emailed out

tuesday:

after an actual night's sleep - i was still in a pissy mood. i spent the morning shuffling the papers that have been stacking up over the past few months, and then dealt with loads of emails and telephone calls. some went better than others.

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i went to taekwondo, looking forward to at least *something* worthwhile in my week, and was horribly disappointed and angered from the get-go: not only do collective punishments make everything less fun, but those punishments making everything else more difficult is just silly. after about 200 push-ups i could barely use my arms, which only got me into more trouble as the class proceeded...

and then there was the other thing that totally drove me nuts. our teacher made no sense, her responses were completely unrelated to the things we were saying and she stubbornly made a point of teaching us things that are so obviously wrong that by the end of the lesson all i could think of was "i didn't come back for this". the "self defense" lesson was offensively useless.

i don't think i'm going to be going back to her any more. i just wish there were something else that could provide me with all that's good about those lessons.

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i had a quick shower, took out a lot of hair with the comb, ate a quick dinner and dealt with more emails. then pg and i dressed in green and went rollerblading. the route wasn't too tough, we had fun and i thoroughly enjoyed the frozen yoghurt afterwards.

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wednesday:

what's with the loads of lucid dreaming lately?

it was a regular morning wake-up and bus. i finally got an appointment with the dev team from the humanities faculty, but the appointment is so close to the start of the academic year that it doesn't seem like there'll be any point in my joining them :S

and while i'm on the subject of things that aren't going my way - i'm responsible for an event in the park on saturday, and i realized this morning that i haven't any way to provide seating...

lunchtime with mmf and my boss: we were all on our phones anyway, i should've taken my kindle with me. in spite of the fact that they make fun of me for reading, in the same way that our secretary makes fun of me for recycling. the graphic designer got upset when i made a comment about israelis and basic responsibility, until the secretary joined in and the designer realized that i wasn't wrong :(

too many mails, too many people asking questions for which the answers are all available... oh, brother.

thought for the day: if css was a man, i'd take him outside and shoot him. coming from that set of issues to one of java / mysql *pretending* to update the tables without committing, and i've had a wonderful, joyous afternoon.

the CTO caught up with me for a chat over coffee - his innocent attempt at interrogation backfired because he asked me to tell him a little about my history, and i obliged. from there he began asking my opinions, which i was only too happy to share, and all in all i think he was pleasantly surprised.

and i didn't even need to make anyone look bad :)

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pg is supposed to be undergoing laser surgery on her eyes around now - i'm waiting for an update...