Thoughts for: Monday 27th March 2006

Still alive vaguely :: [13:56:30]
Haven't been posting recently because I have been too busy doing coursework. Evil evil coursework. Normally I am all for evil but this is a kind of evil so insiduous that it should not be suffered by any man. Hmm actually the french or americans could do to suffer it, they need educating. My essay for my favourite module took a lot longer to do than I thought it would, mainly due to lack of sleep and general lack of concentration. It's amazing how many things you can do instead of the thing you are actually supposed to be doing at any given time. Not to mention how many schemes you can come up with for things that are better to do but that you do not have time to do. I think I have spent more time in the past weekend discussing what I intend to do in the future than I have in the rest of the year. Alas the evil entity known as money has reared it's vulgar head, or rather ran away. I'm slowly running out of money which is obviously a problem. Apparently I receive another loan installment very soon but that's not a lot of comfort because I have a few minor debts that I will immediately pay off with said money. Doing this will probably take me right back to square one (God I hate that card). Oh well on the bright side the end of university is only two months away and hen I can find myself a nice job. Well I say a nice job but what I mean is a highly paid job. See that's the trouble with jobs, none of them are nice. Oh except for the greatest job in the universe (which unfortunately I could never do). No idea what I'm talking about? Those dudes that get paid to make things out of lego for the Lego comp' of course. That must just be a fantastic job. Those guys get quite a lot of money for it too. Although I would imagine the pressure to create something of worth in a time limit would suck the fun right out of it. But hey, that's the purpose of a job now isn't it?
Not sure what job I'm going to go for when I leave uni'. I'm quite tempted to go for a simple job so I can relax for a while and rack up some cash while doing it before moving on to a better and more well paid job next year (Most decent jobs have December applications then hire in January). Sounds good to me. I keep telling the people I know who just have a normal job and nothing else how much I envy them. Especially Joff' 'cos the bastard gets to spend most of his day hitting things with hammers. Surely a job that rivals working for the lego people? Not sure what my eventual job goal is. I'm ridiculously capable though and can do pretty much anything so I guess we will just wait and see what takes my fancy.

I am still very partial to the idea of getting a normal job for a while at least though as it will allow me to persue certain independent projects which I have wanted to complete for some time. Not to mention that certain people have wanted me to complete for some time. (Especially the contributors!) Don't worry guys I haven't forgotten about you. I have all your submissions and they are gratefully recieved. Although incidentally if anyone wants to come forward and offer to help out with WtA, MtA, WtO, CtD, MtR or KotE then I am more than happy to hear about it. Although I have to admit the emphasis is much lower than the VtM stuff. Oh and of course given some delicious free time that a normal job would offer (Imagine the joys of merely working 9-5!) I could finally get round to redesigning this site. Been meaning to do that for so long it's unbelievable. The CMS will probably be uprgraded soon by the way! So don't die of shock if you see new features (I'm not sure how true this is, because at one point Wes was doing an upgraded CMS as part of his dissertation but I think he might have changed the project since then). Incidentally by the way, I think it's about time I acknowledged that the CMS I use on this site is absolutely nothing to do with me and is the work of the nice mr Wes. (As is indicated by the little thing to the right that says "Powered by the 1stVamp.org CMS"). As far as blogging and website production goes it is far superior and far more stable than any free product out there and easily on par with the high end commercial ones. To that end, I encourage anyone who is interested in creating their own blog (livejournal shite etc doesn't count) to contact Wes to see about purchasing the rights to use his CMS. Shameless advertising? Me? Duh.
You know as I was typing that I realised that most people probably read my site via the nice little RSS feed anyway (bottom left hand corner) so a new site design is going to be lost on some of you! Curse you and your lazy way of surfing! Guess I will just have to make a big explicit post detailing the new site design when it's done. See what I mean about plans for the future? I'm full of them. Why am I full of them? Because it's easier than doing the coursework that I am supposed to be doing right now, obviously. I have a lot of work still to do and not a lot of time to do it in. Although that is very much the normal state of things. After this week I will be able to relax slightly although not much as I still have a dissertation to work on and I would like to actually have something finished in advance for once so that I can say that in my 3 years at university I was actually on top of something, at least once! It shouldn't be too difficult actually because I know what I want to write and how I want to write it. Although 6000 words is a lot to fill. Hmm although I thought the piece of coursework I did this weekend would be simple and only take me a day. In the end it took about 3. What does that suggest? It suggests that I shouldn't underestimate the difficulty of my work. Or overestimate my own ability. Did I mention I have had about 4 hours sleep in about 4 days? Yeah, I'm doing real good with that. Not sure why I can't sleep. Happens from time to time. Personally I blame Vicki. Possibly Mike too. Then again I'm pretty sure I already blamed him for something else this week. It seems most of my everyday knowledge has been replaced by connectionism and symbolic knowledge. Which whilst interesting doesn't make for the best functioning ever or the most entertaining of conversations.

Anyhow. Back to work.