half-fish

today was...

... after a tough night and wake-up, making french class really difficult to get through even with two cups of coffee. the teacher caught me mid-yawn with a question, i'm *really* glad i knew the answer :P

... the first time the entire semester that we've discussed shakespeare's sonnets in our class on shakespeare's poetry. and not *just* freud or lacan. *and* i had something awesome to do as we did focus on psychoanalysis: i began storyboarding a graphic novel. it was fun!
65 panels down, and that's something like 4% :)

... the first time a couple of us were finally organized enough to begin digitizing the english department's archives.

... a super-fast hurried lunch before leaving campus for work. philip roth is amazing (the human stain).

... a relaxed day at work, right until things got hairy and my world turned into a hollywood bomb countdown sequence: scr discovered the cause later. in microsoft sql, WITH(NOLOCK) doesn't really do what it says on the tin. except for the bit on the tin that explains that they're planning on ignoring it. a massive rewrite is required.

... urgently trying to get home in time to take pg out for her birthday. it's one thing to have to wait at least thirty minutes for a sardine-packed, smelly bus during rush hour, and having to push and shove to get on. it's quite another for the bus to drive up, half empty, and just carry on as if none of us exist. it's even worse when that happens twice.

public transport in israel: the best possible promotion availble for the auto-industry.

... arriving home in dire need of alcohol. then moving out to ze sushi to happily gorge ourselves in celebration.

... sending out a really important email to a potential employer.

---personal fish consumption is severely limited: this advice goes with this advice, one shouldn't eat more than two cans per week.

just saw this video on psychiatry. the top angry response describes PTSD - that's not a disease, that's trauma. and trauma doesn't need drugs either. ‎(well, trauma might like drugs, but that's not useful resolution)