the past several days
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ocelotAn update on Wednesday - Friday.
After the last post, I went to the dentist's yet again. He said that it wasn't anything to worry about, and smoothed it out a bit (which hurt. Apparently my teeth are slightly oversensitive).
After that, I had dinner with one friend and then saw AP 2 with some others. I enjoyed it more than the first one, or at least more than I remember enjoying the first one. I like familiar things (something I may discuss later), and a lot of the characters had matured. It was also a better group of people to see it with.
Becoming a Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan over the past year didn't hurt, either.
Thursday I spent half a day at work before heading to the Bay Area for the BNL concert. About half an hour before I had to leave, my boss catches me and tells me she wants to go over some Microsoft licensing stuff with me. I tell her that I need to leave soon, and she says that it should only take a few minutes, and proceeds to lead me on a wild goose chase around the building looking for some papers.
This goes on for about 10 minutes. I'm getting really annoyed, since she's acting more and more flaky, and I can't see why I need to know this Microsoft stuff before I leave anyways.
So finally, she leads me back to the room where we started. I go in, and a bunch of my co-workers are there, along with a cake and a bunch of presents. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on. I've never had a surprise party before, and wow, it really was a surprise.
They gave me this cool gel-candle with little fruit shapes in it, a calendar that I wouldn't want to hang at work for fear of being accused of sexual harassment, these tattoo markers (markers with little stamps on the end. I'm not sure exactly how they differ from regular markers with little stamps at the end), and this plastic star necklace that's lighted to glow blue.
The necklace was great for the concert. Unfortunately, I played with it too much, and it broke shortly afterwards (wasn't all that well made in the first place). This seems to be a habit with me and necklaces. When I get one I like, I play with it too much, and it breaks within 24 hours. This has happened with at least 3/4 of the necklaces I've had any intention of wearing on a regular basis.
They made that co-worker I was drooling over in an entry the other day (one of the two guys in the room) read the quotes from the terribly sexist calendar (I'd give examples, but I can't remember any, and I had to leave it at work because I wasn't going home first). I think we were both quite embarrassed like that.
After the party, one of my co-workers and I went to lunch at the Thai place. Yummy. We had a nice validating conversation about our feelings about or boss and the way things are run.
Took the train to the Bay Area. It worked out well enough, despite the utter lack of planning. The schedules were working well - I don't think I had to wait more than 5 minutes at either the train station or any of the two BART stations. Until I got to Dublin/Pleasanton, where I was being picked up, anyways. Due to a mixup (neither of us realized the station had two sides....) I ended up standing around in the heat for over an hour. And somehow I'm still as pale white as ever... go figure.
Though it was getting late by this point, we made it to the concert nearly on time. Missed the first few songs of the first opening act (someone named Sarah Harmon. She seemed good, and I wouldn't mind hearing more of her, but I'd never heard her before and she wasn't the reason I was there...). The Proclaimers were good. Their energy was great, though a lot of their songs didn't really do much for me.
BNL was great! Unlike the concert in October, where they played mostly songs from Maroon (understandably, since it was the tour to promote Maroon), they played a lot of older stuff. Plus Maroon stuff, but now I've listened to Maroon enough times that I'm at least as familiar with it as with the rest of the albums. The weather was also quite a bit nicer.
I've decided my hormones are on overdrive these days. I enjoyed the videos of Ed Robertson they kept projecting on the screen way too much. I realized part way through the concert that he really reminded me of someone. It hit me afterwards - Krycek on X-Files. Looked at pictures of him later and couldn't see the resemblance as strongly, but I could last night.
After the concert, we headed to downtown Mountain View, and discovered that nothing was open except a number of night clubs. Not even Man Bo Duck, which appeared to be open, and should have been open according to their posted hours. But they told us they were closed. I think they hate us. So we went to TGI Friday's instead, which is when I discovered the necklace was broken.
