stuff

News news news...Alex finally got a blog...essential for geeks everywhere. I go home in five days!!! I'm well excited.

Finally got the forums launched as well...now a-buzz with activity. Puzzles and such...we should deck the website out for Christmas...maybe that would be too unprofessional. I don't know if Randall is in the Christmas cheer yet...I don't know if Randall has any Christmas cheer. Maybe I should get him a gift? Like a polite, office-type gift. Like a tin of biscuits, I don't know.

good for once

I had an absolutely brilliant day yesterday, mostly because it involved a trip to the beach (yes it was freezing...did we care, no) and culminated in a Serenity viewing at my flat. One of the few times I've actually had people round...makes it feel like home! And then we all got pleasantly tipsy on wine and Jeremy fell asleep on my sofa, where he is now still snoring audibly. Plus I have the day off from work today and it's American Thanksgiving so my aunt and cousins will probably be at home and maybe I can Skype them later...we don't talk enough but I really love that side of my family.

Plus Christmas is coming and I'll have two weeks off...although I'm only going to be in England for a week so I will probably come back to work a bit early (because I'm just that sad...). Even though when I'm there I'll have to endure being fitted for a maid of honour dress and making small talk with my sister's fiance who is spending the holidays with us. And listening to my sister talk...about weddings...for hours...and hours...literally hours...When I get married I want it to be Star Wars themed and take place at the Castle. But still, seeing my family is good and HOME is good...just HOME.

As the Proclaimers sing, there is sunshine on Leith :) (not literally of course...it'll be dark by four pm)

guy fawkes

Boom!!! Someone set Arthur's Seat on fire! I am laughing :-\

...what??

My sister's getting married.

My YOUNGER sister.

:-\ is the perfect face to express how I feel about that...oh god I'm going to be the maid of honour...the OLDER maid of honour. Who should be the matron of honour. But isn't!

It's in February. Isn't that REALLY SOON?

STUPIDITY! IT BURNS!!

Melancholy mood not lifted, made WORSE by work work work. Nightmare of a server reboot, nightmare of a bunch of employees NOT UNDERSTANDING Windows XP (the easiest thing to understand EVER)...don't we have an IT guy specifically to DO this??? It is not my job to chase up dumb secretaries and teach them how to open Microsoft Word...I have nothing against secretaries I think they do amazing work and can be very organised and all of this but surely one of the few things they need to know how to do is use Office? UGH.

good/bad

Had lunch with Alex today in Forest Cafe. Nachos, delicious :) Feeling decidedly better about life and work and things after a good chat, I was having post-summer blues with the onset of so much rain I guess. Maybe I have S.O.-S.A.D. :P

Dad phoned yesterday well excited about the new "guest bedroom" which as far as I can gather is basically a sort of shack built onto the side of our perfectly good house. I told him I couldn't wait to see it when I come down for Christmas. Sometimes I think about being an "adult" and what that means now. Ten, twelve years ago I had no clue what I was doing unless someone was pointing it out for me- the first year living on my own I was a complete wreck, I went home practically every fortnight (spent a fortune on train tickets), but I managed it somehow and now I do live on my own, I am a "real" adult with a job and friends and life. I pay council tax and send things to my bank without a big fuss and rent comes out of my account and I have credit cards...and a fish named Fish. But I don't feel any different and I still get in a big panic when a letter comes advising me to pay some bill I thought I'd paid or whatever. And I still want to go home...and I'm not sure I do anything important with my life.

It's like I'm waiting for something big to happen and it never does. Stupid sentiment, I know, I'm not sad, just...thinking.

Fringe over :( And I never got tickets to see Dresden Dolls in concert!