Python, NaNoWriMo and Luna Park

Three things that are very much on my mind at the present moment. As in the very, very present moment.

Good News: Yearlies are over and I can finally get back into NaNoWriMo.

Bad News: I am 30, 000 words behind on my NaNoWriMo and my word count bar graphs looks incredibly sad.

I think in this kind of situation, I’m going to try to cram in as many words as I can before it finishes. Even if I don’t make the 50K mark. And maybe like shut myself indoors on the weekend and just write, write and write even more all day.

Which brings me to my next subject.

My efforts to learn how to code in Python have been slow and mostly non-existent. Today, I decided to try and get back into it only to get about twelve syntax errors and other coding in general errors. Before I got how to open one image.

Of course there’s a lot of process that goes into opening an image such as which directory to open from, the file name etc. The problem was, I had to do this every time even if it was in the same folder. So today, I’ve been trying to do a shortcut for that. But I have realised one very important thing when programming:

You can not be lazy. You can not use shortcuts for words. And hope they work out. (Like you know when you save files and  it would be generally recommended that you title it something relevant to your file? I just type “asdas” or similar because it’s the quickest thing on my keyboard and I hope I remember what it means)

Turns out, you can not do this when you code. The program shall get confused and you shall get a lot of writing in red (error colour eek DD:)

And lastly, I went to Luna Park in Sydney for a maths excursion today.

~ Rides comprising of ~

1 roller coaster ride – my first one

1 Pirate ship swingo ride – first time on one of these (extremely freaking hanging upside down and looking at Sydney 20 metres or more in the air)

1 random spinning ride where I was stuck to the wall, feet in the air because the thing was spinning so fast (completely dizzy-making :/ )

1 horrible, horrible photo of me screaming on the roller coaster (my friend bought it blah. I will burn it later.)

I still feel kind of nauseous thinking about the spinning rides.

Ugh I hate circles.

They’re not my idea of fun.

Update: Woah long post.

BLAHH!

StressOMeter: Freaking high.

My yearlies. Exams. For the next two days. Totally exam-crammed. Rhyme not intended.

Blahhhh.

~ Things that make me feel utterly unprepared and unfocused ~

1. The cold I’ve had for the past few days. Imagine that. A cold. In summer.

At freaking 40 degrees. Story. Of. My. Life.

2. Me not factoring in getting a cold a few days before exams. Result: Left a lot of work to complete

week before exam. Note to self: Never do that again.

3. My two trip to the North Coast and back for brother’s grad. Exactly two days before yearlies start.

It was more a dinner in the end really and I didn’t really need to be there.

Never should have told mother I could go.

But I need to get myself together. In order to do the best I can on this thing. Any kind of revision will ultimately count. So here’s the plan for tonight:

1) Review notes on history and answer outline questions for WWII.

2) Review science notes.

3) Complete two Maths revision assignments.

4) Take a shower.

5) Not panic – I believe it’s during these deadlines that I really need to remain focused. Begone panic hysteria.

Epic fails, parties and the metric system.

Weird Things -  The Auto-Summary tool on MS Word. When I first heard about it my first thoughts were, um, like artificial intelligence? But no, it’s actually exactly what it means. MS Word actually helps you summarise your document by leaving only sentences it deems to be important. Yeah okay, it doesn’t really work. Three words: Stupid Artificial Intelligence.

Party: presents – three books, three bookstore gift cards and some cash, one disaster of an epic fail RPG and a really nice box of Wine Gum and chocolate cake (Only two candles this year with the actual two digits in my age.  You know those people who can blow like more than a dozen birthday candles at once? Yeah I’m not one of those people.)

The Metric System – It is awesome and I’m that kind of geek who looks up the history of these things. Also, I don’t really understand the Imperial system.  It’s just so much easier to understand everything in 100 and 1000 values.

writing

A year to an age?

And there goes one more infinitely cheesy post title from yours truly.

So. Yesterday was comprised of four singular things:

- three birthdays (mine including)

- two presents

- one party (not mine)

- a 7-Eleven joke

I turned 15 fairly uneventfully.

Today I got another present of which had the contents of:

1. Twilight (red-pages edition) – though I have well and truly gotten over these books I guess it’s the thought that counts.

2.  A box of Ferrero Rondnoir Chocolate – I has awesome chocolate.

Bai.

Star Wars nerdy personal message

<33 I am amused.

Princess Leia, 22, seeks a half-witted, scruffy looking Han Solo, 20, to rebel against the galaxy. Full knowledge of protocol and astromech droids preferable but not a necessity. Together we can restore peace to the galaxy. You’re my only hope.

Random Youtube comment for Nerimon’s Nerdy Personal Ads video

I like this :D

NaNoWriMo

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

- Edward Gibbon

I think this quote is rather fitting for  me starting NaNoWriMo in 2 days.  Iz freaked outz.

THE CAKE IS A LIEE.

Cake was offered at the computer thing I was doing in Sydney today.

“Is the cake a lie?” one of the girls asked.

Everyone laughs.

That made my day.

I have never met anyone IRL who understood a Portal joke before.

The Last Line: I finally understand how to factorise Quadratic Trinomials, both monic and non-monic, today ( I just love how complicated that sounds).

Recount-ish..

AH my absence from WordPress for a relatively extended period of time has been noted by my Firefox. It decided to forget my saved login so I had to go through that whole process again. And I’m lazy and I hate signing in. And changing passwords. I probably would be one of the easiest accounts to hack into because I’m so personal-security lax. But anyway. That’s beside the point.

Yes, what I wanted to quickly blog about. I found myself in a rather uncanny situation today involving having lunch, in Sydney CBD (for rote-keeping purposes: Broadway shopping centre food court) with a bunch of people I’ve never met before in my life, by myself. It was awesome though. Oh right, I should get the explanation shouldn’t I. OK. The Explanation – I recently joined this computer thing for girls (which is kind of cool considering the whole IT area is so mainly populated by boys). It’s run at Sydney Uni and that was bubbly for me because that’s kind of the place I want to study at someday after high school. So yes, that was coolness.

Another thing I learned today: City Rail is horrible. The whole public transport system in CBD is just really all kind of awful. Missing trains and going on the wrong buses is bogus. Having a poor sense of direction to add the latter is even more so. So me + travel = wandering around aimlessly 1/4 + of the time. Even if I did write down all the train times. Blah I need a plan B but unfortunately my brain did not go past the extremes of plan As this morning and I so did not factor getting lost and taking 4 hours instead of 1 1/2 to get there.

Umk end of rant.

The Last Line – I’ve been drawing a lot more lately.