Busy month. I've been keeping busy with writing/drafting papers for school,
and
films at Love & Anarchy film festivals last week, Infernal Affairs and Last
Party, to name two. Infernal Affairs was the first Hong Kong flick I've seen
in years, great stuff. Last Party sort of reminded me of Bowling for
Columbine, a documentary about the political world of US. Kinda saddening
stuff. 
Thank <insert deity here> it's not winter yet.

Hrm. As so many times on Fridays I ended up drinking at home. The weird thing
is that it got boring kinda quickly. First time for everything I guess. Or
maybe it was just because I ran out of beer and couldn't get that goddamn
vodka bottle open because of the broken cap. And that otherwise yummy
Moldavian brandy tasted too much like plastic after chewing pen cap for too
long. Ended up watching Star Wars Episode II instead. It ain't great but beats
the shit out of Episode 1. Puuh, should've kept drinking, I'd feel much better
in the morning with a hangover than with this burning in my stomach caused by
ove-rdevouring of popcorn. 

Coded my area again, after going through Cyberman's bug/typo-list. Oh yeah,
his bugs/typos are being fixed, keep 'em coming. Anyway, scetched some sort of
quest to the area, so it's gonna be delayed somewhat. Unless I get lazy and
skip the whole quest thing, but maybe not. Another news: Crime and Punishment,
excellent book. Raskolnikov is one weird creep. Haven't finished yet, though.
Hope I'll have it read before end of this week.

Damn, I never remember to write anything down. I'll try again, since it might
be useful later (right now I need to know when I saw Spirited Away, but can't
find the exact date anywhere, sniff). Last Friday I had a Buffy-marathon,
watched the season 4. Great stuff. I gotta get rich and buy them on DVDs some
time. I actually managed to code a bit as well, not that much though. Reading
Crime & Punishment has been more interesting. I'll try to get something done
today.

Heh, snooping morts who are trying to figure out your quests is good form of
entertainment. Hell, it's sort of motivating as well. Well, most of the time,
when people have some kind of clue. These guys didn't. Amusing stuff,
nevertheless. But still, I think I'll swap the 9-stooges show to a movie now.

Hah. Season 4 of BtVS rocks. Hilarious stuff. Although I gotta stop watching
it and do some real stuff. But next weekend it's time for a Buffy-marathon.

Oh yeah, another thing which I've meant to say for a while. I'm officially
giving in to the über-anti-idler Dino, keep that first (last?) place on the
top-iders. Grr. Now I can idle in peace.

Oh yeah, and my new workroom in Bat rocks. Drop in some time.

BatMUD's banner at <http://www.mpogd.com> (might take few reloads to get it to
show) looks nifty, and it's got the right attitude. Wonder if we'll get
another surge of newbies buzzing about. I'd welcome that. 

Today I got two separate invitations to go visit UK. I guess I really should,
then. New year's party at the Star doesn't sound bad at all, and I miss
Bellringer's. Sheesh, can't wait till tomorrow, I wanna get aquinted with yet
another new bottle of cheap red wine and stop worrying about this stupid exam.

Had a brief chat about a history server for the mud with Dino. Sounds like
interesting project, I've always felt like a librarian, anyway. Maybe I can
get started on it during the weekend, after the last exam of the summer. The
goddamn software project is almost through as well, finally. Only two more
weeks.

Sheesh, it's been busy at the university. It's goddamn annoying to stare at
other people's undocumented code and figure out how it's supposed to work.
Except when you actually get it, and manage to fix it. Few more weeks, then
the project is done, though. Finally. Maybe then I can even finish my area.
Now I just hope I get home to watch some episodes of BtVS. Yay.

Heh, that was fun. Playing settlers in the net is fun, not as fun as playing
the table game, but still entertaning. Especially when I win. The game I talk
about is here <http://settlers.cs.northwestern.edu/server2/index.html>.

Mrr, this sucks. I'm trying to get a settlers game. A-ha, just as I started to
whine on a blog it got started. Gotta try this again. 

Let's see. It's the last week of coding on my university project that has
lasted for the whole summer. Then two more weeks of wrapping things up. After
that I've got whole one week of vacation, can't wait. Maybe I can continue
with the area then, it's been on hold again from July. Off to RL now, sigh.

Should I blog or not? OTOH I already have "diary" on the web page which tells
that I'm alive (more or less), but yeah, it's quite vague. Oh well, I've meant
to start (actually continue) a diary of somekind for a while now, so might as
well start. Let's see if this becomes a habit or not.