MUCH better.

[cjsmith]

No, I didn't get sick*, but life is definitely looking up.

Up-Looking Item The First: I declare myself done with C1 choreo for the trip. I have enough hard stuff and enough interesting-but-not-deathly-hard stuff. Huge item off my plate. Yay!

Up-Looking Item The Second: Y'know what? No babies will die if I do not finish every lesson in Pimsleur Japanese Unit II before departure. Half way through is FINE. 2/3 or 3/4 is GREAT. I'll get there easy.

Up-Looking Item The Third: At work, a software bug that looked like it would be very hard to fix turned out to be easy.

Up-Looking Item The Fourth: I told my boss about my confidence level on finishing the work I still have left before departure. He simply nodded and prioritized. Excellent. I'll still do my best to do it all, of course, but I'm not doing it while terrified that the "bad news" will be "discovered".

Up-Looking Item The Fifth: I can BORROW camera batteries and a microdrive for this trip. No need to buy, at least not yet.

OK, now that I'm looking up so hard my eyes are rolling back into my head, I'll get back to work.

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*sadly, Rob's minor cold got worse. Ugh. :-(

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Yay for uplooking! :-)

~~extra get-well vibes for Rob~~ I've got two sickos here at the moment.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Don't you usually have three? Oh, THAT kind of sick. ;-) Lots of get-well vibes toward your place.

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

Don't you usually have three?

;-P

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*scampers away with a grin*

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Yay! Sounds like you've done a great job to manage your stress.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :) In future I hope to do it EARLIER. Heh. Growth.

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Yay for lots of Up-Looking Items!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

That icon is Mira giving me two thumbs up, right? :-) Since they're both on the same "hand"? :-)

[rampling.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd say it was really only one thumb. She has six digits on that "hand": four fingerlike claws, the "thumb" you see sticking up (it's really only one, though it looks bigger), plus a hidden sixth claw that's nestled deep in the internal corner between the thumb and first finger. So only the one thumb is up.

The sixth claw is kinda hidden, vaguely somewhat like my lame ASCII drawing below:

    ` ` ` `         <-- Four "fingers"
    | | | |  
    | | | |'        <-- Hidden claw (retractable too!)
    (     /----'    <-- Single "thumb"
     |   |
     |   |

I wish I could get a pic of her with both thumbs up! That'd be awesome!

=^..^=

Though you do get two thumbs up, 'cause you get one from Mira and one from me. :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Tho the other one is also on top ("up" in a sense) given the way her "hand" is rotated. Hee. :-)

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

You'll probably never need anything in that last 25% of Pimsleur Japanese. :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

She'll just have to talk loudly and slowly :)

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

yay for stress relief :)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even now I'm learning a bunch of stuff I won't need. "Next week I have to go on a business trip to Osaka." Suuuure I do.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

KON...NI...CHI...WA.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

definitely! PHEW, what a relief!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

well, your wife is a big hippo too!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

*chuckle*

[sunnydale47.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love it when friends have good news! I hope everything goes swimmingly!

(Where did that expression come from, anyway? It's pretty strange, when you think about it. =scratches head= )

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It is strange, isn't it? I suppose "swimmingly" would be better than "drowningly".