davidn

It's this time of year again - time to think about packing up and leaving the hall already. I've already mentioned how quickly it's seemed to arrive, and I feel that I didn't really make the effort to get to know people this year because of some unfortunate things that happened at the beginning. So, to anyone who I met this year, who reads this journal but I don't actually talk to more than about once a week - sorry for that!

So I suppose I'll continue my own tradition of writing my achievements for this year...

I have, in no particular order:

Got engaged!
Been outside of Europe for the first time during my visits to America, and have seen San Francisco and New York.
Arranged to live in a flat together with my fiancee next year, in a trial run for married life.
Stopped talking to many of the people that I knew during the last two years, either because of natural drifting apart or because of my concentration on work.
Survived a bizarre twisted mirror-version of my room without crashing in to the sink or trying to get water from the doorhandle.
Become a pure computer scientist rather than a hybridised chemist-computer scientist.
As a result, become a bit of a hermit, really.
Taken notes in lectures for the first time since first year.
Put up with an astonishing number of false fire alarms caused by "faults in the system".
Halted the Sinner Quote Log, but continued (sporadically) with the Quotebook under cover of not telling anyone about it.
Started, finished and released my second Multimedia Fusion "grand project" (as it was originally called) - the first, Another Adventure Game, remains sadly unreleased to date.
Been instrumental in the development of a dubiously dancing robot.
Continued to write my particular brand of Amiga-like rock music, and have become a lot more popular for it on Modplug than I imagined possible.

With the obvious exception of the things that relate to Whitney, many of those seem to be either rather negative or purely related to the Internet. I'm not incredibly worried about it, though - with the plan for next year in place, it seems that like Star Trek films and Final Fantasy games, the even years at University are going to be the best.