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Last year: Can you tell I'm excited? |
Now I need to make a quick trip to Target for some cheap press-on nails, some red lipstick, the black one-day hair dye, and maybe some shoes. And I need to figure out how I'm going to make the hourglass and attach it to the shirt. (Of course I'm going to be a black widow spider. If I'm going to be a spider, I might as well be a classy, deadly spider.)
Better yet, K.T. tells me that she found colored one-day dye at a store in Newport News, so I'll stop in there over the weekend to pick up a bottle to use for Hallowe'en Day. Green sounds good.
Well, the impossible project is underway, and I'm not too happy about it. Though it's not quite as impossible as I thought it would be at first. We're not getting the new hardware that I thought would take weeks to integrate, and while the official opening date is November 15, my piece of it isn't actually expected to be done until the first of December. So we might actually be able to pull this off.
We'll see.
For all that nothing got done, yesterday was a pretty busy day at work. When the day started, I had three meetings on my calendar, which is practically unheard of. I had a planning meeting for the Impossible Project at nine, a demo meeting with another company at 1:30, and a review at 2:30. I had every intention of going home at 3:30.
My supervisor slept late, so he wasn't in the office at nine. When he came in, he pushed the meeting for the Impossible Project back to three. The other company didn't show up (they were lingering at 3GI's office, apparently) until after 2, so my review got pushed back until today. The other company finally got their presentation started at 2:15, and they ran over their allotted hour, so the meeting about the Impossible Project - which was actually useful, unlike the crappy presentation by the other company, got pushed back to 3:30. (The other company pissed me off, to be certain. The last time they were here, they'd showed us some marketing slicks and did some hand-waving. This time they'd promised us software and demos. They gave us software, but not the stuff we're actually interested in, and not a single demo - more marketing presentations. Gah.)
I didn't even get back to my desk until 4:30, and you can believe I bolted out of there as fast as I could. Today I've got my review that was put off (I'm not in a hurry; any raise won't take effect until January anyway, and I don't expect much) - and I have to schedule meetings with each of the component programmers to get a rough draft of their modules' APIs. (If that didn't make any sense, don't worry about it. It just means more meetings, but hopefully productive ones.) Oh, and sketch out the interface for the Impossible Project.
I'd be grumpy about it, but I haven't had real work to do for months, and I'm too excited about finally having something to do to be irritable about it being impossible.
Damn. I just realized that if I'm going to be making ghost meringues for K.T.'s party, I need to get some chocolate chips for the eyes. Otherwise they're just sortof vaguely oblong meringue blobs.
And speaking of Hallowe'en, I noticed this morning that my jack-o-lantern is already starting to shrivel. The spider's legs are just too thin to last. I'm trying to decide if I want to carve another pumpkin to replace it. I'm still waffling. The pros and cons are like this: I have another couple of patterns I'm eager to try (there's a nictitating haunted house that's fantastic), and it would give me still more pumpkin seeds to roast Hallowe'en night; but I'd have to go shopping for another pumpkin and then I'd have to take the time to actually do the carving, and I'm not sure when that would be.
Of course, the Ultimate Frisbee mailing list has been chattering about a possible game with the William and Mary team on Friday, and I'm certainly not competing, so maybe I could do it then. And there's always Saturday, before K.T.'s party, or Sunday... Since we're not having the party this year, I don't have to have the pumpkin ready for it. It's still an awful lot of work, though...
Bah. I'm still waffling. I'll probably tell you Monday what I decided Saturday afternoon.
Word of the Day: nictitate - to wink
- nothing
Current Projects:
- assorted Christmas stockings
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