I don't have much time, what with my thesis being due on Wednesday and all, but I'd like to take a moment and join in on the congratulations:

California's top court legalizes gay marriage

This is great fucking news! *throws confetti* Two down, 48 states to go. :D

Avram Grumer posts at Making Light about how the Washingtion Park Police does not take kindly to young people silently dancing at the Jefferson Memorial at midnight, and deem it neccessary to manhandle and arrest a young woman who dares question their orders to disperse immediately.

What's even more disturbing is how apparently there are lots of people who think these people had it coming, and can't wait to get on with the victim-blaming and the cries of "but it's all in the name of public safety!"

Avrams analysis of these kinds of comments is spot-on, and well worth a read.

I showed everything I've written so far to my prof today, and he said I have definitely enough (page-wise) for a Bachelor's Thesis now. Why then did he make me feel as if I'd never finish in time last week? I don't get it. Maybe I should have put it all in a pretty little binder weeks ago ...

So from now on it's all text polishing and creating the missing illustrations. I can do that! I just hope the migraines I had for the past few days won't make themselves too much at home in my head. I want to enjoy the spring sun, not close all the blinds and lie in the dark all day.

Spring is nice, but I'm having an awfully hard time adjusting to DST this year. My body insists on staying awake longer in the evenings, and consequently I can't get out of bed in the morning. I've been feeling tired and sluggish the whole day, and I'm not getting much done.

I bought a pretty binder for my thesis and printed what I have so far. It's kinda nice to have something tangible, to know I've actually achieved something in the past weeks.

I've pretty much put my social activities on hold until June. There's just not enough time to go watch a movie or chat over coffee while I still have to write 20 pages for my thesis.

The only thing I can't quit is my weekly Stitch 'n Bitch. Ever since I started it last year, I feel as if I have to be there and make sure everyone is having fun, or else people won't come back. Plus, it is very relaxing to knit and chat and have a glass of Merlot every Wednesday night.

So between the guy coming to do the yearly heater check-up this morning, tutoring a 6th grader in English this afternoon and knit night, I won't get much done today. If we had one of these isolated log cabins here, I'd totally move there for the next six weeks to finish my thesis in quiet, undisturbed solitude.

Why do people think Rickrolling is a particularly clever prank? It's old meme, and only few people can pull it off. (I'm looking at you, Mr. Munroe.)

Anyway, I'm off to work on my thesis now. 50 days left ...

I'm typesetting my BSc thesis with LaTeX (not risking a Word formatting nightmare with a 40 page document), and I've installed Texmaker as an editor now. I'm slowly learning my way around it, and it's fun to see a document take the form you want.

It's also a lot easier to spend a couple hours tweaking the format than actually working on content. :D

Next up is learning how to use the PEP-tool to model and simulate the petri nets in my thesis.

Tomorrow is the next meeting with my professor. Let's hope he likes what I've been working on so far.

The other week I learned how to crochet properly (I only knew how to do chain stitches before), and I can't seem to stop crocheting since.

But since I don't really know what I'm doing yet, I still need some help now and then. Which is where my shiny new Christmas present come in handy: I put the How To Crochet videos from NexStitch on my new iPod, along with a few crochet patterns.

So now whenever I go "Wait, how do you do a treble crochet decrease again?" I can just turn on my trusty little gadget and have someone demonstrate the stitch! How cool is that?

(I used iSquint to convert the wmv files to the iPod movie format. Very useful little piece of software, and it's free!)