all rather freudian

i woke up this morning with a more refined idea of the script i'm working on; every addition opens it up and makes it more coherent. i'm loving this :)

i got straight to work on freud, and it was only after about five hours of drudging that i eventually had something that felt more or less finished.

ruzz put me in touch with his boss today - sounds promising. a lot more than the meeting yesterday: i think i'm going to turn them down.

pg arrived while i was finishing off my paper, and after i finished and we'd spoken to my kibbutz cousin (making the first payment for our ski trip! w00t!) she escorted me to lunch. i was feeling really, really slow. but not too slow - i had a sudden revelation on my way to work. if only etymology worked in reverse:
if information is processed data then that's the same as saying that a motif is a processed chronological series of events. events must be processed in order to become a part of the psychic formation, and are integrated into the formation by the addition of causal connections and the performance of extrapolation and inference. this is the "ingesting" of an idea, conscious or unconscious. if the external "data" has not been turned into "information" (in - formation) then it is discarded and has no effect, i.e. the idea has not been incorporated or learned.

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i walked in to the new guy's office and told him off properly - something i should have done at the time. i'm fairly certain he got the point, i just hope it sinks in.

on a regular day, being totally slowed down and distracted wouldn't have mattered much. today we had a meeting about a fix that i had the better solution to, and it took a while to convince the boss that it was the best and safest way to go. the espresso hadn't kicked in yet :(

i got some good work done, and then the new guy and i got sidetracked again with more hassles using the SVN. seriously, i don't get it. i'm pretty certain that if i could find a sponsor i could build, alone and in a relatively short amount of time, a repository that didn't suck. all of these systems are badly designed from the get-go, and are so crufty that it doesn't matter how much whining the software produces, that shit stays :S

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i came home fairly early, did some serious shopping and then went with pg to the square to play frisbee. that girl does me proud - the session wasn't bad at all! and then a horrible thing happened, but it just showed me that i have the coolest girlfriend ever ^_^ she refused to stop playing even after catching a frisbee with her face. she's got a swollen (and slightly cut) lip and a broken nail or two, but otherwise she's fine and it didn't mess with the rest of her throws at all :)

ruzz's wife - a coach and mentor - sent me an edited version of my paper with a long list of "todo" comments. as i told her, she kicked my paper's ass, and i am really grateful! it took a couple of hours to make all the changes and find all the details for my citations (that was *way* harder than it should have been), but the difference is almost palpable.

now i'm going to go through my manager's revisions and see if there's anything else i've missed before hand-in tomorrow. i'm shocked that this paper took so much effort to produce.

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i would *LOVE* to see an episode of celebrity deathmatch with freud vs aristotle, chapman vs tomashevsky and our narrative professor vs little hans. that was be AWESOME.

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indian music traces are always good.