Wednesday 14 January 2009

First post this year....

Yep, it certainly is. I have been a little absent from posting in the last 4 weeks or so.

Christmas and New Year were fairly quiet affairs and for the majority of my time off university I was working. It wasn't all bad, and when I get my pay in a couple of weeks it'll really pay off.

I returned to university again on Monday. So far I'm more motivated than I was before Christmas, which may well be down to the fact that I feel these courses are more my style. They mainly oriented around relativity and nuclear/particle physics. The only additional course is Mathematical Methods II, which seems alright and gives me more of a foundation to deal with the maths in the other courses.

The exams, although not imminent, are not really all that far away. If my plans to get an A are to succeed then I really need to put all the work in now to keep on top of the current work and understand it as well as go over last semesters courses and understand them fully. It's really last semesters stuff that I'm most concerned about. I don't know any of them all that thoroughly, and I'll need to change that over the next few weeks. I have this weekend off so I might use that as a catch-up for last semester.

I'm feeling rather ambitious just now too. I want to write music and I want to have a band sorted out. I would also quite like to try my hand at writing this year perhaps, although that would probably best be left until after the exams in May.

On the band front I am a tad worried. I have some very good friends that want to start a band but their musical abilities are either very very limited or they have other priorities. I wouldn't want to disappoint them by forming a band elsewhere, but simultaneously I'm concerned about what I can achieve if constrained in such a way. I see a deadline of about 18 months down the line to get a band sorted out and get some touring in. Seems like quite an ambitious timescale, but near the end of this year I will likely be thinking about PhD positions in different institutions and may well actually be applying.

I also inadvertently said to two separate friends of mine that I would start a band with them at different times. Unfortunately both of them have intentions of playing (almost) the same instrument. This is a problem I'm not sure how to solve. I desperately dislike disappointing friends. Should maybe play it by ear - no pun intended.

In separate news, it's only 6 days until the new President of the USA is inaugurated. That may well bring a lot of news, and could prompt me to publish one of my rant blogs should I feel it's warranted. Although as stated in previous posts Obama was the man I thought was best for the job. Of course, he is still a politician so all eyes should be on him throughout his leadership.

I think I'll leave it at that for the time being and go do a little bit of studying. There's lots to learn and understand and so little time in which to achieve that.

Until next time,
Peace, Love and Unity.