Selenay's Ramblings

Happy Friday!

I really needed Friday to arrive this week. Or more importantly, I need tomorrow so that I can sleeeeeeeep and then spend a day buried in Redshirts.

How did four days turn into such a long week anyway?

I had an amazing dinner with Mum last night. The scallop carbonara was one of the best pastas I've ever had. Om nom. It's definitely a treat sort of place so I won't be going there often but it was totally worth it.

I finished scifigrl42's fic "The Act of Creation Will Be Your Salvation" last night and now I have all the bot feels. I'm so glad that I waited until it was finished before reading it, though, because I cannot imagine the trauma of waiting for new chapters. That is one fine fic.

We shall not discuss how many in-progress fics I have right now. Or how many ideas have been noted down in my two-part ideas log just in case I need inspiration. I blame Fahre.

At least the Marvel Big Bang is progressing well. Chapter five of eight is done so only three to go. I suspect this may top out at around 20k words, double the minimum, so that's pretty sweet.

I should probably write a bit tomorrow. Maybe. Before I hide in my book. Hmm.

Fridays may be my favourite day of the week. It's a tough pick between Friday and Saturday most weeks. I'm veging out tonight with Holby City and Midsummer Murders. If I'm very good, I might knit something. It's so nice to know that I don't need to deal with work (and a colleague who is being utterly annoying) again until Monday.

I should do a book post soon. I've hit something like 13 in my yearly count already. I bought the first in the Marvel reboots (Fantastic Four) and it's a long one, so that will probably bring me to 14. It's probably going to be my entertainment while I'm having my hair done tomorrow. Oh, iPad, how I love thee.

Tomorrow there is much rugby to be watched and I'm undecided about my lunch plans. For various reasons, I'm likely to be out and about when it's time to eat and I'm torn between saying "stuff it" and popping into somewhere for a tasty cooked meal or being good and cooking at home. It will come down to timings and how lazy I'm feeling. I've been good and cooked all week! Last weekend's sushi was last weekend - I'm allowed to treat myself this weekend, surely.

Oh, Friday, I love you so much.

Yesterday my department decided to have a lunch/afternoon thing out to celebrate how fantastic we are. We toddled into London and had a fairly decent meal. The slight problem was that the organisers decided to do a 'fun' activity afterwards.

A treasure hunt around London. Hmmm.

It probably would have been fine if it hadn't been raining continuously all day. Except it was, so I ended up fairly damp and miserable. I managed to scarper reasonably early to get the train back to the office to pick up my car, but still didn't get home until after 7pm. Feeling aching and totally exhausted. Unfortunately, this means that I have done no packing at all. I did manage to write lists, though.

So all my packing has to be done this evening and I'm really hoping that I can get out of work early enough. I'm also using my cane today, which is not precisely fun. This building definitely isn't designed for it. I just popped downstairs to get a cup of tea and needed three attemps to get back into my office. The doors are key-carded and they kept re-locking themselves by the time I had a hand free (between stick, tea and card) to actually open them. Grrrrr.

Still, this time tomorrow I'll be in the airport safely checked in waiting for my gate :-) And this time on Sunday I will hopefully be curled up asleep at my aunt's house. Woo! Twenty-four hours to go until I depart for Canada!

There are dozens of things that I haven't had time to finish (fannish, workish and personalish), but I'll just have to forget about them and enjoy my break :-) Is it time to go home yet?

We discovered a fun bug in a table on our warehouse. Oddly, this is a table that was altered during the weekend's great table change fiasco :-) It's a geeky thing to do with the difference between nulls and zeros, but it's causing our figures to be wildly out on certain things.

I suddenly feel rather like Sam Carter babbling about null and zero :-)

But at least it's Friday. And there's only five hours until I go home. Woo!

Super sekrit message to terrylbirch: If you don't hear from me, Gmail is being freaky. But I will receive emails. It just took me five attempts to get a message to send so it looks like we're having connection issues here again :-(

I need a geek icon *nods*