It is 4:05 in the morning.

I've been tossing and turning for the last... 5 hours? I have a headache so big, I really don't want to be conscious to experience it any longer than I have to. Apparently my body disagrees with my sentiments though, because as hard as I try I can't get any closer to feeling drowsy. And now I've been up for all of 5 minutes and I'm already wide awake.

It's been like this for the last 4 nights, the last time I checked the date, it was Friday. My computer now informs me it's Sunday. I don't remember more than a few hours in between these points. So, I guess I'm going another sleepless night

This is what happens to me during holidays. I lose a rigorous sleep regime and quickly descend into insomnia. My question to you, the blogging community, is how do you all cope with insomnia, sleep patterns, general life management etc. It'd be nice to know if I'm alone here or if there are plenty of other people who struggle with sleep.

Let me know your thoughts! I'll probably reply.

-Daniel

It's 2:30am. I have a 40% exam tomorrow. I have about 3 days of study to do in 5 hours of free time. I should be sleeping. I could be studying. I'm not doing either.

I'm sitting up listening to the amazing speakers I just plugged into my computer.

It makes me happy.

So it seems blogdrive has finally gotten over that phase of putting advertisements in blog entires. So now I don't mind coming back and writing.

Lately I've been under a lot of stress. Uni has gotten much harder, I'm falling very far behind in three subjects and doing all I can just to get my weekly assignments in. I'm falling further and further behind in classes though and I'm going to need to put in a get my life in order again.

Blogging should help me feel less stressed though, so I might as well do that.

Now it's been over a year since I last blogged (it feels like a couple of months, that's kinda scary) I could write about everything that's happened but that'd be boring. Instead I think I'll just give a brief outline of what's happened and focus on current events.

So, in the last year I:

• Dated twice, neither relationship was very successful, oh well. Currently single.
• Passed all of my courses for both semesters. Got a lot of credits and distinctions. Only one HD which is pretty disappointing.
• Got a car. Drove it for a year without crashing. Crashed it last week.
• Did I have a dog last time I posted? Anyway, I have a dog. She's really cute.
• I'm getting money from centre link now, which is awesome. Yay youth allowance.

In short though, I'm still doing a Sci/Eng degree. I'm still crushing over the same girl I haven't asked out yet. I still get average grades and I still haven't signed up for judo or the gym like I keep tellign myself I will. I still play World of Warcraft.

I've got a lot of sutff in my life to fix. Starting tomorrow, things are getting improved =)

No quotes or anything today. Sleep is more important.

Last party I had, I promised myself I wouldn't drink spirits again. I can't seem to keep my promises though.

Oh well, you know it was a good party when you wake up and you're still drunk. You know it was even better when you look down to realise you tried to wear your shirt as pajama bottoms...

Anyway, I'm pretty sure most of the people were almost as drunk as me and I can't remember saying/doing anything seriously embarrassing.. so it's all good.

More updates later. I need to get to uni!

So I looked at my page in internet explorer and it look even more stupid that I thought. I've designed this page so that the blog section resizes to fit the window so that it works on really terrible monitors as well as high resolution ones. Of course internet explorer is too stupid to figure this one out, because I have big images it's made the middle section huge instead of shrinking them to the percentages I specified. The only was I can fix this is but actually defining how many pixels wide the pictures should be displayed as, but this would look dumb on a wide screen monitor... stupid IE.

Also, the profile section isn't transparent like it should be, even though I used exactly the same opacity tags as I did on the blog section, and that's transparent.

Arg! So I've decided I'm not even going to bother fixing it. IE can go to hell and so can everyone that uses it.

So uni looks like it's going to be fun this semester. All my classes seem a lot easier and actually interest. The interesting thing is that I have all of my lectures in the same theater with only a couple of exceptions... heh

Anyways, I've noticed that the most popular blogs are the ones with images. I'm kinda into photography, so this works out. However, my blog section is semi-transparent and I like it that way so I'm not changing it.

