Not looking forward to the coming week. Coming up with flash banners and things. Mainly because I'll be working more or less under the immediate supervision of my boss, who has this habit of getting you to make something and then 24 hours after you've finished it, saying "hmmm, you know what, I'm looking at this now and I just think it needs something more". I guess I'm slowly learning to deal with it better, but it's still really really irritating. Oh well. When the week's done I can go back to my development work, my Great Work, and that should be nice. How long is a week, after all.

So what happened yesterday? Ai-Lin had her birthday party at the zoo, which was Ok. A bit upper-middle-class though; kind of unsettling in that regard, it's not something I'm really used to. I found the complete absence of desperation put me faintly on edge somehow. The cake was nice. I got some blurry photos of monkeys. There were these extraordinary flowers on some of the trees that I couldn't photograph because my camera batteries died, and thinking about them makes me twitchy because I have to go back there and photograph them but it's $18 to get in for the love of God.

I was supposed to go catch up with Haiyan, Sacha, Andrew and Andy but Stacii called just as I was leaving and there was a certain unfamiliar edge to her voice, so I bumped H, S, A & A with a disconcerting lack of apparent scruple and drove off to pick her up. It took us til midnight to get to the icecream place at NewQuay by which point it was closed but we went anyway. We went to the casino complex and sat around comparing opinions on passing halter tops. And then we went home (she was home at 4.30, I was home at 5.00, I slept just shy of 6.00). And overall it was a good day.

I also bought the Gorillaz DVD Phase One: Celebrity Take Down which I rationalise as research material; so I'd better fucking well stick to Resolution One and use it for drawing practice over the coming two weeks if I want to avoid hypocrisy, and I do want to avoid hypocrisy.

Today was badminton. I didn't sleep enough. Spent the evening looking for geekery I can perform with my phone instead of drawing as I should have done, but I forgive myself for now. Jolly well better do better tomorrow though.