ALTHOUGH

..McDonald's at engin has played an enormous role in preserving my sanity by providing delightfully, sinfully, unhealthy-ly salty french fries..

ALTHOUGH McDonalds has always been there to nourish my spirit with fragrant oils that abundantly flow (.. forth from within a McSpicy chicken fillet) when my mind and soul are stranded in the darkest mires of stress...

Tonight, TONIGHT, I must stand up and say, with deepest, most profound honesty....






... that KFC is still better.

Lost

I once knew an incredible lady
who was graceful and fair
And to me she took a fancy
and all her riches shared

She listened to my every call
She bought me gifts so fine
She showered shreds of brilliant flair
of many forms and kind

And when she spoke her voice was thunder!
For Power was her name
But when she smiled her breath was sugar
That mastered wealth and fame

As we flirted we skewed the paths
of meaning, true love, sworn
outspoke the word of rule and law
reigned with might and scorn

And all those times I worshiped her
kept her pleased and sated
Until the day I did the error
of taking her for granted

Now she turns her back on me
and heeds no cry nor tears
sheet by sheet my grief and pleas
they fall upon deaf ears

Oh were that I had treasured her more
Is all now in vain?
Oh what would not this poor soul give
To ride her whims again?

Adrenaline!

Three days! Fixed up a basic wall on day one, magicked into being a working skinning mechanism on day two, and spent the third coaxing the app into interacting nicely with my teammate's remote script, to finally complete the talk-back-ing, skinnable Living Wall. I have to admit, amidst all these massive amounts of coding I have been doing, I can actually feel myself getting better at this shit. Better at planning my code, modularizing them in increasingly smart ways, and later reaping the fruits when I have to hack in an unforeseen feature. I have been doing insane amounts of work per day, and having loads of fun at the same time - a feat only possible because I am running on overdrive.

The Adrenaline pumps, and now that I am finally ready to go to bed, I lie awake in dread of the inevitable time when my energy must run out.