so yesterday, i left work early to go stake out a table at st. john's. it was nearly empty when i got there (a testament to how early i left the office), but before long, the place was packed with football fans. mikeT joined me pretty soon after i got there, and it was nice to have his company as we watched the game. most of the people were packers fans, judging from the yelling and screaming when good things happened to the yellow and green. poor nelson came later, but somebody stole our third chair, so he left soon thereafter after hanging out in the back by the door.
overall, it was an ok win, but i feel a bit empty about it because favre was knocked out early, and the packers had other key injuries on defense. the thing is, though, he wasn't playing that well, as he only completely 5 passes and threw two interceptions. aaron rodgers actually did admirably, marching the packers down for two touchdown drives. but still, i am relieved that we won; i was pretty nervous until we kicked that last field goal to make a two-possession game with less than two minutes left.
i was sitting in a meeting this morning, and i put my index finger in my left ear. and a big chunk of earwax fell out. cool! it wasn't dark this time; instead, it was a yellowish white. as usual, it was very malleable, so i played with it as my boss talked. i sniffed at it, but since it wasn't from my right ear, it didn't have much of an odor. finally, i just dropped it onto the floor.
i've actually been working hard this afternoon. i've been verifying my C-model against the matlab model that someone else wrote. i made a few fixes here and there, and i thought i got it working, but further in the simulation, the results started diverging, but only for the color green. ARGH. so close, yet so far. ugh.
we had catered italian food today for lunch at the office, and i tried polenta for like the second time. it was really gross. tasteless yellow mush, in fact. what is polenta made off? ground up corn, isn't it? anyways, it's not good.
so i told my boss that i wanted to take an extra three days off from our christmas shutdown. he said that i couldn't. huh? hm. if i really can't take that time off, what the hell is my mom going to do? i think i'm actually going to try really hard to get my shit done early, so i can take those extra days. i mean, it's my mom!
this morning, i had a dream about mallard ducks. male ones. i dreamt that a whole flock of them walked down a sidewalk onto a boat to get slaughtered. grisly, eh? i do like male mallard ducks, though; i find their green heads to be pretty cool.
so i was e-mailing ting about the _so you think you can dance_ tour, and she shattered my ideal vision of it by telling me that lauren and lacey were/are fighting. in fact, apparently lauren pushed lacey against a wall and stuff like that. no way! i googled the incident, and i found some juicy stuff about the stuff going behind the scenes. i guess it's hard for 14 (top 10 + 4 alternates) people to be on tour for like 3 months without getting on each others' nerves. i mean, it's not just the tour; they had to withstand each other during the show as well. oh, and lacey and hok are going out! that's an interesting couple; i would have never guessed that pairing.
i am very itchy right now. i want to get this C-model thing out of the way, but i'm not sure i'll be able to finish debugging it before i leave tonight. i hope it doesn't gnaw on me over the weekend. but i hate unfinished business! argh. when i first started working, i had a very difficult time separating my personal life and my work life. i brought my work life home with me all the time. i would think about it in the shower and while driving, and i would even dream about it. but after a while, i learned how to compartmentalize work, and i think i do a good job of it now. hopefully i'll be able to do that this weekend, but we'll see. it bugs me that during the meeting this morning, my boss told me that i was "the critical path." ARGH.
ok, time for a smoke, and i'm off to tackle some more work before i leave. take it easy, folks!