Not having anything better to write, this is a telling of a not-so-typical Friday. Take a step back. We start out late Thursday night. I'm about getting ready to go home and I check my email and see a message from Pick. Oh look, there's a Dev meeting Friday morning at 10:00. Grrr, it's 22:30 now and it's not an option to just stay here the night because I have to go home to change my tapes.

So I drive home and get there by 23:30. I'm in a not-too-good mood so I make a nice, big dinner that's probably quite bad for me. I've already decided that I'll be driving back to work in a few hours, but as long as I'm making dinner I'll watch some of my tapes. I start with NBC Thursday night. Since last week was reruns I expect more of the same this week (few reruns come singly). Lo and behold, reruns all night. ER at least is an old episode I've never seen (I didn't watch ER for the first couple of seasons -- just another hospital drama, and a frenetic one to boot), "Love's Labor Lost". Good grief that was bloody.

Dinner is done by then so I put in another tape and start watching the 1994 movie "Renaissance Man". I only watch the first hour but it's not a bad movie at all. Dany DeVito, Gregory Hines, Ed Begley Jr, Kadeem Hardison, Richard T Jones (Bruce Van Exel on Judging Amy), and Mark Walhberg as trailerpark trash who can't sing worth a darn. It even has Ann Cusack who used to look good but is kind of old now (whoops, that's what I get for writing when I'm tired).

Anyway. I leave at 02:30 and get to work by 03:30, feeling very tired and about a half-hour away from not being able to stay awake driving. Still one or two cleaning people there. Plenty of parking. Ooh, there's a security guard and he asks to see my badge, really close like I could be some riff-raff with a stolen badge. I stalk up to my cube on the 9th floor and set up to go to sleep, beautiful sleep. Lay out the seat-cushion-mattress-thing, set up my computer ready to play music at the touch of the space bar, then I try to go to sleep, which I eventually do.

06:45, lights come on. Good grief! Who the heck comes in at this hour?!? The person goes into one of the nearby offices and talks on the phone. Crap-pola, it's one of the East Coast guys doing some work out here, so it's only 09:45 to him. Time for the music as I reach up for the headphone and hit the space bar on my keyboard -- "...Baby One More Time" fills my ear. I don't sleep on my back at work, because I snore. But sleeping on my side I can't wear the headphones totally, so it's on my right ear fine and shoved over my left eye on the other side.

Still, that's good enough. After a few songs I realize that I really need to go to the bathroom (doesn't everybody when they wake up?). After a brief trip I'm back and can't get back to sleep -- a bit too awake now and there's that music playing. Oh well, it's better than listening to Lenny talk on the phone, even with the door closed. Somehow I think I drift off to sleep, waking up every half hour or so, until 09:30 when I decide I need to wake up for that darn meeting.

Check my email. Ooh, have an additional interview to conduct today. Print out three copies of the resume (for myself and two other interviewers) then the other copies at the other interviewers' seats. Got a voicemail. Biao wants to talk to me, something to do with Dynamic Reports. Jot it down on my whiteboard and head down to the meeting, remembering to take a couple of pieces of paper so I can take notes.

I get to the meeting room a bit after 10:00. Already there are a few people there trying to get the video conference system working. We have a live shot of the other conference room in Virginia but they can't see us. Meanwhile we don't have audio and we can't seem to be able to dial into Meeting Place. The video conferencing system has it's own speaker system built in, but it's only good for the two conference rooms. People can't dial in and listen in, which is why we put the audio portion in Meeting Place.

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