After that, we went back to the apartment of the people I was staying with and crashed under a lovely tuxtiles blanket on their futon for about an hour, until I was woken by their roommate's work emergency. For some reason, it needed to be worked on in the living room, where I was attempting to sleep. Used the time to get...something...done. Can't remember now what it was. But whatever it was, I'm sure it was highly useful. I do remember sitting around on IRC and complaining about my server not crashing - this is that one which crashes every four days, and I was hoping it would go ahead and crash while I was stuck awake anyways, so I could go ahead and restart it and get that over with and not have to deal with it in the morning. Unfortunately, it didn't (it ended up crashing sometime between 6 and 9 am. I fixed it shortly after 9 - early enough that it hopefully didn't cause anyone any problems). Got back to sleep at about 6, and got maybe 2-3 more hours of sleep after that.
Just before I left for the train station, something interesting happened. It was horribly funny, but I will leave out the details to preserve the privacy others, since most of you all who are reading this know the individual involved (so why am I even saying anything? For myself, so I never forget :)
Had the same luck with trains on the way back. I hear people complain about BART frequently, but I've never had a bad experience. Then again, I don't ride it on a regular basis, and never during peak times.
But when I had the same luck, I mean the same luck (just in a slightly different order). I got to the station with time to spare before the Amtrak train arrived. Unfortunately, I thought I had 30 minutes, when I actually had about 15. Went to get something to eat, and got back approx. 1 minute late. The train was actually still in the station, but they wouldn't open the doors for me and another women. I felt rather stupid, but less so when about 5 other people showed up within the next few minutes.
So, waited around for the next two hours for the next train. I finished To Kill a Mockingbird, and started in on this anthropology book that I still had from one of the classes I flunked my first year (quite an interesting book, really - a collection of essays related to field work in cultural anthropology).
I don't think I could live in the coastal portions of the Bay Area. They're just too dang cold. It's the middle of summer, and I was freezing in a sweatshirt and jeans while waiting around.
The train finally arrived. Being the ~5 PM train heading east on a Friday evening, it was packed. I wandered up and down the train looking for ex-co-workers (there are a whole trainload of them who still live in Davis, but commute to the Bay Area, usually by train). Didn't find any, though.
Got back to Davis. Caught the bus home. And that's about it.
I'm amazed I'm still awake, given my lack of sleep over the past several days.
After the last post, I went to the dentist's yet again. He said that it wasn't anything to worry about, and smoothed it out a bit (which hurt. Apparently my teeth are slightly oversensitive).
After that, I had dinner with one friend and then saw AP 2 with some others. I enjoyed it more than the first one, or at least more than I remember enjoying the first one. I like familiar things (something I may discuss later), and a lot of the characters had matured. It was also a better group of people to see it with.
Becoming a Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan over the past year didn't hurt, either.
Thursday I spent half a day at work before heading to the Bay Area for the BNL concert. About half an hour before I had to leave, my boss catches me and tells me she wants to go over some Microsoft licensing stuff with me. I tell her that I need to leave soon, and she says that it should only take a few minutes, and proceeds to lead me on a wild goose chase around the building looking for some papers.
This goes on for about 10 minutes. I'm getting really annoyed, since she's acting more and more flaky, and I can't see why I need to know this Microsoft stuff before I leave anyways.
So finally, she leads me back to the room where we started. I go in, and a bunch of my co-workers are there, along with a cake and a bunch of presents. It took me a minute to figure out what was going on. I've never had a surprise party before, and wow, it really was a surprise.
They gave me this cool gel-candle with little fruit shapes in it, a calendar that I wouldn't want to hang at work for fear of being accused of sexual harassment, these tattoo markers (markers with little stamps on the end. I'm not sure exactly how they differ from regular markers with little stamps at the end), and this plastic star necklace that's lighted to glow blue.
The necklace was great for the concert. Unfortunately, I played with it too much, and it broke shortly afterwards (wasn't all that well made in the first place). This seems to be a habit with me and necklaces. When I get one I like, I play with it too much, and it breaks within 24 hours. This has happened with at least 3/4 of the necklaces I've had any intention of wearing on a regular basis.
They made that co-worker I was drooling over in an entry the other day (one of the two guys in the room) read the quotes from the terribly sexist calendar (I'd give examples, but I can't remember any, and I had to leave it at work because I wasn't going home first). I think we were both quite embarrassed like that.
