dumping

the highlight of the workday: with military precision, we produced a video of the culmination of this week's disgusting jelly project. we shopped - a *very* expensive shopping, everyone contributed - and collected all the letters for the kinder, placing them strategically in the small cardboard box.
then we:
a) filled the box with oozing chocolate-coffee jelly
b) sealed the box
c) wrapped it in plastic
d) inserted it into a prepared larger cardboard box, packed with brownies, cups, and various bits to keep the inner box stable
e) sealed the outer box

all within a few well-calculated seconds. we couldn't send it, unfortunately... so it's now sitting in the entrance to my apartment, and i'll have to deliver it tomorrow. i went to buy duct-tape from the hardware store, and was informed that the hardware dude's missioning to a good party tomorrow and i might be able to join him :)

as for the rest of the day:
about two hours devoted to a very serious celebratory lunch for a project i had nothing to do with, another two for playing with the ASCII tool i made (and then using it), and the rest was spent on a milestone achievement: i have actually done something (albeit small) for the first time in half a year. fantastic!

i'm almost embarrassed at the sense of achievement.

speaking of failures, nystire tried a mentos / ice experiment that went nowhere.

we had a brainstorming session this morning, one that involves sneaky tricks on september the 19th. we're uncovering ways to perform social engineering on our commanders.

the lowlight of the workday: one of the shuttle morons proved his inability to read and comprehend today. we claimed that it's irrational to require an officer in the permanent force to take time out of his academic studies in order to be in charge of security... this can only happen because the guarding schedules are designated weekly instead of daily. THREE nco's, and they don't have the brainpower to organize a daily roster.

the response? "the shuttle is not a service for students to get to the university". in addition, the rude bastard now wants me to prove that i can't guard. with frikkin' pleasure.

i immediately fired off a mail to my TL, to thank him for his suggestion to use a specific example instead of sticking with generalizations like i'd intended to: "it's like warning someone to be careful of a cup filled with hot water, only to watch him pick up the kettle and pour its boiling contents all over himself because you didn't mention it specifically".

speaking of reading and comprehending: i've managed to produce two pages (out of five)... but this is tough. i'm going to be really upset if my peer-review team doesn't like it :/

at least my guitar fiddling is improving, and i have a couple of sounds going that sound like they're intentional ^_^