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blah, blah, blah....
Jun. 24th, 2006 03:44 pmjust _that_ sort of day. it has been lovely and sunny and warm, and today it is all grey and blah. and the weight -loss thing is blah - lost 2.4 lb last week, gained 2.4 lb this week (despite living off cantaloupe smoothies and fat-free vegetable soup and salads). one interesting thing - i broke down and bought a digital scale last week - and it's quite interesting to see how variable my weight is during the day. yesterday, i was 7 lb heavier at the end of the day than at the beginning - this morning i was back down by 6. i know, i know, you aren't supposed to weigh yourself that often - except i find it reassuring (in an odd sort of way) to see how variable it really is. it's not the immediate weight, it's the trend. ok, so the trend isn't so great lately....but long-term, it's going in the right direction. the other thing is, i realized weight change is not an instantaneous thing. so it may take a week for last weeks light eating to show up. i'll just keep working on it, and i'll get off this plateau eventually.
work is about to get hectic. finally got The Big Data Set - only about 3 months later than originally planned for. so, two months instead of four to get The Critical Report out (we did get an extra month)...fortunately, i'm only going to have to really work on 2 chapters, instead of all four (it's only part of the full report). and the two i have are pretty routine - same things we've done before, so the programs are all together. then a whole lot of generic things -doing the data dumps, and the public use data, and the standard tables....the upside is, all those programs are all together, so they won't take much thought from me. the downside is, those programs are all together, so it's just slogging through running them, which is really boring. hopefully, the remaining chapters will be more exciting, since there should be some different stuff there.
summer theatre season is starting - tonight is othello, last week was midsummer night's dream. seems i should have named angelina kitten hermia - "though she be little, yet she is fierce"...that describes her pretty well. she is determined to have her own "midsummer night dreams" these days - she doesn't want to come in at night, which has me in a panic, in fear that she will meet "some vile thing" (i started to type "meat", which tells you how my thoughts are running). she has no fear, of course - although the local dogs occassionally send her running in with her tail all excited, her alarm never lasts for long...but the dogs are just interested in playing. she doesn't get that there are things out there looking for a midnight snack. so when i come out to get her, she skitters away, leaving me wishing for a net - or maybe a stun gun.
work is about to get hectic. finally got The Big Data Set - only about 3 months later than originally planned for. so, two months instead of four to get The Critical Report out (we did get an extra month)...fortunately, i'm only going to have to really work on 2 chapters, instead of all four (it's only part of the full report). and the two i have are pretty routine - same things we've done before, so the programs are all together. then a whole lot of generic things -doing the data dumps, and the public use data, and the standard tables....the upside is, all those programs are all together, so they won't take much thought from me. the downside is, those programs are all together, so it's just slogging through running them, which is really boring. hopefully, the remaining chapters will be more exciting, since there should be some different stuff there.
summer theatre season is starting - tonight is othello, last week was midsummer night's dream. seems i should have named angelina kitten hermia - "though she be little, yet she is fierce"...that describes her pretty well. she is determined to have her own "midsummer night dreams" these days - she doesn't want to come in at night, which has me in a panic, in fear that she will meet "some vile thing" (i started to type "meat", which tells you how my thoughts are running). she has no fear, of course - although the local dogs occassionally send her running in with her tail all excited, her alarm never lasts for long...but the dogs are just interested in playing. she doesn't get that there are things out there looking for a midnight snack. so when i come out to get her, she skitters away, leaving me wishing for a net - or maybe a stun gun.
