ladykatza

once again, my co-workers are filling up the boring saturday afternoon arguing over theoretical science. jump gates, artificial gravity, cold fusion… usually leads into an argument about why currently research isn’t going in a paticular direction, and “why can’t they do this”. usually followed by me saying “why aren’t you doing something about it yourself?”.

which reminds me, remember furbies? those strange toys with a learning AI that the military banned because they learned to talk and repeat what you say? ya.. larry is scared of them. i walked by yesterday and he was mumbling to himself “maybe furbies were talking to each other in binary”. i heard and repeated outloud “furries are talking to each other in binary.. what?”

oh.. furbies, not furries. terribly different. larry didn’t get it, and that’s possibly a good thing.

i start school in august, and i’m suddenly intimidated. it took me years to convince myself that i’m actually smart enough to take all the math classes required for computer sciences. granted, my degree is “international studies: global technology” but i still have to have a great deal of math. daecon keeps telling me i don’t give myself enough credit. a paticular co-worker said to me what i think is true across the board for people that know me; “your ditz act doesn’t work on me, i know its a complete farce”.

i point out on occasion that its useful when needing to pacify surly network admins. “here… call them, use your soothing voice” its strange being a relatively attractive female in a generally male dominated industry. in conversations with my husband and father, they pointed out that the IT industry is still new enough that the few women that do decide to go for it usually have an easier time than say in… construction (but power tools are fun).

oh ya, did i mention the school i’m going to has about a 4 to 1 male/female ratio? my husband was quick to point this out, and said i’ll have to be careful what i wear. don’t want to distract all the boys. HA! whatever. i’m married, i have kids. what do those young pups want with me?

hey cool… i just put my “Doors Greatist Hits” cd in the computer here at work and i discover that it was hidden video files on it. thing is like… 8 years old. sweet! but it won’t play the actual songs.. grr. oh well. the videos were a nice momentary distraction form an otherwise boring day. tomorrow will be boring too.. monday will be ugly… and then i’ll have two more days left and my eight day stretch of 10 hour days will be over. then i’ll have the schedule i wanted in the first place.

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