A Day in the Life
Wanted to know what my day was like? Here it is. Those of you who have been reading my blog the longest will probably get the biggest kick out of this, since 5-6 years ago I did these entries allll the time. I haven’t in years, though, so take this in good fun, and please believe me, I don’t do this often.
Here we go – dayblogging. Lifeblogging. Twigging. Or as I like to call it, timed ramblings.
9:30 am – G’morning, just got in to the office, time to get coffee, then jump on the first conference call of the day.
10:15 – uh. Fire alarm went off. Made for an interesting moment during the call: “Sorry, I can’t hear a word you’re saying, have to go.” No reason for the alarm, and it turned off after a few minutes. But still interesting.
11am – First scrum of the day down, two conference calls down. Word is the fire alarm was a “test of the system.”In the middle of the morning with no warning? Ookie.
11:15 – I’ve been stood up by my 11am. Love her, though, so all’s ok, I’ll take the spare time, I’m sure we’ll catch up later.
11:35 – Caught up with my 11am. She was still running an hour behind from the time change. How cute.
12:06 – Second scrum down, one more to go. Actually, I’m not sure if we’re having it. Verrrry quiet in the office today, lots of engineering folks (and a big chunk of the api team I’m on) up in the Bay Area for OAuth/Open Social talks. Can’t complain about quiet. 
12:15 – Neat, there is now a couch in one of our war rooms.
12:30 – Under headphones, writing specs. 1/2 hr until my next meeting. The guy who looks like my ex just walked by. I wish he wasn’t a nice guy…it’s always weird talking to him. I have not, on the other hand, seen the Cute Boy yet. I did hear his voice this morning, or at least, I thought I did.
3:45 – Two more meetings down, one more to go. To do list is growing.
4:25 – Meetings done for the day! In case you were counting, that was 5 meetings, plus 3 scrums for the day. Phew. Now that I can breathe…going to get more coffee (I’m 100% running on coffee right now, I never made it upstairs to grab lunch), then work.
5:00 – Reading documentation and writing specs.
5:15 – Ooh, new music playing on the ipod! I have a tendency to not really pay attention to the music I listen to when I’m working, even so far as the point where I discover that I’ve memorized lyrics to songs I didn’t know I’d heard. Right now I’m listening to the “new” Adema album, and I swear I have never heard this song before (and I like it!). But this is hardly new, I’ve had the album since it came out a couple months ago, and listened to it a billion times. And sure enough, I know the lyrics. But I didn’t know I knew the song.
5:30 – Seriously, I’ve heard this album before? I’m such a dope sometimes. Sounds slightly like old school Poison, although I’m not sure Adema would love the comparison.
5:49 – It’s always fun when developer documentation refers to an undefined parameter. DUDE! I’m not a programmer, I’m trying to learn this. Don’t say I can use parameters and not tell me what it does, unless you want me wreaking havoc trying to figure out how much I can do with it.
6:35 – Email answered, spec *thiiiiis* close to done, and I’m absolutely freezing. Time to go home, I can finish the spec there. Never saw the Cute Boy. Oh well.
7:21 – Home! Stopped on the way home and was followed around the store by some guy. The marriage proposal was ok, not being able to lose him in the store was not. I even went to the “feminine products” section, thinking he wouldn’t keep asking me out if I picked up a box of tampons. But nope, didn’t get rid of him until I paid and walked out (and then only because he was stuck at the other cash register!). Lovely.
Day’s over, time for me to go feed the cats and get some exercise, finish the spec, then I have a date with Tom Baker. He is very much creeping me out in all of the episodes I’ve seen so far, but I’m working my way through it.
I have to admit, I had fun with the blogging today, it’s been a long time since I’ve written like this. I doubt anyone really “misses” those entries of mine, but they sure were fun to write.
