25/06/04

*** yesterday ***

grrrr...

what a completely shite wakeup. i had WAY too little sleep, and then went to teach my new charge (the first one, at least :P) math (and english, supposedly). the kid is fifteen years old, and he doesn't have the first clue about addition and subtraction. this is the first time i've been faced with the problems of having calculators so readily available for children.

and that's aside from the fact that i have to keep speaking in hebrew.

SxS picked me up, and we went to the good shuwarma place for lunch. we then picked up mmf, and went off to oracle.

first: they made us wait. after they'd already postponed out meeting for an hour, we sat in their meeting room (at least they have good air-conditioning) for over fifteen minutes.
bastards.
then, when the person we had to meet finally arrived, she demonstrated a REALLY bad attitude.
i wonder if oracle knows about these people.
anyway, we now have our core project finished, and we've learned how to use oracle's obscure workflow application through just about any language. now we just need to rassle us up some fake QA documents, and we're home free.
^v^

we went to yogi's place for an hour or so, where i set up his project for deployment, and made some important patches to our application. mmf gave me a ride to work.
we got lost, and stuck in traffic.
i accidentally took his phone with me.
he's a little upset.

at least i learned how to divert all phone calls to a different number, that's very cool.

at work, we had an official visit from one of the guys from the US. we had to please the bosses. made things a little edgy.

*** today ***

work was seriously busy last night. when it wasn't, however, we watched dodgeball, which is the first ben stiller movie where i've laughed the first time i watched it.
every shot was a pleasure >D

i just got home, and i have to wait another twenty minutes before i can shower... but then i get to sleep! ha ha!

*** later ***

* wobble *
i got up somewhere between 13.00 - 13.30, got dressed, and took the bus to the beach.
the - bus - took - almost - an - hour. it takes less time than that to WALK. not only that, but it was crammed full of kids all going to the beach, so it was hot, stuffy, cramped, and really loud.

i got there in time to watch yogi and his brother play in the volleyball tournament. it was fun, although i couldn't help but be distracted by the women volleyball players.
SO sexy.

i don't remember what time we all left, but yogi dropped me off at home (and took mmf's cellphone), and i passed out.

i woke up around 18.00, to take my washing out of the machine. i almost couldn't get out of bed... i've managed to acquire me some sunstroke.
BRILLIANT. go me.

i just made myself a good (and spicy) spaghetti dinner, and i'm gonna go back to sleep in a second. just felt like a little updation was in order.