on early rising

[da]

This morning's paper has an article about a new translation of Gilgamesh which claims it is actually a gay love story. Fun idea, though it would've been a better article if they'd also talked to a scholar who disagreed with the translator. I can't link to the Globe and Mail article (it's subscriber-only) and I can't find any balanced articles elsewhere with a quick google search, but at least here's an interview from the advocate.

I've been waking up early all week. Nothing serious, but it's a bit annoying to wake up at 5:00 for no good reason. d's been waking up in the night too; and I think these things feed off each other.

Yesterday I got tired of lying in bed worrying about my todo list. So I was an emailing fiend, getting out a batch of overdue emails I owed. I figured out some details for the syllabus of a quakerism 101 seminar I'm claiming that I'll lead starting next month. Then I got out of the house early, drove down to the Ontario Health Insurance offices, and renewed my health card.

At work, I knocked a few items off my todo list before noon... Well, sub-items. My work todo list is starting to look pretty bushy, items with pre-requirement items.

[deleted rant about an annoying software maintenance system nobody outside the university would care about, and few people in the university understand]

Anyway, work is going well, apart from the bushy todo list. I need to convince myself to leave in time to catch the bus, though- I've had some close calls recently. [Hm- I can have my computer turn on my monitor's power-saving mode at 5:05 and every minute there after... that sounds sufficiently annoying...]

Last night, while dan had a candidate dinner, I went out for drinks with my friend Eric. Fun.

Oh, and yesterday I also solidified plans for d's and my upcoming vacation to NYC, which I'm looking forward to. Feb. 24-27. It's been too long since I've been- five years; the last time was right before my grandmother moved in with my parents.

Comments

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

Was the rant about xhier? Do they even still use that? God, what a mess that would be to change. (I remember being highly annoyed that every shell script was csh, of all things.)

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes they are.

Xhier hasn't been actively developed in over a decade, yet it's still used campus-wide by IT staff.

You know the computer game "Katamari Damashii"? I think xhier is an exercise of accretion in a similar way. (rolling over people, then small buildings, then large buildings, etc).