hangover tuesday? or nervousness?

a pained awakening this morning. tidying took up most of it, but we had an "office-warming" which included breakfast. that reminds me, there're a couple of people in our section who arrived during my time in the desert, and i didn't know they belonged to us. so i guess i *do* need to remember their names.

that horrible program that i wasted two months of my life on? now instead of wasting time on it myself, i've been reduced to teaching others the pleasures of self-soul-mutilation.

i was treated to an incredibly enlightening impersonation of my accent today. it was hard to accept, because it's difficult to hear the nuances, but i've definitely got a lot of work to do if i'm going to sound like a normal israeli one day.

lunch was sort of edible, and then nystire's TL and i went hunting for posters. we found them in all the wrong colours, like pink, but with the help of one of my team-mates i managed to sort it out later. on the way back from the mission, i got to explaining (or trying to explain) munchkin to her... i guess a demonstration is in order.

we ate lots of chocolate biscuits and i was exhausted, but on my way out the door to make myself coffee our SC caught two of us and made us sit down and work. he managed to find more ways to waste our time in the near future by giving us meaningless tasks to perform, and because i'm replacing our TL for most of the next month or so it was up to me to get my team-mates to understand the rationale behind it :S

dealing with holiday bureaucracy sucks.

i had to make a quick switch when i got called into a meeting as acting TL - it's one thing to make sure things keep running, it's quite another to be involved in decision-making. i'm not complaining, not by a long shot - i'm glad for the opportunity :)

we had a half-hour section meeting about nothin', where the kinder learned about peg-solitaire: it was fun to watch and entertained me to see the look on his face when i solved it ;)

i had a successful meeting after that with our project manager, and i feel like it made up for the lack of productivity during the day.

the real estate agent and the lawyer got in touch today, and i have to admit i'm quite excited!

riding without dashboard lighting is an odd but amusing experience.

the pda's backup battery (that i replaced two nights ago) has a bad connection, which means that some of the time it reports being half full, some of it empty, and the rest 100%. the purpose is to preserve data when the main battery days, so if it's inconsistent it isn't really helping. essentially it's just keeping the pda from beeping at me annoyingly about not having a backup battery.

my nose is blocked. it has been the whole day.

frisbee! serious frisbee, for over an hour, followed by a beer at the side of the road, shopping, and a good shower. now i've got to get some sleep. i'm exhausted.