#52

Hey!

I'm writing from work placement again, surprise surprise. It's just that since I'm on my laptop 8 hours a day most of the time and I also have to carry it back and forth whenever I come to work, I don't really feel like setting it up at home in between...

The Maze Runner finally premieres in Finland this Friday. I'm so pumped, you would not believe. I mean, even Rotten Tomatoes gave it 60%+ rating consensus, which is pretty good for what is essentially "another YA dystopia trilogy". I mean, the critics decide if it's rotten or a tomato and they tend not to be the biggest fans of the more teenager-y franchises. (I don't know what the terms for "mostly good"/"pretty much horrible" categories are on RT but whatever.) From the limited amount of tweets and things I've not managed to avoid about TMR, I have the impression that fans liked it but some people thought the directors etc took a little too many artistic liberties? Pretty par of the course for a book-to-film adaptation, to be honest. So the movie might be great or might be horrible. I really want to give the novels another read, but right now I have a ridiculous pile of fantasy books from the library, so I kind of need to read through those first... damn.

I updated to iOS 8.1 and I got the Camera Roll back! Hashtag happy camper. Also what on earth is up with the "recently deleted" folder? When deleting pictures is such a pain to do manually on the iPhone, did it really make sense to Apple to literally keep any deleted image or video for 30 days before it's automatically removed from the phone's memory? I actually had 2Gb's worth of deleted videos and pictures in there, because I hadn't realised that everything actually stays in that folder. Sigh. Oh well, at least there's a "delete all" option for that folder, so you don't really have to do the same process twice. So there's that. My kaomoji shortcuts still refuse to function in most of my social media apps, though. DEVELOPERS PLEASE FIX THIS I NEED STUPID KAOMOJIS LIKE I NEED OXYGEN.

Okay, I know I try to stick to proper grammar on this blog but I feel like the struggle merited a Caps'd sentence, so bear with me on this exceptional day.

I still have no idea what I should do about my thesis. Oops. I'm hoping I can get some tips from teachers the next time I'm going to be on campus... Last year, they had a table available for download with various research subjects that different parties had asked for the school to commission for them. It had all the information - what kind of resources and/or possible pay or funding would be available, when they wanted it done, what they wanted the researching student to be specialising in - and you could contact the people commissioning the research directly. But the only interesting subject on that iteration of the subject table was due the end of this year, which is obviously much too soon considering my thesis schedule. Also I'm pretty sure most of the represented subjects had already found students to do or compile research for them.

I'm looking forward to Halloween a lot this year as well! We sort of have costumes that go together with J & J. I need to start working with the latex to make my horn prosthetics, though! I'm probably going to do a mini-tutorial of a blog post about that here, too, at some point. Probably won't be early enough for anyone to use it this Halloween, but learning about building latex pieces might be useful for someone? Who knows.

Anyway, that's all I have for now. I'll go back to pretending I'm working now, ha ha.

Bye!