Just a small update on the world of Miriam…

1. I had a random attack of the crazies today and started alternating between giggling and singing Christmas carols, having five-year-old style tanties, sulking and standing next to Colin who was sitting on a beanbag and kicking the beanbag until Colin got sick of it and told me to go upstairs and study. I’m actually genuinely surprised that I’ve never been committed before considering this sort of behavior isn’t exactly unusual.
2. I randomly discovered mention of a book I was given for Christmas years ago and never read. I’m thinking next time I’m in Syd I should fetch it.
3. Through the magic of last.fm I discovered that Van Halen rules. I was looking at Cam’s profile and saw that it was in his top 5 artists and given I agree with most of the rest of his music taste I figured it would have to be worth a listen. I love discovering new music I like. Thanks Cam 🙂
4. I have an exam tomorrow and I’m very very stressed (this may explain the attack of the crazies). Its the first time in my life that I’ve been unsure of whether I will pass the night before. I’ve never failed an exam in my life and I don’t intend to start now!
5. I’m looking forward to exams being over so I can concentrate on Nays project. (see below for details)

I’ve spent around 9.5 hours cleaning today. We’ve finally totally finished moving out of our old place so I spent today cleaning the old place. Its amazing how long it takes to totally clean a place all at once.

I’m glad that bits all over. I can be somewhat more relaxed about unpacking. The bulk of that can wait until after my exams.

It seems that my call for a purpose in life over my three month break has been answered.

My sister is just starting year 12 design and technology and she has a nifty little idea for her major work. It involves a whole lot of stuff which just isn’t her area of expertise. Like accelerometers, electronics and digital logic.
Given I’m studying Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering and just finished such subjects as Digital Electronics Design, Circuits and Electronics, Electrical Actuators and Sensors and Embedded Microcontrollers, I am in a unique position to be rather useful.

So whilst she is doing all the design work and conceptualizing like a good little designer/inventor, I get to do all the technical jiggery-pokery.

I wont tell you what the project is until she starts blogging about it except to say that it involves such intellectual fun as designing a state machine, fiddling *cough* calibrating analogue outputs from the accelerometer in order to get a nice digital 5V high when (and only when) it reaches the trigger acceleration and convincing an RF transmitter/receiver to behave.

Today (well actually tonight very very late) marks three years that I’ve been (putting up) with Colin 🙂
Whats even weirder is that in just over a week I will have been living with him for two years.

And no one thought it would last… 🙂