Assignment slaughtered, me exhausted

By working solidly through the weekend, I have managed to finish my
French assignment! Go me!

Er, I may also have goofed a little and taken the odd break to read
fic when reflexive verbs attempted to turn my brain to mush.

Except I am rather tired now and I've already been at work for an hour
and a half. With no good prospects of leaving early *sigh*

The official rejection letter from Thursday's interview arrived on
Saturday morning, so in relatiation I've applied for six more jobs. At
least I'm getting on with things there :-)

And I had a lovely evening out on Friday sitting in the garden of a
surprisingly nice bar, drinking Diet Coke and having a mutual
complaining session about work, men (well, she complained and I
listened to that one...) and being surrounded by idiots.

I've even managed to buy the gift for the friend who's birthday meal I
am going out for on Thursday.

The good news is that I actually had the energy to go out on Friday
evening and hope to feel just as good on Thursday. It's actually an
odd feeling to have enough energy to socialise, but it was good to do
it because I've been feeling rather unsocial and grouchy lately. I'm
feeling tired from lack of sleep, but not bone-deep exhausted the way
that I have been and that's definitely a step forward from where I was
a month ago.

Bored, bored, bored

I am bored. Very bored. Absolutely, mind-numbingly bored.

Our data warehouse decided to slow to a very slow crawl at 8.45am so
I'm left staring at a tracker ticking very, very slowly.

I'm not used to feeling like this on a Monday. Usually I'm battling
system issues and trying to put together my big report with barely
enough time to eat, never mind feeling bored.

But I'm without bosses today and the warehouse is dog slow, so I can't
get on with my big report because it needs data from that really slow
tracker and nobody is even chasing me for things! I was assured that
today would be hell and that was why they wanted me to work on Sunday,
but right now I'm looking at total boredom.

Sadly, this means that I'll probably be run off my feet when the
tracker finally finishes and won't get out of here at any reasonable
time, despite a morning of being bored with nothing to do. 'Cos
everything else that I need to do involves the data warehouse and
might slow my tracker down. So...bored.

Maybe I could goof off and peek at LJ rather than writing email posts
about how totally bored I am...