It must be monday

Urggh... I really don't want to be here. I want to be doing something more interesting with my time. I want my job to be a programming job and not whatever you would call the stuff I am doing now. Currently I have written up a test plan for the front end of the website which I had no actual part in writing and don't expect I fully understand. Now I am writing up notes on a meeting I had discussing another part of my job that bores me to tears (reporting). On the plus side there might be some nice programmy stuff coming out of it. :)

I am hoping this is just monday morning-itis or that when this project is over that it will improve or something. I am starting to really dislike being at work though which I don't think is being good for my overall mental health. Vaguely tempting to try to get hold of whatever stuff I can to learn how to do what they do at Tao and then re-apply in three months time and be able to program assembly languages and understand clearly everything they do. Do I have the time to do that at the moment though?

Weekend has been quite fun though. Much playing on my new X-box toy. Halo is very cool as is Dead or Alive 3. I also have project gotham racing though I have not played that too much so far.

Cam game last night was really nice. Ended up with a lot of people in tears since it was the memorial for Leonie and Rhian. It was a very strange feeling roleplaying that last night. In some ways I didn't feel I was roleplaying that well because I put very little effort into it. On the other hand I think that is largely because it all seemed to be very natural. Speaking at the end as I said my piece about the two of them the tears were completely natural and the cracking voice was not something I was trying to do and I don;t think I could have done if I made the effort. It just seems that Leonie was so alive in my mind that it didn't take much to put that image into my mind and remind me of her death. That and the fact that I am an absolute sucker for the noble sacrificing death for love and all that kind of thing. :)

Tonight and this week will probably be fairly anti-social. Partly because I am tired, partly because I have an X-box and partly because I don't think I am going to be that in the mood to see people. I should be going to shalazar tomorrow evening but I think I might just bail since I am not that enthused at the moment. Might be nice just to see people though. I guess I'll see how tired I am and what time I get away from work. :)

Friday

First thank you for all the people who put comments on my friday post. Its always nice to know people care. :)

I realised I forgot to mention friday night and since it was fun I thought I would. A bunch of people went down to London to the electric Ballroom to celebrate Krys's birthday. Not many people actually went from oxford and krys managed to get a lift so in the end it was just lucy and I getting a coach down.

We got into london and the pub we were meeting in at about 10 and had a few drinks there having finally found people (its a *HUGE* pub).

In the end people there were (and I'm bound to forget somebody so apologies in advance): me, Krystyna, Matt, Lucy, Michael, Sarah, Paul, Gemma, some of Matt's friends whose names I forget.

There was some good music going on though I think I might have managed to be in the wrong place a few times since I was told they playe X, Y and Z that I really liked and I didn't hear any of them. :) I did hear some cool stuff though. :)

I ended up flaking out quite a lot at around 2 o'clock, probably inspired by krys dozing off on the table next to me. :) I managed a bit longer than her but soon was feeling totally zonked. :)

Ended up leaving just before 3 and got in a taxi with Michael and Lucy where we went back to victoria via Wembley. Yup, definitely the scenic route. I started really losing what is going on at this stage since I'd been boozing it up fairly heavily for a large part of the evening and was exhausted so started falling asleep in the taxi several times (and got a drunken phone call from TFM who was on his way home from a boozy night).

We got to victoria and had to wait a while for the bus (no real idea how long, I remember about two minutes of wait but I also remember thinking it had been ages). As I sit here typing I also vaguely recall taking off my glasses and putting sunglasses on. I think it seemed like a good idea at the time... :)

The bus ride again was about two minutes, most of which was in oxford. Well, that is most of what I remember. I think I slept a fair bit. Its possible I spent the whole lot singing Rule Brittania off key at the top of my voice for the whole thing but I don't *think* so.

Getting back to oxford was disturbing due to the scary amounts of sunlight. It was about 5:30 in the morning I think. Don't remember for sure but when I got off the coach and into the sun I was a bit more awake and the alcohol seemed to be on its way out of my system (I sober up fairly quickly since I don't need to drink that much to get very drunk ). Lucy wandered home and I recall being very jealous that she was 2 minutes form the bus stop whereas I had to walk half an hour. :)

Again the walk home was fairly vague, I hadn't sobered up that much that I couldn't just put myself into oblivion for a dull walk. :) I got home, resisted the urge to give up on sleep entirely (since I was past the sleep barrier) and crashed out.

I really should have slept til about two or three pm (getting me a good eight or nine hours sleep) but instead I woke up because I had things to do (though due to other people staying in bed until 3 I needn't have bothered). on the plus side I did play on the xbox a lot. :)

Anyway, that is friday. Now back to work (and can anybody tell I am bored? ).