I'm dragging my feet on my dissertation, and I ran out of time to visit the folks this weekend. I can't wait for the fucking thing thing to be out of the way. I guess I know what to do about it, don't I?

Daniel (my brother) is coming down during the week to join everybody here for a LAN party. I look forwards to having him around. Too bad I've got to spend the week at DSTC.

I've decided to hold off buying my camera until I know I've passed everything, and that SEA aren't going to turn around and ask for their money back. I think I'm being paranoid, but I've always believed in covering my arse. I should have a pretty good idea what's happening by Monday-week.

I guess now I should try and find the time to do some hacking, once this evil thesis is out of the way. My present project ideas (in order of complexity) are 1) simple XML SAX, then DOM parser implementation, 2) blog software and 3) a BibTeX editor for my Pilot.