Bogged (03/06/24)
Well... so much for bi-weekly, huh?
Howdy lurkers, it's Venture resurfacing to tell you that it's been a long time coming for me to finally make another blog post after all these months - and what a few long, tiresome months it's been for yours truly. Let's just get right into it, shall we?
What's a work-life balance?
The amount of assignments I've been jabbed with is enough to knockout even the most studious! I'm overexaggerating, but the brunt of work I've dealt with in these two months has been pretty harsh for me. I've wanted to work on the website for AGES now but I've solely put it off because of the programming assignments I'm forced to deal with. It's pretty much "I could be working on my website for fun, OR I could work on that weekly programming assignment that's due at the end of the day."
I think it's ironic, looking back on my "April Grab Bag" (with only two topics in it) and seeing that I'm irritated at my programming class because they mark my assignments weird. That assignment I did only just got it's marks released 2 weeks ago, after much deliberation ("It's coming out this week" only to delay it 3 weeks; "I'll release it tonight" only to release it 2 days later). Amateur work, or the industry standard? You tell me.
"Collecting introverts like Infinity Stones."
University is great for meeting like-minded people, or so I've been told. The amount of "introverts" in my divisions is, honestly, to be expected, but I wasn't expecting the WHOLE department to keep it to themselves. Maybe a couple extroverts sprinkled throughout? Nope, the entire place won't move a muscle.
So, as the extroverted guy that I like to believe I am, I have been pretty outward in making friends with anyone that I meet. Whether that's in person after lectures/lab or on the various club Discords I'm in, I love to be outwardly open to people! I sometimes think, maybe I'm too outward, and annoying, or whatever? But if someone isn't interested, the convo simply stops and we stay as acquaintances. I digress.
The current state of the website...
At this point in time, I'm not currently interested in pursing development of the website as much as I was at the beginning of this year. In fact, I've fallen off a couple of things that took too much of my time away from university; the Soul-Silver shiny hunt included. It's not that I WANTED to stop actively developing ventureintotheknown, but it became wrapped up in a slog of uni work and a lack of free time/assignment burnout. I'm not sure when I'll pick up this project again, but rest assured it will maybe be soon? Maybe after exams, say, mid/late June? No guarantees but I want to finish off this project and polish it until I have a true reflection of myself as a whole.
Album of the Blog - Anime Companion Piece
I've been really deep into Daft Punk's album Discovery lately. I don't have too much to say about it, other than it's peak EDM and the sole reason that France, as a country, still exists.