real smooth

moving last night - two shifts, most of the important stuff done. i was shocked this morning when i bent over (without picking anything up) and suffering a back spasm... i hope it's not related. or that it is related. i hope it's not important.

this morning was relatively comfortable, although i think i'm more emotionally drained than physically. first class was interesting - i discovered that walt whitman actually had some good ideas even if i don't adore his poetry - and after i explained to our lecturer what my 4am email had been about she was happy to take another look at it :P

i sorted out a room for the shakespeare screening, even though i wasn't going to be able to make it, then enjoyed second class (with too many wafers... i really shouldn't eat those). afterwards i joined a forum for the master's students, which was interesting and enjoyable. unfortunately, nobody went to the screening. i give up.

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when hiring academics:
• publications first
• conferences second
• letters of recommendation third
• police record fourth

---i came straight to work, and have been discovering weird and wonderful things about the system. at least *i'm* going to document them...

sudden hand pain? and serious, too. fleeting, at least, but that plus the back incident worries me :/

i just made a huge fix, tested it, and realized i had to reverse my changes because it didn't work. 1. i then spent ages reversing the change piece by piece to discover what broke it, eventually getting back to where i started - when it worked perfectly. 2. it suddenly wasn't working, so i began clean-building repeatedly, because sometimes flex just doesn't build right. 3. i then realized that the entire time, it had been working perfectly and that something external to the system had changed. so stages 1, 2, and 3 were ALL fine. i'm not happy.

not happy at all.

and i'm going to miss my bus. sod this :(

[added five minutes later] *real* smooth. i forgot that the clock on this pc is an hour fast...