn't recognise me. It's a Monday. Dark circles under my eyes looks bad enough that I might be mistaken as a goth. Yeah. Let's hope he didn't recognise me. (not bloody likely...)

I hate Mondays... but at least I have SOME idea what to do for my project now... *yawn* need more caffeine.