Wow, a year has gone by...

What can I say? It seems I'm too busy with my PhD...

It snows! It's very nice to watch the snow falling. It rarely snows here. Everyone is talking about how in this part of Greece it is very cold etc. and it is true that you can see snow on the mountains around my town during the winter but it rarely actually snows in the town. I had planed a little excursion and now I won't go. It kinda made me sad in the morning but now that it's snowing and my boyfriend is coming over I feel good.

In other news, things are moving slowly as far as my Master is concerned. I am stuck with implementation issues and message synchronization etc. Sometimes I think I should have chosen a field where no distributive computing is needed just for the implementation issues...

I am at my University office trying to get some work done but I cannot. Today is simply one of the days I cannot do any serious work. I read a paper on sensor routing but not anything more. I really really hope my boyfriend won't be performing any of his experiments this afternoon and we can do something more interesting together. Maybe go for a cup of coffee and send the applications we want to send.

Do you people have these "cannot-work" days as well?

Some weeks ago I decided to close my site but I didn't like not having my collages uploaded somewhere. So, I created a Picasa album here to host them. It's not a real gallery but I just didn't want to leave them off-line.

I miss the fanart community. I miss being a part of it. I'd like to have the time and inspiration to start playing with Photoshop again. And have my site back. Active, that is.

I also want to make this journal active and nice and use it to communicate with old and new friends. But I feel so cut off from the people I used to know... Where is everyone? Is there such a thing as that fanart community I remember or has everyone moved ahead? Are there sites like the ones there used to be or has the community moved to blogs etc?

Who knows...

Happy New Year everyone!

It's time to actively try and lose some weight again. Last year I lost 16 kg! That was way more than I expected. I am now 79 kg and looking good. However, I think it will be better for me to lose some more weight. Ideally, I'd like to end up being around 67 kg. My goal for now is 72 kg. That's 7 kg to go. I hope I'll be able to lose them this year and keep them away. No reason to hurry.

I made a new weight counter because the old one kept me motivated:

Yesterday was my first "real" day at work. (By the way, I eventually got 10 hours/week, yay!) My job is to teach, but it seems rather challenging because even though most of these "kids" have been there for a couple of years they don't really know much stuff. Which seems weird to me because some of them are even older than me.

I also have a bit of a trouble because the things I have to teach them this semester are actually too few to make a good, nice flowing curriculum. I'm just used to different rhythms. Anyway, I'll try to do my best so that these kids can actually learn a couple of useful things.

I mean... *really* sucks!

I need a break. I need everything to stop moving and spinning around so quickly  until I manage to catch my breath and be ready to face it all. I just need everything to stop.

I want a break. I want some months off. I want things to stop being like this.

I want life not to suck.

My first real job has just been confirmed! I'm going to teach at a higher institution (something like a University) for 6 hours a week! The course is Artificial Intelligence. I was hoping for 8 hours but they all had to be on he same day because I can't be absent from my full-time "job" as a post-graduate student for more than a day every week, so it was hard to fit the program around my needs.

If I could spend two days a week on this new job it would be great because then they would give me 16 hours and  the money would be much better (bear in mind, I'll need around €50 per moth just for gas to drive there - it's ~70km away). If I did not have my Master's degree to complete, it would be a very good opportunity.

But it is a nice start and good for my CV, after all it *is* a higher institution!

Wish me luck!

I decided to close down my site. I wish I was still active in the fanart community but I'm not. Thank you all for all the sweet memories.

I'll still be around here though!

No change in my weight. I'm somewhere between 78 and 79 kg. I guess I stopped losing weight without trying. I have to find time to prepare my meals but now that I spent my time at the University, it is not that easy...

I made some modifications and changed my layout over at Naira's Web a bit. I wonder if I should close that site already. I've had it for years and I don't want to let it go. But that does not change the fact that I don't update it anymore...

After 10 months I've reached my target weight! I'd never thought I'd do that. It was easier than it seems. I hope I've lost that weight the right way so I won't take it back. I'm 78 kg people! :-D I've changed my target weight to 72 kg. That's 6 more kg witch I hope to lose in the following 6-8 months.

After nine months I'm almost there! I seem to have lost another 2 kg this month and there is only 1 kg left to reach my target. I need to re-adjust my target but I'm not changing my weight counter until I see that little red lady-bug go all the way down to 78!

I told Thia (inxsomniax) I'd post this so...

I thought I'd lost 1 kg this month. But I see know that I lost more. I was taken by surprise. Well, not bad, ha?

Two more kilos gone this month! People tell me that I look thinner and I like that a lot!

I saw Spiderman 3 last night. It was OK but not anything really good. I liked the actors and the feel of the film but the plot was a bit off at some points. Plus, *spoiler* Harry dying in the end was just lame *spoiler end*. All in all, a pleasant film to spend an evening in the theater though.

All the stuff we typically cook and eat during the Easter holidays didn't help, so I'm just 1 kg down this month. But it's OK. It's 1 kg closer to the target! And for he first time the "lost" kg are more than the "to lose" kg! :-p

I found those nice Harry Potter desktop icons today. They are really good, so I'm sharing the link.

Get them here.