AF was a bit… oh, funny!!

Well, dearest Pat *did* run off in the middle of the exam (in bare feet…all the way from HHE to the Dcs dept) to correct a question, and did not even quite tell us about it before he did so…

Anyhow, the mistake was not his fault. I kindof feel a bit sorry for him because of it, because he had and has to take all the slack, and I guess it really is a bit of a problem for him all round. It was basically a bit of a disaster, but more so for him even than for us…

It’s kindof just the excuse our class needs to “finally” write him off as a lecturer, person, and human being…

And, in complete fairness, I do think that’s slightly undue.

Oh, he’s ok really… I just hope he manages to find a solution to this problem that will keep everyone off his back. (And preferably be within the rules, and yet make us happy too.) A pretty impossible task if you ask me, and that’s why I feel sorry for him.

I can see him being made a scape-goat if things turn sour… I just hope that don’t have to happen.

Anyways enough of that I also no longer like fruit baskets, or:-
[Fruit]
as they are defined in Haskell, where Fruit (by my *wrong* definition) was:-
data Fruit = Orange | Lime |
Banana Bool
(The boolean indicated if the banana was ripe or not… how contrived is that?!)

I think its about time I just quit talking now though… This is possibly one of The most boring posts to inhabit the internet. (At least its special for something… ) So… 5 down, 4 to go as they say.

Cheerio!

CS has ‘happened’ now.. for good or bad. I can’t change it now, though I could have had more “Mohammad-ised” vocabulary and thought processes. Unfortunately it was all very much my own work, so I wonder what he’ll think of it. Hum ho!

Well, yes. I *do* have two exams tomorrow: AF and FP. FP just isn’t getting revised for. Well, that’s not fair. I have done a bit. (At higher I would have considered this a very big bit… but maybe not so these days.) Anyways, the sum total of it will be possibly one past paper.

And I want another one or two under my belt for AF too. I’m rather stressed about it, to tell the truth. But that’s mainly to do with not having done the course for 5 months… I’ve actuly just managed to do a whole (my first) past paper easy-as-pie except for one tricky-ish question.

Better get going though…

This aint going to be much of a structured post… but then I don’t think I’m feeling very ’structured’ at the moment, so maybe that is quite appropriate.

Had a wee chat with my Mum today. A caravan is booked in the Lake District for four nights. ‘Tis possibly just what I need, though I was almost considering backing out. (In order to plan my holidays better.)

Now looking at it in a more loving light, I would just love to have a whole week of my Mum and Dad…

Call me a child if you will… but I feel my childhood slipping away. I don’t regret it’s going, but the cares of this world really do begin to bog one down as one gets older. Oh, I wish I was better at “casting all my cares upon Him, for He careth for me.”

I think my dear parents feel it too, and are almost more reluctant than I am myself to let things ‘progress’. I guess I can’t hold out much longer though. 10 years is a long time to keep a secret from your parents, especially when it is one you are scared to tell them for fear the momentous-ness of it will just be too much for them.

They must suspect though… they’re just a bit like me. I spose I can understand how they feel, else why the massive pit in my own stomach right now.

But I love my God. I long that I may do what is right. Of late, I have been so afraid that my desires are for the wrong reasons. You could hardly call it ambition, but I’m afraid in case I would be lying if I were to say “it was not romance”…

Oh… am I wrong? Am I right?! How ought I to decide and to act?

And if I am wrong, what ought I then to be doing?

…*sigh*…

Exam tomorrow though, so night folks (Today’s was “good” …better than I’d expected, but then my expectations have been lower than they’ve ever been before.) -xx-

Ps: There’s been a bit of ‘trouble’ on Amistad. I don’t like how short everyone is with each other. I think we all underestimate that we are not as ‘close’ in circumstances as we tend to think we are. The internet seems to give us this illusion that “everyone’s the same”… but it’s not like that.

“And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8

Hello hello,

It’s my IM exam on Monday, and I’ve just finished reading over the notes…

Yeah, it looks as if I’m just a bit behind on the studying… Well, I hope I know it. Monday will tell I guess.

I shouldn’t be hanging around too late here though… Just look over one last past paper, and then bed, methinks.

Hope the Sabbath will be a profitable one.

G’nite

Hello hello hello!!

Today’s been SDI. I am now in the process of trying to understand parametric polymorphism… anyone out there give me a hand?!?

