So, today:
- awake at 4.30am
- meeting at 6am
- ...orrrr meeting at 6.30am?
- ...surprise! No meeting at all, and no cancellation email. THANKS, AMERICAN TEAM, YOU ARE SO CONSIDERATE.
- everything Isaac could think of that I'd need to know to take over from him
- much quiet panic over having to take over from him pretty much next week
- fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck FUCK.
- lunch with Scott
- the triumphant return, with good mood, milkshakes and donuts
- Mario Kart
- fixing things with neuroticism and relentless documentation of process
- dinner and a movie with Rage and James
- bought Patrick Wolf tickets OH FUCK MADDIE I FORGOT MADDIE SDFJSDH sorted. phew.

I'm kind of exhausted. No, not kind of. Really quite. My head has flatlined, so perhaps I'll be able to sleep.

Today, Shane (from Seam) came to take us through a few examples with Seam 1.2.1, which might have gone more smoothly if many of us had been able to get our stuff working. XD It all got rolling eventually, and I suspect I found it more informative than the rest of the purely-writers in the room because that's what I spent my first two or three months rewriting. The changes they're talking about for Seam 3.0 sound really exciting, actually, and I'm looking forward to helping them out with the docs for it. (Also, the changes they're talking about will make a LOT MORE SENSE than the documentation for Seam 2.2, so, you know. HAPPY. XD)

Um. This has been a pretty big week for exciting developments, actually. Yesterday I spent about five hours in a meeting room with Isaac, scribbling all over things and trying to work out (a) what the fuck was happening, (b) when the fuck it was happening, and (c) who the fuck could work on it. Since (a) and (b) are slated to be determined on Friday, we scrapped all of that and started talking procedure and... basically came up with a whole new way of doing things that two of our coworkers said was utter madness, and one of them said was elegant in theory.

And it is elegant in theory. XD It's just going to take a lot of careful planning to make the idea workable. And I suspect it'll actually work a lot better for other, less convoluted projects than it will for mine, but if we can get it working and standardised, it could well be awesome, so... yeah. When I get half a minute to think it through in more detail and work out the specifics of the system... XD;; I want to do it now, actually, which is probably a worry, but that is the blessing of this job: I really enjoy what I'm doing. And particularly in this instance, y'all know how much I love my problem solving.

But, yeah, so... despite the fact that I feel like I haven't made much physical progress in my previously assigned tasks, I feel like we're making a decent amount of headway.

Having said that, my supervisor goes on holiday in a week and a half, and then he will be gone to other projects, and the panic will very soon set in. I am ignoring it at present. Like this: la la la la la la la la can't hear you.

Mum is down the coast because Oopie is apparently back in hospital and I don't know what I'm going to do with myself this evening if not work. Since I already, uh, failed my stepstepjump deadline. /sobs