I’ve been decently busy lately. Assignments are due shortly. Games remain as addic­tive as ever.

I’ve been wean­ing off my Neverwinter Nights habit in the last week, and I’ve been gam­ing in mod­er­a­tion. I was out of bal­ance a lit­tle while ago, but I seem to have regained it now.

I down­loaded Ringu, the Japanese hor­ror movie that was remade as The Ring in North America. Apparently, the Japanese ver­sion was much more fright­en­ing than the toned down American ver­sion, much like Jacky Chan’s fight scenes, I sus­pect. I’m still hes­i­tant to watch it; I don’t like hor­ror movies in gen­eral as they tend to cause a great lack of sleep dur­ing the fol­low­ing week, and this movie is sup­posed to be leg­endary in it’s abil­ity to cause such an afflic­tion. Even the fuck­ing box cover scares me. I guess that if there’s a week that I need to get a lot of work done, I could use the movie as a sort of caf­feine substitute.

I spoke with my super­vi­sor about a pro­posal. For my final project, I’ll be try­ing to cal­cu­late the time com­plex­ity of solv­ing a Rubik’s cube. There seems to be a rich set of lit­er­a­ture doc­u­ment­ing var­i­ous algo­rithms and solu­tions for solv­ing one in opti­mal time, so I think that I’ll have my work cut out for me. I’ve never been very good at solv­ing Rubik’s cubes, since I never owned one. In the last few days I’ve been spend­ing some time in under­stand­ing the logic behind the moves, and I’ve been able to solve it twice, with some online help. The radial ten­don in my wrist seems to be suf­fer­ing, how­ever, with a slight pinched feel­ing, so I’m going to be restrain­ing myself in fid­dling with the cube over the next few days.

I’ve been look­ing for a condo to buy, but there doesn’t seem to be any­thing that I want to live in for more than five years within my price range. I sup­pose that it just makes sense, and that I’m set­ting my stan­dards a bit too high. I’m now won­der­ing if I should move back home or stay here. There are some advan­tages to mov­ing back home, such as being able to live/hang out with John more often. However, I’ve friends here that I don’t want to leave, and I’ve grown fond of this city, and it’s comely feel­ing. It’s a deci­sion I’ll have to make before the sum­mer begins, and I sus­pect that it will be one of the most dif­fi­cult deci­sions I’ll have to make in my life.