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Well, the trip to Cambridge went well. I managed to get there in plenty of time, due to having taken the entire day off work, met my friend Pufferfish for coffee etc, then headed out to ARM HQ. The recruitment evening was pretty good: several tech demos running, including a pair of speedcubers and a big 3d display driven by a smartphone GPU, and several people from ARM who were advertising posts in their departments. I got some fairly positive noises from processor toolchain, verification and technical publishing, and will be following them up soon. Not bad, given my lack of preparation.
After work comes fun, so they tell me. Pufferfish led me back through the Cambridge bus system to her house, where I stayed the night, and the next day I saw a bit of Cambridge, had lunch with a group of friends from up here and went home. I ended up travelling during the tail end of rush hour, and there wasn't a seat to be had all the way between Cambridge and Brighton. So today I have tired legs, but I'm glad I went. Saw friends, and a new city, and somewhere I might well end up working.
Today I'm not as strong as I'd like to be, mentally. I'm tired, can't shake this headache and my legs and shoulder are playing up. So it goes. I wish I were a better person: stronger, able to shrug off things like this and get on with life. I guess that one's a work in progress.
Speaking of progress, I have five copies of my DPhil thesis in my bag. I'll be handing it over the desk at Sussex Uni at about 1615, and that'll be it, done. Thesis finally staked. Thank goodness for that.