Finally finished Twilight

Twilight seems to be the new Harry Potter. In the way it’s taken off at least, in no way does it match it in storytelling, writing , nor even cover art for that matter. In fact, the only way it is in any way comparable to Harry Potter is that both series exploded from relative obscurity. There the comparison ends, and I feel dirty for bringing it up.

It tells the story of Bella Swan moving from sunny Phoenix to mouldy Forks. She looks on the move with dispassion, not being able to adjust to the drop in temperature she’s so used to in the desert, but that quickly changes as Edward Cullen moves onto the scene. This could have been an ordinary boy-meets-girl love story, but as it turns out it’s not, as Bella discovers Edward’s a vampire.

Work hard, play hard.

Lets make a productivity list for tomorrow, because the last ones all worked so well…

• Go take photos for my website assignment! I’m gonna take my laptop too, due to the small card capacity. I decided this should be a group activity.
• Write a tutorial on how to add a button to TinyMCE in WordPress.
• Read another chapter of Twilight. Must read this, and the next book before the next film comes out. Granted, I probably have a year, but I’d rather get the entire saga out the way.
• Look through Monday’s class notes, and maybe write a few help sheets. I’ll be working as a classroom assistant, so I should probably be more prepared.
• Wash up. Really, Shane, you have no plates left.
• Get the systems analysis work from Blackboard. I really want to ace this presentation. This is looking to be the only module I might actually fail because of stupid things, like lack of motivation for it.

Busy day tomorrow. Carnage bar crawl is in the night too.

Catch up

I’ve not done a personal update here in a while, which is odd for someone that comes from LiveJournal where it’s common practice to note down everything you’ve done since your last update, a few hours ago. I actually have a lot of drafts for computing things piling up that I should really finish up soon. Recently though, I’ve just not had the time.

Luke and Laura are now fairly frequent guests, so over the past week or so I’ve not been alone much. I love that, really. I’m definitely a person that likes to be around other people. When I’m not for a period of time (especially if I’m just sitting at my computer all night) I get mildly depressed. I’m not sure when that change happened in me though. I used to remember loving having so much time to myself, and if I were with people for too long I’d get angsty. It’s the opposite now really.

Although, I could totally do with more “alone time,” if you get me.

I’d been playing around with polysleeping for a while, sleeping more than once a day, but in short bursts. You can generally save around two hours sleeping a day and not suffer any sleep debt. Since Luke and Laura have been around though that’s totally gone out of the window; I slept from about two till twelve today.

People being around you all the time also means you don’t really get time to do chores. Today, I actually ran out of clothes to wear (that came faster than expected due to the snow) and two days ago I resorted to eating a meal out of a Tupperware container. So, today will definitely be a tidying up day.

Against Nik’s advice, I’ve decided to try and start reading Twilight. I got to the first page an immediately regretted watching the film first. It’s exactly the same. I find it hard to read a book which has no mystery. I don’t earn anything by reading those pages, and so it seems like a dull chore to me. I doubt I’ll actually finish the book, but I’ll try before the next film comes out.

There’s new TED content out which will definitely give me a few hours of things to think about and watch. TED’s always freaking amazing, and I’m constantly blown away with how awesome each of the speakers are, and how innovative their ideas are. I really hope that I create something that I can be that passionate about.