sunday

there's something to be said for going to bed at 4am and waking at 9am, then hurrying out to miss the bus and having to take two others instead: it's tiring.

work was fine, a bit of a struggle but i got what needed doing done. i took off for lunch; great fish and chips, but at first i was brought thick soy sauce for the chips instead of the vinegar, and it took three tries and a long wait after that before one of the waitresses finally brought me some. a short while later another brought me some more, by which time i'd pretty much finished and was ready for the bill. not wanting to start on the chips without vinegar made me edgy... was it that complicated a thing to order?!

soon after getting back to the office i had to leave for my ultrasound examination. first, i learned from this month's wired that people really did believe that smoking bananas would get them high. second, while the scans of the aching parts of my feet told me that they're just fine, it appears i have an infection in my ankle. meh - i went for a proper run yesterday and that's definitely not what's bothering me.

due to a miscommunication pg had spent the whole day preparing to host friends of mine who weren't coming... that was a bit* embarrassing. to make up for it, i was sent to buy waterproofing for an external wall and the hardware dude's new setup means that i spend even more time waiting for him that usual. i'm thinking of taking my business elsewhere. to make matters worse, i ended up buying something that wasn't precisely what we needed :(

*severe understatement. i'm still feeling bad about that.

i went to the old office, and was pleased to discover that one of my previous upgrades solved a serious problem that we hadn't foreseen - w00t! the rest of our first round of QA testing is up to shit, though. oh, well.

i bought beers and pringles and hopped on a bus to movie night: it took forever for everyone to gather and to order food, which gave me time to explain seminar writing and post-humanism to a desperately stressed girl completing her studies in our department; once that was done we fired up thursday and everyone enjoyed it. duh! it's a great film.

i had a loooong talk with my mother when i got back home, found my passmo (japanese metro card) for nemesis, and have spent far too much time online. apparently i'm going to be running in the morning, in spite of my having had a little too much to drink this evening...