omnis, I meant to express my sympathy for having to deal with such an asshat guidance counselor in high school. My favorite guidance counselor story is when mine passed by me in the hall when the elevator didn't seem to be working. So, I told him that I need to get to class and I was having a problem with the elevator. His oh so not helpful response was, ''Well, what do you want me to do about that?''

Which reminds me...I owe Perkins a birthday dinner.

October 6th!

I ate way too much sugar tonight. We had company for dinner, and they brought three desserts, and I had a little piece of each, which was way too much sugar for someone who's mostly been avoiding sugar. I had a sugar crash, but now I'm awake again and can't get to sleep.

We ship this NDA on the 8th, Perkins, so my evenings until then aren't free. Although I am hoping to be so ahead of the game on the evening of the 7th that I can go see Seymour Hersh give a lecture at Cal.

ETA: Hil, the other day I had to run a training session and I brought in 2 doz Krispy Kreme donuts for everyone.

I ate 5 donuts that day! 5!!!

Stress-eating through this project (and no exercise) has wreaked havoc on my body. No doubt about it. But, I will change it back.

We ship this NDA on the 8th, Perkins, so my evenings until then aren't free. Although I am hoping to be so ahead of the game on the evening of the 7th that I can go see Seymour Hersh give a lecture at Cal.

AH. For some reason I thought it shipped on the 6th.

the talk of salmon skin is just creeping my shit out.

But...I mean, granted, my sense of 'normal' has changed a fair bit wrt food since living here*, but you guys have pork rinds, right? This is only like pork rinds - but prettier, more delicate, and salmon-flavoured! The Cat Daniel went into miowing hysteria when I opened a bag of the things...but he was most disconcerted by the spicy coating, when I gave him a bit to try. (He adores the little crunchy anchovies - which are surprisingly not particularly salty - not SALTSALTSALT the way that wet anchovies normally are, just potato crisp level salty.)

Anyway, that aside - yay Daniel! Excellent boyfriending skills, that man!

*Mind you, I'm not prepared to try crunchy fried insects. Even though I know it's only like smaller versions of prawns. I already find prawns and lobster disconcerting [yummy, but disconcerting] because they're basically giant bugs, so bug-sized bugs...yeah. Not so much

AH. For some reason I thought it shipped on the 6th.

Once upon a time, it was to ship on the 22nd.

Then the 29th.

Then the 6th.

Now it's the 8th.

The extensions are due to external-to-the-company issues, mainly as a result of Kraxy Pa--y (who got fired)royally screwing up the project that came right before this one. So we all had to take an extra 4-5 weeks cleaning up after her gigantic mess and shipping that project before we could turn our attention 100% to this one. So we missed the window of availability for our already-scheduled (external) auditors. They were only available in the past week or so.

But it's really okay. My team is kicking ass, and we have the whole company behind us. I am tiring of the 16+ hour days (I am in the office right now) but I know they'll be over soon. There is simply so damned much to do.

I am really hoping to get a promotion to director soon; considering that I started brand new in this industry in Summer of 2004 (as an admin--talk about starting all over!), that's not too shabby.

We will have to go out after it ships, which I hope is the 8th, for your sake.

And have many, many gimlets?

I am closing up shop now and heading home. I am a little nervous about walking out to the parking lot. Oh, well.

I'm going to hold onto the job~ma for DH for a while longer. They know some things that are coming, but not others... it will be a few more weeks until the other shoe drops.