Woke up this morning at 6:30 AM for a run. Julia appeared promptly at 7:00 AM, and we went for a run down Mass. Ave., across to Oxford Street, and back up to my place near Porter. Apparently around 2.85 miles. It was pouring rain. Awesome.
After that, we bummed around for a few minutes drying out, brought her bike up and stashed it in my apartment, and then I gave her a ride back to her place.
I had a lovely breakfast of bagel, yogurt, and granola (with craisins!) whilst catching up on a few things for work, then got out the door and off to the office. It was wet. It was really wet.
Work today was disjointed, but I figured a few things out, and finished up some stuff. Worked out okay. I didn't really bother with lunch - I just kinda snacked on a few things here and there.
I left the office at approximately 6:00 PM, I think. I went home, had a bite to eat (cheese and crackers for the win!), and then headed over to Justin and Ali's for LOST around 7:45 PM. Seemed like a pretty good episode.
Oh, and prior to leaving, I noticed we have a leak in our roof, in the kitchen. Argh. Two of them, I think, against the wall. Bugger.
After LOST, I came home and played a little guitar, then climbed into le beddie bye. Yes, that's a technical term. Eric came home and we chatted for a few about the Large Hadron Collider and miscellaneous other things. His girlfriend Nikki just got on a plane for Japan. For a two year Master's program in linguistics. Whoah.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 29, 2010
The annual trip to Shaw's. Or something like that.
Rain makes for lousy motivation.
Julia called around 6:35 AM this morning, and we agreed that our levels of motivation were similar, and that in their similarity, they were both quite low. So we slept in. I slept in way too long. I think I missed re-setting my alarm at one point, and woke up at 9:15 AM. Argh.
I was at work by 10:30 or so, shoes soaked through, socks kinda wet.
Yay.
But that's okay, cause it was a fairly good day, if somewhat disjointed. I worked through lunch; big thanks to Erik for grabbing me some soup from 2nd Street on his way there.
I think, at this point, that I've hashed out pretty much everything we need to do for my current project. Time to just dive into the rest of it, I think. I've already gotten some parts done, but there's still a lot to do. Supposedly I have another four weeks or so. Something like that.
I left work around 5:30 PM and shuffled my way over to NEC for class. Joel got held up, apparently, and we started Theory about 15 minutes late, at least. We talked about minor 2-5-1's. They're weird.
Ear Training went well - I was feeling pretty good by the end of it. I could hear most things pretty well. Spiffy.
After I got home from class, I headed over to Shaw's around 10:00 PM and got some supplies. By 11:00 PM, I spent some time cleaning the kitchen and living room a bit. And then sat down to tell you wonderful people about the mundanity of my day. Damn, y'all, mundanity is a word? Sweet.
Julia called around 6:35 AM this morning, and we agreed that our levels of motivation were similar, and that in their similarity, they were both quite low. So we slept in. I slept in way too long. I think I missed re-setting my alarm at one point, and woke up at 9:15 AM. Argh.
I was at work by 10:30 or so, shoes soaked through, socks kinda wet.
Yay.
But that's okay, cause it was a fairly good day, if somewhat disjointed. I worked through lunch; big thanks to Erik for grabbing me some soup from 2nd Street on his way there.
I think, at this point, that I've hashed out pretty much everything we need to do for my current project. Time to just dive into the rest of it, I think. I've already gotten some parts done, but there's still a lot to do. Supposedly I have another four weeks or so. Something like that.
I left work around 5:30 PM and shuffled my way over to NEC for class. Joel got held up, apparently, and we started Theory about 15 minutes late, at least. We talked about minor 2-5-1's. They're weird.
Ear Training went well - I was feeling pretty good by the end of it. I could hear most things pretty well. Spiffy.
After I got home from class, I headed over to Shaw's around 10:00 PM and got some supplies. By 11:00 PM, I spent some time cleaning the kitchen and living room a bit. And then sat down to tell you wonderful people about the mundanity of my day. Damn, y'all, mundanity is a word? Sweet.
De-overcommitment
I think I need to work on de-overcommitting myself. This is kinda crazy. That was a pretty good exercise the other day, though certainly of questionable accuracy. But I think it's clear that I just need less stuff, material and otherwise.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Weekend
Hi.
