Journal: June 2009

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No, I haven't died
Sun 25/10/09 (Link to this entry)

So how do you follow up a post all about the culmination of six years of studentship and the start of a new life down south? Well, if I'm anything to go by, you wait four months before getting around to writing anything else and then sit down and think "fuck, where am I supposed to start here?". I guess the first thing to say is that this journal is not dead, but in future I'll only be updating it when I've something interesting to say and I can be bothered writing about it (which, given how busy I am these days, isn't as often as it used to be)...

So what's new in the life of Lamsey? Well, I've moved house twice since my last update - I was originally lodging temporarily with some kind folks up in the north of Camberley while I waited for my current room to become available. Now that it has, I'm quite pleased with my digs, as evidenced by the video below (apparently people like these videos, God knows why):

As I mentioned above, I'm pretty busy these days. I've taken up rock climbing (pic below), which is something I'd always liked the idea of but never gotten around to before. Nowadays I'm going two or three times a week (except recently, as I've been working off an ankle injury), and I'm really enjoying it. The only problem is, it's taking up a lot of my spare time, as are my weekly badminton sessions as well as trips to the cinema, pub, etc. After a year of being pretty inactive socially, these past few months have been great fun but also totally exhausting!

Other random bits of news: I won second place in the Scottish Young Software Engineer of the Year awards this year and won a thousand quid, which was pretty nice (expecially as they made me come up to Scotland not once but twice because of it!); I apparently won another award from the uni but they forgot to tell me about it and they still haven't sent me the prize (bloody academics!); I've still no idea how secure my job is because the Oracle/Sun acquisition still hasn't gone through; and I'm going to be in Scotland for the 24th through to the 30th of December this year.

That's it from me today... I'll try and keep it to less than four months until my next update, but no promises :-p

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