5 march 2001
sheep and tides

Listening to Drowning By Numbers, which movie I enjoyed in 1996 and would probably find hopelessly pretentious now -- but maybe not. Regardless, I love the soundtrack; Michael Nyman is a wonderful composer and I have several CDs of his work, although I haven't checked for new ones in quite a while. Someday I will be sufficiently organised to winnow out my CD collection and then to look for more music by the people whose stuff I really like. Perhaps this summer.

I'm on my last day of writing use cases, and am in fact working on the last one, although it's difficult to focus on them. The site I'm taking my screenshots from is incredibly slow, which is frustrating, and each time I start writing a usecase I'm reminded of how much my style has changed as I've been writing them, so that the first one and this last one move rather differently. This is just neurotic perfectionism or something else like that, and I don't need to give into it. I am the sort of person who can spend infinite quantities of time organising, polishing, making all things identical even when they don't need to be identical. Enough of all that.

Anyway, so I'm working on my last use case and catching up on mailing lists (I subscribe to far too many, but have difficulties giving up on any of them), and realising that it's time to go home and make a Very Important Phone Call. There is a company which might be interested in me, see, and I am going to phone their Java lead to find out if he speaks English (a serious concern) and just what it is they might want to interview me for, anyway.


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