Library

The new library policy has made me very angry. Instead of allowing students to take books out for the duration of the holiday, the books need to be renewed according to their loan length throughout the holiday. I am particularly annoyed because I took out a book before I left Durham (after term had ended) and was given a renew date of three days, however, what I wasn't told was that the book had already been put on hold for someone else. So, now I cannot renew the book and will be fined £1 per day from tomorrow until I return it. I have been slightly lucky though, as the library is closed from Christmas eve until the 5th of January (when I will be returning to Durham) and they cannot charge me the fine between these dates. Still, it is a very silly rule.

Back from Holiday

Just arrived home from a very relaxing holiday in France.

This week I have:

• Started to design a Slitherlink solver with my Dad
• Become a Five-Star Commander on Elite Beat Agents
• Been converted to Linux, (possibly)
• Become Audiosurf champion of "Shine Jesus Shine"
• Failed to set an Audiosurf time for John Cage's 4'33
• Decided to buy an ultra-portable PC
• Spoke a total of two words in French, one of which was "Margherita", (the French word for Margherita)
  
• Not done any Maths...

I'll be moving in on Monday - and then straight to the Library on Tuesday to catch up on missed time.

The House

The gossip of the moment seems to be the recent room ballot, and so it should be; the process was suitably mathematical involving coin tossing and the mention of dice. The downstairs rooms were simple and did not require a diagram; Sparky took the largest room downstairs and Eden the back extension room as his study. So, the upstairs rooms were left to fight over. The diagram to the left shows the final solution, and at this stage I should note that this diagram is not to scale.

The summer is ahead of us, and for all of us that means an excessive amount of money will be leaving our bank accounts every month. We will all return in October for the next academic year to begin, filled with hardcore library sessions, project supervisions and naked Thursdays, but I'm sure there'll be more about that later!

Signing out...