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| andy | Posted: 06.02.2003, 13:56 | |
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Finally got some sleep last night - got up at 12:30 just in time for Working Lunch. Feeling a little more sane, although panicked because I still haven't done anything except post to this site all day. Wish me luck fixing my elusive bug. |
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| Rob | Posted: 06.02.2003, 14:15 | |
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Hope you find it - struggling with something similar myself. Rob |
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| Midge | Posted: 06.02.2003, 20:39 | |
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I've done a few minutes' work today. My sleep patterns are still in chaos. When I get up I feel like those U2 lyrics: Red lights, grey morning / You stumble out of a hole in the ground and all that. http://www.u2achtung.com/02/lyrics/s-v/stay.php3 When it goes well, I can understand why God invented sleep - going to bed is the best, most satisfying part of my day, and it rescues/releases me from living in a string of never-ending activity. But when it's messed up it ruins the day as well. On Tuesday night I couldn't sleep, so I read all of Ecclesiastes (Contemporary English Version), and then all of A Doll's House (English version) - once I started, I thought I should carry on, and I didn't feel too tired to carry on so I knew I wouldn't sleep. So I got to sleep at 4.30am and had to get up at 8 to go to the doctors'. I felt absolutely horrible getting into the shower after 3 1/2 hours' sleep, but once the day was underway I felt good. Unfortunately, being a night rather than a mornings person, that meant that when I went to a party at 8pm, intending to stay for an hour or 2, I felt great and didn't leave till 1am and then sat in the computer room till 2. So I woke up at 3pm with a stonking headache and felt drowsy after that, which always makes me think "Oh - I'm too rough to do productive work - I'll browse the net etc. instead." But I did at least get as far as turning two paragraphs of my thesis into one. Now what does the rest of the day hold? Another spin-off is I get weird dreams. On Tuesday morning I had some dream about a large bristly pig which was worshipped as a god (reminds me of the poem 'Lord Swinehead'), which I managed to waylay and maybe kill, and then it ended with one of my friend's housemates getting killed in a way reminiscent of the Spiderman film. I had one of my dreams with the recurring theme of being in a canteen/party with lots of lovely food set out, where I keep getting waylaid and set back till all the nice food is taken and there's only a few scraps left. And this morning I was shopping in Sainsbury's with my mum, and when I was ready to go to the till with my basket, I looked down at the floor and it had totally vanished. Eventually I found some people had hidden it behind some cartons on the shelves. But then when I got to the till I looked down, and it was the wrong basket. One of my dreams about being frustrated and never getting anywhere, no doubt. 
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| davidb | Posted: 07.02.2003, 00:55 | |
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I'm having strange dreams at the moment. A few days ago I dreamt that I was in one of the collonades of the Israelite temple; it wasn't hollow, I was insubstantial. That was it. The other night I dreamed a long conversation with Tolkien, discussing the merits of the Lord of the Rings films - he liked them. |
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| andy | Posted: 07.02.2003, 02:57 | |
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Up at 3am. |
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| andy | Posted: 07.02.2003, 02:58 | |
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Posting on GE. Just passed my 300th post! Beat that! I think I'll buy myself some Haribo. |
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| Midge | Posted: 08.02.2003, 01:10 | |
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Andy: Yeah, I was just going to congratulate you on it. DavidB: Like the dreams... Aren't colonnades supposed to contain people? BTW Someone told me tonight he'd heard that 'court' comes from the Hebrew for the space at the city gate. Better check that one out. Did you like the Tolkien links I sent you? I got a token today in Sainsbury's for a buy-one-get-one-free offer to see the Two Towers - I'd've thought they wouldn't need to promote it. After all, I tried to see the first one after a few months and it was still sold out, so we ended up seeing Kandahar instead... Just been to f/hall with Tam (& Aljosa etc.) - he's looking forward to seeing you! Did you appreciate my Ady reference? I've been awake since 8am today. And I went for a run. And I'm down to 2 cups of coffee. And I'm still up at 1am - maybe not such a good idea... Off to London tomorrow, and the Georgian restaurant 'Tbilisi'! I think there's something interesting on Home Truths tomorrow, but I can't remember what... |
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| davidb | Posted: 08.02.2003, 10:27 | |
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I meant one of the columns in the collonnade... What's an Ady reference? Indeed, what's an Ady? |
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| Midge | Posted: 09.02.2003, 00:52 | |
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Are you still so dull? Do you not know that I am referring to Ady Endre and Lord Swinehead? "I took a knife and I trepanned..." I read some more wacky Ady poems in bed last night, but I don't remember any wacky dreams unfortunately. If I had they would've been about terrifying black pianos and riding a horse-sarcophagus. I found 'Home Truths' a bit disturbing this morning. Anyway, better go to bed as I'm in charge of some dangerous machinery again tomorrow morning - the overhead projector in church. |
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| andy | Posted: 11.02.2003, 03:39 | |
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Still working at 03:36 and a supervision at midday. I think I'll email them and put them off soon. It's _far_ too late to be reading "words" like "I'd've" thank you very much. Think of me chasing bugs up my own *** all night while you sleep, perchance to dream. |
