22 August 2001
Last year: Defeat, ignomony, and despair.
"It's almost that time," Matt said mournfully.
I was reading a comic - about halfway through, and I wanted to know how it ended before I got up and went to work. I started reading faster.
Five minutes later, I put the comic down and stood up. Matt looked at me. "Ready to go?"
"You could have left without me," I pointed out.
He looked at me like I'd grown a spare ear. "No, I couldn't!" he said. And then, as I strained to remember how it had happened that my car was blocking his in, he continued, "My car's in the shop, remember?"
I'm just a great big pile of duh today.
I so don't want to be at work today. My new project has a fairly tight schedule, but there really isn't much I can do until I get the server back and set up, because I hate coding without being able to test my code.
Ah, well, I suppose it could be worse. At least this project has specs that are relatively stable.
The radio station I've started listening to recently has astonishingly little inane chatter in the mornings. I thought it was a coincidence when I got music on the way to work Monday morning - my drive is only about ten minutes, after all. But it happened again yesterday. And this morning I was in the car for a good forty minutes (since I was taking Matt to work) and only heard about five minutes' worth of inanity. (Not counting the stupid commercials. You get those all day long.)
I'm impressed. And happy. I'll be happier when I start to recognize more of the music, but that just takes time. It helps that they occasionally play 80s songs.
Though right after I dropped Matt off, they played a cover of Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" by Jeffrey Gaines, and it was pretty awful. But I guess I can't really blame the radio station for that.
Yep. Feeling a little scatterbrained today. And the things I can manage to concentrate on are things I try not to dwell on too much in this journal - video games and the Hall and the 7th Sea game (Matt got the Vendel book yesterday! Yay!) and work and stuff.
I've been drawing a little again lately, trying for portraits of some of my characters. Some of them are better than others, but I'm fairly pleased with them, given that I'm not trying to copy magazine pictures. I have the worst time with lips, though. Worse than eyes, noses, and ears all put together, I swear.
Maybe this weekend, if I can look at the pictures without cringing too much, I'll scan them in.
Word of the Day:
engender - beget, procreate; to cause to exist or to develop, produce; to assume form or originate
Currently Reading:
- Firebrand by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Current Projects:
- drawing
- Hall stuff
- garden