So this is an entry for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'm going to see if I can't remember everything that happened. It's a bit of a big, happy blur.
Friday work went well. Working independently is sometimes rather nice. It's a pleasure to define your own tasks and work through it all. I'm just making an effort to document what's going on, though, just so someone else could come on board if necessary.
Friday night, I went home after work and tested Noteflight for a few hours. Such a cool site. Around 9:00 or so, I went out for drinks/a bite to eat with Dave FR, Julia, Meredith, and some of Meredith's friends (Steve and Bree). We decided to meet at Cambridge Common, though we weren't really sure we were going to go there. I got there approximately 20 minutes earlier than everyone else, which was only somewhat frustrating.
Within the first 5 minutes, I put our name down for a table just in case we wanted to stay. Within 2 minutes of putting my name down, they called it out, after telling me it was going to be 15 minute wait (which sounded perfect). I grudgingly told them no one else had shown up yet, so they gave the table away. And probably many other tables after that.
Eventually, everyone showed up at once and informed me that they were thinking of going to Charlie's instead. I cancelled the table request, and we walked over to H^2, went into Charlie's, and headed up the stairs. The place was packed. Eventually, after about a half hour of standing around, we finally got a little table. Then we got a bigger table. Then we relaxed. Everyone was doing well. Eventually, Dave FR and Meredith decided they needed to get up in the morning and took their leave. That left Steve, Bree, Julia and me. We sat around and chatted for a while, and then Steve suggested we head to his place up on Broadway in Cambridge, play some Tekken Tag, and drink Maker's Mark.
This struck me as a splendid idea.
So we grabbed a cab and went out that way. While Steve was fetching drinks, I fired up the PS2 only to find a disc of Planet Earth in it.
So we sat, watched Planet Earth, and drank Maker's Mark. Awesome. Eventually, after a while, Julia and I just decided to crash at their place rather than find a cab back. Comfy futon, and all. This was approximately... something something AM. I'm not sure.
Anyway, the next day, Saturday, around 11:00 AM, Julia and I found ourselves walking back to Central from Broadway. We stopped at Carberry's for some coffee and something to eat. After that we went back to our respective apartments, and then (to be a nice guy, and all) I gave her a ride out to Arlington where she was doing some modeling in the afternoon.
Then, I home, took a nap, and then went to PAX.
PAX was pretty crazy. Supposedly there were like... 65,000 people there? Is that possible? That's what was quoted to me. It was packed, like frickin' Charlie's. We saw a panel from the creators of Red vs. Blue, including 20 something minutes of new episode. Pretty cool. Hilarious guys.
We then walked around the exhibition hall a bit, Jason/Mike bought a few games, and then, eventually, around 6;30 or so, we took our leave. Jason, Mike, Ria, Olivia, and I all went back to Mike and Ria's place to hang out for a while.
We watched The Princess And The Frog, which was surprisingly well done. I rather enjoyed it. We also ordered some pizza, which was great.
Around 9:30 or so, I talked to Julia briefly, and remembered that Mr. Eric Fields was planning on seeing Hot Tub Time Machine in H^2 at 10:00 PM.
How could I miss that?
So I said goodbye to Mike, Ria, and Olivia, (Jason had already left by that point), and headed down to Harvard to the theater. There I found Mr. Fields waiting for Julia, surprised to see me. Sup, dude!
Julia and Alex came walking down the street a few minutes later, and we all got our tickets and went in.
Spectacular movie. Extremely fine cinema. Oh, yes. Oscar worthy. Definitely. Classy. John Cusack for the win.
After that, Eric and I headed over to Cambridge Common for a drink. After a few, Julia joined us - I think Alex had gone home. We hung around for a bit (until last call, truthfully), and then went to Eric's for quesadillas and jazz.
Fuck yeah.
Not bad.
Eventually, around 3:00 AM, Julia and I left and went home. An excellent night was had by all.
Sunday morning, I woke up pretty late and bummed around through the afternoon Julia and I had lunch/dinner at Christopher's around 4:00 PM, which was pretty good, though the atmosphere that time of day is weird. There's just not enough people. The place felt kinda empty.
