NSW came out on top in Origin 1, 25-12. QLD suffered many casualties during the match. In the end they were left with only 15 players who could walk, which meant there were people playing out of position all over the place. The new Suncorp Stadium has not proved a lucky ground so far for QLD teams!
Finished marking the two or three assignments that needed to be marked separately today. A couple of them didn’t even compile!
KMH wants me to go and see Igby Goes Down, which is a movie I want to see anyway. She says it is a great film, and has become disconcerted with IMDB because of the rating that the film has at the moment. It’s still early days yet, though. Apparently she’s also peeved with Channel 9 because they’re taking Gilmore Girls off air. I admitted to having watched the last two episodes of that show because stupid Big Brother keeps running over time and so Becker gets pushed back and Everybody Loves Raymond gets taken off. Nigel and I have given up on Channel 10 on Tuesday nights. So we watch Gilmore Girls, which isn’t quite as bad as I thought it would be, and then CSI which is our favourite show. But I made the mistake of mentioning that I missed most of last night’s episode of Gilmore Girls, and so KMH is bringing in the video tape on Friday. She has the whole season on video tape. But was it a mistake, or was it some kind of Freudian thing? Maybe I actually do want to watch the show, and figure out why on Earth what’s her name started crying at the end. There are definitely aspects of Gilmore Girls that are likeable. Most of the dialogue is fluff, but there are the occassional gems, like the conversation a few episodes ago between Lorelai and her father concerning Lorelai’s mother and the order in which she is served tea at DAR meetings (whatever they are). I remember being given a very similar talk from my own father once upon a time, though I’m quite sure it didn’t involve DAR meetings and cups of tea. Anyway, Gilmore Girls is one of those shows I probably could have got hooked on had I watched it from the start, as long as the plots are not too soppy and the dialogue not too fluffy :).
RW is being slowly introduced to the wonders of Ph.D life. When you’re not struggling to solve a problem with your own work, you’re struggling with the monotony of marking or dealing with students. For some reason we were also trying to think up weird names for people today, which I think broke the monotony for him.
Must get some sleep now. I need to do some serious work on my next paper tomorrow (or maybe today, by the time I finish this blog entry). I still have to hack together a little simulation of my idea for reducing the number of hops required to route a key in a distributed hash table. It shouldn’t be too difficult, I hope.
