good week

• Frolicked about the laboratories in my Vibram Fivefingers imitations
• Got a call to schedule a Melbourne-based vac work interview
• Got back an essay with no comments marked 25/30 - I was typing this up until 6AM on the day it was due
• Missed a departmental photo but instead had lunch in very amiable company
• Got to see the effects of five midday beers on a Malaysian kid (after the departmental photo/bbq)- 太贪心了
• Set a personal best cycling commute time of 35 minutes to make it on time to a friend's thesis final presentation
• Broke my pannier bag clip trying to make the return journey in the same time
• Had the pleasant company of graduating classmates over a steak dinner
• Bought a $5 government subsidised helmet
• Converted a 20+ page report (done mostly in the 8 hours before it was due) into 30 slides and got through my mid-thesis satisfactorily
• Consulted with a classmate about my laziness/procrastination and whether it can be attributed to post-exchange syndrome

that other kind of semester

Damn... the bus is so good when there's no school kids and uni is officially on break. It makes me not want to make the most of my Ps, which I was rather late in getting anyway. (The other factor is that I have a monthly ticket.) Not so sure if there's enough patronage to make a rail line out to Monash in any direction. It doesn't seem worth it for something that is well-used for 26 weeks in a year. Apart from getting my Ps on Monday, it looks like it'll be 4 days of 5 at the labs perfecting the hovercraft.

My exam timetable is looking quite awesome though - a bunch of relatively low-value exams spread out ridiculously nicely. Only a diagram could do it justice.