Today at work wasn't long but it was intense. We've just started getting into internet research (ie doing research using the internet, not researching the internet) which at the moment involves using an external company. So they send the data in excel and I spend time trying to work out which question is which and whether the data is right (which it always is, except when you ask people what county they live in - the answers have ranged from 'Milton Keynes' to 'Scotland' to 'South England/North Somerset').

Anyway, I've worked on all of them so far, which is good because I think this is quite exciting, especially if we do it ourselves one day and I actually get to program the things. It's also bad because today I dealt with data from two of them (both complicated, although for different reasons) and some data we had in from America. In the latter case we've used the company many times and their data always comes back perfectly and I hardly have to do anything with it.

There is only so much playing about with data in excel you can do with a headache though. And I spend most of the day unable to feel my hands because I sit in the draft from the air conditioning. I must remember to take my gloves in, which are rapidly becoming fingerless.

While I was getting sick of the whole thing this afternoon I was thinking about fandom-related stuff. I'm supposed to be writing two Lord of the Rings fics at the moment. One is with someone else, for a challenge on HASA and words can't express how much we're not going to finish by the deadline in October. It seemed a long way off when we started.

So, first of all I should learn how to organise my thoughts so I don't digress in the middle of a paragraph, except that's how I think. I often confuse people by seeming to change the subject in the middle of a conversation, except the link makes sense to me, and carrying on a conversation three months later. My memory's odd like that.

And now I've had a paragraph of digression, I've spent so much time reading Harry Potter fan fic I don't have my head in the right universe any more. And I was trying to decide how best to get back into it. I might actually get round to reading Unfinished Tales, as I'm going home the weekend after next and will need something to read. But then, The Daily Snitch mentioned a new community: Idol Reflections where people can post essays about particular characters. So now I'm writing one about Elrond. Oh, yes, a maximum of 7000 words by 13th November to convince everyone to love him like I do.

If anyone wants to comment with anything they think I should say, or fics I should rec, feel free. Although LJ doesn't seem happy about sending me comments at the moment, and freeserve thinks ones from Blogger are spam.

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