Around 6:00 PM, after a little nap, I shuffled my way on over to Sudbury. Jason brought our Mirrodin cards that we bought. I didn't get a great box, but it wasn't terrible either. It's funny how many of the uncommons in Mirrodin are better than the rares. We did our Ars thing until around 10:30 or so, when I requested that we adjourn. I'm exhausted - the above sleeping schedule was mostly just... Whoa.
So this is an entry for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I'm going to see if I can't remember everything that happened. It's a bit of a big, happy blur.
Friday work went well. Working independently is sometimes rather nice. It's a pleasure to define your own tasks and work through it all. I'm just making an effort to document what's going on, though, just so someone else could come on board if necessary.
Friday night, I went home after work and tested Noteflight for a few hours. Such a cool site. Around 9:00 or so, I went out for drinks/a bite to eat with Dave FR, Julia, Meredith, and some of Meredith's friends (Steve and Bree). We decided to meet at Cambridge Common, though we weren't really sure we were going to go there. I got there approximately 20 minutes earlier than everyone else, which was only somewhat frustrating.
Within the first 5 minutes, I put our name down for a table just in case we wanted to stay. Within 2 minutes of putting my name down, they called it out, after telling me it was going to be 15 minute wait (which sounded perfect). I grudgingly told them no one else had shown up yet, so they gave the table away. And probably many other tables after that.
Eventually, everyone showed up at once and informed me that they were thinking of going to Charlie's instead. I cancelled the table request, and we walked over to H^2, went into Charlie's, and headed up the stairs. The place was packed. Eventually, after about a half hour of standing around, we finally got a little table. Then we got a bigger table. Then we relaxed. Everyone was doing well. Eventually, Dave FR and Meredith decided they needed to get up in the morning and took their leave. That left Steve, Bree, Julia and me. We sat around and chatted for a while, and then Steve suggested we head to his place up on Broadway in Cambridge, play some Tekken Tag, and drink Maker's Mark.
This struck me as a splendid idea.
So we grabbed a cab and went out that way. While Steve was fetching drinks, I fired up the PS2 only to find a disc of Planet Earth in it.
So we sat, watched Planet Earth, and drank Maker's Mark. Awesome. Eventually, after a while, Julia and I just decided to crash at their place rather than find a cab back. Comfy futon, and all. This was approximately... something something AM. I'm not sure.
Anyway, the next day, Saturday, around 11:00 AM, Julia and I found ourselves walking back to Central from Broadway. We stopped at Carberry's for some coffee and something to eat. After that we went back to our respective apartments, and then (to be a nice guy, and all) I gave her a ride out to Arlington where she was doing some modeling in the afternoon.
Then, I home, took a nap, and then went to PAX.
PAX was pretty crazy. Supposedly there were like... 65,000 people there? Is that possible? That's what was quoted to me. It was packed, like frickin' Charlie's. We saw a panel from the creators of Red vs. Blue, including 20 something minutes of new episode. Pretty cool. Hilarious guys.
We then walked around the exhibition hall a bit, Jason/Mike bought a few games, and then, eventually, around 6;30 or so, we took our leave. Jason, Mike, Ria, Olivia, and I all went back to Mike and Ria's place to hang out for a while.
We watched The Princess And The Frog, which was surprisingly well done. I rather enjoyed it. We also ordered some pizza, which was great.
Around 9:30 or so, I talked to Julia briefly, and remembered that Mr. Eric Fields was planning on seeing Hot Tub Time Machine in H^2 at 10:00 PM.
How could I miss that?
So I said goodbye to Mike, Ria, and Olivia, (Jason had already left by that point), and headed down to Harvard to the theater. There I found Mr. Fields waiting for Julia, surprised to see me. Sup, dude!
Julia and Alex came walking down the street a few minutes later, and we all got our tickets and went in.
Spectacular movie. Extremely fine cinema. Oh, yes. Oscar worthy. Definitely. Classy. John Cusack for the win.
After that, Eric and I headed over to Cambridge Common for a drink. After a few, Julia joined us - I think Alex had gone home. We hung around for a bit (until last call, truthfully), and then went to Eric's for quesadillas and jazz.
Fuck yeah.
Not bad.
Eventually, around 3:00 AM, Julia and I left and went home. An excellent night was had by all.
Sunday morning, I woke up pretty late and bummed around through the afternoon Julia and I had lunch/dinner at Christopher's around 4:00 PM, which was pretty good, though the atmosphere that time of day is weird. There's just not enough people. The place felt kinda empty.
