The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
I'm in a meeting, where somebody is presenting a new version of a particularly convoluted software package.
Q: How does the new user interface compare to the old user interface?
A: Lets face it, the old UI sucked. The new one… sucks in a different way.
I wish I could go back to bed now. I am officially old. I feel it when I go to bed late these days. Bleh. Good news, the day is almost over. Bad news, I still have one meeting to go.
I am officially stopping my work day now.
This day hasn't been the best one in a while. Lets see the high points:
So yes, right just this minute, I wish I was home and a bit drunk.
Update: To round out this day, I fell asleep on the bus and when I woke up in a rush to get off at my stop, I left the plastic bag with all my lunch tupperware of the week and two forks. Go me :(
Katy had her interview at the Sanger today. From what she told me, I think it went well. Apparently, her boss is known to the powers that be here so that went quite a long way to soothe some of her anxieties. After her interview, I bought her a celebratory muffin and mince pie (cause it's a rule, you have to treat yourself to something nice after an interview) and I went to show her the fish that congregate in the little lake on the grounds.
And now for something completely different, I found a really really nasty logic bug today. I ran across it totally by accident, which does not please me. It's nasty and will require me to reload all the ontologies in the OLS (which will take about 2 days – joy). On the plus side, it's a quick fix and also allows me to implement something I needed to do but wasn't that critical and didn't warrant reloading everything.
I submitted my manuscript, aw yeah *dancies*
Woohoo, indeed, for many reasons.
One of which is that I have finally finished my paper, which has been reviewed by my pass as suitable for submission for publication. I just need the ok from zebigboss and it's off to the publisher. If it gets accepted (which it should, touch wood), that'll mean that I'll have been published twice in the last 6 months: once as a 1st author, once as a 2nd. This pleases me to no end.
Another reason that I'm happy is that I've released a new version of my pet project, the Ontology Lookup Service live to the world, with tons of cool new bells and whistles. Try it! Go on, you know you want to.
The final reason to be happy is not mine to tell, but it makes me the happiest of all.
I'm worried about my sweetie. She's in a bad place right now. The stresses from the last year have taken their toll and I don't know how to make it better. It's making her physically sick. She's been sleeping badly for… I don't remember when she told me she slept well. She can't get enough rest. She's always tired. She's been carrying a cold/cough for weeks now, and it doesn't seem to go away. It's always coming back with a vengeance when the fit hits the shan.
I hate her boss. She's completely irrational and unprofessional and is turning what should be a great opportunity for Katy into a lower level of hell. I've had a bit of a taste of that a few years ago, but never like this. When you can't decide if it's better to stay in bed or go to work, you're in a bad place. When going to work seems like a hassle that's just not worth the effort, it's time to move on. I just want to go a smack her boss around. You do *not* do this to people. When work makes you cry… Peterborough was bad at the end, but this is worse now. If only it wasn't for her boss and that simian jackass of a supervisor.
I firmly believe in karmic retribution and hopefully, Katy is going to get a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge load of good luck soon. The flip side of that is that her fucking evil twat of a boss is going to have a very, very bad day soon. Or so we only hope.
I keep telling her that we're going to get away from it all soon. Canada can't come soon enough. In the meantime, give her some love. I'm going to. lots and lots and lots.
Da-yum! I wish I had more days like this.
I had to work from home today because the car was being picked up to get a bit of bodywork. Because of office politics, it was easier for me to get the day off, so I was home all day. Surprisingly, I did actual productive work. That has to be a sign that you love your job when you're home and you actually work!
I resolved two bugs that were annoying the hell out of me and that means that my code is almost ready to get released into the wild. Once that happens, I can get some screenshots, polish off the paper and send it off for reviews prior to submission. This makes me happy.
The impressive thing is that between the brilliant coding/debugging (hehehe), I managed to do two loads of laundry, half a week's worth of washing up and I even took out the trash.
In other words, I rock!
That's the sort of meeting I like: one that doesn't happen and turns into a pub lunch :D
