08
Apr
Attempting to blog after a sleep-over
It takes me 3 seconds to think up the appropriate word to say in a conversation, and my calf muscles spasmed and stretched like a cramped piece of ham meat. I struggled to get out of the massage chair that I’d been sleeping on, and hopped about in silent pain.
I wasn’t drunk. I barely slept last night.
Sleep-overs aren’t my kind of thing. Everybody knows that I’d sooner fall asleep at 3am sharp rather than stay up for overnight movie marathons. It’s those eye-lids. They feel like lead shutters threatening to slam shut.
Today, I slept over at a friend’s house to do some serious discussion on our project. If at first you thought that school IT projects are terrible on the mind, attempting to write your own project specifications is a recipe for headaches. It makes me wish that somebody would swoop down (preferably some System Development Analyst) and define all our project classes nicely for us.
The trouble isn’t with basic program structures — those are simple enough; but when there isn’t an established data organisational paradigm for an industry which has largely stayed outside the grasp of IT systems, proposing a good one entails lots of eye-power and chocolate-imbibing.
Of course, we can immediately jump in and start coding immediately, but that’s going down the path which might lead eventually to re-factor hell. Changing codes and database structures mid-way through the project is definitely no fun at all. Just thinking about the lost hours of my precious sleep during the coding period is enough motivation for me.
I wish that I can write more, but I realised that I’m probably not making much sense in my current state. And at the same time, our project is strictly hush-hush until after our client has given us the go-ahead to paint the town blue (Red’s too glaring). You see? I’m already not making sense… or am I. Some people are more lucid when they’re tired, and this may be the case in my situation. But I’m going to go ahead and just publish this post immediately. Because, what’s the use of having a blog if you’re not willing to take risks?