... I thought inline frames would work as a solution but apparently even they are transparent. So I give up for now, I'm just going to put slightly transparent images up and you can click on them if you care enough to see them looking good.

So, in the tradition of my last blog, here are some pictures from the last Cat Empire concert I went to. These were taken from the mosh pit, so that's why they look a little dodgy.

Also, I appologise in advance for the size of the images. I made them smaller than they were originally but they're still a hassle for anyone still on dial-up.

 
Okay, above we have Felix, Harry's haircut and the Horns section... click for the 6mp versions.

I'll add some up-to-date photography later, this was just a test post to see if it works.

I'll still leave you with a quote though.

Coolest sentence ever.

So the girl I mentioned earlier didn't turn up to work for the entire week. How lame is that? I know, pretty lame right?

I start second semester tomorrow though, so there will be plenty more girls for me to embarrass myself in front of very soon.

I'm weighing up the pros and cons of dropping down from honours level maths and just doing advanced.. it'd mean I could concentrate more on my other subjects and probably come away with a few more high distinctions. I'm going to talk to the careers adviser and see if there are any real benefits to doing honours.

I also failed my driving test because I got about 3 hours sleep the night before. I haven't been able to sleep at all lately, it's really annoying. I thought it was because I wasn't doing enough exercise, but even exercise doesn't help.. so I'm out of ideas.

And that's pretty much what's going on with me right now. I'd ask for feedback, but no one reads this site anyway...

Instead I'll leave you with a quote.

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe.” - Albert Einstein 

So it's that time of year again where I start thinking "hmm, what I really need a girlfriend".

Of course, acquiring the aforementioned commodity is easier said than done. Probably because it actually requires asking someone out. Now I don't have much of a problem with this, I've done it before and it's always gone well. However, this in itself is a problem. I've never been rejected before and I don't know how I would react if I was...

Of course, the risk of rejection has always been a part of asking anyone out, "So why should now be any different?" I hear you ask. Well I'll tell you. This time I'm not asking out a friend or a girl I've been flirting with for the last week/day/hour. This time I'm going to try to ask out the girl who sold me the last shirt I bought.

She was cute, nice, cool etc so I'd like to try dating her, however we're not friends so I have nothing to lose from asking her out and getting rejected. Perfect. Trouble is, since she doesn't know me the odds are really stacked against me and I'll probably get shot down. After that I don't know what I'd do. Do I just laugh it off and walk out? Do I look upset and humbled? Do I try to tell her what a horrible mistake she's making? I don't know, whatever happens it'll be weird and awkward and just thinking about it makes me nervous.

Anyway, I'm gonna go through with it next time she's actually working there so I will keep you posted as events unfold!

So I passed all of my exams, this is good. I came away with three credits and a distinction. I was really hoping for two credits, a distinction and a high distinction. Still, I didn't fail and that's good enough to be getting on with. I'll try for a few HDs next semester.

Right now though, I'm super bored. I have absolutely nothing to do. I think I need a girlfriend. I didn't before, but now all my friends have girlfriends and I have no one to go clubbing with...

I've also decided I need to learn javascript and then maybe some real programming languages. So I'll be using this blog as a javascript testing ground for a while. Normally I'd be excited.. but javascript is the most horrible language I've ever seen.

Anyways, I'm going to run off and spend some time at the gym, then maybe head down to the shops or something...

Peace out y'all!

So it's pretty much complete now. I think I'm done with the themes and such, just gotta fill in the profile and side section properly.

In other news, we've finally recovered from the party. The house is clean, the people are happy. I need to apologise to the parents properly and sober but yeah, things are much better than they were a few days ago.

Right now my biggest worry is my exam results. I am extremely afraid that I failed physics and even if I didn't I'm not sure how long I can handle advanced physics for.. it's really really hard. I guess my plan is to study really hard over the holidays and get back on track and if I need to, pass the suplimentary exam. It probably won't come to that but it'd be a good idea to be prepared.

So that's what's going on with me...