The Kind of Okay Gatsby

I just got back from watching The Great Gatsby. Y'know, the story is really profound in a number of ways. Essentially, it's the story of a man who refuses to let go of the future which he's constructed for himself, and how his staunch refusal to allow anything to deviate from his own preconceived destiny eventually tears his life apart. The story actually resonates with me a little bit, and watching the film, it made me think that perhaps I should be taking some kind of lesson from Gatsby, whose relentless pursuit of a perfect love blinds him to the world around him. Gatsby creates a fantasy for himself which  includes only himself and the object of his desire, and when that starts to drift away, so too does his entire life.

...But, on the other hand, I don't really care that much.



Oh, and the movie was pretty good, too.

Life Update

So it suddenly occurred to me how long it's been since I made a blog post. Not that that's ever really been much of a reason to make one in the past, but I'm kind of bored and in a procrastinating mood, so why not update my one or two regular readers as two what the hell has been going on in my life since the last blog post.... Wait.

It's only been three weeks? WHAT MADNESS IS THIS. Hrm. I don't know if it's a good thing or not that three weeks is starting to look like a long time from where I'm standing. Either way, I've already started this post, so I might as well finish it.

So a lot has happened, I guess. I think I've finally managed to get my Uni work under control (and it's now the end of week 8. Eek!), and it seems to be going well so far. I still don't like Maths and Physics, but I'm pretty sure that's more because of when the lectures are than anything else. Comp and Engineering are going pretty well - we just got our project for Computing, which is to represent a game (similar to Settlers of Catan) in code as a tutorial group, and then in pairs to create an AI to play that game (and hopefully win).  It looks like a lot of fun.

Exams are on next month, and I'm kind of quietly freaking out about them, but I figure I can get most of my work up to date well before then and in time to cram furiously for the harder ones. After that is the end of semester, yay!

Let's see... what else is going on? I've recently been playing Injustice for iOS, because Superheroes beating each other up - who wouldn't like that? I'm not playing the much more advanced console version because I a) have no console on which to play and b) have no TV to connect the console up to. So I'm stuck on my iPad. Which I guess isn't too bad, really. I started reading the Dark Tower series by Stephen King back in O-Week and I still haven't touched the first book since then, but I'll get around to it. Eventually. I've also been sucked in to League of Legends and re-sucked in to Minecraft, which is slightly worrying, but I kind of don't really care for the moment.

I still don't have a girlfriend, although I can't exactly say that I've been trying very hard (or at all). It also occurred to me just the other day in the club, exactly how socially broken I am. Which is kind of depressing and something I really don't actually have any idea what to do about. Did I ever mention I was made a Social Assistant for College? Well then... that happened. And I've also, for various reasons had to cut out a large part of my personal life, but that's something I plan to eventually return to.

And so there you have it. My social life is a mess, my private life is also a mess, but at least my academic life isn't completely a mess. I still pretend like my conscious mind has control over my actions when in reality I continually knowingly make stupid decisions because I apparently have no impulse control, and I think I may also have a slight alcohol problem. Namely that I have none except for cheap boxed wine.