17 Apr 2000 cactus   » (Master)

Spring Break!

Finally, the winter has ended! Just like I predicted, I managed to fail the neuroanatomy pre-exam. Just like the other 80% of all students, so it's not as bad as it may sound. On another note, the weather has turned great (the radio says it's going to be 27 degress Celsius tomorrow) and we have the whole week off, so I spent a lot of time reading by the Danube.

I spotted Blade Runner at a bargain computer games store and decided to give it a try. Short summary: WOW! It's also a lot of fun as it brings back memories of green^H^H^H^H^Hthe time I first got the Blade Runner fever. I also began re-reading the sequel.

  • Movies of the Week: I watched Toy Story 2 and was delighted to see some jokes not targeted at children. I liked its trailer very much, so I also watched Life is but a whistle, but I was a bit disappointed: it seems like the director is very good at building suspense and complicated situations with exciting characters, but doesn't quite know what to do with the intense settings.

  • Place to frequent: András showed me a great non-stop pencake house that's not even far either. Somehow, I liked the place instantly, and their pencake's not bad either. Gotta burn some money there.

  • Back to nature: About ten of us from the university organized a trip to a well-known Hungarian hiking place, the Rám canyon, which is great because it has that Indiana Jones-feeling: you have to jump from rock to rock and climb on iron chains above the river, and since the rain felt the day before, we got very mucky from head to toe. So, it was a lot of fun. However, it was kinda sad seeing nearly everyone bringing his/her girlfriend/boyfriend and me being the only lonely one among them.

  • GNOME stuff: Right now, I'm fixing libgnomeui HEAD to work with the latest gdk_pixbuf. I should finish it tomorrow, since it's already 1 AM here and I'd like to go shopping tomorrow (oh man, how I hate buying clothes)
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