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Ugh, eyes

27 September 2006 by kristarella

Whenever someone asks me what I do and I tell them that I’m taking a break from uni this semester and working three days a week I always feel like they’re judging me. Sometimes they say “That’s it?” Like they think I’m lazy.
Hello! I’m taking a break from uni. That sort of means that I don’t want to stress myself out by working every spare minute. What do we work for anyway? I don’t know what my passion is, not the one I could do for a living, why should I spend all my time doing something I don’t like (not that I don’t like my job, I just don’t want to do it 5 days).

Speaking of work, the lights in both passageways leading to our lab are out. It was really funny yesterday when they just weren’t on anymore and people were trying to find a light switch. Anyway, it’s even darker in those halls today than yesterday. Everytime I walk down them I’m reading to put karate moves on anyone that tries to sneak up on me.
Sadly, the internet is also severely unreliable this morning.

Happily though, I got Amarok (the KDE linux music player and organiser) to work! It wasn’t compiling the collection properly from the folders that I’d told it to get music from. This was because it thought it had write permissions so it was sucking all the energy from voltron (our storage computer) trying to prepare to modify the music files (adding tags and what-not) and not compiling the collection. Hubby changed the apparent permissions somewhere and it made the collection. Then it wouldn’t update the collection properly. It wasn’t picking up an album that I knew was there. Somewhere in all the mucking about it had deselected all the folders I’d selected for it to build the collection from. I reselected them and now everything works beautifully!!!

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  1. Justin says

    27 September 2006 at 19:34

    Perhaps…just a suggestion, open a photo house. Become a photographer, take photos of landmarks etc. 😛

A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying t A triptych of baubles. These are very satisfying to paint ❤️💚💙

#watercolor #watercolour #christmas
I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! S I have really enjoyed this Christmassy painting! So glad my friend asked me to make some cards for our church helpers, because it set me on a roll!
#watercolor #watercolour #christmas #christmascards #watercolorcards
Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Title Had a great Saturday at the GKR Karate State Titles! I was a sub for @jamesxuereb.me in the Blue Flame Dragons thanks to his sprained ankle; we won first round and came fourth overall!
I did a bunch of judging and officiating, which was really good.
I didn’t place in my individual events, but had a very fun final round of kumite (sparring).

#gkrkarate #karate
More stamping tonight. Even better than last night More stamping tonight. Even better than last night’s!
Did some stamping this evening. Love it! I wish I’d done some pages in other ink colours before I dismantled the stamps 😂
Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit Had an appointment in the city, so I got to visit the @legocertifiedstores_anz Wicked display!
#wicked #lego #afol #sydney
A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample ca A little book I made from Bunnings paint sample cards. It’s going to be for mini paintings and collages. Sometimes it’s nice to start with a colour rather than a blank white page!
A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel A little while ago I did some swatching of Daniel Smith and Schminke Horodam watercolours. So soothing! I love some of the granulating colours!
#watercolours
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