Around 6:00 PM, after a little nap, I shuffled my way on over to Sudbury. Jason brought our Mirrodin cards that we bought. I didn't get a great box, but it wasn't terrible either. It's funny how many of the uncommons in Mirrodin are better than the rares. We did our Ars thing until around 10:30 or so, when I requested that we adjourn. I'm exhausted - the above sleeping schedule was mostly just... Whoa.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Mathematicals
Got up at 6:40 AM this morning to go running, but I think Julia missed her alarm. So I used the time to get to work a bit early, instead, so I could leave early, so I could get some practice in before my lesson.
The days usually stack up like that.
I find myself being a rather busy guy, I think.
Let's see how this goes, ideally:
Monday: run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM. Work until 5:00 PM. Travel across town to NEC for class by 6:00 PM. Sit in class until 8:30 PM or so. Spend an hour getting home. Home by 9:30 at the earliest. Eat dinner, done by 9:45, at the earliest. Stare at a screen for 45 minutes with my mouth hanging open. Get ready to go to sleep by 10:30 PM. Sleep at 11:00 PM, at best.
Tuesday: Run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM. In reality, because I have nowhere to be on Tuesdays, make that 9:30 AM. Work until 6:00 or 6:30 PM. Get home by 7:00 PM. Dinner by 7:30 PM. From 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM, have three hours free. Asleep by 11:00 PM.
Wednesday: Run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM or 9:30 AM. Unless something comes up in the morning, in which case half the time I'm in by 10:00 AM. Work until 6:00 or 6:30 PM. Get home by 7:00 PM. Dinner by 7:30 PM. From 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM, have three hours free. Asleep at 11:00 PM.
Thursday: Run at 7:00 AM, supposedly, at work by 9:00 AM, hopefully. Work until 5:00 PM so I can get home to get some practice in before my lesson. Home by 6:00 PM. Today, 6:30 PM, cause, you know, life is never that efficient. Practice and eat a quick dinner until 7:30 PM. Drive to Brookline. Lesson from 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM, usually. Sometimes 9:30 PM. Occasionally 10:00 PM. Hurry home. Home and sitting here to write this by 9:45 PM. Spend 45 minutes staring at a screen with my mouth hanging open. Get ready for bed at 10:30 PM. Asleep by 11:00 PM.
Friday: Run at 7:00 AM, mostly, at work by 9:30 AM at best. Work until 6:00 PM. Sometimes later, because things always come up on Fridays. Home by 7:00 PM, often. Dinner by 7:30 PM. Technically free time until perhaps midnight, if I intend to sleep decently. Regardless, I always get at least 8 hours of sleep on weekend nights. Therefore, perhaps 4 and a half hours of free time. Wooo, best so far this week.
Saturday: Wake up and be ready for life sometime around 10:00 AM. Perhaps hit up Dado until 3:00 PM or so to get something done. Spend 30 minutes of that eating something. Have a generally free evening. Another 30 minutes of fooding, perhaps. Again, perhaps until midnight, or the way things have been going lately, 7:00 effing AM. Go to sleep at midnight again, for sake of argument.
Sunday: Wake up and be prepared for the day by around 10:00 AM again, in all likelihood. From 10:00 AM until 3:30 PM, have some free time. Spend 30 minutes eating in there somewhere. 4:00 PM, drive to Sudbury. 5:00 PM until midnight, play Ars (yeah, we're serious). Asleep by 1:00 AM Monday morning. Yes, I'm supposed to go for a run on Monday morning at 7:00 AM.
SO.
The free time. Let's count, shall we?
Monday, 45 minutes.
Tuesday, 3 hours.
Wednesday, 3 hours.
Thursday, 45 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 30 minutes (woohoo!)
Saturday, 13 hours.
Sunday, 5 hours.
So, now. Monday and Thursday just don't count. Nothing happens in that 45 minutes except writing the sort of thing I'm writing now. So there goes 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Every other day, subtract 15 minutes for blogging.
New totals:
Monday, 0 minutes.
Tuesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Wednesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Thursday, 0 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 15 minutes.
Saturday, 12 hours 45 minutes.
Sunday, 4 hours 45 minutes.
