Rubella mostly went away, though I still feel tired most of the time. Nearly fainted face-first into my soup last Friday. Temperature still goes up and down throughout the day like crazy, which doesn't help my overall wellbeing at all, but at least now it's mostly below 38 °C. "Three-day measles" my ass.

My flatmate had to bring some of his extremely buggy deadline work back home to fix it over the weekend, asked me for help "because you notice irregular stuff all the time" and it was nice to feel recognised.

We fucking fixed it, even if in a somewhat turd-polishing way, in under nine hours. As far as I understand the industry standards, it's good enough to ship. I also flagged seventeen places ripe for abuse. Maybe I'm mistaken, maybe not. I'm often right about those things, though. The important takeaway is that nobody touched many of those places since very early in development and even my flatmate wasn't initially sure what the hell was their purpose. They also don't look like deliberate attempts at crafting backdoors, more like a series of oversights that had the potential to escalate in the wrong hands.

It's worth noting that his workplace didn't even bother to give me an interview despite flatmate's internal recommendation because "non-engineers can't think and interviewing them would waste precious developer time." Only slightly paraphrasing, feeling copious amounts of bitter smugness because of the above situation.

Flatmate promised to give me part of his bonus for this job. It is a bit much even though I like the perspective of not having to wash cars after classes. Still gonna do it to save up some money and put them into my arse-shelter fund, but it does wonders for my headspace. I mean, it's not like I still hold any hope for getting hired anywhere, for lack of better word, worthwhile, so every bit helps. I mostly keep trying because there's a chance someone will give me a job by mistake, and they'd be too embarrassed to correct it or come clean.

Writing this made me too sleepy to correct anything, so please excuse poorer English than usual. Or maybe I'm simply more boring than usual. Whatever. Hopefully, fellow Hubskier, you have a better day.