Tuesday, September 30, 2003

*breaths a huge sigh of relief* Finally, the web app is out of my hands and I am back in my comfort zone. Now we just have to wait for our IP address to be set so we can redirect it to our app. In the meantime I'm back doing my usual development which is wonderful. Now I can finally address the issues that the clinics are having! Feels good. *sigh*

Now as the clock ticks forward I don't cringe at every second that goes by. Five o' clock here I come! Today I will actually make it home at a regular time and be able to just go home and not worry about this project. How wonderful.

Monday, September 29, 2003

*squeek, squeek* This mouse is tired, time to curl up in my pile of feathers and snooze away till the sun comes up once more.

Sunday, September 28, 2003

New Look and Feel

It's a lazy Sunday afternoon, kinda rainy out but that's okay. Here I sit at Urban Mill yet again, playing with the layout of my site. The red and yellow was getting too glaring and bright for me, so I went for more mellow blues.

Thursday, September 25, 2003

Rowdy Girls

Last night was the first meeting of GEMS where we actually had a lesson with our classes. That was interesting. I can see that I will have to put my foot down next week. Their previous counselor wasn't kidding when she told me I'd have to keep my thumb on them. That is an understatement. You would think that six 4th graders wouldn't be too much trouble. Man, they were so loud! Picture a room with six 9-year-olds sitting, or bouncing on their chairs, eating chocolate and talking/singing/laughing, throwing candy wrappers at each other, fighting over pencils, dancing around the room. That was pretty much how the lesson went :) But somehow we managed to get through our lesson. I can see that some bribes would be helpful (though NOT candy!), maybe stickers. At least now that I know my group, I can plan accordingly.

But don't get me wrong, these girls are a lot of fun. Never a dull moment as they say. And I certainly won't have any problems getting them involved in the evenings activities :) Next week should be fun, but I should plan for some active activities...and bring bribes.

Sunday, September 21, 2003

Working Late...

I honestly don't think my night can get any worse. *knocks on her desk* First of all, I've had a terrible weekend. Usually I don't stress about stuff, but this weekend I've come pretty close. For work, I've had to learn a whole new technology and pump out a complete web-application in the course of one week. One measly little week. That's not so bad - except for my very busy and mildly worried state of mind because I don't know what I'm doing - afterall, I enjoy the challenge. I'll be the first to admit it, I'm a geek, but I've enjoyed working with Java and Tomcat and struts, it works really well. The downside is that I've pulled 11 hour days for most of last week, and ended up working most of Saturday.

Now it's Sunday evening and where am I? At work of course! Trying to meet our nearly impossible deadline of tomorrow at 3:00pm. My boss just left, its dark outside, its quiet in here, I have a mountain of stuff to do... In other words, yeech! On top of all that, I'm beat from staying up too late coding, I have a headache and I just got blood on my white shirt from a scab I picked (I know, I know, that was dumb). I just wanna go home and sleep...but...back to my coding.