Presumably, most days, some activity will be happening on Saturday. Call that from 8:00 PM until midnight, sleep time. Most every week, something also happens on Tuesday or Wednesday night. Either friends getting together, or a meeting of some sort, a social dinner with friends, or something. So take 2 hours for that, perhaps. For the sake of argument, say it happens on Tuesday. And lets say that to have a balanced life, I clean something or do laundry at least once a week. Call that 2 hours. We'll fill that in on Sunday, just to spread things out. I spend at least another 2 hours on Sunday preparing for Ars, lately, since I'm running it.
New totals:
Monday, 0 minutes.
Tuesday, 45 minutes.
Wednesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Thursday, 0 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 15 minutes.
Saturday, 8 hours 45 minutes.
Sunday, 45 minutes.
So Saturday remains an excellent day to get things done. Truthfully, nothing productive ever happens on Friday night.
So, essentially, we're talking 11 and a half hours a week to do anything else in my life that hasn't been covered above. Assuming there isn't anything happening during the day on Saturday, in which case that starts looking more like 5 hours a week.
Guitar practice? Ought to be at least 5 hours a week.
Writing? Would preferably be at least 3 hours a week.
Grocery store? 1 hour a week.
More thorough apartment cleaning? 1 hour
Homework? 4 hours would be smart.
Side programming projects? 4 hours?
What's that, 18 hours?
God forbid I visit my family some weekend. Or get sick. Or have PAX come to town, like this weekend.
Rough. I think I'm trying to do too much.
Hmm, it's 10:26. Four minutes to go before it's time to get ready to sleep.
The days usually stack up like that.
I find myself being a rather busy guy, I think.
Let's see how this goes, ideally:
Monday: run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM. Work until 5:00 PM. Travel across town to NEC for class by 6:00 PM. Sit in class until 8:30 PM or so. Spend an hour getting home. Home by 9:30 at the earliest. Eat dinner, done by 9:45, at the earliest. Stare at a screen for 45 minutes with my mouth hanging open. Get ready to go to sleep by 10:30 PM. Sleep at 11:00 PM, at best.
Tuesday: Run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM. In reality, because I have nowhere to be on Tuesdays, make that 9:30 AM. Work until 6:00 or 6:30 PM. Get home by 7:00 PM. Dinner by 7:30 PM. From 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM, have three hours free. Asleep by 11:00 PM.
Wednesday: Run at 7:00 AM, at work by 9:00 AM or 9:30 AM. Unless something comes up in the morning, in which case half the time I'm in by 10:00 AM. Work until 6:00 or 6:30 PM. Get home by 7:00 PM. Dinner by 7:30 PM. From 7:30 PM until 10:30 PM, have three hours free. Asleep at 11:00 PM.
Thursday: Run at 7:00 AM, supposedly, at work by 9:00 AM, hopefully. Work until 5:00 PM so I can get home to get some practice in before my lesson. Home by 6:00 PM. Today, 6:30 PM, cause, you know, life is never that efficient. Practice and eat a quick dinner until 7:30 PM. Drive to Brookline. Lesson from 8:00 PM to 9:15 PM, usually. Sometimes 9:30 PM. Occasionally 10:00 PM. Hurry home. Home and sitting here to write this by 9:45 PM. Spend 45 minutes staring at a screen with my mouth hanging open. Get ready for bed at 10:30 PM. Asleep by 11:00 PM.
Friday: Run at 7:00 AM, mostly, at work by 9:30 AM at best. Work until 6:00 PM. Sometimes later, because things always come up on Fridays. Home by 7:00 PM, often. Dinner by 7:30 PM. Technically free time until perhaps midnight, if I intend to sleep decently. Regardless, I always get at least 8 hours of sleep on weekend nights. Therefore, perhaps 4 and a half hours of free time. Wooo, best so far this week.
Saturday: Wake up and be ready for life sometime around 10:00 AM. Perhaps hit up Dado until 3:00 PM or so to get something done. Spend 30 minutes of that eating something. Have a generally free evening. Another 30 minutes of fooding, perhaps. Again, perhaps until midnight, or the way things have been going lately, 7:00 effing AM. Go to sleep at midnight again, for sake of argument.
