August 28, 2004
Back from the Dead
As the few people in the world I haven't yet alienated or frightened probably noticed, I've been pretty much out of the picture for the last few weeks. It really is quite fitting that my last post before my 3 week hiatus into hell was about the concept of the Russian Cats, since I'll be looking for my friends who are RCP (Russian Cat People) to hang out with this weekend to recuperate.
The details behind my disappearance into the sleepless nights of programming, fast food, and stimulants are probably too complex to discuss here; scary terms like LDAP, PAM, COUGAR, libpq, CUPS, and Windows XP come to mind, however. It's probably sufficient to say that I didn't really sleep for almost a week and a half, while attempting to get a very complicated system up and running in time for Move-In Day, when thousands of bright-eyed, bushy-tailed little shits would attempt to use it.
What could possibly warrant not sleeping for a week and a half straight? Well, in my infinite wisdom earlier this summer, while talking about wanting to relax, I was subconsciously plotting to make my life a nightmare during the months of July and August. We (and by we, I really mean I - I take most of the blame for this endeavor) decided to upgrade a old system at work, which ended up being a project which we were not really staffed to handle. Two months of sixty, seventy, and eighty hour work weeks brought the system to a workable state, but not without taking its toll. If any of you had the displeasure of seeing me last week, you probably noticed I was shaking unstoppably. The shaking started about two days into the week, and didn't really stop until I finally slept for more than 2 hours in a given night, this Thursday.
Enough about that mess. Hopefully no long-term physical (or mental) problems developed as a result. With school fast approaching, I'm taking this weekend to rest up and get prepped for my final year at Cal. I've managed to sleep a long time and also to not go into work for a whole day! Despite the impending start of classes, I love Berkeley in the fall. The weather hasn't turned shitty yet, everyone's full of energy and excitement is in the air. Of course, within 48 hours, all this will end, but there's always football season to look forward to, right? So if you're in town, give me a call - I'm back from the dead!
Hey guess what? YOU SUCK, and SO DOES THIS POST. Good job being one of the awesomest-in-reality yet lamest-in-print people on earth. Do yourself a favor and refrain from posting while drunk. I can write drunk posts because my only audience is Krishna.
PS - I don't think I meant more than 46% of this. I probably just need to go to bed.
PPS - dude - CIGARETTES!
Posted by Lizzy | August 29, 2004 03:17:15 -0700 | Permalink
i am drunk, so i mean it when i say that rohit is the FREAKIN MAN.
Posted by Ericachoi | August 29, 2004 03:18:44 -0700 | Permalink
Ok, hold on a minute. To clarify:
This is all.
Posted by Rohit | August 29, 2004 13:29:45 -0700 | Permalink
It's funny - you're totally right. The only reason I ever became friends with you was because you were awesome-in-print; little did I know how lame you were in person. Obviously, I was the drunk one and not you - this is easily evidenced by my multiple comments on my own post (I stared at the word "cretaceous" for like 20 minutes and still couldn't figure out how I'd spelled it wrong). So anyway, don't mind me!
Posted by Lizzy | August 29, 2004 16:27:10 -0700 | Permalink
i especially like when you call freshmeat little shits.
Posted by Ang*e | August 30, 2004 20:23:23 -0700 | Permalink
You know, your site doesn't render properly in IE.
But then again, people who use IE shouldn't be allowed to touch a computer, let alone see your site correctly.
Posted by Jack | August 31, 2004 23:36:31 -0700 | Permalink
Goddammit! Not something I wanted to hear! I hate IE! I spent like three days to get the layout to not look jacked up beyond comprehension. Dammit! Now this means I have to boot up my Windows box! I wish someone would just release a devastating virus that destroyed people's computers via IE ... oh wait...
Posted by Rohit | September 01, 2004 21:02:34 -0700 | Permalink
Hey Rohit, I wanted to tell you for a long time that although you may have the luxury of actually seeing bums jacking off in the street, we have our very own bum living beneath the stairs to our apartment. Erica exchanges pleasantries with him. I always feel bad when I go to the rsf in the morning- as though I am disturbing him, but then I remember that I am paying rediculously inflated rent and he is enjoying his location for free. So, Screw Him! right?
Posted by Ryan | September 02, 2004 15:46:18 -0700 | Permalink
I can't believe you were just sympathizing with a bum right now. No sympathy! None! I don't care how deprived you are or how much your life in Piedmont sucked or how much it must suck to weather the elements. NO RESPECT. NO SYMPATHY. NONE. The easiest way to probably do this is acknowledge that bums aren't really people. They're just pests.
Posted by Rohit | September 03, 2004 09:05:01 -0700 | Permalink