Not quite the start I was looking for

2008 for me seems to have started the way Manchester United started the season... a few bursts of happy moments competing for space with mini-bouts of mini-depression in a sea of indifference.

Perhaps I set my expectations too high at the end of 2007. It was an OK year, 2007, did a lot worse in uni than I would have liked to, but on another hand I had a fantastic trip through the USA with my family (photos are on my Flickr page as usual :) ). Everyone expects a new year to go better  than or at least as well as the old, and I am no different.

Well, how did 2008 start then?

1. I brought our guests for Christmas/New Year, and Sin Fee whom I invited down for New Year's Eve, to see the fireworks display at Westminster. All we saw was smoke after 2 seconds of wonderful light and colour. The crowd was insane and we would have been better off watching the telecast, I think.... I was so enthusiastic about bringing them to see this, since they were from out of town, and that it was such a poor experience... *sigh* (My camera got drenched in champagne too, but that's not what I feel bad about.)
2. I misnoted the deadline for my inception report and when I found out, I had just over a day to prepare and write it.
3. First lecture of the year was Information Theory, and it went OK, except that I didn't understand the conditional entropy, which I am supposed to know already after taking last term's inference course....
4. This likely has a lot to do with #1... it was raining and I think I got sick. I am still now sick.
5. I made it for a second interview! THIS IS GOOD!!!!!
6. It's in the USA! And I have a visa to go there, thanks to my summer trip! YAY!

Not sure what there is to feel depressed about, but anyway, even my music isn't helping a lot... what I want to do now is get well.