today's quote brought to you by the letter B - makers of fine products like honey. (hehheh arent i funny! not)

today i had an interesting ego day. i had a chat with someone who was my manager for about 2 weeks before i transferred out from under her back to my old manager, who had moved groups. she and i talked about all the crap i'm going through with politix etc. basically she was just trying to see what i was gonna do or something. who knows. at least thats what the discussion dissolved into, after i realized that she wasnt goin to listen to my techinical input either.
then i had lunch with a former team-mate who left our pyramid cuz our director and her didnt get along, and the director is who i have problems with. she told me that maybe i shouldnt leave the pyramid cuz we'd need me there if we ever convinced ppl that our director was an idiot.
then this afternoon, some questions i had posed to one of our client support reps came back in a big way, as it had exposed a HUGE problem in one of our major systems. so i spent a few hours on conference calls fixing that.

basically, all these made my ego feel good. why? cuz i was shown that people still do want my input, and know who the heck i am. as my lunch companion said "There's only ONE spike!"

in other news, i was reading my friend jessica's diary today, and in it she refers to her boyfriend, who is a long distance boyfriend. I realised that i really want that. having someone, even if they are hundreds of miles away seems more appealing than the solitude i am in now. of course thats what all single people say, so this isnt anything new. heh my EX (she likes seeing this here when she reads it) worries that i'll never find anyone and that i'll end up as some hermit, but i think my own drive will win out, even though i'm a picky bastard.