It's Not A Blog, It's A Rabbit.
By Andrew Price, 2005-05-24 00:34:32 in General. Leave a comment
Despite almost being driven to insanity by the girl next door's constant playing of the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, particularly the obsessive looped playing of the track, Hungry Eyes, I managed to get a very small bit of revision done over the weekend for my Algorithms exam this morning.
I rolled out of bed at 8:30am and realised that I hadn't shaved for days before because I was too busy being distracted from my revision by more interesting things like paint drying, the colour magnolia and the endless fun you can have from spinning around on a swivel chair while listening to loud music. Yes, i was procrastinating from revision [Cue lightning strike]. Luckily, however, I managed to cram enough into my head to emerge from the exam with quite a spring in my step. So I sprang over to The Green Room for a celebratory hot chocolate and took it to the SUCS room to shelter until the rain subsided.
The announcement of the beach party (Beach. 4th June. 7pm. Be there.) was sent out today. I'm hoping that a lot of the silent members - those who signed up to SUCS but never show their faces - will turn up, since there seems to be a worrying level of apathy towards SUCS from my first year comp sci colleagues this year (although I admit I have no previous experience to compare it to). Still, it would be great to have a good turn out to the party - validation indeed. I'm also looking forward to meeting some of the veteran SUCS members who are spread far and wide but return for the beach parties.
This evening was spent chilling out and chatting on milliways while putting together an embryo html template and default stylesheet for the new blog system. Speaking of which, Chris [rollercow] is now on board with the blog project and we're taking the 'professional' approach of using subversion to keep the project organised. We're quite enthusiastic about it and think the outcome has the potential to be very shiny and impressive. A blog system can be really simple and easy if you're prepared to settle for that but to make a good, malleable multiuser blog system with bells on will take a bit of time and effort. Another advantage of it is that it should give me some practice of doing a group-ish project before next year's Comp Sci group project arrives.
My middle-year resolution: Make sure comp sci is higher up on my priority list in future and revise earlier for exams.