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So here I am in the witw meeting, discussing what went wrong, and what we're doing next. And I'm deliberately not volunteering for anything outside my core responsibilities, because I'm already continuously at something like 90% of cognitive load at present, and while the witw project is a lot of fun, I'm becoming aware that I have hard limits, and I'm starting to bounce off them occasionally.
So why am I so busy? Let's see now. Here's my workload for the next month.
So, all of that to do. And I have to prep for my viva (which is going to be in the last week of february, we think). And my entire lab (five rooms, including computers, furniture, heavy machinery, workshop and testbeds) is moving down the road to Brighton University.
Which brings me to the one positive thing in my life at the moment. The atmosphere in Brighton uni is so very different. Where Sussex is beaten, crushed, resigned to whatever upper management do to us, Brighton is vibrant and energised, people moving and talking and laughing. When we went to lunch in the restaurant, we had to walk down brightly-painted corridors, past menus that change daily and posters and windows and large atriums (atria?). And when we entered the restaurant, every table was chatting, smiling, giggling and sharing ideas. And the food was good.
Once the paper is out, and the viva presentation is over, and the AMS course has toggled over to being written by the guy responsible for the latter half of the course, this will be quite livable, and I think I'm going to be happy at Brighton. Until then...
Well.
If I give up and fold into a tiny ball and hide under the stairs now (like I'd quite like to), I won't get there. So, in the words of a friend, "Bollocks to that". Bring it on.
2011/01/22 - Torkell (18:58)
You've never struck me as being the "fold into a tiny ball and hide under the stairs" type.
Admitedly I've only seen a tiny amount of Brighton uni, but it always felt more like a college while Sussex felt like a proper university. Thought thinking about it, I never heard of any mass protests or student body uprisings from Brighton (which could mean that the student body there couldn't be bothered, but one would have expected at least some of the activism at Sussex to rub off on them).
When Craig was doing his computing degree there I remember being most envious that Brighton had managed to secure a MSDN subscription for everyone. I think Sussex tried to achieve a similar thing during my first year, but their attempt quietly vanished.
2011/01/26 - Brotherly-unit (14:26)
Good luck dude, just a few weeks and it'll all be done!
I have a week off at the end of Feb (w/c 28th) so do you fancy a stiff drink afterwards if it's near the weekend or the week I'm off?
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