Tonight I went and saw “Whale Rider” a film out of New Zealand. I admit that I cried, I guess it was a combination of being tired, sadness, loneliness, alcohol and the film, but certainly the film was the catalyst. I highly recommend it to anyone in a down kind of mood.
It's been almost a week since I last wrote, and for good reason. There's been nothing going on really, it's the last quiet week before students come back, and so although I should be enjoying it, instead I'm just feeling tired and alone. Tiffany is back however I didn't want to lean too much on her in my search for company, but nevertheless, we have been hanging out in the evenings. However I haven't seen her since Thursday evening, and I can't get through on either of her phones. I have the unpleasant feeling that she may unexpectedly had to go out of town, as her grandfather was extremely sick and I thinking he might have passed on. I suppose I'll find out eventually, and I guess my problems are fairly simplistic by comparison.
The days at the lab have seen me dreadfully bored, I have reactions which can take between 48 hours to 6 days to run, and which take up room in the fume hood. My bosses have been away at a conference, so perhaps I will see them this week. Today I spent some time at the lab, and then much of the afternoon was taken up with patching my jeans. In other news, I'm thinking of taking some credit hours this semester. I'm not sure what exactly, but it wouldn't hurt me to work towards my MBA I suppose. I'm thinking of taking some introductory economics course perhaps, it certainly wouldn't hurt to get the old brain working again now would it. In preparation for this I'm also thinking of taking the MPLEX, which is the Maths Placement Exam, which determines what level of ability you have. While in my final year of high school I was very familiar with differentiation and integration, however all that has been lost out of disuse. Let's face it, when was the last time you had to factor a quadratic equation? Although I have done fairly well on the trial exam set, part of the problem is that some of the maths is completely unfamiliar. I shouldn't be surprised, I'm in a completely different country, and I should be glad that it's still mostly in base 10. The exam is next Friday at 1 pm, so we'll see how I do after that.
I'm tired, and although all the bright young things are obviously out burning the candle at both ends, I will be going to be bed alone again.