So here we are at the weekend… and my enthusiasm and joie de vivre are at a low point. I was supposed to be going to a recording for a show this weekend, which would have been fantastic, but given the events of the last couple of weeks I just couldn’t bring myself to do it, especially given the company I would have been joining. It just wouldn’t have felt right, but I don’t think I’ve felt more lonely in a very long time.

On the academic front, I think things are going well! The dreaded final year project is moving along slowly, with this week being devoted to initial reading and meetings with my supervisor. I have to say that curling up with a textbook on the intricacies of source code management is not the most rivetting thing I’ve ever done in my life, but I know it’s going to be useful! I just hope I still feel that way in a couple of weeks! Hopefully by the time I get to reading week (I know, i don’t do any work anyway, yadda yadda) I should be in a position to go off and do my own thing for the three days I have off… despite the fact that those days will coincide with my trip home!

I was reluctant to write this post, but I felt it had been a few days since I wrote my last one so I should jot down a few thoughts and post them for the world to pay no attention to whatsoever.

Once again, I find myself being distracted from work by the most trivial of things - tidying some cables up in my room, reading news online, tinkering with the computers, etc. I bought myself a new 300GB external HDD and a mini PC to connect it to, and I seem to find myself just tinkering with the setup just as an excuse to avoid doing work. Even if I go onto campus to do work, I just end up finding excuses to look at wiki guides online or chatting to people about problems I’m having with it, and before I know it a couple of hours have passed by and I’ve done none of the work I could have quite easily done in the first half an hour. Even now, I have MATLAB running happily in the background, waiting for me to put it through more agony, but instead here I am writing a blog entry! My ability to find distractions in the most menial of things never ceases to amaze me!