how wasteful. i feel bad.

i lie, too. honest!

we began testing our hospital project at 11am. msn messenger was down, so i convinced the girl (woman?) i'm working with to try using irc. turns out she has a mac. so i found her the link for ircle. we were talking on the phone at the time, and when she found the link, she said "oh, damn, i'm going to have to download and install it... no wait! it's already running on my machine!"

damn you, bill gates. damn you. i am SO jealous of mac users right now.

the first couple of things went smoothly, and then we had problems with the flash xml. i've been trying desperately for weeks (whenever i've had a good moment, of course) to find out how regular asp receives xml that's sent by flash. none of the documentation online is very helpful.

after wasting an hour during testing trying to figure out why it wasn't working, i just thought "screw this", and decided we'd do it the trial and error way. and it turned out to be so -ridiculously- simple. and my side of the app worked first time!

FYI: asp's Request.Form object IS the xml... it's a STRING of xml even... it's ONLY a string of xml... it would have been SO much easier if someone could have bloody well SAID that straight up.

so we finished the first part of the test around 2pm, and will continue during the week - at least now i can continue with the rest of the things, knowing how to do them... the rest of the testing will be for stupid errors. i wish i was protected from those.

i spent the rest of the afternoon playing counterstrike and watching full metal jacket. i can't say it's not an inspiring movie, but being a real soldier (as opposed to a desk jockey) is not my way. i'd love to, but just for kicks.

and this weekend keeps reinforcing my need to get my tattoo done and get re-pierced. so meaningless in the grand scheme of things, yet so important to me. i can't figure that one out.

i did some practice TOEFL exams. i might have to take them at some stage because i got my degree in a country where the national language isn't english. what scares me is that i kept getting 18 or 19 out of 20, when i really should have been getting full marks.

creepy.

i need to start getting into math. i need to get some exercise (i'm smoking whey-hey too much). i need to start finishing the hospital project. i need to get cracking on the projects spot and i came up with. i need to clean my apartment.

and all i can do is play with my new computer's settings so it looks neat. and obsessively searching for a poster of luis royo's on the southern beaches for my room. i don't get whatever it is that motivates me.