Well, going back to work wasn't anything to worry about, besides the embarrassing rate of mucus production in my nose right now. Fucking colds.

In the last few days, I have:

• Walked around the office with a cart full of thousands of dollars of console games [ours, of course] and handed them out to everyone in the company. Great way to kill a day. [Will Wright chose the GameCube version (he already had the Game Boy version.) Yeah Nintendo.]
• Got geek cred for demonstrating my working database in Access - the old pet project that our exec is having me do. I'm amazed, but this thing ain't half bad.
• Sat in the first playtest group meeting and got to tell the SimSequel people what's wrong with their interface. This is awesome. If I were on the team they wouldn't listen to me... but as a playtester, I might have a noticeable impact on the game. :)
• Had lunch with Esther who has arrived from the Netherlands. :)
• Gone through two complete boxes of tissues. Fucking colds.

My boss tells me that she thinks I should write text for an as-yet-unannounced title that my group is on "since you're such a great writer." I'd be writing alongside Sean B, who is "the writing demigod" around here. He wrote all of the text in the original game, many of the expansions, and both Console titles.

Especially when faced with the prospect of comparing with Sean, I keep worrying that someone's going to wake up and realize that my text is crap and that I'm just an old computer science girl pretending to be creative. Apparently they haven't caught on yet.

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You know what's awesome? In last month's Wired, they have a brief blurb on a car...that turns into a boat!

Seriously. It's a luxury car that *automatically* retracts its wheels in water and uses jet propulsion engines to navigate atop the water with a waterproof hull. You could just drive off a pier and go merrily on your way.

That shit is the BOMB.

If we don't see this car in the next James Bond movie I will be severely heartbroken. (It only costs $250,000, after all - a mere trifle for dear Q!)

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But I really do feel pretty cwappy today. Tired and I can't really breathe. You know how it is when your nose feels like it's bigger than the rest of your body.

Despite being sick, I stayed at work until 8PM last night because I was "on a roll" working on my database.

You can take the girl away from the geeks, but you can't take the geek out of the girl.