A total of 6 hours sleep in 48 hours

This cannot be good for my complexion. Not that I'm into all that girly mak-up, skin care stuff. Okay...I lie, I am into the skin care stuff, but only because I eat healthy and still get friggin; spots!

Anywho, yes, my internal battery is charged with 6 hours sleep in 48 hours. It's actually a hazard because I almost fell asleep while driving home yesterday. I have no-one to blame but myself. Why? Because I stayed up until 6am yesterday doing my Development Project coursework, and it's still technically not finished, since I skimped out on a lot of the design sheets. I also stayed up until 4am today finishing off my 3D Animation coursework. I had to render, animate and write a report all at the same time! It's a good thing my mum bought me a computer, and opted for the one with the better specs, despite my regression into childish behaviour when we went computer shopping. I have no idea what possessed me to act like a stupid kid. I behaved like I did when I was like 8 years old and really wanted the Lion King boardgame!

Actually, I have some idea. I was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't know how deal with it. I felt very pissed off and upset about the night before, when I animated and rendered the first part of my animation, only to get told off for spending too much time on the computer. It's not exactly my fault that it took almost 2 hours to render what I had animated. That, and it was my first time making a character walk so it took a while to get to grips with that.

Anywho, I have my own PC and I'm in love with it, though I still feel ashamed at my behaviour. It was like there were two people inside, and I didn't know what to do. One was the immature, childish side that kicked a fuss over a tiny thing and completely forgot the skills I had learned to fix whatever bugged me, and the other was the mature and understanding one, chastising the immature one about their behaviour and telling them that they should be thankful that my mum was even buying me a computer. I think I shut down for a while, as the two ended up duking it out, and the mature side came out the winner.

Well, my if you remember, the family PC, having 1.25Gb RAM and something like a 256 Graphics Card, rendered a 240+ frame in almost 2 hours. My new PC, with specs of 1GB RAM and a 512 Graphics Card rendered the same thing in 20 minutes. 20 FREAKING MINUTES! That's like 3/4 of the time shaved off! So yeah, the rest of the animation that I did this morning took between 5 and 20 minutes to render, so it's all good stuff.

I think I busted my right wrist. It aches like anything, and it's been doing that since yesterday. The pain became apparent after I researched Carpal Tunnel, which sounds really nasty by the way, and so I think my body is tricking me into spending less time on the computer by faking Carpal Tunnel. It's what it does you see. Like for example, I always get a stomach ache when I'm nervous, or really stressed out. The pain is like no other pain and it feels like my gut is eating itself, like an ulcer. I know, because I am a psychologist (well...studied the subject anyway), that ulcers are a common result of stress. However, in my case, as soon as I get over what was causing me worry and stress, the pain goes away like it never even existed. It's like my body is conditioning/threatening me that if I get stressed, I'll get an ulcer and die. I only found out last night from my brother that ulcers don't get better, they have to be surgically removed *shudders*

Well two of my three courseworks are finished, all that's left is XML. Only a few more days before I fly away, only to return two weeks later.

Here's something for you Firefly/Serenity fans. They're making a Multi-Member Online Role Playing Game based on the series, or set in the series world. Something like that.