You know you're on your way out from a project when all you start doing is documentation. The theory is, that you'll leave behind all of your client/project specific knowledge so that someone can just pick it up later.

Fine. Good plan.

The downside? No matter how well I write this shit, its not gonna be the immediate knowledge transfer boss-man thinks it will be. And, I AM BORED OUT OF MY FUCKING MIND. If I had WANTED to fucking WRITE for a GODDAMNED LIVING I would have been a freaking ENGLISH MAJOR. Or creative writing. OR SOMETHING THAT WASN'T FUCKING COMPUTER-GODDAMNED-ENGINEERING.

I am, as you can read, somewhat pissed about this. I don't like to use caps that much; I feel they lose their "flavor." But I really need to properly emphasize how bored and hateful I am. I mean, require I do this stuff all along? Okay. Done. That's not a problem when its done along the way. But making sure I have so much work that I have no hope of doing this documentation along the way just to give me AN ENTIRE FUCKING MONTH of tech writing? Fuck that noise man.

Fuck it.

There's a song by famed Japanese songwriter Yoko Kanno called Be Human. The entire song is written from the eyes of a sentient crime-fighting robot who desires to be a human. I am, in fact, listenting to it now and its doing a wonderful job of calming me down. But the reason I'm bringing it up are these: to reming all of you how awesome Yoko Kanno's work is, and to rattle off one of the lines from the song.

I would have so many little babies
And maybe a wife.
- posted by Pat @ 2:48 PM