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lillian13Last week was sheer hell.
The week before last was cut short due to the Independance Day holiday. Plus, it was the end of the quarter, and everybody and their pet engineer had a damn rush job. Well, the Flagship Software we produce had precedence...so last week we not only got the new stuff for that week (and there's always a rush at the beginning of the quarter too, go figure), but also all the stuff we hadn't gotten done the week before. I dimly remember leaving my desk a couple of times during the day.
I had to miss the birthday lunch my brother had gotten together for me. Class alternated between annoying (I like the concept of filigree but not so much the execution) and frustrating (filigree, again). Missed going to use the workroom on Saturday morning because I was so damn tired I slept until almost noon. Was vaguely bummed out by my birthday, despite the fact thatltlj made me lovely Buckaroo Banzai icons, lillian78 gave me virtual presents, and killerweasel made an .mp3 of my current favorite song. It's just the week was so horrible, and I always feel kind of melancholy around my birthday anyway.
Plus, I broke my watch. By breaking the resin that holds in the watchband bar. And I loved that watch! No way to repair it, either.
The week started to look up on Friday...kind of. My friend G took me out to our traditional dinner and a move. We went to the Alamo Drafthouse to finally see Ocean's 13--and that was the only show on six screens that was sold out. So we had Chinese and raced across town to another theatre--which had just changed movies, and gotten rid of Ocean's 13. This, after I had tried to see Ratatouille on the 5th, only to have it sold out. So we went to Garden Ridge and mocked the merchandise (they already have Halloween yard decorations and inflatibles up and were starting on Christmas as well). I found a glass for five cents, though!
Saturday I delivered some necklaces to Dragon's Lair (a comics and game shop), and returned some graphic novels for credit--a clumping great lot of credit! I bought some board games and a few early presents and scampered off with both the check for the necklaces and my gift certificate clutched to my bosom. (Money makes me happy.) Then I had dinner with J&L, two of my oldest friends, and we went to Half Price Books afterwards. I glommed some more Farscape DVDs and the second season of Bullsh*t with Penn & Teller...Sunday was dinner with the fam--hey, let's see a movie, sez my brother. He goes to buy tickets to the new Harry Potter at the IMAX online...you guessed it, sold out. Then it was, hey, let's get a movie on cable...The Prestige! yay! ...the sound was screwed up. Now I'm afraid to try to see another movie, as the effects appear to be escalating. If you hear of a theater fire in Austin, you'll know who to blame...
The week before last was cut short due to the Independance Day holiday. Plus, it was the end of the quarter, and everybody and their pet engineer had a damn rush job. Well, the Flagship Software we produce had precedence...so last week we not only got the new stuff for that week (and there's always a rush at the beginning of the quarter too, go figure), but also all the stuff we hadn't gotten done the week before. I dimly remember leaving my desk a couple of times during the day.
I had to miss the birthday lunch my brother had gotten together for me. Class alternated between annoying (I like the concept of filigree but not so much the execution) and frustrating (filigree, again). Missed going to use the workroom on Saturday morning because I was so damn tired I slept until almost noon. Was vaguely bummed out by my birthday, despite the fact that
ltlj made me lovely Buckaroo Banzai icons, lillian78 gave me virtual presents, and killerweasel made an .mp3 of my current favorite song. It's just the week was so horrible, and I always feel kind of melancholy around my birthday anyway.Plus, I broke my watch. By breaking the resin that holds in the watchband bar. And I loved that watch! No way to repair it, either.
The week started to look up on Friday...kind of. My friend G took me out to our traditional dinner and a move. We went to the Alamo Drafthouse to finally see Ocean's 13--and that was the only show on six screens that was sold out. So we had Chinese and raced across town to another theatre--which had just changed movies, and gotten rid of Ocean's 13. This, after I had tried to see Ratatouille on the 5th, only to have it sold out. So we went to Garden Ridge and mocked the merchandise (they already have Halloween yard decorations and inflatibles up and were starting on Christmas as well). I found a glass for five cents, though!
Saturday I delivered some necklaces to Dragon's Lair (a comics and game shop), and returned some graphic novels for credit--a clumping great lot of credit! I bought some board games and a few early presents and scampered off with both the check for the necklaces and my gift certificate clutched to my bosom. (Money makes me happy.) Then I had dinner with J&L, two of my oldest friends, and we went to Half Price Books afterwards. I glommed some more Farscape DVDs and the second season of Bullsh*t with Penn & Teller...Sunday was dinner with the fam--hey, let's see a movie, sez my brother. He goes to buy tickets to the new Harry Potter at the IMAX online...you guessed it, sold out. Then it was, hey, let's get a movie on cable...The Prestige! yay! ...the sound was screwed up. Now I'm afraid to try to see another movie, as the effects appear to be escalating. If you hear of a theater fire in Austin, you'll know who to blame...