oh, the humanity!

i still don't really know what that's supposed to mean. can anyone out there enlighten me?

listening now to shapeshifters - lola's theme. great tune.

i woke up kinda alright this morning, but i've been followed around all day by a really nasty cough. i did smoke considerably less than usual, so i guess that's a plus. and i'm guessing that if i'm infectious, our entire base will be feeling like shit tomorrow.

things done today:

personal meetings with both my previous branch head, and our previous SC. both went well. or - much, much better than the previous meetings. a few agreements to disagree ;)

i explained to our old SC that SWOT analysis is not an appropriate way to measure a person. i'm not a product. i think that's enough reason not to do it. just for fun, i went through with it anyway. he had one strength and one weakness. respectively: i'm professional, and i have trouble communicating with human beings. i taught him about techno-stress, and explained that he's right, but almost everyone i work with is like-minded enough to get me.

he wanted to know my secret vis-a-vis the amount of cute girls on base that hug me everytime they see me. i wish i knew how to get those same girls to sleep with me.

most of the day was spent missioning around the base to sort out my network connections and the kid's computer, which was proper fucked by the dude. it's so bad that it's being "dealt with" by the technicians in their own office, and we've resorted to stealing spot's pc from the old section. that's going down well...

and i had more problems with security clearance today. i explained to the new girl there that once she's found my name, she's to remember my face so that i don't have to go through all that shit again. i hope that sorts everything out.

so, i learned all sorts of uninteresting things about system lockdowns, and we eventually sorted everything out. the girls in our new team got all excited when they saw the shit in our system working... stuff that we just take for granted :P maybe it's not so bad being where we are. speaking of the girls, one of the cute girls is looking for an apartment in the same area i'm interested in, and i'm thinking of offering to move in with her :D

what i didn't figure out today was how to stop my pc from overriding the time i set it to. what the hell is it with windows 2000 and daylight savings time??

i played some volleyball at the end of the day; our new TL arrived with our bed (respect!), so i dropped that off at our old section before going home.

now that i've done all my net browsing *cough, cough*, and decided that i'm not going to find an untainted copy of soilwork - stabbing the drama anytime soon (fantastic song), i'm going to watch girl interrupted (thanks schpat), and put myself to bed.

it was a busy day, but definitely not a bad one. tomorrow will involve some work and organization, but i suppose i can deal with that.