Following the plough...
Jan. 20th, 2007 05:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpLast night was the first of 9 night shifts at the MSR. It was a quiet night, once the excitement of the Progress docking had passed.
I got home soon after the end of my shift, after stopping at the Verizon store at the mall to complain about the shoddy quality of the "holster" I had bought there for my BlackBerry. In fact, I didn't even get a chance to complain: the representative who greeted me cheerfully exchanged my broken case for a new one. (FWIW, the clip that held the case - and obviously the phone inside - to whatever it was clipped to had broken catastrophically... as I sat in the car, fortunately, and not in a Bad Place™.)
Once I got home, I had breakfast and almost immediately went to sleep. Moreover, I slept for about 4 hours, which for me is pretty good, historically speaking, although a 12-hour "slam" shift of sleep hours will do that to you that first night.
I've been struggling with the translation since I got up. There are sections that flow from my fingertips as if by magic, and others that seem to make squeezing water from stone a viable professional option.
Apropos of which... I need to get back to work. Ideally, I think I'd like to lie down again at around 7:30-ish and get a couple more hours of sleep before going in for another session supporting the MSR.
Cheers...
I got home soon after the end of my shift, after stopping at the Verizon store at the mall to complain about the shoddy quality of the "holster" I had bought there for my BlackBerry. In fact, I didn't even get a chance to complain: the representative who greeted me cheerfully exchanged my broken case for a new one. (FWIW, the clip that held the case - and obviously the phone inside - to whatever it was clipped to had broken catastrophically... as I sat in the car, fortunately, and not in a Bad Place™.)
Once I got home, I had breakfast and almost immediately went to sleep. Moreover, I slept for about 4 hours, which for me is pretty good, historically speaking, although a 12-hour "slam" shift of sleep hours will do that to you that first night.
I've been struggling with the translation since I got up. There are sections that flow from my fingertips as if by magic, and others that seem to make squeezing water from stone a viable professional option.
Apropos of which... I need to get back to work. Ideally, I think I'd like to lie down again at around 7:30-ish and get a couple more hours of sleep before going in for another session supporting the MSR.
Cheers...
