Oblivious to the gentle waves of empathy.

I spent such a long time trying to get my head around the first question on the Real Analysis homework.  Literally about two hours between lectures just looking at it and reading over notes and looking at it again and drawing a scribbly little sketch of what might be happening to a function of x.  I'd say my understanding did increase but it wasn't enough to get the answer on my own.  In the end I decided to change the inequalities in one of the examples in the notes that didn't quite go the way the question hinted at and not worry too much about what equates to around 0.01% of the year.  However, when we went to hand it in I had a look at AK's answer and it seemed to combine what I'd done with the hint from the question so I made a few amendments to my work and hoped it was a good decision.  Unfortunately I still didn't understand it well enough to know if I was just making things worse so it's back to not getting too hung up on 0.01%. 

I had a look at some recommended mods for Fallout 3 and now it won't let me leave to an exterior cell (or go outside if you don't want to be technical).  I tried disabling all the new mods and I've still got the same problem so I'll probably have to reinstall it.  That's a job for the end of the month when my quota is about to be reset. 

Yesterday I changed my tariff from one that gives me free texts and £10 credit for a month for £10 to one that gives me free texts for a month for £5 but no extra credit.  I thought I was still going to get the £5 credit, in which case it would have been loads better, but since I don't get the credit it works out to be pretty much the same as it was before.

I've been trying to learn some songs from The Dissent of Man on my five string guitar but I don't know the lyrics to most of them yet so it's slow progress.

Just misfit melancholy dregs.

We've full on clamped down on work this year; that's why there haven't been many blogs going up.  After spending hour after hour in the library trying to get my head around the latest maths we've been taught so we can get the homework done well before it needs to be in I don't much feel like going through it all again in my head to fish out the interesting bits, especially when they usually aren't very interesting.  Of course interesting things happen outside the library but that's when I'm busy catching up on food/sleep/TV/cinema/Liz/etc. 

So, if you're one of the one people who don't know that Liz has gone to London to look at arty things, you might be wondering why tonight is a night I have time to write a blog.  Well I'm not going to tell you. 

Sophie Taylor from school was sat in front of me on the bus home today.  Last year it was ages before I'd seen the four people from school who have come to Lancaster (points if you leave a comment telling me how long it was - I'm pretty sure I mentioned it around the same time as the Art meal in summer term).  This year it's only Monday of week 6 and I've seen them all.  I should play Pokémon again while I'm in the zone.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was about as good as I expected it to be considering it's a film based on a computer game.  They're always a bit rubbish.  Still, I'd pay the full £6 to see big screen adaptations of Zelda or Halo. 

After having documents checked for the CRB I went for a talk with the guy who decides which school we go to.  I don't think I got anything out of the talk other than the idea that taking more statistics modules next year might be a good idea so I can swap to a Maths and Stats degree if I so desire.

I just looked back at old posts to see what I talked about last time and I realised that with white text highlighting in black does a pretty poor job at censoring.  I've gone back through my old posts and fixed any such incidences that I noticed (which should be all of them because a big black rectangle is hard to miss) and I'll try and remember to use white in the future.  You get points for leaving a comment telling me if I do it in black again.

I knew full well what I wanted this blog title to be from and when I was deciding which line to have I was inevitably reminded of how bad my throat has been this weekend.  Very.  I could barely speak at all all weekend.  My voice is back now and I just have an occasional cough.

On Friday Liz and I went to Bella Italia for tea and it was really good as time with Liz always is.  I had a big posh pizza and the bannoffee pudding. 

0x0=0

I have just finished Fermat's Last Theorem (the book, not the proof).  I enjoyed it and I'd happily go on to read another non-fiction book next if it promised to be as interesting and had the same level of complexity.  However, I don't have another non-fiction book so I'll probably read Airman next because it has been on the shelf since my birthday.

I'm in the library writing this because I didn't have anything else to do before my next lecture.

I'm mostly happy with my mark for the Probability homework this week but we spent so long on the last question it would have been nice to get ½ a mark even though we missed a chunk out.

I bought Plants Vs Zombies when it was on offer on Steam for Halloween.  Best. Game. Ever.  I haven't even considered going on Fallout or Oblivion or any of the others all week.  I had played it for 16.2 hours by Wednesday night and I only installed it on Monday.

The latest Robin Hood film was good enough at the cinema last night but it's more of a Batman Begins style prequel to the story and I'm sure King Richard isn't supposed to die in France before anything has really happened.

Time to go to 220 now.  Pointless going to be honest but I've got nothing else to do and I'm not going to spend and hour blogging.