Not so much an announcement of a farewell as it is an apology for low activity and lack of progress on anything:

I've had a rough couple of weeks. University is crazy at the moment -- I've finished all 6 papers for my thesis, but I need to get at least one of them published before I can finish the course, and I have no idea when that's going to happen, so I'm just frantically revising and re-submitting papers all over the place. Deadline is 12th of February, which is not going to happen, but that only means my scholarship ends then, they're not going to kick me out or anything and I'll be able to finish anyway. I'm going to try my hardest to finish all of that this year, but if, at the end of the year, I'm still sitting here doing the same thing, I think I will get myself the hell out, even if it's suboptimal. I'll be down to AUD$160 a week for food, medication, phone bills, petrol and miscellaneous expenses for myself and Sypher, which should be okay, but only if Sypher stops being so demanding hahah >_<


He has mostly been good to me lately, a lot more so than he was a month ago. However, he had a falling-out with Shaikur and Nirusu as well, which I think sent that situation several steps closer to blowing up catastrophically. People are going to get hurt by that when it happens, I've been trying to kick that can down the road but it's worrying me.

Also not helping is that I broke my favourite keyboard last week by being a dumbass and I've had to order a new one -- at the moment I'm borrowing one of several crappy keyboards which Sypher was hoarding for whatever reason. I also discovered last week that I've somehow gained a heap of weight, so I've already begun to work on fixing that as well.


Overall I've been tired and weak and been dealing with a heap of troubles lately. However, when I get through all of it I'll be in a really good position I think.