I've been working pretty hard the last week, but my workload is starting to level out again so it's time for a quick update. My project has been going well, and the client seems pretty happy with the work and the results. We've finished the first round of analysis and are presenting our findings to the executive sponsors tomorrow morning. I'm procrastinating on getting the full report updated, partly because we decided we didn't need to present it tomorrow, partly because I haven't received feedback on it from the team lead and many of the other team members yet, and partly because I'm lazy. Such is life...

I came down with a cold last Thursday, and it's still with me today, although I feel much better than I did last week and on the weekend. Friday night Kelly, Julia and I went to Christopher's house for a wonderful evening of home-made pizzas, home-brew bog (Swedish concoction, highly alcoholic) and some attempts at music (we tended to forget the words, the tune, or both). Saturday morning was consequently kinda slow.

Saturday evening, I got together with Mary Lou, Dejan, Tony and Lily for dinner. We walked up to Baldwin Street and had lots of great chinese food at the Eating Garden. I hadn't been to the Eating Garden since I don't know when (university?) but it hasn't changed a bit. There's still the same sense that the english-language menus are missing half of the 'special' dishes available in the chinese-language version. Sunday morning was again kinda slow. I played some more of Deux Ex before getting back to the report.

On Monday I felt good enough to go to the Pax Christi rehearsal. Dream of Gerontius is a huge work, with some tricky passages (low-born clods of dirt?) that didn't go much better for me Monday than they did last week, so I'm going to have to find some time a study them properly.

This coming weekend (tomorrow evening, in fact) I'm off to the big apple to visit Paul & Kelly, see some opera, and hopefully catch up with Andy, Heather and new kid Morgan. Next week should be pretty relaxed at work, and the following weekend I'm going with my family to Whistler. Can't wait...
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