Week 12

Well it’s been a stressful week (and I don’t help myself out with my ability to procrastinate), but with a very relaxing weekend im ready for this week. The main things I had due were Programming and Game Level both of which were due Friday.

Monday I went in to uni early with intentions to start work on my fit2048 assignment (game level) which didn't really happen, I should have started it earlier so that I could understand how to use the program to complete the assignment. Instead I was stupid and had charged up my PSP so I spent most of the day playing that instead of working. Luckily I saw this and left it at home for the rest of the week though. Monday night I talked to a few people online and got some tips for my game level (fit2048 assignment) and started getting bits of it to come together.

Tuesday I went to FIT2048 to get help from people in my group and was very pleased that Gab had come in early because he helped me get a lot of work done before the start of class. Although I had missed a few weeks of this class Gab and Morgan weren’t much further through the assignment then me, although they did really know how to use the program. What was annoying was the 4th member of our group had been away as well but didn't even turn up this week to finish his part. So we decided to move on without him, and we still haven’t heard from him so hopefully he has found a way around this himself. At the Tuesday seminar I really couldn't follow the guest lecturer, dunno what it was I just really couldn't get my mind onto listening to him and so I just pulled out my laptop and spent the time catching up on other things I like to keep up with. Oh yeah and Ben won blog of the week although he has been promised his chocolate at a later date.In the afternoon team meeting I actually did some work (sequence diagrams) and then after I had done the first few, I did something ive never done at uni before and very infrequently at home as well (i.e. years between each time), I asked for more work. Eventually I went home and continued doing sequence diagrams and my game level and even further putting off my programming.

Wednesday was a pretty stupid day from my point of view. Basically I wasted the day and got very little of anything done while I was at uni. I had discovered word twist on facebook and that application is pure procrastination. Once I was home I skipped karate and actually got some work done on my game level and it was really starting to take shape. Although the stress of the deadline was rapidly building I got around this and went to bed at a reasonable time to continue my theme this week of being at uni a lot earlier then I normally am.

Thursday I was again at uni very early and started working on sequence diagrams and my game level, which was pretty close to finished it just needed some added interaction and the UFO to stay away from. Once the rest of my group had a break in classes we went and worked on it further and at the end of the day I had the UFO in the game and most of the interaction finished off. Then it was off to SYS INT, oh yeah and the lecturer has finally noticed that not a lot is thought of her by the students which I thought was quiet obvious. The lecture was quite dry until the end where we got an idea of what may appear on the exam. The class was ok and we basically went through some questions of a type that may appear on the exam. damn I hate exam and unit revision, I just really wanted to know my marks but im way to scared of how low they may be to go and ask. Once that was over it wasn’t as easy a night as it normally is because mum had to go and change plans we made last week without telling even though it affected me quite a bit, and I didn't go to the pub cause of the deadlines the next day and it was very very cold. So yeah I continued with my game level as best I could and went to sleep.

Friday I woke up after 8 hrs in bed and felt like id had maybe 3-4 hrs of actual sleep (there’s that stress affecting me for once), I helped mum dismantle my bed then got a lift to uni. I met up with gab and we started working on our game level and he really helped me here and I got my intro movie working and then once Morgan got there we finished off all the levels, burnt them and submitted about 2.5 hrs before the deadline. After this I got lunch and tried to do programming which after a while I knew just was not going to happen so I called it a day and went home. My 21st pressie from mum and dad had arrived while I was submitting my game level and damn its a nice bed, mum tried to play it as if the bed hadn't fitted in the room but I was so tired I waited to get home before I said anything, cause I thought she might be joking which she was. And what a nice bed it is im loving it so far. Well I procrastinated the rest of the afternoon with foxtel and some relaxing and after dinner I got in and worked hard on programming. After re-organising all my work from the previous weeks assessed work I was happy with it and submitted it 45mins before the deadline of midnight.
The minute I hit submit I felt soooooooooo much better and less stressed, & then went around to a mates place just to chill and catch up with the boys. That was such a relaxing finish to the night I stayed out much later then I had planned and only got home about 2ish. And I didn’t get up for a long time I had a kick arse sleep in that I was really happy with.

Saturday I slept in and skipped karate for the second time this week and did nothing all day except relax and eventually I got ready for the 21st I was attending that night. I was feeling really lazy and couldn’t come up with any ideas for the theme that I could do with what I had at home so I didn’t bother, and luckily was not the only one although there were some really good costumes there. The 21st was really good and I really enjoyed myself, I had decided to drive cause I didn’t want to miss out on getting back to my new bed, and really didn’t want to have to catch a taxi.

Sunday I slept in again of course and started doing some serious organising for my 21st which included my invite which are very nearly done, and listening to mum go on about what she wants to do to the deck to make in enclosed which im really over because every time mum has a day off and im home she goes on and on about what she wants to change at home and it gets boring after you hear it enough. Anyway I got on with things and did not much of anything except transfer files around to make space and copy a disc to my laptop and phone I had acquired on Friday night from my mate who got 100 copies of the disc too late to distribute at gamerthon, and it’s actually quite good. Then I ran a COD 4 scrim that we have to dispute because Game Arena are crap and let there servers die way too often, we probably would have won too, we were coming right back, but the other team agrees with us so hopefully it will get rescheduled.

Oh well im going to go to bed early for once because im meant to be up early tommorrow for some reason, and I have plenty of work to do in the morning.