jecks juvenile journals

Monday
So far so good. Got up a little to late and went to my workplace. There I got a machine which I utterly failed to install. Except the wonky installation and a little itch in my right eye everything seemed fine.

Tuesday
Since last silvester when I managed to run an little branch into my right eye it sometimes is dry and hurts a little when I wake up. This morning my eye was big like tabletennis ball and red like a fresh wound. Skipped all planned things-to-do and went to the doc who subscribed a eye-paste and told me to stay away from screens and written stuff until it gets better. (No, she meant my eye, also you might have a point there.) As I was there I told her of some other things that are bothering me. Her only answer to all my questions was: “Well you should find yourself a specialist and bother him. Look on up in the phonebook.” Skipped training.

Wednesday
Eye was still a pain in the head. This day went by and was very blurred while doing so.

Thursday
Condition had improved so much that Squee and me took sp up on his breakfast offer. While Squee had to leave somewhen in the afternoon I stayed till eight. We didn’t talk as much as we use to do but then we where both sick bastardos.

Friday
Health was nearly restored at that point. Spent the day cleaning up my room and playing a game that sp recommended to me the other day. Skipped training, cause what hurts most are sudden eye movements.

Saturday
Skipped training. In the afternoon Squee joined us and we cooked some delicious vegetables with peanutsauce and rice. The we went to the midBro for a game of Settlers of Catan. When playing board games I sometimes get to emotional when totally loosing or nearly winning. Read a rant about it in this post. We also had some fun with Robs Accessoires^TM.

The real fun part came with the night. As I tried to sleep I felt somehow dizzy. I really can’t describe it exactly. I could breath but it was as if somehow I would suffocate. It also felt like I would pass out when I not concentrating. This feeling was accompanied by hefty nausea. I really panicked and called for the doc, at that point it was 4:28. The doc, who came two hours later, was slightly spooky. Imgaine Kiefer Sutherland playing a doc who doesn’t sleep enough, has to much cocaine, only lives at night at from time to time laughs maniacally at his unsuspecting patients. He complimented my healthy pulse and told me that I probably need to drink more and had to much fatty food and unhealthy stuff the day before. Which might be true cause I had not only the meal, but also some fried haloumi, half a bottle of wine, some coffe and three cigarettes, but I’d really would have liked him to give some kind of magical pill. Squee staid awake the night and by simply being there was the best help I could imagine. And I could barely stop her doing the dishes while waiting for the doc. Thank you, Squee!

Sunday
Finally fell aslepp around 7am. Woke up at eleven and spent the day scared by the night before playing computer games* to distract me. Unluckily I didn’t feel fit enought to join Squee and the other for a session where pics from a photographer who was at the last verstrahlt where showed. What I really didn’t understood was my colleague from work which called to ask if I could work. We’re only three people who do the job and that colleague hat to work ar another job (in the same editorial office) and the other was about to leave town. We agreed on a makeshift site for that day, but he wanted me do it despite being sick. He didn’t mind the overtime but thought that the bosses would think our job is redundant when he would do both jobs. I tried to convince him that an emergency solution is what it is bo matter who did it, but he wouldn’t see it that way. Luckily our 3rd colleague agreed to do it before leaving. I dearly hope the next week gets better.

_{*I started playing Incubation per Mail with the Outsider. Maybe the vampire can/wants to join us?}

Edited on Jan 17th 2005, 20:50 by jeck

Monday
Because of a sick co-worker I had to do a shift at the Zentraler Diktatorischer Rundfunk. Their I had to write an article about the Einstein-Year 2005 and that made my heart bleed. Last year 46halbe and I wrote a paper on John von Neumann and thus I know a little about the time when Einstein lived. But with a 3 hours deadline I had to rush the article and scrape it to together from only a few sources when I’d rather had spent a month on an article like that.

Well at least it was not as bad as the time where I had to write about the “nipple-eye-catcher-test”… =)

Tuesday
Worked on diploma thesis. Wrote down random thoughts on rss-feeds. Regarding mass media rss-feeds is the first time in media history where information is given to the consumers without any kind of branding or corporate identity. But then this is already changing since advertisment is already sneaking it’s way into the feeds. But it still will be a nice way for consumer to control their navigation though the sea of news while having total control about the layout.

The evening brought very exhaustive training and TV with mibro, his girl and his roommate. While I find Nip Tuck relatively interesting I still don’t get Six Feet Under, but will give it another try anyways.

Wednesday
Began reading “Inventing the Internet” by Janet Abbate. [Her site might be interesting for everyone who cares about womenincomputing.]

The night made me love my job at the tv-station again: I saw the press showing of Blade Trinity. If you like action, vampires and - ehhhm - action go watch it. For those who want to know more: It’s more like the first Blade than the second…

Thursday
First thing in the morning was a phone call. I finally reached Squee and found out why she wasn’t reachable for the last two days.

The I tried to buy a desktop lamp. And it was like somebody wrote a law which banned those things. I was in three major temples of mammon.

Without light I continued my studies of the history of the internet. And guess what? It’s a common misconception that the Arpanet was build to resist an atomic strike. That was just a nice side effect and the topic of an earlier work by paul Baran. Also the Arpa was always in a need to justify the things they spent money on to the congress. So Arpa kept saying: “Why, of course the Arpanet is highly useful for our army! Granted, you can’t shoot people with it, but it saves you a lot of money and it’s dezentralized to survive an atomic strike!”

Why did they want the Net then? What their scientific contractors needed most were all different kinds of computers which were very expensive at that time. They simply hoped that with hooking the machines and thus enabling their contractors to use remote computers they would save a lot of money. But sharing didn’t catch on like they hoped. It was another service which really got the people excited about the net: E-Mail.

Met Lili afterwards and finally got one of those now secret lamps. Then I broke the v-oath, followed a primal urge which suddenly hit me and ate a döner. Unluckily it didn’t even taste as good as I hungered for…
Since I didn’t want it to show up later that evening I drowned it in cocktails which we spent 45 Euros on and weren’t even drunk. I also smoked to much.

Still later that evening I was joined by Squee. Much rejoicing took place.

Friday
Got up to late, had a nice talk about poly and secret DNA-tests, trained til exhaustion and went to a shisha-bar afterwards.

Saturday
E-Commerce seminar, nearly crashed.

Sunday
Verfemten-meeting, got back, wrote this…

[Maybe there'll be longer versions of fri - sun tomorrow.]

Edited on Jan 25th 2005, 08:51 by jeck