That’s proly not what you’re interested reading about anyways, so here’s the other kind of life I got…

Yesterday I walked to church from Fulton Street for the first time. It was a lovely sunny and quiet morning, and I was more in danger of feeling the heat with my leather jacket than anything else.

Afterwards I got invited to the manse for my lunch. The Norris’s were there, all six of them. Emma, Johnathon, Jessica and Louise. A fair handful of them James took the plunge and offered to read to them in the afternoon, so the rest of us had the priveledge of being the one’s they all ‘escaped’ to at regularly predictable intervals.

Apart from that, I ended reading the book that Jackie’s in the middle of: “The forgotton Spurgeon.” It *was* good, as far as the first chapter went, at least. I can’t say I cared much for the introduction though, and only persevered my way through half of it. Discovering at that point that it was as long again, I really did not think it worth my while.

I finished the wee book I got from Naomi over a year ago, “The life of God in the soul of man.” I think I’ve read it twice now, but it’s one of those books that can well bear being re-read.

But anyway, I better stop. Tomorrow is Julie’s first exam, all being well, so for her sake I thought I’d have myself in bed not too late… Don’t think she’d appreciate me disturbing her by going to bed in the early hours of the morning or so…

I would rather I had a bit more to show for my SDI revision today. Oh well, I hope I get a good sleep so that I may be fit for the ‘moro.

Adiu…

To you, and you and you!!

Salibonani

Tomorrow is my Calculus exam, all being well…so at the mo. I’m just in one of my 2-min-breaks…:-P

The birds are singing sweetly outside, there’s not a hint of coldness in the air, and I’m drinking tons of water. All three conspire to show that summer really has managed to turn up just in time for my exams again, as usual.

Well, I suppose it *is* quite nice not to need to worry about freezing in my exams…

Anyhows that’s enough about exams. At the moment I’m busy feeling not-too-happy I am not going to make it to Edinburgh this weekend. Why? Oh, because Calculus was clever enough to dump its exam (…oh um…forgot…stoppit, me ) on my beloved Saturday :-O

My next worry is how I am going to spend my summer. Well, I already know I have to spend it learning C, Java, and getting my head around Linux…but, aside from all that, the leftover time (all minus 7 months of it ) I would like to spend working.

The big puzzle is, whether to go to sunny Inverness and proly not get a worthwhile job, or whether to apply for a good(-ish) job in Uni, and be stuck in Glasgow (and in uni too, at that) *all* summer…

A really enviable choice…

There’s tons more Calculus past papers beckoning though…

ttfn

It’s rather late…I’m just about to head for bed, but I thought I’d just post a quick “hello”.

I’ve just finished re-reading “Mister Leprosy”. It’s very interesting, and certainly thought-provoking.

If you don’t know his story, it would be worth your while hearing it…

To para-phrase the closing remarks…”It’s asking a lot to expect a young man on the threshold of his career to do what Stanley Brown did.”

I respect him for such a commendable example.

Hello again,

Just noticed I haven’t posted on here much lately…

But anyhows, I’ve been busy. SDI’s submitted now. I wasn’t really entirely happy with how it went towards the end. It wasn’t really as finished as I would have liked it to have been. There’s a strong possibility its failed the acceptance test, and then I’ll have lost 30-40% of the marks straight off…

Oh well, I am content to have it as it is. I did give it as much time and effort as I ought to have done, I think. If anything, I gave it too much…

At the moment I’m just waiting for my last Calculus tutorial. MJ’s finished second year now (well, apart from her exams ) Pat never turned up for his revision lecture today… :S a lot of us did, but we couldn’t exactly have it without him …After today it will just be the exams to look forward to, all nine of them – such fun! I’m just a bitty apprehensive, but I guess that aint really saying much.

Uni in general’s been ok lately. Plenty to keep me thinking. I’ve got a fair number of wee “puzzles” on the go right now. Still can’t decide which course to do, for example.

I had a lovely wee chat with Stephie last night. Things that have been bothering her lately at work seem to have been sorted out quite well. I’m glad for her, ‘cos I was really quite worried for her lately.

I ended going to bed later than expected though…as usual. Got a good sleep though, and managed to get into uni early enuf to sort out all those files on my filespace in uni. I *did* have to use a filesplitter, and it wasn’t as scary as I imagined after all.

We’re all off to James’ 21st today, abw. Think we’re going to some Italian place in town (to make it easier for the Ed folks.) Hopefully that will be nice for him, before he heads off for Zw.

Cu, abw

“But seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”