Just a quick update to let peeps know what I've been up to.
tl;dr version - "The usual"

Uni is plodding along ok - Have finished the data collection phase of my PhD, and am at the bottom of the large mountain known as Data Analysis and Thesis Writing. I'm trying to get into it, but it's just so hard to start... too many numbers to make sense of!

Will have to get into it properly soon, though.

The class I was teaching this semester went well - I got very good UTEI responses.


Have been trying to get fitter - I spend so much time at the PC, and with the PhD getting into the hard part, that isn't going to change any time soon... So I figure it can't hurt to get outside more and stretch my legs now and then.

Have been walking and jogging around the streets and bridal trails, and it's really reminded me how gorgeous this area is. Hence the flood of Australian animals and bush photos.

My neighbours run a personal training business that I did the website for, so I'm getting advice and help from them to keep me on track.


I've also gone to the optometrist and sorted out a pair of glasses, since I started to notice that my long distance vision was getting a little blurry, particularly when reading street signs and whatnot.

I thought they'd just set me up with some glasses to sharpen things up in the distance, but after the eye exam we decided that it would be better to give me reading glasses to reduce the strain on my eyes while I'm at the PC, coupled with me remembering to regularly focus on something in the distance for a few seconds.

Hopefully this will improve the muscles and whatnot which have gotten lazy/accustomed to short range and get them working better again for long range... I'm hopeful.


That's about it, really. Am playing a fair bit of Fallout 3 and enjoying it quite a bit.

Might go play it some more now.