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// Filed under: Life on Friday October 07th 2005, 6:52 pm But now I’m back. Back like the herpes you never could quite get rid of. Back like the mother-in-law who shows up at odd hours to spay your cat, or the milkman who watches you from the street corner. You thought you could get rid of me, with your stinking shotguns, restraining orders, antibacterial creams and infeasibly monstrous university assignments. But you were wrong. What I’m trying to say is, I just escaped from the clutches of a university assignment for my Games And Simulations unit, in which we were asked to build a highly detailed simulation of the University Library. We had about a month’s lead time, before getting together to work for four days straight assembling/finalising it. Four. Days. And the best part is, after all that, stopping only for meal breaks, sleeping time and Jeremy’s food poisoning-vomiting-session, our product still fell short of the requirements. Now here’s a tip for you all folks: If a lecturer hands you an assignment that can’t be completed in that amount of time, that is NOT a good assignment. And we’re not the only ones, everyone other group, too, fell well short of the requirements. Moral of the story; Oh God, I’ve missed you, Internet. I’m not a good person, you know. I haven’t talked to my friends from high school in ages, and it’s all thanks to my ludicrous university workload. I know they understand, and I know they’re busy as well, but I still feel bad. Simon’s computer has been temporarily disabled while he’s studying for his exams. And it’s hilarious to watch him degenerate. Right now, he’s standing in my doorway, bemoaning his boredom. How fondly I remember the days when he used to come into my room and say “What the hell are you doing? You spend like five hundred hours a day on the Internet! You’re so lame!” and now, oh now, how the tables are reversed. “I need the Internettttt” he screams as he stumbles from room to room in search of the tiniest distraction, sneaking what snippets of net he can glimmer from my screen in his passing. Meanwhile, I have to work both days this weekend, in exchange for not working last weekend so I could afford to work on the assignment instead. And, I’ve discovered that there won’t be any crossover shifts coming in to relieve me, and furthermore, the next shift is going to arrive an hour late. So essentially, I’m going to be standing behind a counter for nine hours straight. Nine hours. That shit ain’t cool. Yeah, I’ve really got to get a better job. But what’s worse, is that we don’t have anywhere near enough people working there now, so if I quit, the whole thing will probably collapse. Which would make me feel kinda bad. Not as bad as getting up at 5 am every Saturday for the past 10 months though. Got to get a better job. // 1 Comment 
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