Well, I did tell you. Or more specifically I told Tim that whenever I have even thought of having a blog before, it lasts for a week and then vanishes into nothingness. Well, not nothingness, per say, as there is still a relic of it on the internet, a fading memory that will forever be reachable via
Webarchive.org.
However, more to the point I haven't updated this for over a month. So I will update it now. In one long entry that is some vain attempt to compensate for a lack of updates for the last month. This will take four distinct periods.
Period 1: Christmas TimeYes, only I could be updating information about Christmas on January 26th. Which is today's date, if you hadn't realised. My Christmas Eve was enjoyable; spent the evening with family friends. My Christmas Day was less so; was feeling rather ill which was not a good thing. Did however get some nifty presents and some nifty money, both of which came in handy.
The next few days were spent experimenting with my definition of Absolute Zero of Activity. This will be henceforth known as the AZA. If we take an Activity, and rank it on a scale of 0-100, where 0 is AZA and 100 is Absolute Frenetic Activity [AFA], then we have a scale by which relative bouts of activity will be measured. All future blog entries will have an indicator on them with regards to the Activity level (measured in productivity percentage, or PP). During the three days following Christmas, my Activity level was probably at an average of about 4PP. Yes, that bad.
Period 2: Holiday TimeThis involved a ten day break with my girlfriend, Chrissi. I will give details approximately, but it involved us staying in London mostly, and also taking one day to go to the bright lights of
Paris; which was my surprise Christmas present for her. Although it was rather dull on that day, hardly bright lights. Although I must say that the Eiffel Tower was rather lit up when we saw it, being as it was night and it still had Christmas lights on it.
We also went around London doing standard sightseeing things. It was a very enjoyable break from my daily routine of monotony. Which was the purpose, I suppose. If I can discover where her photos are I will link them in at some point.
My activity rating for this period should probably be measured at about 76PP; while I cannot update every day's records, my sleep patterns varied between awakening at 05:20 and 13:25, while going to bed at between 20:38 and 04:52.
Period 3: InbetweenThis was a week between two weeks. I did nothing. I packed at the last minute on the Saturday morning. I left on Saturday.
Activity rating would average at 13PP, but only because it peaked on the Saturday morning where I was probably topping 90PP for a few hours.
Period 4: UniversityWell, I'm back. And despite my usual week having 5 hours of compulsary work, plus additional seminars and reading, not to mention the dreaded looming D-word of dissertation, I would suggest that since my return my activity rating has been somewhere between 15-18PP at best. An average week of lectures and seminars would probably register at around 10PP at best, and that is only because of the large peaks, but even then it is for relatively short periods of time and thus is unlikely to be sustained at length over the week.
It's been enjoyable being back, but I have neglected to update my blog. Thanks to Jess and
her newly started blog for reinspiring me down this path once more.
Tomorrow's post will be shorter. Honest.