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| Midge | Posted: 11.02.2003, 23:27 | |
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I thought I was doing alright, then this afternoon my brain turned to pulp trying to rehash a paragraph about causality and models and stuff for the nth day running, and realising I didn't know anything about what I was talking about, and next thing I knew I was waking up after about an hour, feeling weird. I put off my supervisees by appearing comatose in each supervision.  (Hence the choice of avatar.) |
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| andy | Posted: 12.02.2003, 15:16 | |
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House group tonight so got to be on the ball despite waking up early this morning due to some kind of cold/worry. (I'm leading house group, that's why I have to be on the ball). |
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| darkly | Posted: 12.02.2003, 20:07 | |
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How is the bug hunting going andy? Sorted it all yet? |
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| andy | Posted: 17.02.2003, 03:05 | |
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Got one. May be more. Deadline approaching fast. |
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| davidb | Posted: 17.02.2003, 18:06 | |
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What is this deadline of which you speak? |
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| andy | Posted: 19.02.2003, 14:10 | |
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ECAL 2003 ( http://www.ecal2003.org/ ) Had 4 hours each night the last 2 nights. Starting to lag. Wasn't even really working - just vaguely fiddling and procrastinating. Managed to corrupt my filesystem too but hopefully nothing important lost. |
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| Midge | Posted: 19.02.2003, 22:21 | |
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Hope you and your file system recover soon I just let all these deadlines go past. It saves a lot of work and worry later.  Here is the exotic location I'm looking forward to. Boo the Optimality Theorists! Cheer the functionalists! Thrill at Hale & Reiss, our answer to Hale & Pace, as they talk about 'substance abuse' and constraints on eating bananas! Marvel as Honeybone & Watson reveal "Visarga in pausa in Liverpool English"! Will you choose the richness of the base, or is the double-base hypothesis more to your taste? (That reminds me - there are a few bands composed of famous linguists - one's called "The Dead Tongues"...here) I had a v unproductive day thanks to the builders drilling and hammering next to my room, breaking up the path in the front garden, and doing something else round the back. I tried to work in the kitchen but I could still hear the stone-cutting saws and also the washing machine. And I felt drowsy. Couldn't cope with trying to straighten out lots of threads of argument. Just had a v productive 4 hours though carrying 100s (1000s) of books up and down stairs for a friend of mine who's moving rooms. (Random fact I found out is she's got 120 Christian CDs - including a band that sounds a bit like Portishead...??) I've got that stiff aching feeling now which makes me feel virtuous - makes up for all the times I've gone to buy chocolate instead of going for a run. |
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| darkly | Posted: 22.02.2003, 23:20 | |
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Andy, All partitions or just one??? |
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| andy | Posted: 25.02.2003, 08:01 | |
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It was approx 1-2, but I'm now back up and running without losing anything hurrah! For those who are interested, the reason I was able to pick it up and continue despite basically killing my hd was a combination of: 1. Running Linux, of course 2. Using the Ext3 filesystem that is able to recover from a crash better 3. Keeping my stuff on separate partitions |
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| darkly | Posted: 05.03.2003, 02:03 | |
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A man after my own heart - why are all the good ones married - sigh... |
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| m | Posted: 07.03.2003, 15:48 | |
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>>A man after my own heart - why are all the good ones married - sigh... You're not married. And sleep - is GREAT when you get to have some (I miss it and am not set to have much for the rest of my life...) but am at the end of a couple of weeks where I think I've averaged 5 hours sleep a night and I'm completely useless!!! I can post on here and email and that's about it. I really must do some work but it's my day off so I might sleep instead... |
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| darkly | Posted: 08.03.2003, 21:14 | |
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m, You think I'm one of the good ones? Cheers |
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| m | Posted: 11.03.2003, 11:12 | |
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I do indeed! Not in an I'm-trying-to-pull-you way. Cos I have a boyfriend all of my own (can I just say that again?! - I have a boyfriend!) and he's really quite cool too. But you, my friend, are a more than decent chap. |
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| davidb | Posted: 11.03.2003, 15:17 | |
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Hi M, nice to hear from you on all these message boards again! I hope things are going well with everything you're up to in Wales Sorry you're not getting much sleep - sounds like my brother, who also works for a church. Hope you had a sleep-full day off. |
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| darkly | Posted: 12.03.2003, 22:41 | |
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m, I'm heart broken - you ar no longer single. Does you bloke know about this site? What's he like, etc. Dx |
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