The Remainder of Easter

Continuing on from where the last post left off, this is the tale of the last two weeks of Easter.

The second week of Easter was, in all honesty, good. The sun came out, it was warm and fun times at birthday parties were had. Balloons, 15 minute repetitive drum n' bass songs (MACHETE), pathetic dancing, the birthday girl being slightly drunk and two random drunkards going down a closed Helter Skelter at 4am makes a good night.

Only negative things about that week being lack of sleep and the arrival of hayfever. But meh. Walking around town with no jacket, no bag, listening to my iPod feels suave.

The final week of Easter break saw the continuation of hayfever, but then the realisation that the final year project needed to be done and dusted by Wednesday the 21st. That meant the onslaught of report writing, then reaching a brick wall. It's hard to continue the report when you're at the testing stage of the report, but your code isn't doing what it's supposed to do. It's a catch 22. Those were some long, boring, tedious days. I got so frustrated and angry with it at one point I just had to get out of the house, making my way to fucking Tesco of all places at about 8.30 in the night.

Though just having sun around made things a little better. Although it was a mockery given the situation of impending deadlines. And hayfever.

March Madness or some other less lame title.

Oops, forgot to update for March. Which is something that Sony forgot to do with the Playstation, as on the 1st of March, almost every PS3 in the world broke because they thought it was a leap year. In 2010. Fail. At least I can say that "I survived the ApocalyPS3".

Wellity, wellity, wellity, what a fun March it was. The entire month was filled with just waiting out the storm hoping Easter would come, whilst finishing (or starting) tedious and hard courseworks close to the deadline.

Monday the 8th saw the class give presentations on our chosen (I say chosen, I mean randomly selected) topic regarding AI. Yay for the genericness of "Co-operative Game AI". Got it done in the end though. Wasn't too bad.

The following week saw the hand in of the second Object Orientated Systems coursework. For those not in the know, its about... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Yeah. Don't bother. We were lucky too because only a few days before this coursework needed to be in, our final graphics coursework needed to be in. The first was hell as it was, but this one was set to be even bigger. However, we had a week's extension meaning it had to be handed in the last Tuesday of term. Thank god. In the end, I hope it went well. Some of the techniques we needed to implement were fine, but others were just being a stubborn bitch.

Then came Easter holidays. Thank god. I wish I could say I got to sleep, but I didn't really.

And it's all Wrestlemania 26's fault, being on the first Sunday off, fucking up my sleeping pattern. It meant staying up until 4am, albeit it watching Shawn Michaels' retirement and final match (for now, at least) against the legendary Undertaker, the match itself being a rematch from last year's epic Wrestlemania bout. Whilst good, WM25 match was better that what WM26 had to offer, but as a whole Wrestlemania 26 was better. Bret Hart's "match" was awful though.

And after the last about 3 or 4 years worth of holidays where I've been intending to clean-out/rearrange my room, I finally did it on the first Monday. Oh, and I saw Kick-Ass in the cinema, it being the first film I've seen in the cinema since Jarhead in early 2006. Fantastic film.

February's Nothingness.

Nothing happened really. At all. I just don't really care any more, I'm just on auto-pilot until Easter/summer.

I suppose I could somehow eke a few more lines of content out of the 28 days of the second month.

Monday, 1st of February meant I had to had in Milestone 2 of my project. I did. Haven't touched it since. Oops. Valentine's Day is crap and a marketing ploy. Plus I'm alone. ¬¬ So I spent it listening to metal, though I'm not fussed anyway. Even worse though was that we didn't and still haven't had pancakes for Shrove Tuesday Pancake Day on the 16th! Grrr.

I did attend a birthday outing for McHodge though. That was pretty fun. And I got to drive. Snow also returned briefly. That was not fun. Fuck off snow.

That's about it I think. Yeah, wow.

I am now enjoying the emergence of some sun and driving to uni (or at least the train station to go to uni) regularily. It really does feel great driving along with the window down (despite not really needing to) blasting some Soundgarden, Metallica, SOiL or Between the Buried and Me (Selkies FTW) to really disturb pedestrians by you.

March is going to be hell though. 3 courseworks (2 to start... I think) to be in in 2 weeks, within days of each other too, milestone 3 to start to hand in the first week back off Easter as well as 2 other courseworks in after Easter too. So Easter's gonna be hell too... but I'm oddly really looking forward to it. Birthday parties, driving, hopefully sun. could be great, if not greatest.

Barring the hideous amounts of shit I have to do too. ¬¬

Yeah, that's it.