responsiliability

but first, a word on inappropriate behaviour. "academic" behaviour, no less - it's not okay for journals to be keeping papers inaccessible. journals used to be the best way to disseminate information and to ensure it's quality, but now we have the internet and all they do is get in the way. it's unethical, it's primitive, and it should be stopped.

---gods, i need to get my work permit so that i can comfortably invest in a real computer. this netbook is driving me demented.

---monday:

the weather has been too warm. i spent the day on long emails and upsetting the cto (i'd been talking to certain people without consulting him), suffering a long and boring presentation (i didn't have the heart to tell the guy i wasn't interested) and discovering that there's a manpower need that people i know might be able to fill.

the new guy worries me, i can't tell if he knows what he's doing or is completely lost :(

something sparked - boredom, perhaps? i don't have anything on my kindle that's really interesting me right now - and i opened my shakespeare app to lose myself in the sonnets again. it's been a long time.

pg and i played a great game of carcassonne (we used the river pieces, they're pretty cool), watched more one piece and then i got seriously stuck in to on the rain-slick precipice of darkness. it was late before i enjoyed kick monday and put myself to bed. that video is fun, but as i said to scrapper, it made me feel good and sad simultaneously. hopeful, perhaps, that a cyberpunk future is nigh.

---today:

i woke up from crazy dreams into a nostalgic sense of a misty cape town morning; somehow something of the weather outside had seeped indoors and i was reminded of running to school one misty morning, tumbling and skinning my hands properly and having to get a tetanus shot. it was my first (to my knowledge, at least) injection, and i tensed and bent the needle as it went into my shoulder. not an experience to render one comfortable with needles.

it was tough getting up and i was lucky to manage it seeing as my alarm managed to turn itself off :S

the sonnets drove me crazy on the train this morning (and on the way back); i'm getting somewhere but it's really tough to unpack so much into a visual package that's as clear as the words aren't.

the day was interesting. i levelled up on server configuration and was having such a satisfying time on the mac (i keed) that i almost missed dinner :P
the big news of the day was a long chat with the cto and my future employer. it seems i'm making a very good impression and they're not only willing to shell out more cash for me but they're happy to allocate me responsibility to match. i do hope i'm not biting off more than i can chew!

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ah! the caretaker finally fixed our balcony door. just in time, too, because there's an arctic storm coming.

zomg pg's desserts are decadent. chocolate covered strawberries and raspberries ftw.