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Inspired by putzmeisterbear 

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Here's a little update

• I've finished the last Harry Potter... It's really good - and a well done conclusion of the HP saga...
• I got my overalls for Copenhagen Pride (August 25th) thanks to furrbear ;-D. I had some pictures done, which can be seen ( behind the cut )
  
  
• I've started the last course i need to complete my bachelor in Computer Science - It's a summer course called Robots and Dynamic Agents Interface Design - 3 weeks of building robots and learning about aspects about Human-Machine interaction. My team's first task was to build a robot to push bricks off a surface (to get acquainted with the Lego Mindstorms hardware) - You can see a picture of our robot ( here )

Oh - and by the way - my cold seem to have gone - no coughing for days now

Funny that I should mention in my first posting the fear i had about not having enough time/energy to make postings to this blog --

Lo and behold - I haven't contributed in two whole months...

I think we're all due for an update... so here goes...

1) My Studies
My study grants was suspended in February - but some fellow students pointed me to the possibility for a loan (so called End-Term loan) which apparently can be granted for all people who are less than 12 months away from attaining their degree - so I've applied and was accepted for this loan for 6 months
The up side: I get to complete my bachelor
The down side: I get to pay that loan back, with interest.
Anyways I'm ok...

My Grid Scheduling project was accepted - and the exam in programming languages was also passed - so now I'm down to 22 ECTS - and I'm pretty sure to have all those earned by summer...

I have an exam in Algorithms and Complexity on Saturday, but I've  joined forces with a nice study group so I'm not that worried about this...

2) Lambda - the local GLBT association
At the AGM, I chose not to run for treasurer... but if I thought I'd be getting off easily, I was wrong!

I got elected on the board - but thereafter I was rooted to run for (and was elected) vice president ...
-- but at least I'm done pushing numbers (for now) - although in retrospect, it was kinda pleasurable...

3) The next Prog Rock-artiste??
One of my friends is a guitarist in a prog/pop band - and he's their main composer as well... He's not the best singer, though, as I've come to learn from some of his demos -- but some time ago he asked me if I could/would  help him with the vocal duties for some of his more prog-oriented compositions (his band is primarily pop-minded)
 -- That's going to be an interesting challenge... I've been a church singer for 9 years - but one thing is to sing hymns and motets - another thing is to do a Derek Shulman... It won't come to anything before the coming summer (see #1) but I'm very excited about this as well ;-D

Oh ... and by the way : Gentle Giant rocks! ;-D

ta ta for now
/Søren

*sigh*

Seems the enthusiasm, i felt comming on in my previous posting didn't last long ... I've spent the last two days in bed - only getting up for a meeting yesterday that i simply had to attend....

I'm starting to realize that i won't make my bachelor by the end of January - a failed exam in Linear Algebra took care of that ;-/ - which unfortunately coincides with the letter i got from the State Educational Grants Office two days ago, that my grants will be suspended by the end of February 2007...
Of course i could write to them and say "Hey, sure i blew almost a year worth of studying grants away - only passing few subjects - but i would still be interested in prolonging the grants for a period or two..."

The fact is that i'm fed up with studying -- i want to find some employment -- which, by the way, shouldn't be that hard (i've heard)...

So why don't i just abandon the studies and go for it ...
Simply put : if i complete my bachelor, i'll be eligable for a significantly better salary, than if i chose to seek employment now, where all i have is a System Construction diploma from 2001 to show for...

It's so annoying that this had to happen now - i'm only 29 ECTS points away from acquiring the degree ... under normal circumstances this should be attainable within one semester -- but with the failed exam i'll have to postpone that till next semester ....