Due to a confluence of freakish weather and constant activity, my body decided to crash. I noticed this, because I had gotten up this morning to do my daily activities.

I thought, "Self, you're not feeling so bad anymore. We've just got a little scratchy throat, is all."

So I went about making breakfast and getting dressed and catching up on e-mail.

Then, I found myself waking up to a crink in my neck and the sun high in the sky. Betrayed by my own body! Curses.

And in the intervening time, I seem to have received more e-mail. I cannot win.

I've just finished doing the least fun part of interviews. Sending e-mails.

You see, I've got this strange idea in my head that I should tell people if they didn't do so well during an interview, and suggest some things they could do to improve. But this is rather difficult to do because it's pretty difficult to write a similar note a lot of times, without it turning into a form letter. Plus, one doesn't want to offend the recipient. I really do want them to improve, because I want all our applicants to get jobs.

Then again, if all our applicants were awesome, then I'd have an stomach-churning time trying to choose which ones to offer jobs to. I'd probably have to pick them out at random.

I'm working on packaging up some software for Debian today, as this is something that doesn't take a lot of brainpower but does take a lot of patience. Perfect for when your brain is running a little on the slow side.

I'm going through my e-mail and I see:

->  384 ND  May 26 Cory Oleary      (0.9K) Enlarge your package today

And it takes me a while for me to figure that this is spam, and not an instruction to add more files to the Debian package. Which, I suppose, I ought to do. It could certainly use pkg-config goodness.

Out of the blue, I get this e-mail from sdt today just as I was about to leave from work:

Sweet. We arranged to get together and then headed out for an evening of conversation. I discovered that Ashley has gone and bought herself a ceramic iron (very expensive) and that they've just been in town since 15:00. I also discovered that the numbers on Ontario street skip really quickly past Berri.

Sometime during this whole thing, I scrawled down some good restaurants in sdt's PDA and chatted with him some more about life after undergrad. It's so sad, to have all your old classmates scatter to the four winds.

It was very cool to see them again. Interestingly enough, I'll be heading back to KW again in a couple of weeks. Perhaps I'll get a chance to see some people, before they are all gone.

I've implemented more anti-spam measures for Julie and Lalit of the CSC.

It seems that I've got things mostly under control with a combination of SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor. We'll see how it works in the following weeks. It seems to have reduced Julie's spam from 120/hr to 1/hr, so it seems to be doing OK.

If all else fails, I'll try to setup some automagic Bayesian filtering.