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.

Dude, the crunchy salmon skins sound AWESOME. I wish we had them here. (envies access to non-Western approach to food)

Sorry about the limbo-age, Sox. But at least he's still employed for the moment?

I just ate a new Au Bon Pain bagel flavor- apple cheddar. It was pretty yum.