yesterday i presented my work to a roomful of people including my two bosses, their boss, their boss's boss. that god that is over. my boss's boss's boss asked me a question mid-way through and i totally misunderstood him, and gave him a really dumb answer. that was just fantastic. (i figured out what he was saying eventually, thank god) on a happier note...one of my two bosses is trying to steal all of my research and publish it under his own name. fucking fanstastic, again. ive submitted a paper to a conference, there is another conference i was planning on submitting to, but for that one just an abstract is due on monday. so, my boss sends me the abstract he plans to submit, never mind that i thought i was going to write it, he just rewords the absrtact from the original (my) paper and puts his name as the author. he's the one paying me, yes that is true, but i am the one who desinged the whole thing, tested the whole thing, and wrote a ten page paper on it. i am not the type to be scrambling for publications like some pre-tenure professsor, but come on...this is mine! i cant let him do this just in principle.

and finally, the latest update on the guy who lives beneath us, the one who is afraid to admit he is balding so wears a wool hat every day of the year, the one with an affinity for techo bass thump thump on the porch on a tuesday 2am. he has invited us to his party on saturday night. we find this funny because we just saw a movie (it was actually pretty bad, with jennifer jason leigh and a party, the whole movie was a party at her mansion in hollywood hills) where JJL invited the neighbors to the party (the neighbors who they constantly fought with, who complained about their incessant noise, and who, the viewer is left to assume, they constantly bitched to their friends about) and, throughout the night, whomever the neighbors were talking to would eventually end up saying "ohhh, so yoooouuur the neighbors?" we've decided to save ourselves the trouble involved with banging on his door 6am sunday, and we are going to yosemite. (that is far less trouble)