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------==========/ Dylan Leigh - nth Year CS/CSE \==========------
Student number: 3017239 Web : http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~dleigh
Classes started today, updates which broke the level 9 labs
installed yesterday. :( In better news, I'm beginning to enjoy
the head tutor role (rather than just dreading the workload).
Website updates (most of these are not recent, I've just
forgotten to mention them in the .plan until now):
- Fixed dumps.pl and other scripts in the codepile, which the
server kept trying to execute instead of display (even when I had
explicitly set them to text/plain in .htaccess). :(
- Thanks to Axel G. Rossberg for spotting the problem and mailing me.
- Fixed image gallery going AWOL due to php-gd segfaulting.
- New notes page: FreeBSD Notes (mostly stuff from this .plan)
http://dylanleigh.net/notes/freebsd.html
- New footer goes up to 2010. :) Only took 2 months.
- Coming soon: Cooking and Nutritional notes...
No updates in the last 2 months because I saw no reason to post about the pains that still make it hard to type, or how miserable, tired and lonely I feel. Today I will mention something which really aggravates that last problem - people at work who walk past me and look the other way. I "know" nearly all the staff at RMITCS by face and name, and they "know" me in that sense. But few have any interest in actually getting to know me, or even talking to me. Many don't even look at me or greet me or respond in any way to my greeting. Fairly confident that none of them are going to read this. Five years ago when I first started working here, I was a little uncomfortable, often treated like a feckless child by some of the TSG members. Despite that I still felt like "part of the team". Now I feel simply unwelcome here. At least the _students_ seem to appreciate my efforts (the undergrads, anyway). Whenever I feel unwanted I try to focus on the dozen-odd happy students who came up to me after they had gotten their marks for Comp Org or Operating Systems, who told me that they were sure they would have failed without my tutorials. Even this depresses me, when I realise there is nowhere for me to go here. Being a good DP or tutor is a path to nothing. Although lecturers are teachers first and foremost, getting the job depends on your research, not teaching abilities or experience. Now that TSG is no longer part of CS, my 5 years of experience as a DP aren't worth anything to anyone. I could try to get a job elsewhere, and may even be successful. I'm not sure that would be a good idea, all things considered. Apart from the extra time (which I haven't had much of, since 2007) and the extra travel (see: time), I doubt I will find it easier to make friends at a business than a university (not that the university seems to be working).
Waiting at the dentist for nearly 2 hours today. I worked on a lab report, while nearly everyone else waiting did nothing. A volunteer was surveying everyone in the waiting room, asking what volunteers could do to help, if waiting would be more tolerable with more magazines or TV screens. Am I the only person who brings something to do (or read) when I know I'll be waiting for a while?
Miserable enough at 1am this morning to walk up to Curtain Square and talk to the possums again. Two of them came up to me, nearly a meter away, and didn't hiss (they do when being territorial). I wonder if they're getting used to me, or I just happened to find a friendly pair. Walking back past all the Rathdowne street shops reminded me how much I missed eating what I feel like. It's not that I don't enjoy the stuff I do have - I make a lot of delicious nouvelle cuisine - but I miss the freedom of simply eating what I want to. Ratatouille is tasty, but less so when you feel like corn chips and chocolate.
This kid should have been grounded. http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/\ 16yo-tradie-dies-after-electrocution-20091119-imym.html *rimshot* (sorry)