Sooo this is it, probably the last official day I’ll ever have at this company.
Typically, there are huge emergencies and problems with a major client. I haven’t been dragged into it yet, though.
Also, I’m sick…ish. Congested, runny nose, slightly sore throat. If this were a normal non-quitting day, I’d have stayed home in bed. But, there’s too much to do. Gotta clean out my office, fill out some paperwork, exit interview, they’re supposedly taking me out to lunch, say goodbye to people, possibly negotiate a contract salary if they want to keep me on for a bit (and after yesterday, I think they will), and other stuff. Except for housecleaning I’m probably going to stay home all weekend and rest.
Other than that, I’m feeling… okay. Kind of sad. Kind of excited. Kind of nervous. And I didn’t sleep much last night so in addition to the sick, I am also tired. 🙂
I’m sure there will be tears later on today. I really love most of the people I work with, and some of them have been here almost as long as I have. The person who’s been here longer than me’s wife had a baby yesterday so he won’t be here, which is sad but the baby was a preemie and is in NICU atm, but should be fine.
But it’s weird, knowing that people who have been in your everyday life for 1 to 11 years aren’t going to be anymore.
I even went to Starbuck’s this morning to get my occasional drink (tall hot chocolate with a half shot of espresso) to say goodbye to my favorite barista.
Cutting the sadness a bit is the anticipation of the FemShepFriday trailer, and whatever else Bioware might have in store for us on FemShepFriday!
True story: I have loved Bioware since Baldur’s Gate, but when they started doing press and stuff for Mass Effect I spent quite a few hours trying to just answer the “Can you play as a female!?” question and never found an answer, so I figured, no, and became disinterested in the game. I ended up not playing it until it had been out for two years, and even then, begrudgingly because I thought I’d have to play a dude. And I bought it on sale for like $10 instead of brand new on release day like I usually do with Bioware games.
As soon as I loaded up the game and saw, oh hey, you CAN play as a female, I just started wondering WHY was that answer almost impossible to find when they were marketing the game? Once I started playing, I was instantly in love with the game and I’ve played ME1 at least a dozen times and ME2 eight times all the way through. I’m so glad Bioware is finally giving FemShep and Jennifer Hale the recognition she so richly deserves.
Anyway, it’s my last day of work. I should go do some work, I suppose. 🙂
The ending didn’t make much sense to me. In fact, I felt like more alcohol would assist me in understanding it. So, to save organics from the hands of super advanced synthetics or AIs we have to brutally destroy entire species with a race of ultra-sophisticated synthetic-organic hybrids? Okay, perhaps “destroy” is a bad word; more like, gooify you and collect you as a museum exhibit of what once was. So, instead of being destroyed in the usual “the machines have revolted” sense, we will be brutally harvested by super advanced machines. Yeah…. that is a great….uh…. solution? Chaos is not necessarily a bad thing; it is found in nature. This was hard to stomach.