Someone brought Krispy Kremes in this morning, and they were in our local kitchenette (there are coffee machines and water and mini fridges randomly dispersed throughout the floor, as well as a large central kitchen where the vending machines and soda live). I didn’t have one. I saw them and thought about how I can feel my heart rate increase after I eat sugar, and then the sudden tired crash, and it wasn’t worth it.

I got my hair cut yesterday, it’s a new style, not just a trim! I have swoopy bangs that get brushed to one side, and chunky layers for the rest of my head. It’s about 5″ shorter overall too. I had some nasty split ends. I like it! All five of the females in my department commented on the new hair and said it’s cute. One of the artist guys noticed too. None of the programmers have said anything (heh, not surprised).

In work-lingo at Sony, the amount of work one is capable of doing was called “bandwidth”. Here it’s called “cycles”. “Do you have the cycles to pick up this extra project?” “We need to find someone with spare cycles to do this.” It is amusing, it feels much more assembly-line-robot to me. Just a random observation.

I finished reading Blue Mars on Friday, the last book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy. It was a very satisfying and suitable end to the story. I’m terribly happy I read the series, they really got my brain going in many interesting ways and reinvigorated my inner space-geek. I started reading The Mistress of Spices last night, and thus far it’s a good read. The movie adaptation (which I saw last year at some point, probably on an airplane) did a great job of capturing the spirit and feeling of the book so far.

The plague is almost gone - my nose still feels stuffed up, and I cough occasionally, but I am much better off than I was. I have more energy today too (yay, finally!).