i went on vacation last week. it was my first vacation ever. being somewhat concerned about taking a vacation right before crunch time on my project started, i felt it was my duty to go around to everyone who could possibly have something they could need to be working on regarding said huge project, and make sure that they knew that i knew that they needed to be working on it. by friday i figured i had everyone covered, and that i'd come back today and have everything all nice and happy and progress would have occured and all kinds of other great stuff.

this is the part where you laugh at me for being unbelievably naive.

today i rolled in and found that my office has been overthrown. ok, i'm ok with this. it wasn't really my permanent office, i knew this. it was a temporary office for me and my main coworker to be in while the rest of the office was torn up and moved around and rebuilt. except it was overthrown early, and overthrown to an extent that i couldn't even get in the room to get my shit out. what's worse: there's no other open space right now. so i was moved to a room roughly the size of a closet, which we previously had set up as a recording studio for phone system stuff. here in the closet, i get to sit at an unbelievably uncomfortable desk, with a mouse i'm not used to, a fucked up monitor that changes brightness depending on how much is open on the screen, a chair that keeps falling apart and won't roll, and more fucking lights that have no goddamn diffusers.

i've been told that no one knows how long i'll have to be here.

what's best is that while i'm here, recordings can't be done, unless i feel like doing them myself. so if i want there to be progress on my project, i get to move. again. for the third time. . . which somewhat brings me back to my whole project thing. in the week i was done, nothing was recorded. nothing. nothing nothing nothing. this is the one aspect of the project i can't personally do, and the single longest aspect of the project, one i can't even put a ballpark length on. i have no clue how long it will be, apart from "long", and it could very well tack weeks and months onto the earliest possible releasedate. so much for a june release. hell, so much for a july release.

but i get to soldier on. today i'm setting up testing on scripts that i'll only be able to test half-way. then i get to figure out who i need to complain to so this project has some chance in hell of ever finishing.

but at least my door closes now. [05.23.05@08:15]