After 6 months of meticulous work and the tedious process of writing up documentation (this is between lengthy bouts of procrastination obivously), at 10:50am this morning I handed in my printed and bound A2 Level ICT coursework. All 336 pages of it. And thats being concise¹.

And the worst thing is I still can’t unwind: I think this is because I’ve got a busy first few days of holiday, and for me in this sort of exhausted mood (following many, many late nights completing coursework), Appointments = Stress². I don’t know why exactly, it just is. Another problem is that two of these appointments are with companies that could potentially employ me on a freelance basis, and guess what: I haven’t attempted any real front-end design for a long while now, and I haven;t programmed from scratch in PHP or Javascript for … about 9 months. Hence the need to get practising in time for Monday and Tuesday, and due to this I’ve come up with a few things I’m going to attempt by Monday:

• Create a Final Fantasy XII fansite in Photoshop
• Create a login system in PHP with a login required to access a page
• Create an autocomplete search engine using AJAX and PHP
• Code the FFXII fansite in CSS

This is not a to-do list: that would suggest some sort of deadline, which for the moment would make me violently ill should I even ponder for a second on such a devilish topic. These will probably go live at some point, so at least I have some web design content to waffle on about.

The other highlight of the week is discovering, and subsequently devouring, an inrecdibly impressive manga series named 666 Satan, or O-Parts Hunter in the US. Written by the brother of the creator of Naruto, the series starts out fairly unmenacingly, but by the end of the 10th chapter, the storyline becomes so involving that the universe created a new sort of material force just to keep me reading it. The series is presented in monthly installments, and I have just read the 66th, and this is easily along the same lines of Dragonall / Z in terms of the sense of awe you experience as you become envolped between it’s pages (no pun intended). The only negative is that I now have to wait a month for the next chapter after reading 66 in 4 days. Well … best get with something else then.

EDIT: Well heres the login system.

1. I really should have taken a photo for proof. It’s very smexy. [back]
2. This also explains the lack of my usual articulation (scoff) in this post. Ugh [back]

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