Fresher's Flu, and other such excitement

I have a raging sore throat, which means I have some kind of entertaining respiritory disease on its way. Glorious. At least it gives me an excuse for having been entirely lousy for the past fairly-large-chunk-of-time.

There were lectures this morning. The Security and Information Retrieval ones were comprehensible, but they were very much start-of-course lectures and didn't hand out notes. I'm hoping the second will hand out notes when the lecturer actually gets back from Vancouver; they're computerised slides so I don't see why they wouldn't give them out, at least at the end of the course. The Project Briefing was unsurprisingly useless, but I did get a paper copy of the briefing document to read during bad lectures, which the third one was an excellent example of: Denotational Semantics. It starts where last year's Semantics course left off. Now, I liked the start of last year's Semantics course, but the top end of it was definitely hitting the ceiling of How Much Maths I Can Do. Denotational Semantics started off above that ceiling and looks set to continue, so that's one course down.

I have arranged one meeting with a potential project supervisor, but I still have no idea what to do, as everything I might plausibly want to do is covered in the 'please don't do projects like this' section of everyone's advice. I'm still hoping to find something easy and not too gut-wrenchingly dull somewhere, though.
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