One Of My Turns
You ever get the feeling it's gonna be one of those days? One of those days that ends with you curled up in a corner with your head between your knees, begging for it to all be over?

I got that feeling right now.

Last night should have been an indication. An assignment for one of my subjects involves drawing a UML diagram. The tutor gave me a list of a few programs that draw them for you (He wants us to do it using a specific UML drawing software, and rather 'implied' that he would think less of us if we were unable to achieve this. Actually, he said 'I sincerely hope that everyone here has the ability to download and use a new peice of software, because that's one of the core values I'm required to teach you'), and I went off to download one of them. I got ArgoUML first, because that wasn't just a trial version. Except that I can't open the fecker. I thought it may be because my VJM needed to be updated, since it did have a minimum verson listed, and so I set about that. After several crashes caused by a separate web browser, it simply stopped downloading. I kept trying, it kept refusing to even start the download. I even tried starting up a new one, and I was more or less laughed at. Meanwhile I tried to wrangle with the uni website to get some lecture notes off of it, which I later realised I already fecking had. I'm just pleased that the copmputer didn't crash in the middle of this one like they did for one of my other lectures. But eventually I gave up out of stress and being fecking tired.

But that was last night.

This morning I woke up an hour late. Despite the fact that my alarm is set for seven, I do allow for the fact that I'll probably hit the snooze button several times. I try to wake up at 7:30. I woke up at 8:30 after my alarm had turned itself on and off, thereby missing my morning and throwing off my ritual. This was the usual rude shock you get when you discover you've overslept, sending me into 10 minutes of overdrive before I petered out again. At least I ate breakfast, even if it was just bread.

Eventually I got ready, just in time to head for the bus. Except that I realised I'd forgotten something and had to run back to get it. Luckilly, I still made the bus (after power-walking the distance... I think my drink bottle will explode...).

And now, in my first class of the day (my practical for UI) - I can't do it. Because, for some reason, I cannot actually access the course website to get the details for the practical. And I'm the only one who can't seem to do this - everyone else appears to be doing just fine. Only I can't access the materials. Which pissed me off half an hour ago, but at the moment just makes me feel extremely dejected.

So instead I'm trying to nut my way around JTabbedPane. Go me.

Someone just knock me out now so I can go home... I still have a UI tutorial I don't really understand yet (I'm hoping the tutorial will actually explain things) and a 2 hour UI lecture I think I'll leave in the middle of, because I don't want to get put in jail for murdering a primary school student on the 3:22 bus. Which I may just end up doing today.


"The spoon is the most dick-friendly of all the cutlery"
~ Stand Up!
- posted by Washi @ 10:47 am