phone troubles - iphone vs e72. i don't know what to choose, although i think i might hold out for the iphone just so that i'd have my own testing platform (i've just registered as an apple developer for an offer i received yesterday)
i went to campus early to meet with cm for pre-class coffee, but he got stuck in traffic... our first class was on dante and petrarch: the girls next to me are totally disinterested (it's a mandatory course) and didn't cease with pointless banter the entire session :(
they kind of reminded me of these girls. [for the non-hebrew speakers - these two girls fail at figuring out which direction on the compass lies between north-east and south-east...]
i spent a large part of the day thinking about doing things for money. i've even applied for a job as a marketing intern and will be calling someone up on sunday to offer to be his lab assistant. the thought has occurred to me that i may have to drop a course or two, bite the bullet and work full-time - but i'd rather not.
it appears that i have enough cash for the rest of the month (and in retrospect, i've only been job-hunting for a couple of weeks), i've just received a contract for a guy who wants me to freelance and last night received an american offer that would be *awesome* if it comes through...
it's a bit tough not to stress at all, though.
while waiting for the secretary after her office hours (at least i had reading to do) i chatted with our seminar lecturer, and he's quite interested in my idea for a topic, so i have some direction now. once i discovered that i was waiting for nothing, i went for lunch with comixer and we sat discussing the translation of comics to movies.
he's right - comic style doesn't usually translate well. so far, kick ass and watchmen are the closest. i like a lot of the comic movies, but they're just not at the level of their original art form.
pg made me laugh - there was a random, long blonde hair on my bag and she snidely suggested i've been hanging around with other girls... i laughed, because there's no way to prove her wrong :P
i was *WASTED* by the second class. i started zoning out about halfway through, and at some stage yawned audibly, and was so tired that i couldn't stop a mini-burp from escaping... the embarrassment (we're about twelve people in class, all seated around the lecturer) woke me up a bit :$
the concept of the class was the similarity between the 19th century's attitude towards art and today's attitude towards artificial intelligence. and something about alternative realities. either way, i found myself suffering from a sleep-deprivation induced lack of articulation. at some point i spaced out, only to tune back in when asked a question about book-keeping... once back on planet earth, i returned to the game again... even that bombed, i'm still full of the useful and weird :P
i really have a lot of prep-work to do this weekend.
the second coffee (and cookies!) helped me through the last class... at least that was an interesting one. i was quite edgy about the whole "work" thing, though. sitting afterwards with wr and a glass of araq watching what the frack? took some of it off, though.
he introduced me to somebody as a disciple of timothy leary... and he's right :)
[i recommend reading leary on drugs
to everyone - it's most enlightening. also, i have my own thoughts on social reform and how we operate]i haven't mentioned something that's been driving me nuts with my netbook since i got it, and was finally resolved... why the frack isn't it indicated anywhere that the right side of the trackpad is a frikkin' scroll bar?!?! now that i've learned to manipulate it (and not to touch it when trying to move the mouse), usage is *way* more comfortable...
there was no bus 27 - that's half an hour of work i missed :(
it suddenly struck me on my way to work that smashmouth - all star is a decidedly appropriate song for describing the way i run my life...
not only does my girlfriend make good chocolate chip cookies, but when she's bored she's happy to come to my place and watch movies... and clean areas that annoy her... i walked in around 2.30am to join her in giggling at the tail end of big trouble in little china and find my bathroom tidied and my bookshelf organized... a bit strange, but very cool.
the most important item on the evening's agenda: i got some work done! as in, i had an idea for a solution (a clean work-around to a php / ajax problem) and managed to test and integrate it. i haven't felt actual success in a while. in addition, i began documentation clean-up (so that i could understand what the hell the guys were doing in a section i need to work on) and i took it upon myself to formalize coding practices for our development team.
my justification for such measures comes in the realization that i find it easier to read chaucer without a glossary than i do reading my predecessors' code.
at some point i tried to roll to the door of my janitor's closet and i managed to snag the vacuum cleaner's cable - i was lucky i fell alright. it's eerie timing.
why doesn't flex builder allow searching through the project scope?!?! it's an important feature for a complex system and it's driving me demented :S
i went to the doctor - either i got the appointment wrong or the guy i spoke to did, but it worked out alright. it turns out my h. pylori story isn't over - i'm not prepared to do another course right now, so we're deferring it for a few months. i hope i haven't passed it along to pg, but the likelihood that i contracted it from her is just as strong :/
i bladed to cafe george - arriving moments before urchin - for a good breakfast and rambling. she has a project for next week and was out of ideas... i was only too happy to oblige. the problem is that i'm so enthusiastic about what i came up with and i'll only be able to hope that the results are something like what i had in mind...
i ran into pg's mum and we laughed about something pg described this morning: her father was accosted by her nosey neighbour and asked if i'm a "serious" boyfriend.
"serious?! i haven't even met him yet!"
oops. and he's just left the country again - i've passed on my apologies :$
i sat laughing with the hardware dude for a bit, and was on my way out when a customer arrived. i said goodbye, and as i turned around he grumbled something unintelligible at me. i looked at him quizzically, and he turned up his grumble to a shout:
"what, am i a dog?!"
what... the... fuck...
it's taken me a *lot* longer to post than i expected (although i have had the occasional distraction), and it's past time for me to be sorting out my papers and cleaning my apartment. i don't *actually* want pg to do it for me, even if it does make my life much easier :P
weird and wonderful:
eye fix
eye tattoo
political:
campus anti-semitism
a public service announcement
simply sweet:
the calvin and hobbes from yesterday is really sweet [4/11/2010]
an amusing look at problems with back to the future
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