rather sporting, i say

what a day. i got to bed at 2am, or thereabouts. i woke up *a-hem* clean-shaven ;), so less stress, and got to the base more or less on time.

the scout and i began the day with a 3/4 hour coffee run - generally frowned upon - and when i got back j-girl was already around. amazing how much better that made me feel.

i had a quick chat with my team leader, and he told me he wanted to talk to me, so we made our way back for another coffee run. turns out he's going to find out very soon when he's leaving us. and then we have the honour of discovering who our new team leader will be, even though everyone knows that i'm it. i'm so glad our team exists outside of the general politics.

got rather a bit of work done, then went off to pre-game volleyball practice. was an excellent use of an hour. i took a ten minute break, then came back and we began the semi-final.

we were up against the other first-rank team, neither of us with any losses. aside from two switches that made no sense, i was in the entire game. and i played well. play of the game is mine - i made an almost impossible shot from under the net, which actually rolled on the net itself before deciding to fall the other way ^_^
another awesome shot - the ball came at me with the sun almost directly behind it, and all i saw was bright light, and a slight shadow to my right. i somehow managed to get my hand in the right place, and caught the ball so well that even my easy set doesn't compare :)

all in all, it was great fun - and it's the first game we played where we could honestly congratulate the other team for a game well played :)

i sent a rather cocky email to our entire branch, saying that we don't need to get excited, we'll win the final either way. one of the girls responded angrily, saying that pride was what led to the yom kippur war. it's bloody volleyball. it's supposed to be fun. idiot.

i spent the rest of the afternoon working, and we all stayed late. such a good feeling, especially when we don't HAVE to be there :) we've begun on the integration - and i have to say that the system has exceeded our expectations in every respect, and it's not yet completed, and we haven't even begun implementing the actual design. even vanilla, it's far superior to the oracle stuff. it's always nice to be right.

tomorrow we have some sort of trip for our branch, i'm not sure how i feel about that.

j-girl is driving me crazy. she's in a difficult period relationship-wise, and i'm rather impatient. i'm sure wanting to be with her isn't a good idea, but i don't want anyone else. and i barely know her! she's just too damn gorgeous. that's the problem right there. quitting smoking would be much easier if i didn't only see her for short intervals.

i'm supposed to be working, but i can't focus. earlier the scout was explaining something to me, and i literally passed out during one of his sentences - he wasn't too thrilled. maybe i should just crash.

cigarette count: after really not trying for days, i've had one cigarette the entire day. i'm now fighting with myself about going and buying, not only because of j-girl, but because the dog's trying to quit too, so it's not right that i fail :P