Wow... This is one of those days I wish I never had.

As usual for Monday mornings, I got started with my real work about 3 hours after getting here - mail processing and trivial but necessary sysadmin activities, such as reading three days worth of logfiles (although nicely parsed with Logcheck (wow... The folks at Psionic renamed it to Logsentry. Differences? None, at first sight, same version number, and logsentry-1.1.1.tar.gz uncompresses to logcheck-1.1.1/)>, they are still a lot of work), processing messages/spam to my mailing lists, helping Joe Loser and his endless amount of clones...

Ok, I start working. I'm doing a little system for speakers to register their talks for a local symposium... Two hours worth of work, then off to lunch - Quite nice. Mixiotes are always welcome. I get back from lunch, try to stomp on a few bugs on a Postnuke installation I just did for a group of clueless students (and I would not expect them to know much about computers anyway - in the campus I work at they have only health-related and biology careers)... Seems I'll get to work nicely...

...Until I get an ICQ message from my boss: Remember we have to be at this meeting...

Hell... I really love working at this University, the largest and most important in my country. I have great freedom on how to work and what to do... When I joined it, I thought I would have much more meetings than what I really do... After all, this is a state-run University, and in Mexico this can only mean unbearable bureaucracy (sp?). But... Today I sat for over 90 minutes listening to... Well, next to nothing. The same arguments back and forth since a terrible 10-month-long student strike came and went. I don't know if our authorities are up to something evil (as the students say), and I can't believe they are really democratic and plural (as the authorities say)... But please, let me work!

...Well... Back to my programming. I don't even have very interesting stuff to do, it's mainly what Mexicans call talacha - Boring, repetitive stuff, that, were I really a programmer, would be in a nice library since a long time ago. I must pay for my lack of methodology - I hope I learn someday...

Thanks for listening.