Last year mulletron posted his new year’s resolutions in an attempt to help force him to actually achieve them. I am somewhat doubtful as to whether this helped, but it seemed like fun, so here goes. 
1. Learn to Drive
This is something I have been putting off forever. I didn’t bother starting to learn until sometime during my undergraduate degree, and then after a few lessons I gave up because it was sort of stressful. Anyway, through the summer holiday I managed to to make a good effort at this, I had at least covered all the manoeuvres I needed and got a bit less worried throughout the whole experience. I was meant to carry on when I came up to coventry at the start of my MSc course, but managed to put it off again. /o\
Plan: Start up lessons in Coventry next term.
2. Learn more Japanese
Specifically, I’m considering taking either the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) at either Level 4 or Level 3 (Level 4 is the lowest level). Why? I don’t know really; I enjoy learning the language because it’s a good way to take my mind off of things, and I need something to keep me busy other than just IRC occasionally.
Plan: I have a number of language resources already, books, flash cards, games, websites and friends. Easiest thing I can think to plan is little things, for example keeping flash cards on desk so I can practise when I’m bored (I’m pretty much always at the computer, this seems to work pretty well so far), emailing a friend once a week and hoping they email me back!
3. Pass my degree
This wasn’t so hard last year, but for my MSc course I’ve sort of been slacking my ass off. I guess I need more of a plan than just “pass”.
Plan: Timetabling is depressing, but I really do need to set up a plan for reading, writing and development for my dissertation project. Maybe I should publicly plan and document the process to provide some incentive?
4. (monk, ) Get A Job
Well, that or a PhD placement. After some serious consideration I don’t really think I’m good enough (organisationally, intellectually or emotionally at the moment) to do something which needs as much self motivation and dedication as a PhD would (I know some people in CompSoc will protest this requirement :p). I’m not putting the idea off permanently though. While I’m terrified of what this might do to my social life, hopefully [1] could help that. This also relies on [3]. :p
Plan: I have never written a curriculum vitae in my life, so I guess this would be a good first step.
5. Make memories
Heh, I thought I’d try to make a less hard one! Okay, this is probably my last year at Warwick, so I really want to make some memories with my friends, and document it too!
Plan: See people outside of exec meetings. ¬_¬ Remember to make journal entries (already have one of these), take photos whenever your hands aren’t busy typing.
I hope everyone has a good 2010 
Happy new year!
Snow
So everyone’s been hit by snow, I hear. It doesn’t happen every so often so why not commemorate this with a rather dull blog post!
I went to bed on January 5th knowing that it was going to snow heavily. I woke up at about 6am, saw the snow outside, and then experienced a power cut (after about 10 minutes of lazing about in bed). D:
I woke up again enraged at the lack of power. I took a photo!
My mum was definitely a lot more stressed about the snow and lack of power than I was. As well as the worries about needing the car to transport me to Coventry, and food, our burglar alarm was making a noise every minute telling us that soon it run out of backup power and take me all the way back to alarm LAN.
Anyway, I donned a thermal vest, jumper, fleece, hat, gloves … another pair of gloves and a coat, and went outside since I figured the house was going to be just as cold soon anyway. We decided to try clearing the driveway a bit so that we could get the car off of it. Fun, right!? >.<
The whole driveway was too much work in the end, so we just cleared some tracks (which was also hard work, I ached D:)
For a change, I thought I’d make something in the snow!
If you click on the image you might find there is an actual attempt at features on this thing, though I couldn’t decide if it was meant to be a cat or a wolf to be honest. I really wish I had spent more time making things in the snow before it became so hard. A snow domo kun could have been epic. (I guess there are other art forms I can have a go at :p hell, I got given a balloon kit for Christmas :s)
It was a warm feeling when our floodlights burst on and I heard several alarms go off in the distance.
Thank god, I can go back to sitting in the same spot all day.
Anyway, enough boring rambling. Here are some more photos of where we live covered in snow .<3 I hope you are all enjoying the pretty snow! Or at least finding it not too inconvenient. :p