not so hot

Yesterday things were, well not right.

I went out for food shopping but ended up going into town looking for a 2nd hand (or affordable) student chair. The old one I have just doesn't hold my weight that well any more. There was a bit of running about , from office works to a place that sold $200-$400 chairs that certainly WOULD hold my weight, but in the end I got a 2nd hand one from the salvos for $35. Not the most comfortable but certainly the the most sturdy.

Got it back home via a couple of bus trips but felt really ill on the way home. It was a warmish day yesterday and I may have been overdressed and too warm. Have a chicken salad roll for lunch at the chip shop but by the time I got home (at 2pm) I was feeling sick, giddy and tired. I had planned to do more scripting in the afternoon, but when I booted the Studio PC one of the hard drives was mysteriously "off-line" - all the aprtitions were there but listed as "healthy primary partition" by the Windows Management app! Likewise booting to Linux showed that they were online but inaccessible! I realised that I was not up to sorting this out just then, and trying to was likely to bring on a disaster by trying to fix the wrong thing. I shut it down and went to bed.

Woke up about 6pm. Not quite refreshed. The PC had fixed itself after Windows did a CHKDISK on all the missing partitions! Watched a Dr Who repeat and a bit of Fantasia (bought the DVD of it last week) but couldn't keep my eyes open after the 2nd segment. Dozed off until 11:30pm, had a toilet break, and then slept until 6am. Not feeling the greatest this morning, but today it's really very cold here. No danger of falling asleep, and I have Bobby with his jacket on and under a blanket.

But it's a worry when I feel ill for no particular reason. When I got home I had the shakes, felt giddy and my vision was slightly blurry. Better today. Some of the symptoms reminded me of the food poinoning last year - hope it wasn't the chicken roll from the shop - but I felt sick on the bus as well.
 

Confirmation Documentation

I have finally been sent my confirmation documentation. I will need to sit down and read it properly before I do anything further on the Masters.

Finally!

The Roast

Been watching THE ROAST off and on for a while. It's an Australian news satire show (about 3-5 minutes tops) that turns up as filler after the Dr Who repeats. But the thing is, they are so good at targeting unspoken crap or assumptions in the news. Take these two examples:

Ostensibly about the Olympics, but catch the comments about hereto-privilege.

"...because getting things for free was why the Internet was invented"

Much agitation

Have read the Confirmation Committee Evaluation and am only marginally clearer about what's wanted/suggested as before. Just as well I used to proof jargon back at the Bureau of Statistics!

Right now the most urgent matter is the date for the next session. The report sets that to August 17th which would give me a month to instigate changes. If I was full time I'd be getting a 3 month period between reviews, and as I'm part time it should be 6 months!