Sunday: Wake up and be prepared for the day by around 10:00 AM again, in all likelihood. From 10:00 AM until 3:30 PM, have some free time. Spend 30 minutes eating in there somewhere. 4:00 PM, drive to Sudbury. 5:00 PM until midnight, play Ars (yeah, we're serious). Asleep by 1:00 AM Monday morning. Yes, I'm supposed to go for a run on Monday morning at 7:00 AM.
SO.
The free time. Let's count, shall we?
Monday, 45 minutes.
Tuesday, 3 hours.
Wednesday, 3 hours.
Thursday, 45 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 30 minutes (woohoo!)
Saturday, 13 hours.
Sunday, 5 hours.
So, now. Monday and Thursday just don't count. Nothing happens in that 45 minutes except writing the sort of thing I'm writing now. So there goes 1 hour and 30 minutes.
Every other day, subtract 15 minutes for blogging.
New totals:
Monday, 0 minutes.
Tuesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Wednesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Thursday, 0 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 15 minutes.
Saturday, 12 hours 45 minutes.
Sunday, 4 hours 45 minutes.
Presumably, most days, some activity will be happening on Saturday. Call that from 8:00 PM until midnight, sleep time. Most every week, something also happens on Tuesday or Wednesday night. Either friends getting together, or a meeting of some sort, a social dinner with friends, or something. So take 2 hours for that, perhaps. For the sake of argument, say it happens on Tuesday. And lets say that to have a balanced life, I clean something or do laundry at least once a week. Call that 2 hours. We'll fill that in on Sunday, just to spread things out. I spend at least another 2 hours on Sunday preparing for Ars, lately, since I'm running it.
New totals:
Monday, 0 minutes.
Tuesday, 45 minutes.
Wednesday, 2 hours 45 minutes.
Thursday, 0 minutes.
Friday, 4 hours 15 minutes.
Saturday, 8 hours 45 minutes.
Sunday, 45 minutes.
So Saturday remains an excellent day to get things done. Truthfully, nothing productive ever happens on Friday night.
So, essentially, we're talking 11 and a half hours a week to do anything else in my life that hasn't been covered above. Assuming there isn't anything happening during the day on Saturday, in which case that starts looking more like 5 hours a week.
Guitar practice? Ought to be at least 5 hours a week.
Writing? Would preferably be at least 3 hours a week.
Grocery store? 1 hour a week.
More thorough apartment cleaning? 1 hour
Homework? 4 hours would be smart.
Side programming projects? 4 hours?
What's that, 18 hours?
God forbid I visit my family some weekend. Or get sick. Or have PAX come to town, like this weekend.
Rough. I think I'm trying to do too much.
Hmm, it's 10:26. Four minutes to go before it's time to get ready to sleep.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Party Out
Today started with a bike ride at 7:15 AM.
Julia and I, in lieu of our usual run, decided to bike around Cambridge a bit in the morning. She had things to get done, and I just had things to get outside - namely, myself. We started by hitting up the Shaw's in Porter for bananas.
You heard right: bananas. Lots of bananas. Like... $15 worth of bananas. If you know anything about banana cost per pound, you know that's a shiznit ton of bananas. Like a huge backpack full.
Girl likes bananas.
... But not that much. They were for after school kids. Smoothie day, apparently. So we tried to go to Shaw's for bananas, but found that they didn't have enough ripe ones - they just had a wicked ton of green ones. Not good. So we cleaned them out of ripe bananas, then headed over to the Gourmet Express to fill out the backpack.
After that, we biked down Mass Ave. to Harvard Square, where I realized that I wasn't going to be able to make it all the way to her school to drop them off, as it would have taken me until like... 8:30 or so, which might be a tad too late. So I went home via the back way (Garden/Raymond, etc.). After that, having started the day on a bike, I opted to ride to work as well. I found a nice spot for my bike next to Mr. Daniel's (safety in numbers, don't you know). The day went alright, I got a few things done. Not as much as yesterday, I think, but it generally involved a few more random things than yesterday as well.
For lunch, Erik, M'Lord and I ordered Thai. They got drunken noodles. I got yellow curry. All tofu, all the time. It was delicious.
After work, we hosted the Brightcove Developer Group Meeting thingy. Daniel and Eric gave little presentations, along with folks from a few other companies in the area that use Brightcove. Good times. There was pizza and beer. Also good times.
