Well, I know my body is trying to correct itself when I wake up before my alarm is due to go off. It’s getting there, just needs a little more work in the right way.

I had my last graphics class today, it was some really interesting stuff about modelling three dimensional things, particularly from special kinds of spatial video capture. Really interesting stuff. We also had the teacher assessment, which was certainly interesting filling out one of those in a different format to the ones at Canterbury. Anyway, I also had my animator evaluation today, which was brief but good, since for that project I met all the requirements, met them well and did some of the above and beyond work on it. I’m not expecting to get anything particularly stellar for the bells and whistles I did, but I’m still a lot happier with the result, even if the artifact was badly put together and had no music. Ah well.

You know, I think I could probably just spend almost all of my time answering emails. Seriously. I seem to get enough of them to consume all of my time if I let it. It’s absurd.

As an interesting aside, I’m looking at doing a course in Brain-Computer Interfaces for the next quarter. Sounds interesting, huh? I’m going to Google around for Brain Computer Interface material and see what I can garner as to whether or not I want to take the paper. It does sound interesting though, doesn’t it?

I went and had lunch with Rob and a couple of guys from the CSE grads today. We went to Chipotle and had burritos. Hilarious. Good fun, very geeky conversation and good to get to know another couple of people a bit better in the department.

Went back to my office and got stuck into ‘working’ – emails, organisational bollocks, reading stuff, putting together some documents, that kind of thing. I tend to lump all of this kind of thing into “admin” time, which I seem to do a lot of (although that might be totally in my head for all I know).

I also talked to Anastasia for a while before she went to bed… neither of us are having a particularly good day for dealing with this whole long-distance gig, and it’s always frustrating being apart and not being able to comfort each other like we need to be able to. I find that I’m next to useless on the phone as well, which doesn’t help. I’m much more of an in-person kind of person. I guess after a couple of years and some change of doing (really-) long-distance, I thought I’d have a process or something to deal with this better. I know it has its good days and bad days, but I honestly thought I’d know how to deal with the whole situation better. The best I’ve got is bury myself in my (rather abundant) work and try to ignore it, which doesn’t really work at all and eventually I just have a ‘really bad day’ and break down for a while. I honestly just want something that will help me deal with it, understand it. I don’t know what that is or even if there is anything.

Anyway, I had a lot of trouble getting to sleep, although I wasn’t really at a loss for why.