3: June 2002 Archives

It was almost 5pm today when the rain started pouring down in wide sheets that blew sideways in the gusts. The whole world seemed topsy-turvy outside, the rain taking over a sky that's so often blue and stiflingly hot. It was all a bit like a metaphor for the day.

I worked ten hours today, and eleven yesterday, and truthfully, it's wearing on me a bit. My boss doesn't expect us to work extra hours, and she'll probably be horrified when she finds out I've worked as many as I have lately, but she likes for things to get done, and I'd really like to get some of these things done. So it's been a 21-hour week so far, and it's only Tuesday. Sadly, a lot of things still aren't done.

So between pulling my hair out over a tiny little module that should've been done and gone weeks ago and pulling my hair out over a much larger system that also should've been done weeks ago, I'm starting to run low on hair. It's unfortunate that today also had to be the day that:
-someone I don't know terribly well got fired
-we found out that our manager might no longer be our manager
-I have to keep packing in preparation for my move this weekend

...and so on. It's been such a topsy-turvy day that I'm certain there must be something in the air or in the stars. Which reminds me (strangely) that I'm supposed to go take pictures of the Tower tonight. It's lit up orange for the UT baseball team, which just won a national championship. I'm glad I remembered...

Catherine's baby picture, as she mentions, is from the big pond in the parking lot in front of the Tanaguchi Gardens. In fact, so is the first picture from my photolog entry, which I posted about a week ago and have been working on writing the story for ever since. If you take a look at the full photo, you can see the same rocks that little CY was climbing upon. It's much more full of tropical waterlilies and parrot feather than it was back then.