After the meeting, around 8:00 PM or so, I biked home, sat down, had some tea, and then bust out the guitar for a few. I'm not feeling particularly prepared for my lesson tomorrow. This week (and the last one, I think), I've been mostly exhausted at night after work. I thought exercise was s'posed to energize you? As it gets warmer I'm getting more, but I'm just feeling a bit worn out! It feels good, in a way, but I just wish I didn't have so much to do in my spare time.
Sitting here, listening to the Beastie Boys.
And that's how it is.
Julia and I, in lieu of our usual run, decided to bike around Cambridge a bit in the morning. She had things to get done, and I just had things to get outside - namely, myself. We started by hitting up the Shaw's in Porter for bananas.
You heard right: bananas. Lots of bananas. Like... $15 worth of bananas. If you know anything about banana cost per pound, you know that's a shiznit ton of bananas. Like a huge backpack full.
Girl likes bananas.
... But not that much. They were for after school kids. Smoothie day, apparently. So we tried to go to Shaw's for bananas, but found that they didn't have enough ripe ones - they just had a wicked ton of green ones. Not good. So we cleaned them out of ripe bananas, then headed over to the Gourmet Express to fill out the backpack.
After that, we biked down Mass Ave. to Harvard Square, where I realized that I wasn't going to be able to make it all the way to her school to drop them off, as it would have taken me until like... 8:30 or so, which might be a tad too late. So I went home via the back way (Garden/Raymond, etc.). After that, having started the day on a bike, I opted to ride to work as well. I found a nice spot for my bike next to Mr. Daniel's (safety in numbers, don't you know). The day went alright, I got a few things done. Not as much as yesterday, I think, but it generally involved a few more random things than yesterday as well.
For lunch, Erik, M'Lord and I ordered Thai. They got drunken noodles. I got yellow curry. All tofu, all the time. It was delicious.
After work, we hosted the Brightcove Developer Group Meeting thingy. Daniel and Eric gave little presentations, along with folks from a few other companies in the area that use Brightcove. Good times. There was pizza and beer. Also good times.
After the meeting, around 8:00 PM or so, I biked home, sat down, had some tea, and then bust out the guitar for a few. I'm not feeling particularly prepared for my lesson tomorrow. This week (and the last one, I think), I've been mostly exhausted at night after work. I thought exercise was s'posed to energize you? As it gets warmer I'm getting more, but I'm just feeling a bit worn out! It feels good, in a way, but I just wish I didn't have so much to do in my spare time.
Sitting here, listening to the Beastie Boys.
And that's how it is.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Wet but productive
So I woke up and got out of the apartment later than expected this morning, and had to rush into work for a 9:30 meeting with like... everyone on the invite. Dah. I had to call ahead and ask if we could push it back 15 minutes. Luckily, most people didn't come anyway, and those that did didn't really seem to mind, so... yay.
It was pouring rain this morning, and by the time I got to the office, my poor feets were all wet. Bugger. I eventually put them in front of a heater in the conference room to dry out.
Work today was rather productive, I think. I got several things done, wrote a bunch of documentation, and did proof of concepts for a few others. Not bad. I stayed at work from approximately 9:45 AM until 7:00 PM, with some falafel for lunch in between.
And snacks. We got new snacks. I had fruit snacks. And animal crackers. And some Chex. Mmm... chex.
Once home, I chilled out for a bit, played some Braid, and then helped Eric do some research into some consumer goods he was thinking of purchasing. And... Oh! And I did laundry. It's currently drying. Yay, domesticity! Holy crap, that's a word? Wow!
It was pouring rain this morning, and by the time I got to the office, my poor feets were all wet. Bugger. I eventually put them in front of a heater in the conference room to dry out.
Work today was rather productive, I think. I got several things done, wrote a bunch of documentation, and did proof of concepts for a few others. Not bad. I stayed at work from approximately 9:45 AM until 7:00 PM, with some falafel for lunch in between.
And snacks. We got new snacks. I had fruit snacks. And animal crackers. And some Chex. Mmm... chex.
Once home, I chilled out for a bit, played some Braid, and then helped Eric do some research into some consumer goods he was thinking of purchasing. And... Oh! And I did laundry. It's currently drying. Yay, domesticity! Holy crap, that's a word? Wow!
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