Frame of my Mind

As another year of my life passes me by I feel compelled to start writing a new blog. I began coding the day before my twenty first birthday and today, the day after my twenty first birthday, I completed it. Congratulations, me! If you should find any inconsistencies, bugs, spelling mistakes or other errors please let me know.

My twenty first birthday was ordinary. I woke up early to attend a lecture on advanced security which ended up being a three hour preliminary lab session in which we learnt how to search, split, count and do all sorts of funky things with delimited plain text data in Linux (my university uses Gentoo if you’re wondering). I imagined that it would be a boring start to the semester but my lecturer, with his heavy French accent, never ceases to amuse me. A few other people I know are taking the class, too, which was nice to find out. After last semester’s insanely hard cryptography unit I didn’t imagine many people would.

I got lots of lovely birthday messages from my friends on Facebook and I had three cards to open. In one, my dad made some vulgar comment about my entry into the world those many years ago! I also had two presents – two books, in fact. The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth and The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. I started reading The Reader on the tube yesterday morning and it has so far been enjoyable. It’s about a guy in post-war Germany who has a steamy relationship with a much older woman who suddenly disappears. As a law student years later he finds out that she is a war criminal. I’ve just got to the part where he sees her in court. Dun dun dun…

So, not much celebration – yet. That will come over the weekend. I return to my hometown on Friday with Ath and on Saturday evening I’m having a little ‘party’ – food, drink and games with my best friends from all over the country. Oh, and my little brother. I’m very excited! I’ve already started wondering what to wear, I think it may have to be the-dress-that-is-too-OTT-to-ever-wear-out-but-OK-to-wear-in.