Tuesday, November 23, 2004

They are calling it holidays, but they are dirty rotton liers

Well, I have well and truely finished Uni for the year. It is the end of my first year and quite frankly, im glad its over. I had so much stress during the exams, as I couldnt study for some strange reason, which made me pissed off, which made it harder to study, then people kept annoying me and things happened, so it really made it hard to study. The euphoric feeling when I got home from my last exam was overwhelming. The stress just lifted away. Its such a great feeling coming home and knowing you don't have to do anything. Of course anyone that knows me knows that this lasts about a week, then I start going crazy from lack of motivation.
So I took up some work.
As a maths genius and programmer that just finished his first year, there isnt alot of career related work for someone like me. Sure, I could go and see if anyone needs a webpage built or something like that, but the harsh reality is that these dream jobs, the ones where you create a webpage for a client and get paid $500... well they do happen, just not often. And you can never count on it. Even when you do find a client. I recently had a $400+ programming job go bust on me about half way (15 hours man work) into it. Lessoned learned: get a deposit before you start any job.
Anyway, so my uncle got me a job, basically just sanding and painting skirting boards in a huge 100-square house he is building (the house is worth over a million dollars easily). The house is incredible, though it is ill-designed. By ill-designed I mean its a cuboid with about half the doors it should have.
However, this work only lasts a week, and its very tiring. Just two days into it, my back aches, by knees are bruised and my upper inner thigh (yes, go ahead and laugh) is strained. Could just be im a pussy, but Ill get through it, the only problem is that the rest of my work is with skirting boards on the floor, which might I add, the carpet hasnt been put in yet, stupid hardwood floors.

I have a couple of holiday goals to get done. Hopefully going down this list will allow me to stay sane. The list is as follows and will be changed whenever:
- Create a working website. Ive had this on the list for ages, but never been able to get around to doing it. I hate learning more then one language at a time, doing my webpage would require learning PHP/MySQL and I was learning Java at Uni, so I didnt want to go learning two sytaxs
-Finish my java game: its currently in stage 0.2. I can create a level with an end goal and a starting point, obsticles and traps. However, there is no decent representation of the level, just a text print out. Oh, and I dont have a character to move around yet. So its not really a game, just a level editor.
- Save a lot of money. This is required for my next goal:
- Move out. I currently live with relatives, but am planning on moving out next year closer to uni and with my friends. It should be fun. I am currently deciding wether to blog it here or make a new blog for it. Ive just then decided to make a new blog, and here it is!
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Well, now you are caught up on my happenings, we can get back to normal business. Like not updating our blogs.