what a wonderful...

my vision's a bit fuzzy. the bugs (primarily moths) are having their way with me. it took me four hours of tweaking, fiddling and debugging to get my project communicating with azure's table storage in the exact same way that i'd already done it in another project. i can't for the life of me figure out why adding debug code would make a difference.

after four hours, when the code still wasn't running, i began to write a lengthy email to scr and my boss explaining why i wasn't making any headway. as is my wont, i did a final double-triple-quadruple check on my code before firing off the unretrievable, and lo! i found a bug. that without having to sludge through those four hours of nonsense i would have found quickly and easily.

the sun has not yet dawned, yet already i fear i may not have the easiest day ahead of me. this is entirely unreasonable.

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the creative writing workshop was pretty cool tonight: my answer to the weekly "exercise" got everyone excited for more, and one of the group's poems was really, really good. the long political debate that ended the evening turned out to be fairly edifying:

democracy and capitalism are totally entangled, and can only function when both exist in a close-to-ideal state. but there are no true democracies, and there isn't any "free market" that isn't interfered with.