What I’ve been doing
- working overtime.
- getting voice mail from nervous American apartment hunters.
- crawling the last mile of the novelette death march.
- letting nervous American apartment hunters’ phones ring twelve times without answer or voice mail.
- freaking out about moving out.
- lying awake.
- boiling alive.
- understanding how everybody in New York felt last week.
- trying to arrange a week’s New York condo rental.
- wanting to kill New York condo owners.
- not answering email.
- filling boxes.
- feeling guilty.
- mailing boxes.
- sweating.
- visiting strange malls just for the air conditioning.
- seeing the Roboterträume exhibit at the Museum Tinguely.
- being annoyed there’s no one to share it with.
- being annoyed that Virgil Widrich’s make/real isn’t on YouTube yet.
- getting dehydrated.
- drinking Powerade (blue flavor).
- working more overtime.
- watching All the President’s Men for the first time.
- watching Dick for the third time.
- filling book boxes half-full.
- filling the upper halves of book boxes with DVDs, clothes, bubble wrap, and anything that will fill space and keep the weight down.
- looking at the shelves full of books still to be packed.
- looking at the shelves full of unread books shortly to be abandoned.
- feeling more guilty.
- starting New Model Army.
- getting yelled at by the property management company for not waiting hand and foot on apartment hunters.
- working with visiting co-workers.
- lying to the property management company.
- playing tour guide to visiting co-workers.
- making small talk about video games.
- watching Predators.
- mixing hard liquor and beer.
- returning to the novel.
- jamming the printer.
- worrying about backups.
- getting increasingly annoyed with the increasing flakeyness of the wi-fi router.
- unplugging and re-plugging the wi-fi router for the nth time.
- seeing the wi-fi router flash blue and explode. in a small way.
- trying to put my finger on what I wasn’t liking about New Model Army.
- getting voice mail from monoglot German apartment hunters.
- working with visiting co-workers.
- letting monoglot German apartment hunters’ phones ring twelve times without answer or voice mail.
- trying to explain introversion to extroverts.
- playing tour guide to visiting co-workers.
- losing expensive prescription sunglasses.
- coming as close to drowning as I care to.
- moving one item from the “must do before leaving Switzerland, but probably won’t” to the “did before leaving Switzerland” column.
- mixing red wine and lemonade.
- mixing beer and lemonade.
- getting to the second half of New Model Army.
- having river / robot / Predator / New Model Army dreams.
- configuring the new wi-fi router.
- ordering expensive replacement sunglasses.
- returning to the novel, again.
- reading New Model Army instead of writing.
- getting kind of irritated about having to go into the office.
- working with visiting co-workers.
- watching the office thermometer climb from 27°C (80°F) to 36°C (97°F) and stay there.
- running the Strategic Extroversion Reserve down to boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion levels.
- going home early.
- finishing the second half of New Model Army in about forty minutes flat.
- failing to stay off the Internet.
What I’ve been doing posted July 14th, 2010 in Life | 4 Comments »