A Forgetful Personality

A brilliant start to the day meant that I ended up leaving my house three times in the space of ten minutes. The first time I didn't get very far because I forgot my keys and thus couldn't lock the door. I had also forgotten my phone but thankfully remembered that when I was picking up my keys. Attempt number two I got significantly further, five minutes down the road further and I had to do the embarrassing turn around in the middle of the road and head back in the other direction thing. I would normally have come up with some pathetic excuse for having to turn around so as to avoid the embarrassment but I was too tired and fed up. Thankfully there was no one around to see so I think I got away with it.

The second time, I had forgotten my laptop which is an essential piece of equipment for the group meeting I was going to. Without it, the already shortened meeting would have been a total waste of time as we have yet to get all of the various components necessary to do the modelling assignment working on the university computers. They have worked independently at separate time on separate machines and on separate user accounts but we have never managed to combine everything onto one PC. Not only that but we also only had access to one PC in the group room that we had booked and the simulations that we were running generated many gigabytes of data which it is impossible to cram onto the pathetic 500 or so megabytes that we get allocated by the university. 500 megabytes is usually just about enough space to store all of the extra software we need to run the models, let alone storing any data created by running the simulations!

So on the final trip down - this time having remembered everything - I had to pick up the pace so that I wasn't too late for our meeting. I would already be cutting short my stay to attend the TSC meeting so thought that it was only fair that I was there from the start. Except when I got there, I was the first to arrive. About five minutes later, one more turned up and then we had to wait about twenty minutes for the next person. We then found out that the latest arrival didn't bother reading the whole email sent to her telling her which room we had booked and didn't tell the final member of the group.

Thankfully he had the common sense to come down to the library anyway and we sent him a last minute email telling him where we were and he turned up about ten minutes later. Now that we were all finally here, we managed to sort out what we were hoping to achieve by the next meeting and can now make a start on the twenty page long report. That came as a bit of a shock in an email last week, we were expecting something more along the lines of five or maybe ten at most. Now I understand why we are supposed to be spending so much time on it!

The TSC meeting today has gone either very well or very badly. One the one hand, I certainly won't be bored this week but then I may well die of exhaustion. Four events in a row from Friday to Monday and then this Wednesday on top of that. I feel that I'm making up for lost time last semester and helping out those who actually have exams to revise for.

Tonight saw the conclusion of the two part Child of Our Time series on personality. I mentioned a while back about the BBC's personality test as something to do if you were a bit bored but that was actually quite interesting. This show was all about showing you how the different personality traits define who you are and can help tell you which job you are best suited to. I will encourage you all once again to take part, the more people who do it, the better it will become and the more useful the results will be. It doesn't take very long and who knows, you might even find out something about yourself that you never knew!