Movers and Shakers

[mousme]

We're getting new software to help with the job at work. The new software needs its own console and a live administrator, which means we're getting a new set of computers and setting up a new work station inside our already-cramped central. Today two of the supervisors spent the day moving furniture around: shifting cabinets, unscrewing and re-screwing desks and sundry other bits of office equipment, and generally being loud and disruptive and spreading chaos in their wake. They weren't particularly graceful or efficient about the job, and so the rest of us mocked them mercilessly the entire time from the safety of our desks while we worked.

Otherwise, today was quiet, if bitterly cold. It was -15˚C, and with the wind chill it felt more like -26˚C. Not the coldest it's ever been (2003 was notable for it's -40˚C temperatures, which recurred all through February), but cold enough that I felt chilly when I went outside, which is rare for me (feeling cold, that is, not going outside). I think it was mostly the humidity and the wind that made it bad: I don't know how fast the wind was blowing today, but at times it felt as though I was in a gale. The corner of Greene and St. Catherine is particularly bad for its "wind tunnel" effect, and at one point the wind actually kept me stationary as I walked into it. Trippy.

The "cold" emoticon looks unhappy. This isn't the case for me, but there's not much I can do about it. Bah.

Once again, the year is going by in a blur. I can't believe that Thursday is Valentine's Day already. My streak of not having a date on Valentine's Day continues unbroken, but mostly I'm noting it simply as an academic interest. I've come to a place in my life where I don't know if I would welcome the complication and added hassles of a relationship. I haven't sworn off love 4-Evar!ZOMG! but at this point I have made the "selfish" decision to not have to worry about someone else at all. Relationships are a lot of work, and I'm not willing to invest the time and energy these days, with everything else that I've got going on. If my soulmate happens to drop into my lap I won't say no, but I doubt that's going to happen.

Tonight I am aiming for a relatively early bed time. I got to bed late(ish) yesterday, and paid for it today. So tonight is catch-up night.

Comments

[ai731.livejournal.com]

Yeah, chilly. You know it's cold when the wind blows through your tuque and freezes your forehead.

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

Wierd. I totally read this in your speaking voice. I mean, the voice post you did some time ago? This sounded in my head in that voice. Maybe you might consider doing another voice post before too long?

I'm working on VD night. I'm going to catch hell. I'm afraid it's going to be heart shaped pancakes and maple syrup with the Princelings, share a quick bottle of cheap champagne and off to work, and that's the shape and size of that "romantic" evening.

[irishyogini.livejournal.com]

Phew! That's cold! I'm not altogether sure I could deal with that kind of cold. I mean, that's beyond snot-freezing. That's bodily-fluids-freezing.