Get a hangover. Go to work.

I can’t remember the last time I got as drunk as I did last night – and wow, should I ever know better than that! Started after work drinking sangria with Jess and progressed to the WISE and bottles of wine. Really felt fine until the last half hour – or the last drink – which seemed to put me over the line very quickly.

But despite the great potential for hangover, I have felt pretty good for most of the day and managed to get a major piece of information design done on one of my projects – have been pretty much intently focused on it all day – to my own surprise. This is actually one of the more creative parts of my job – like a puzzle that needs to be solved – how to organize info for the web in a way that is logical, easy to access and aligned with the objectives of my department. It basically was the framework I needed to get done in order to give the job of developing the site to someone else….

Got the draft itinerary for Colombia last night and realized that I have completely spaced on getting my passport application in. Next week it will have to be…..

Also in email news – I got a really creepy reporter request this afternoon which I have forwarded onto the lawyer cause it appears this reporter has some extra access to discovery that he shouldn’t have…. And I also got the first email from my brother ever today (we’re not in touch that often unless I go to see him) – he wanted to let me know that he just got a new job with the City of Victoria in the engineering group – which has been his goal for a long time…. So I was really happy to hear that from him, and I was also glad that he included me in his email out to the family since we often forget each other (it’s not dislike, just ambivalence). Also heard from my friend Jeremy today who is coming up to the coast for David’s party and going to swing by my place saturday for a hang-out before we go up to the creek.

Despite the drinking last night, I think my ennui of earlier this week is lifting (I took Wednesday off as a sick day cause I was so blue)…. I’m feeling again some of my value to others in the world and the critical voices in my head have been pretty quiet today…. Oh, and I’m able to laugh at the absurdity of my life again – which is a pretty essential thing in times as weird as this.