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Life back to normal

I don't recall having bad allergies when I was a kid, or even in high school but somewhere along the way I picked them up. For maybe a period of five years, starting when I was in college, spring would roll around and I would have a runny nose (but not a cold) and sore eyes, and wonder gormlessly what was up with that. Lather rinse repeat. It took a long time before I finally got it. Probably longer than I should admit. Duh. Even now, at thirty, I don't get it. My eyes hurt. Ow.

Work is slowing down, for what feels like the first time in six months. I'm catching up on emails, chores, cleaning, shopping, social stuff - there are people I haven't seen in months that I miss. I feel like I'm getting my life back, and it's awesome. I finally have time to think about my own projects instead of just those dictated by work.

My project launches on the 22nd. I've been working on this project for over a year. We've done a big release and a small one, but this release coming up - R5 - is a complete overhaul of a 500ish page site. It's been six months of development time and countless hours of planning and meetings and all sorts of other stuff. The technology has been frustrating, but we're almost there. I cannot wait until we launch. We're going to party like nobody's business.

After that, there's some fun stuff coming up. A girls' weekend in the very begining of June, weddings in July and September... throw a New York summer in there, too. And then there's the possibility of a big trip to southeast Asia. We'll see about that one, though. The jury's still out. :)

Book Meme... I don't read enough

• Bold the ones you've read
• Underline the ones you read for classes (at least once)
• Italicize the ones you started but didn't finish
• *star it* if it's actually on your bookcase and you haven't read it

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Anna Karenina
Crime and Punishment
Catch-22
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Wuthering Heights
The Silmarillion
Life of Pi
The Name of the Rose
Don Quixote
Moby Dick
Ulysses
Madame Bovary
The Odyssey
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
The Tale of Two Cities
The Brothers Karamazov
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies
War and Peace
Vanity Fair
The Time Traveler's Wife
The Iliad
Emma
The Blind Assassin
The Kite Runner
Mrs. Dalloway
Great Expectations
American Gods
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Atlas Shrugged
Reading Lolita in Tehran: a memoir in books
Memoirs of a Geisha
Middlesex
Quicksilver
Wicked: the life and times of the wicked witch of the West
The Canterbury Tales
The Historian: a novel
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Love in the Time of Cholera
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Foucault's Pendulum
Middlemarch
Frankenstein
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dracula
A Clockwork Orange
*Anansi Boys*
The Once and Future King
The Grapes of Wrath
The Poisonwood Bible: a novel
1984
Angels & Demons
The Inferno (and Purgatory and Paradise)
The Satanic Verses
Sense and Sensibility
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
To the Lighthouse
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oliver Twist
Gulliver's Travels
Les Miserables
The Corrections
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Dune
*The Prince*
The Sound and the Fury
Angela's Ashes: a memoir
The God of Small Things
A People's History of the United States: 1492-present
*Cryptonomicon*
*Neverwhere*
A Confederacy of Dunces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Dubliners
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Beloved
Slaughterhouse-five
The Scarlet Letter
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Mists of Avalon
Oryx and Crake: a novel
Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed
Cloud Atlas
The Confusion
Lolita
Persuasion
Northanger Abbey
The Catcher in the Rye
On the Road
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of everything*
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an inquiry into values
The Aeneid
Watership Down
Gravity's Rainbow
The Hobbit
In Cold Blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences
White Teeth
Treasure Island
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers

Recovered!

I haven't posted in an age. I did get over my horrible sinus infection, but it required me to take a week off of work to recuperate. And actually I'm still not 100%... though allergy season seemed to start while I was under the weather so it might be that.

Otherwise, things have been sort of busy, still. Outside of the hectic project that never ends, I've got freelance stuff going on, and of course a social life. Etc. I've been quiet because I've had too much going on. It's funny how that happens - the more interesting stuff there is to blog about, the harder it is go find the time to blog about it.

Stir crazy!

I finally went to the doctor. I have antibiotics and codeine cough syrup and a direct order to stay home from work until Monday. I'm going completely stir crazy.

Yesterday, I got an email that I had a package waiting for me with my doorman (they email - it's so convenient). I went down and what do I find? A fourteen-pound fruit basket sent from my project team. It's amazing and full of deliciousness and I'm completely overwhelmed. Best team ever.

James left me his Nintendo DS when he was here over the weekend. I'm quickly becoming addicted. And turning into a couch potato. And going insane. It's a gorgeous day out and I have to stay home. :(

I hate being sick.

Sick like dog.

It started on Wednesday afternoon, with a little coughing but not much else. I took Thursday off to rest and worked from home on Friday.

Now I have a 101° fever, cannot stop coughing for the life of me and am so congested that I have to carry a box Kleenex around with me. I cannot actually remember the last time I was this sick. I'm almost certain I have bronchitis, which I've had many times before, but it hasn't been this bad in years.

James came over last night to play some games and watch some TV and keep me company and take care of me (which was awesome of him - I was going stir-crazy). And I think Wambui is going to bring me some stuff from Whole Foods. I just realized TNT HD is doing the full LotR trilogy today. While I wasn't looking to see it again particularly, because of how amazingly gorgeous it is in HD, I can't help myself.

Still, though, eugh. Can't wait until THIS is over.

This kicks so much ass.

An SEO and general front-end best practice rap. Props to Mia for pointing this out. :)

The travel Gods hate me

My 8AM flight was cancelled. Now I'm on a 7AM flight that connects through DC. I just got on the airplane to find that my seat, 15A, does not exist due to unexpected plane downsize.

There's a seat for me thank goodness... We'll see about the next one!

Airplane! Wheeeeeeeeee!

Scheduled: 3:00PM flight to Chicago

1:00: Get in cab to airport
1:25: Arrive at airport
1:30: 3:00 flight cancelled
1:35: Rebooked on 7:55PM flight; standing by for 2:00 flight
2:00: 2:00 flight delayed to 3:15
2:55: Fail to get on 2PM flight; start queueing for 4:30 flight standby
3:15: Still queueing (note there's only one person in front of me in this line)
3:35: Assured that that there is no way I will ever in a million years get on the 4:30 flight; rebooked on a 5:00 flight to DC on another airline, which then has a 7:40 connection to Chicago
3:45: Endure eye-rolling from check-in person because original airline sent tons of Chicago people over to them
3:50: Stopped at security: randomly selected for full search
4:15: 5:00 flight delayed to 5:55; still enough time to make the connection
5:15: 5:00 flight delayed to 6:35; talk to desk agent: no more flights tonight
5:45: Cab home during rush hour traffic
6:40: Get home

Tomorrow morning: 8:00AM flight. I'm glad I get to go to Chicago for the weekend, but jeeeeez do I hate flying sometimes.

Update (as I'm writing this): oh sweet Jesus now I'm getting a text that says my connecting flight was delayed to 9:20PM. So I would've made it after all.

I HATE YOU AIRLINES!

Update 7:12: No! 8:50!
Update 7:13: No! 8:20! - either way, still would've made it

So bizarre

A random vanity Google image search yeilded a hotlink (tsk tsk) to this picture:

It's a post to some sort of Russian game that seems to start with this image.
Here's a translated version.

So random. I originally blogged about the eggs here. I had a pretty cool husband. :>

Grant McCabe, Aug 25, 1915–Mar 22, 2008

Rest easy, Grandpa. Love you.

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