dis-something'd

now that i've had a taste of what the first two days have to throw at me, i don't suppose anyone would mind terribly if i started the week again? i'm sure i could do better.

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i woke up yesterday morning feeling ill. sore, totally exhausted, and persistently distracted. i'll make do with the following notes before getting back to my seminar paper:

1. sitting in front of a fellow student who coughed and hacked the entire lesson when i was already feeling out of sorts, and then pulling out an enormous virology book that i had to deliver to the library for someone.

2. aging icons - shit, i didn't even notice these things. until now.

3. i have bought a blazer. the shopping experience wasn't too bad, but i don't think i would've managed without pg.

4. "chooka" in the ramat aviv mall is a horrible place to eat lunch. expensive, tasteless, and the service sucks.

5. my work is in an unhappy place. it began with miscalculating the number of permutations required for the aggregation i've been doing (at least that part wasn't my fault) by an order of 5, and is currently in the dumps because we managed to break an azure database. the experts are apparently working on it right now (it took a couple of hours for our "critical"-flagged call to make its way out of the indian call centre)... and we have no backup. i always thought that moving to the cloud meant paying for somebody else to take care of that shit :P

6. my private student needed another lesson, and i spent two hours trying hard not to shatter his confidence. it turns out that what they'd learned in class was utterly useless; he didn't understands the critical basics of web development, such as the difference between a browser and a website :S

7. angel is weird. i watched the muppet episode with pg last night, and this evening i walked past the tv when angel was playing squash with a demon. *blinks stupidly*

8. i spent the morning sorting papers and rotating the wheels on my rollerblades (stripping and dumping my old ones as well). instead of studying, writing my seminar or working. *and* i arrived at the clinic too late to sort out travel insurance. at least i managed to get that done on my way home.

9. i was completely dysfunctional by the time i got back home, and hoped that watching last action hero would help. i'm not sure it did, but it's a damn fine movie! a lot more intelligent than i'd expected, a lot of fun, and i'm shocked to note that it was released almost twenty years ago...

neither pg nor i had the energy to go out and exercise. at least i've gotten a few sentences in on my paper... now to continue. how do i do that *and* get some sleep???