Worn out, battered and torn..

Wow, this is gonna be pretty unusual.. A sober tale from Johan on a Thursday night.. What the hell could've inspired that? Well, let me start out by apologizing for the lack of updates lately. Thing is, I haven't had much time lately, and what little time I have had has mostly been spend reading up on ethics or working.. That and feeling like shit, mostly. I busted my body up pretty good on Sunday, playing a few heated rounds of football (soccer for you yanks out there) with various family members, and doing hard, manual labour hasn't really helped improve the situation.. Well, my legs don't hurt all that much anymore but my poor old back and shoulders are busted beyond belief. Ouchie!

Oh well, enough moaning from me.. It's not helping me, and nobody wants to have to listen to that anyways One good thing that has happened over the past week is that I've actually started sleeping some more.. Which kinda sucks in a way as it's meant that for the past three days I've been sleeping in till pretty much past noon..

Okay, with all the moaning out of the way, the past two days haven't really been too bad. Wednesday, I planned to get up at 9 which effectively meant that I stumbled out of bed at around 12:20 when Zascha wrote me an SMS saying she'd be in town in about an hour. She was signing up for internet services for her apartment now that she's back home and of course I promised to help her set the thing up..

An experience which went somewhat smoothly, at least for the first hour or something. I mean, we got the thing set up just fine and it worked well for about an hour and then after a bit of talking and goofing around on our behalf, the service stopped working all-together.. Which caused me a few extra grey hairs before I finally caved in and called tech support who informed me that we probably did have a legitimate problem and that they would get back to us in about two business days. Not really the answer I wanted, but I suppose I can't complain too much as  the service started working immediately after I got off the phone with the tech support guy. I hope it's still working, at any rate, I haven't heard anything.

After getting the thing fixed and being treated to yummy, yummy stuffed pancakes (thanks are in order for Z and Z's mom!), I made it home for a quick change of clothes, then off to my mom's for dinner (yes, it's perfectly reasonable to be eating twice in two hours), a bit of computer tech support, and to pick up my new cell phone which had been shipped to her home address.. After that, off to work.. And then that was pretty much the end of my first ethics-less day in almost two weeks.

Today, Thursday, I actually managed to get up at a somewhat reasonable time, namely 10 AM. I also managed to put a few hours into my ethics studies (anybody up for a discussion on the uniqueness of computer ethics) before getting a message from Iben asking me if wanted to drop by.. I actually pondered saying no and sticking to my studies, but seeing is her final day in Denmark before heading off to Canada for a month, so I decided to just give it up and spend the day with her. Firstly because I wanted to see her off well and secondly because having spend extended time abroad myself, I know how frustrating travel fever can be, especially on the final day.

So ethics were once again abandoned. This time in favor of zoning out on Iben's couch, watching movies, talking about this and that.. Not all that bad of a trade, really. Oh, that and after a while Iben's friend Louise showed up, so little, ol' me got to go out for dinner with a couple of young chicks.. Good times All in all a pretty good night even if we had a bit of a hard time fitting all three of us under a single umbrella on our way to the restaurant, but then, even that made for a fun experience (which is what was going on, in case you were wondering what the hell was going on when you ran into us, Penny)

The remainder of the night was spend back on Iben's couch, watching more movies, eating more candy, chocolate and snacks (shit, I really am a girl!) and having strange-assed conversations till way into the wee hours. I eventually made it back at around 2:10 AM and am just now finishing typing this up.. So I guess I'd better get my battered body to bed.. I really have to get some work done tomorrow.. Ethics exam is scheduled for 28 June, 10 AM.