Life update

Sheesh. Long time no blog. What can I say, I've been revelling in the new-found freedom of being at home for the Christmas holidays — no lectures, no having to get up at silly times of the morning (where "silly" is equivalent to "before 10am"), peace and quiet when trying to get to sleep, and a pitch-black room to sleep in once more. Bliss.

Our term ended two Fridays ago; Kevin came up early to help with packing and I stumbled around going to last lectures and a Java coursework review for marking. (The nice thing about this coursework as opposed to the previous coursework is that the robot actually got better at navigating its way through the maze — and when trying a maze for the second time, could go directly to the target — rather than having a broken robot that inevitably got stuck. The lesson that time was "the customer is not always right".)

I managed to spend a reasonable 24 hours at home (and scar both parents by showing them Shaun Of The Dead) before whizzing off to Essex with Kevin for the week. It proved to be very relaxing, as was intended for my slumping phase to unwind from the last few weeks of stress at uni. As a bonus I got to feel all Christmassy by helping to decorate Kevin's Christmas tree over the course of about five days or so.

Saturday saw Kevin and me toddling up to London to meet up with Missiedith and attend the end-of-year Blogmeet. Although we had to leave far too early in order to catch the nearly-last train, it was fun. You should have been there.