The end is near...

Or, Last post of the year. (And I need to vent.)

So another year is drawing to a close and what have I learned from it?
Pretty much jack all if I may say so.


Frankly I wish I had something super special to say that I had learned over the past year but I really don't. It's been pretty much a non-descriptive year marked by the occasional bright spot in the shape of concert and convention.
And a damn thesis work that I have no fucking clue if I'll be able to complete in time for the first deadline. But I'll probably make it through somehow. I guess.
Christmas was good if anyone was asking. Although I wish I knew how parents thought at times. Because mine are really odd occasionally.

So a couple of days after I get back home to my parents I am sitting at the dinner table and only my mother is present there due to dad being away on work and my brother being god knows where. So in the middle of all the normal small talk we usually this following conversation suddenly crops up:
"So all those girls you meet at the convention, you know you can ask for the telephone numbers?" (Minor backstory: I was at a small anime convention that took place in the town where I study at the end of October and was being social with a bunch of people.)
My initial reaction was just to look at her for a moment before just saying that I did get some of their facebook names to add. (Well it was more to the contrary really but hey.) But gods above and below talk about being a bit too blunt there.  Why yes it would look really good if I suddenly asked a random girl I had just meet and just talked to for their telephone number. That isn't acting like a total creep at aaaall. Nooo of course not.
Yes I know she want's to help me but not like that please. And gods help me if she ever gets the idea of matchmaking me. Like I haven't had that happen to me already before. Which was odd and embarrassing enough.

Speaking of the convention I did notice something, the Swedish con community is actually kinda tiny in a way. While overhearing a lot of conversation I noticed that a lot of people knew each other from other convention previously. I guess that comes with our country's size or something I guess.
But it was quite nice. Not much to do but to sit around and talk. Even if a couple of things did get on my nerves. For instance, the screaming.
Have you ever heard a dozen or so yaoi fangirls scream? It's ear piercing I can tell you. I got really ridiculous at times.
Also, I am sick and tired of Caramelldansen.
And yet I am eager to go to more conventions because it was kinda fun. Not to mention it's a decent place to meet people that I share something in common with and have something to talk about.

So back to my parents for a moment again. So as a Christmas present they decided to give me a new baseball cap. One they had picked up in Budapest of all places.
And now I'm going to come off as a total asshole but I really don't need a new one. I mean sure the one I wear is a bit used and it's color has gone from dirt brown to some a lot paler (like say pale mud) for a couple of years of use but it still works just fine so I really don't see a reason for why they decided to give me a new one.
The other gifts I got were nice. Even if I wish I knew why my brother gave me part three of a Dark Heresy adventure series when I only have part one. Even if the fourth Order of the Stick book was nice.
And then the week after I got some stuff that was delayed which turned out to be the rest of the Scott Pilgrim books and a couple of Starcraft Frontline issues that I wanted. Which was kinda nice. (Even if I don't have the shelfspace at all for it. Not that it matters since I'll most likely be moving out by summer. Hopefully.)

So the big thing that's going for me now is my C-level thesis. Which as I said before I have no real idea if I'm ever going to be able to finish in time for the first deadline. I managed to piss away three weeks in the beginning of November due to some mishaps with scheduling with my councilor. So the day after tomorrow I have around 11 days to finish one analytical component and have a basic structure written out before the hand in for the opposition. And like I haven't been able to sleep properly for the past few weeks already. *sigh* If anything I'm lucky the subject is easy to work with so writing shouldn't be too hard.
And hopefully I should be done with this whole uni thing before the start of summer unless anything happens. Hooray.
And then I can start looking for work. Yay...
Boy am I looking forward to the next year...

Well happy new years if anything.