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Hey look, the semester's over? Unfortunately I didn't really have as much free time as I thought I did, so I've been putting off this post for quite some time now. I wrote this around a month ago, perhaps I was waiting for something else to add to it but I'm not sure what. There's plenty more to say but I'll save that for another time...

(In best Jack Bauer voice) The following takes place between the 25th and 26th of April, 2009.

Hey look, free time! Where'd that come from?

In the time since my last locker status update, conditions have take a turn for the worst. Crappy uncompleted models lying around not being able to fulfill their destiny due to a lack of time. Indeed time is a luxury no one in my class has at the moment.


We've been trying to create a mockup of our proposed atrium archway model and it's fair to say it's been nothing short of a nightmare for everyone involved. To try and get things done I spent an all nighter sitting in the labs churning out panel after panel of work that the other guys had been working so hard to produce.


I'm pretty sure that's more masking tape than I've used in my entire life, but all that tape was consumed quickly in one night, taping freshly cut pieces of toxic MDF. Yay for us!


I started around one in the afternoon or so and kept on trucking until about eight the following morning, when I had to go out and play cards, followed by a quick nap at home and accompanying my sister to see Eagles of Death Metal at eight Sunday evening. Two bottles of Lemon V can take you that far but eventually it all catches up with you. I get pretty emo when something that happens so I should really apologise if you were the unintended target of my misguided rage.

I have a lot of trouble trying to explain exactly what kind of music the Eagles of Death Metal play. The name itself is so misleading that no one really cares for my explanations and frankly there probably isn't much point unless I pull out my iPod and play some of their stuff. I believe my sister would've had a similar problem as I only went along because she couldn't find anyone else to go with her. That's obscurity for you but then we can't all be fans of Miley Cyrus.





The really disappointing part was that the support acts took their sweet time (on the upside Kram was great) and by the time the main act started I could only stick around for the first few songs before I had to pop back into uni to update myself on what was going on. This studio has a lot to answer for. Fortunately my sister was able to use our camera to tape the encore which had my personal favourite from EoDM, "Speaking in Tongues" which comes complete with an interlude where the lead breaks into well, his take on speaking in tongues. Great song from a band that doesn't take itself too seriously, just don't let the video scare you off.



Getting back to the reason my life is a living hell, the annoying part is that the computer generated parametric model on which my all nighter was based was ditched in favour of a modified scheme. For something on this scale, design development is just another term for massive waste of time, materials and effort. So many futile exercises and for what, I don't really know. All I know is that I'm the proud owner of a box full of MDF diamonds and damnit, I'm going to use them for something.