Invictus

For the first time, and probably not the last, I skipped one of my lectures. Not because I was lazy. Nothing like that. It was simply because the lecturer, whose voice reminds me of Borat, is lecturing on Basic Chemistry. Which I've still got in my head since Year 11. So I spent the lecture time in the library, researching for my assignment. I've found some interesting leads there...

Late start tomorrow, but I'm staying all the way to 5pm. I have to attend a physics practical, which was supposed to be my tutorial, but my tutorial was rescheduled without anyone in my group knowing to an earlier day. So I miss a tutorial. Organising these sort of things get hairy I'm sure, but some warning would be nice. The USyd eLearning (formly known as WebCT) is a pretty good way to announce it. I usually check it several times a day.

I met most of the former Sefton contingent on Tuesday. I had just finished lunch and was wandering towards the library when I ran into Kevin, Sophia, Amanda, Rachel and My Hoa. We had a nice chat, and I've learned that apparently the Neuroscience unit of study is a total bitch. Which makes it seem more interesting to me, although that's probably because I'm not actually studying it.

I don't really like the library sessions but today's session was very useful. Journals seems such an underused resource, however, now with my newly acquired elite searching skills I'm able to find extremely useful information. Unfortunately, the library doesn't subscribe to every single journal, so some of the ones I really like, I can't read them. And the fact that some of the journals that contain information that are relevant to my interests regarding my essay are in either Russian or Japanese. Damn.

I got stuck in R035, which I think I mentioned earlier, is the coldest place on Earth. I don't know whether it was just today or something, but seems positively colder than usual. So much that during the quick break in the lecture, people starting putting on jumpers and jackets, me included. Someone should turn the air-con down a bit. Of course, the choice between freezing cold and boiling hot is difficult. Either extremes can get you killed, and are both uncomfortable. R035 without air-con then becomes the hottest place on Earth. Can't there be a happy medium?

You know what I dig right now? Two tracks from the movie The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. It's the main theme and the music from the scene where the three characters face each other off to find the money. That piece of music is called The Trio Or Il Triello in Italian. Get it and listen to it sometime. It's the standard of what film music should be light. Simple and full of emotion.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

Until next time.