stress test

*unhappy sigh*
i discovered this morning that starting january, in order to make it to base on time i'm going to have to leave the apartment at 6.30 latest. oh man, that's gonna be like serving in the army.

the test was at 10am, so i made it there with an hour or so to spare. i sat writing the actual speech, and attempting to curtail meaningless conversations with people whose hebrew is worse than mine. the exam itself was interesting: the sections are ranked from א (easiest) to ה (hardest), and the first three i managed comfortably. sarcastically, even.

ד was tricky, i got by not without struggling, and there were a few words here and there that lost me. ה was impossible, i got the gist but i couldn't even understand the questions.

so it's not bad, as such, but it's not great. i definitely need some formal lessons, but the only way to do that is to set aside 3 weeks of my life, and there's no way that's happening.

bummer.

i went through to visit nystire, and had lunch with him and his brother. then i took the exceptionally long walk to the bus, and made my way back to base. so i got to base around 2pm.

honestly, we leave piles alone for half a day... and he manages to organize an exemption from guard duty. that speaks volumes for his character. i spent my afternoon running around the base trying to organize my holiday, and the evening lecturing piles. he got my back up, and i just ripped into him about everything that he is and does that pisses me off.

work tonight was great - i tweaked the graphic application successfully, with some rather useful fixes, and now it's ready for production. and the production part is fun, too :)
in addition to that, i'm trying to use perl to make up for one of java's shortcomings... java cannot find out its own process id, so we have to run an external perl script to handle that. java's process handling is a mite awkward, so handling perl by sending arguments (you know, the easy way) is what i've been struggling with. it's been educational.

oh, and the boss is sending me off on thursday night to the offices of a potential new provider to investigate - it's in herzelia, and i haven't seen my cousins for so long... and a cute girl i know is having a huge birthday bash, so i can crash that too while i'm at it ;)

again, cafeneto, again, three cute ones. we had a more normal evening, then came home to watch the episode of how i met your mom. it was a good one. now that we've discussed girl-sleeping-over protocol and i've had a shower, i'm going to sleep. in my pajamas. the guys can't handle the look - it's overpowering in its stylishness.