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06.17.2005, 9:50 am

outratedly rejected

=== © ===

i haven't written here in a long time. i suppose i'm sort of over the whole documenting-my-life thing. or at least over the urge i used to feel. but i told someone i would keep writing, and since i happen to like that person, i will continue to write. i'm also going to try to focus on my original intent for this journal and improve my writing as much as possible. i've had a lot of thoughts floating around to use in stories, music, etc, so maybe by sitting down and banging a few out, i can develop them more rapidly and more efficiently.

but first, documenting my life.

so apparently i've been away for two months. DAMN. i am still working at entertainment.com. they've reorganized the tech department, so i'm no long a jsp engineer. i'm now a software engineer. sounds better, doesn't it? work is alright. i've probably said it before, but a large part of what i do is jimmying up mass emailings from the mockups and specs i get. its pretty dumb work, and a big waste of my time. don't get me wrong, sometimes its nice to do something that requires very little thought, but one the whole process is a pain.

por ejemplo: i was talked to like two days in a row a while back about cutting and pasting from the copy doc to avoid typos. i guess the copywriter said something about it. anyway, in one email (and by one, i mean seven, since we send out 7 slightly different versions of the same email) they misspelled "acapulco". i KNEW it was misspelled. but it was misspelled exactly the same way in three different copy docs, and six comps, so i thought, "hey maybe thats how they want it spelled, maybe its something special." as they've iterated before, i'm just supposed to copy and paste. its not my job to proofread their stupid emails. so today of course QA came back with the misspelling, and its a pain to change seven times, and i was going to bitch at the women in charge of the emails, but i decided to email my tech lead-type person instead. i just didn't want to bitch at these women in an immature manner, and i wasn't sure how to go about it.

so my old team was kate and coops (david). my new team is rama, hema, and manu. take a wild guess in which group a language barrier exists (note the use of present tense). they're all really nice and all, but accents are a little hard to understand sometimes. the other day manu said that we were "they are taking us to pita hut or something".

here's an IM exchange between hema and myself:

[16:15] hema: I have fixed almost all the bugs. so if u need
to work with SOC Bugs, i would give u a different list !
[16:16] me: :)
[16:16] me: i have a ton of email stuff to do =P
[16:17] me: i would say keep doing bugs, i'll let you
know when i'm free with emails and catch whatever is left
[16:17] me: i dont want you to hog all the fixing :)
[16:18] hema: thats right. Let me try to offload u with this atleast !
[16:18] me: do you want to do some emails? we can trade!
[16:18] hema: trade is outratedly rejected ! ;)
[16:19] me: doh >.<

i almost died.

i did buy a messenger bag. its green with a small paratrooper logo on it. i think its pretty swanky.

we had an earthquake yesterday, the first i've felt since i moved here. it was odd. first, the building wasn't shaking, and then it was. and then a few minutes later, it wasn't. and now its like nothing happened. its hard to guage how everyone felt about it- they were joking about it, and joking about going home. i think i know how they feel. its not a big deal, but it sort of is. it wasn't that bad an earthquake at all, just kind of a rumbling, but its a little unsettling. i very much feel like i want to curl up under a blanket. hard to say why, it wasn't frightening at all. just unsettling. maybe thats the earth's way of telling us something is wrong. it just wanted us all to feel that way too.

saw the new batman wednesday night. it was pretty freaking awesome.

i beat gta a couple of weeks ago. i've been playing god of war. if you own a ps2 and don't own this game, you're retarded. go buy it.

i'm running out of stuff to say and i have some stuff i need to do at work, so i suppose i'm done for now.

earthquakily yours.

	it hurts
	«previous« = [ archive = new = profile = notes = email = host ] = »next» 06.17.2005, 9:50 am outratedly rejected === © === i haven't written here in a long time. i suppose i'm sort of over the whole documenting-my-life thing. or at least over the urge i used to feel. but i told someone i would keep writing, and since i happen to like that person, i will continue to write. i'm also going to try to focus on my original intent for this journal and improve my writing as much as possible. i've had a lot of thoughts floating around to use in stories, music, etc, so maybe by sitting down and banging a few out, i can develop them more rapidly and more efficiently. but first, documenting my life. so apparently i've been away for two months. DAMN. i am still working at entertainment.com. they've reorganized the tech department, so i'm no long a jsp engineer. i'm now a software engineer. sounds better, doesn't it? work is alright. i've probably said it before, but a large part of what i do is jimmying up mass emailings from the mockups and specs i get. its pretty dumb work, and a big waste of my time. don't get me wrong, sometimes its nice to do something that requires very little thought, but one the whole process is a pain. por ejemplo: i was talked to like two days in a row a while back about cutting and pasting from the copy doc to avoid typos. i guess the copywriter said something about it. anyway, in one email (and by one, i mean seven, since we send out 7 slightly different versions of the same email) they misspelled "acapulco". i KNEW it was misspelled. but it was misspelled exactly the same way in three different copy docs, and six comps, so i thought, "hey maybe thats how they want it spelled, maybe its something special." as they've iterated before, i'm just supposed to copy and paste. its not my job to proofread their stupid emails. so today of course QA came back with the misspelling, and its a pain to change seven times, and i was going to bitch at the women in charge of the emails, but i decided to email my tech lead-type person instead. i just didn't want to bitch at these women in an immature manner, and i wasn't sure how to go about it. so my old team was kate and coops (david). my new team is rama, hema, and manu. take a wild guess in which group a language barrier exists (note the use of present tense). they're all really nice and all, but accents are a little hard to understand sometimes. the other day manu said that we were "they are taking us to pita hut or something". here's an IM exchange between hema and myself: [16:15] hema: I have fixed almost all the bugs. so if u need to work with SOC Bugs, i would give u a different list ! [16:16] me: :) [16:16] me: i have a ton of email stuff to do =P [16:17] me: i would say keep doing bugs, i'll let you know when i'm free with emails and catch whatever is left [16:17] me: i dont want you to hog all the fixing :) [16:18] hema: thats right. Let me try to offload u with this atleast ! [16:18] me: do you want to do some emails? we can trade! [16:18] hema: trade is outratedly rejected ! ;) [16:19] me: doh >.< i almost died. i did buy a messenger bag. its green with a small paratrooper logo on it. i think its pretty swanky. we had an earthquake yesterday, the first i've felt since i moved here. it was odd. first, the building wasn't shaking, and then it was. and then a few minutes later, it wasn't. and now its like nothing happened. its hard to guage how everyone felt about it- they were joking about it, and joking about going home. i think i know how they feel. its not a big deal, but it sort of is. it wasn't that bad an earthquake at all, just kind of a rumbling, but its a little unsettling. i very much feel like i want to curl up under a blanket. hard to say why, it wasn't frightening at all. just unsettling. maybe thats the earth's way of telling us something is wrong. it just wanted us all to feel that way too. saw the new batman wednesday night. it was pretty freaking awesome. i beat gta a couple of weeks ago. i've been playing god of war. if you own a ps2 and don't own this game, you're retarded. go buy it. i'm running out of stuff to say and i have some stuff i need to do at work, so i suppose i'm done for now. earthquakily yours. volcanogod v3.0. additionally, hands.
	this. fucking. much.