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Last Day of the Month
Aug. 31st, 2005 02:36 pmToday I visited the last of my external testers. It's common to refer to someone as "undead" if they look a bit bony, but there is no way that anyone that thin could possibly be alive. It was mildly disturbing to clearly see the shape of his skull beneath his skin as he was speaking to me, even down to the clearly defined edges of his eye sockets.
And the test lasted two hours, about twenty minutes of which was of us going through the pre-arranged list. The rest of it was taken up by him going on about distributed WinZip and the bottle of TCP in his cupboard and the legal ramifications of his video converting software and other such nonsense. During one of the times when he was vaguely talking about the Virtual Campus, he made the comment that he was "rapidly descending into a slough of despond" about it - a comment that I proudly included verbatim in my testing report, causing the web developers around the office to burst out laughing one by one as they read it.
Still, to make a rather self-referential entry, I have now completed my target of having a journal entry every day for the month of August. It's a lot easier to update this when I'm sitting at work between testing appointments, particularly when I've phoned the entire tester list and they're all out. But today I've finished the last of the external appointments, trainers are to be trained, and the new Virtual Campus will go live by the end of the week.
The project manager was eagerly telling everyone how fantastic they were yesterday, so it seemed like a great time to ask for my four days' leave - I've now got it confirmed that I'll be able to take Friday off to pick Whitney up, and the majority of the next week off, so this will be my last full week working here. She was also saying that we'll have to organise a lunch to see me and Laura, the other temporary administrator, off at some point during the next fortnight.
We have a new departmental administrator now. She was being shown around the office and introduced to people on Monday afternoon. On Monday evening she showed remarkable enthusiasm by falling down her stairs and tearing ligaments in her foot, so the lunch we were having for her will be postponed yet again as she takes the next few days off to recover. I can think of better ways to start a job.
During the last month I've written about anything that came to mind at the time, and my entries for the entirety of August total 17,487 words. That's even longer than the entire Project Report at the end of last year, and an average of 564 words per entry. This leads me to conclude nothing much apart from that it's possible that I go on a bit too much. I'll probably take a bit of a break from updating for a while because I've completely run out of useful things to say.
And the test lasted two hours, about twenty minutes of which was of us going through the pre-arranged list. The rest of it was taken up by him going on about distributed WinZip and the bottle of TCP in his cupboard and the legal ramifications of his video converting software and other such nonsense. During one of the times when he was vaguely talking about the Virtual Campus, he made the comment that he was "rapidly descending into a slough of despond" about it - a comment that I proudly included verbatim in my testing report, causing the web developers around the office to burst out laughing one by one as they read it.
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The project manager was eagerly telling everyone how fantastic they were yesterday, so it seemed like a great time to ask for my four days' leave - I've now got it confirmed that I'll be able to take Friday off to pick Whitney up, and the majority of the next week off, so this will be my last full week working here. She was also saying that we'll have to organise a lunch to see me and Laura, the other temporary administrator, off at some point during the next fortnight.
We have a new departmental administrator now. She was being shown around the office and introduced to people on Monday afternoon. On Monday evening she showed remarkable enthusiasm by falling down her stairs and tearing ligaments in her foot, so the lunch we were having for her will be postponed yet again as she takes the next few days off to recover. I can think of better ways to start a job.
During the last month I've written about anything that came to mind at the time, and my entries for the entirety of August total 17,487 words. That's even longer than the entire Project Report at the end of last year, and an average of 564 words per entry. This leads me to conclude nothing much apart from that it's possible that I go on a bit too much. I'll probably take a bit of a break from updating for a while because I've completely run out of useful things to say.
