slightly more routine

seriously? if it wasn't for facebook's groups, first class yesterday would have been an eternity badly spent. at least we had some fun. it's like she's incapable of teaching new material until the last five minutes of class, at which point everyone is so confused that it just goes right past their heads. there's me, after class, trying to calm everyone down because they *didn't* actually miss anything :S

the last literature theory lesson was a good summary, although it began with a question directed at me personally and i was still dumbfounded from the previous class :P

i had lunch with pg, then headed off to work. on the way my kibbutz cousin called to inform me that our ski trip has been authorized and booked, and it's gonna be AMAZING! (^_^)

aside from a lengthy meeting (good call, drinking an espresso just before), and a phone call from orange*, i spent the evening going deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole of my current infrastructure mod. each time i think i'm done i discover something that i hadn't understood before or simply didn't think of before; it appears that quite a lot of the system only *looked* to be working up until now. it's positive exciting to be fixing all these things. it's negative exciting to be discovering new screw-ups.

* the nice lady from orange asked me if i was satisfied with my purchasing experience.
1. you didn't give me a choice, i *had* to upgrade in order to get student rates.
1a. i've been a customer for ten years, and i'm never informed of anything unless it helps orange.
1ai. i battle with the hebrew bills, and i only discovered half a year ago that i was paying NIS 40 per month for stuff i didn't want.
2. during the sale the staff gave me incorrect information when it was meaningful
3. the staff sold me whatever they could, not what was good for me. in particular, they sold me an iphone 3g as opposed to telling me to wait for an iphone 4 even though the newer one meets the requirements i told them and the old one... doesn't.
4. the staff would not and could not help me discover how to determine my package use. they wouldn't even help me by telling me who to call to find out from.

"sir, i'm just a representative -"
"i know. this isn't personal. i'm talking to orange, and i want orange to treat me fairly."

i shopped (lots of money :/), ate dinner, played with dropbox - it is good for study material - then went with pg to a party. we laughed the whole way there, parodying the ministry of funny walks, and the music was fantastic. the crowd was... alright... but it did get a bit too crazy for us so we came back, only stopping for good pastries along the way.

my facebook's in pirate - it's cool, but sometimes a little confusing :P