Nice to see that even with a professional blogging system in place, I still manage to leave it a whole week before updating. Still, not an awful lot of fun stuff has happened this week, so you’re not exactly missing much.
Been quite busy on the work front recently, with most of my GDP stuff, my half of a Web Services essay, the corresponding Web Services presentation and a 2500-word essay on mobile games development all out of the way. Just need to tie up some loose GDP ends, then I can crack on with my entire graphics project (including a hastily-prepared demo and 3000-word report), a 2000-word GDP self-assessment “form” and revision for Web Services. So yeah, busy times.
Outside of work, I’ve been doing rather well on the resolution front. Since last week, I have:
- made progress with this month’s book (Will Gibson’s “Virtual Light”). It all seems a bit Snow Crash, but that’s hardly a bad thing. Definitely more readable than Neuromancer, as excellent as that was.
- Bought and played a game Edge would never even consider reviewing, namely WWE: Smackdown vs. Raw 2006. It’s been really quite fun, if a little bit hard, and it provoked an hour-long trawl through Wikipedia’s wrestling trivia which proved to be quite the trip down memory lane. Hopefully I’ll be able to get Sky next year, as I’m feeling like it might be nice to get back into wrestling again.
- Paid money for legitimate CD releases, one of which by a band I’d never previously heard of (Reactivate). However, as the other was Covenant’s upcoming “Ritual Noise”, I suspect MNS’ “we will part-ship orders at no extra cost” policy actually means “there is absolutely no way we are paying an extra pound to ship these separately – you’ll get them both in february”. That, or it’s in the river with all my missed Edge deliveries.
- Gone some way to making myself employable by finally sending my IBM application off. Granted, I have to do a timed aptitude test and overcome an unknown number of Herculean trials before I’m even allowed to talk to a human, but it’s still an improvement on doing nothing. Checked out other jobs too, but apart from one, all the gaming jobs seem to be in the Midlands or the North West. Neither of these places sound very appealing, particularly as I’d be living on my own, so I guess I’ll keep looking around here while I build my portfolio up.
So that’s pretty much how my week’s been. Hyper-busy, but productive with it, so I can’t complain. The decisive plan hasn’t been going too well, as I’ve still not found an interview-friendly haircut (no thanks to MySpace), but there’s still time. Also, I’ve not been out in a while, but that should hopefully change after exams – particularly considering that it’ll be my birthday. Which is something I still need to sort out. So if you’re reading this and should be coming along to whatever event I decide to have, maybe you could suggest something that everyone would enjoy (not bowling).
