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Year View| Summary| Highlights| Month View| Wednesday 7 January 2004 (Day View)

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07.01.2004 – Wednesday 7 January – Enrolling Woes

Morning

• I walked down to Shan’s and put his wheelie bin out for the rubbish collectors. I then went online, of course, and that was that.

Evening

• I walked down to the pump, taking Karl’s wheelie bin back down on the way, covered it up, and then walked up to Shan’s and took his wheelie bin back inside. I stayed up there for a while messing around on his computer until a big storm began to brew outside – very dark and foreboding, with deep, scary, rumbling thunder.

Night

• I tried to enrol in next semester’s subjects, but had difficulty figuring out what to enrol in, and then, just as I began to figure it out, SINET, UQ’s online student information portal thing that is usually overloaded and failing, went down for its scheduled nightly downtime. I reckon they’ve stolen its server for the holidays, and are away playing network games on it, while it’s left running from an iMac.

Lightning

• The lightning and thunder, which seemed to pop up randomly and ferociously throughout today and tonight, made me remember when I was in Cairns last, walking down the esplanade. Sarah and I were walking along when Sarah noticed that my hair was standing on end – literally. As was hers. I’d not seen such a strong attraction before – any loose bits of hair were raised straight up towards the sky, trying to get the lightning to hit them... it was a bit scary and we left pretty quickly.

Comment by DM – Thursday 8 January 2004, 1:39 AM

  Funny. I was just musing today about what subjects I'd be doing next semester, too. Haven't come up with a good way to balance the engineering and the arts subjects, though, so I've decided to find out how to talk to an academic advisor. After all, it's their job to know this sort of stuff.

Comment by keight – Thursday 8 January 2004, 3:15 AM

  Oh, and Ned forgot to mention that he enrolled in SPAN1010 -- Introductory Spanish A.
  
  :)