After the party, one of my co-workers and I went to lunch at the Thai place. Yummy. We had a nice validating conversation about our feelings about or boss and the way things are run.
Took the train to the Bay Area. It worked out well enough, despite the utter lack of planning. The schedules were working well - I don't think I had to wait more than 5 minutes at either the train station or any of the two BART stations. Until I got to Dublin/Pleasanton, where I was being picked up, anyways. Due to a mixup (neither of us realized the station had two sides....) I ended up standing around in the heat for over an hour. And somehow I'm still as pale white as ever... go figure.
Though it was getting late by this point, we made it to the concert nearly on time. Missed the first few songs of the first opening act (someone named Sarah Harmon. She seemed good, and I wouldn't mind hearing more of her, but I'd never heard her before and she wasn't the reason I was there...). The Proclaimers were good. Their energy was great, though a lot of their songs didn't really do much for me.
BNL was great! Unlike the concert in October, where they played mostly songs from Maroon (understandably, since it was the tour to promote Maroon), they played a lot of older stuff. Plus Maroon stuff, but now I've listened to Maroon enough times that I'm at least as familiar with it as with the rest of the albums. The weather was also quite a bit nicer.
I've decided my hormones are on overdrive these days. I enjoyed the videos of Ed Robertson they kept projecting on the screen way too much. I realized part way through the concert that he really reminded me of someone. It hit me afterwards - Krycek on X-Files. Looked at pictures of him later and couldn't see the resemblance as strongly, but I could last night.
After the concert, we headed to downtown Mountain View, and discovered that nothing was open except a number of night clubs. Not even Man Bo Duck, which appeared to be open, and should have been open according to their posted hours. But they told us they were closed. I think they hate us. So we went to TGI Friday's instead, which is when I discovered the necklace was broken.
After that, we went back to the apartment of the people I was staying with and crashed under a lovely tuxtiles blanket on their futon for about an hour, until I was woken by their roommate's work emergency. For some reason, it needed to be worked on in the living room, where I was attempting to sleep. Used the time to get...something...done. Can't remember now what it was. But whatever it was, I'm sure it was highly useful. I do remember sitting around on IRC and complaining about my server not crashing - this is that one which crashes every four days, and I was hoping it would go ahead and crash while I was stuck awake anyways, so I could go ahead and restart it and get that over with and not have to deal with it in the morning. Unfortunately, it didn't (it ended up crashing sometime between 6 and 9 am. I fixed it shortly after 9 - early enough that it hopefully didn't cause anyone any problems). Got back to sleep at about 6, and got maybe 2-3 more hours of sleep after that.
Just before I left for the train station, something interesting happened. It was horribly funny, but I will leave out the details to preserve the privacy others, since most of you all who are reading this know the individual involved (so why am I even saying anything? For myself, so I never forget :)
Had the same luck with trains on the way back. I hear people complain about BART frequently, but I've never had a bad experience. Then again, I don't ride it on a regular basis, and never during peak times.
But when I had the same luck, I mean the same luck (just in a slightly different order). I got to the station with time to spare before the Amtrak train arrived. Unfortunately, I thought I had 30 minutes, when I actually had about 15. Went to get something to eat, and got back approx. 1 minute late. The train was actually still in the station, but they wouldn't open the doors for me and another women. I felt rather stupid, but less so when about 5 other people showed up within the next few minutes.
So, waited around for the next two hours for the next train. I finished To Kill a Mockingbird, and started in on this anthropology book that I still had from one of the classes I flunked my first year (quite an interesting book, really - a collection of essays related to field work in cultural anthropology).
I don't think I could live in the coastal portions of the Bay Area. They're just too dang cold. It's the middle of summer, and I was freezing in a sweatshirt and jeans while waiting around.
The train finally arrived. Being the ~5 PM train heading east on a Friday evening, it was packed. I wandered up and down the train looking for ex-co-workers (there are a whole trainload of them who still live in Davis, but commute to the Bay Area, usually by train). Didn't find any, though.
Got back to Davis. Caught the bus home. And that's about it.
I'm amazed I'm still awake, given my lack of sleep over the past several days.
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Date: 2022-07-03 10:31 pm (UTC)Yeah, that didn't work so well.