Current location:	work
Current mood:	busy
Entry tags:	martial arts, work

Life, the database, and everything.
So I missed the NASA exhibits at the Folklife Festival, I missed karate on Saturday, and I missed a day of work, that's how sick I was last weekend. Now I am mostly better, except for the fact that my four-day weekend was not relaxing in the slightest and I am tired and grumpy.

This might have something to do with the amount of vituperation currently directed at my Nemesis of the Month, the chemical database that I have to use for all sorts of purposes. It is made of ridiculous fail. It is very hard to use, and you have to go through complicated sequences of clicks to do very simple things. God help you if you click out of order - now your footnotes weren't auto-generated and you have to input them manually! Ha-ha! Now you have to do it 75 times in a row! (I am not exaggerating.) I wrote an angry email to the people who are in charge of this sort of thing. I don't expect them to push out an update on the strength of my righteous fury, but I do expect to attend every single planning meeting for the database's replacement, which is nearly in alpha, and voice my concerns loudly and at great length.

Yesterday's karate was awesome, as usual, and tonight I am going over to Alex & George's to watch Reno 911 use Alex's blender to make mango soup, which should keep long enough to bring to appending_doom's First Job Wake on Saturday night. All around and in between is relaxing and much sleeping, and perhaps the bonus!creative endeavor that I promised everyone last week. After this weekend I expect to feel strong enough to begin attending group karate classes, which will only compound the awesome to even greater levels.

EDIT: Note to self: also buy rum. The soup is apparently even better with rum. Possibly everything is better with rum, though I shall need to confirm this with multiple studies.

EDIT EDIT: Also, my ceiling is leaking again! Sweet! Why, yes, I would like a goddamn refund on my so-called "luxury" apartment!