Kevin and Pam and Gabrielle left yesterday afternoon. I spent the day mudding and talking to Jim, whom I hadn't seen alone in in approximately forever (three days). In the evening we cuddled on the couch and watched Risky Business on DVD, which was interesting and fun but left me with something of a bad taste in my mouth. A little too cynical, maybe, but very early-80's in its cynicism. I was able to enjoy it for when it was while being very glad it wasn't current; if it'd been current I think I would've been pretty unhappy with it. I'm not sure what that says, though.

We took a break for dinner (I made myself macaroni and cheese, yum) and then watched A Bug's Life, which was completely adorable and nothing like Antz. This was clearly intended for kids and made no apologies for it, whereas Antz was darker and more adult. I recommend them both; they do what they're aiming for very well. A Bug's Life has better female characters, though.

After the second movie we took ourselves to bed, where I ended up making a Dire Error. You see, Jim's reading the Vlad Taltos Steven Brust, and he's enjoying them so much that I was tempted to reread the three I like (while blithely ignoring the three I dislike). Then I remembered that I hadn't yet read the last one I bought (which was the second-most-recent), since I'd been so unhappy with the one before it that Brust was leaving a sour taste in my mouth. Anyway, what I'm trying to say in this very convoluted way is that I picked up Orca at 1am, and enjoyed it so much that I was up until 4am finishing it. Yes, it had some flaws, but on the whole I loved it; it's my favourite since Taltos, which was quite a while ago.

And thus we come to today. I'm completely exhausted from staying up too late reading. Sunil is off cavorting in Italy, so I'm being the release engineer for the first time in months. I'm trying to write documentation and going to lots of meetings and reassuring coworkers and being nervous about my bugs. I was supposed to have lunch with Rachel today, maybe, but I'm just too tired and miserable and stressed; all I can really think about is getting this release out so I can go home. I've been trying to settle down and focus on either the work, or if not the work something nice (like talking to Liralen), but I'm way too scattered to do. Gah. Plus there's Hebrew tonight, so while I can go to sleep early it's unlikely to happen.

Okay. The release is done, and I'm running out to Hebrew. I've resisted the temptation to skip it, but it's hard; I still just want to fall asleep. Hopefully a couple of hours of speaking in tongues will relax me.