huggies! not the diapers!

today began with a message from yogi to say that his wife had gone into labour. chatting with him on the bus, i almost missed my stop :P
turned out to be a false alarm, though.

we've got a jewish holiday coming up (purim, or "lots"), and we're playing a "game" where we each have a target to whom we must give gifts and riddles. the target has until sunday to figure out who's been providing him so that he can give a gift in return. the riddles are driving me nuts - coming up with them is one thing, but solving them in hebrew is a nightmare.

i finally made it to my welfare officer with everything i needed, and they've lost an important paper so i have to get it all re-authorized. urgh :S

one of the guys in my office joined me on the way back to tel aviv. he's a complete nutter for language, and carries around a book containing all the nouns in hebrew (all 20,000 of them) in all their forms... as i went through it, i got this extreme case of deja vu. i *know* i've seen something practically identical before, and experienced deja vu then as well, because the sensation was amplified along with the realization.

it was "free hug" day, or something. on the way home, i walked past a bunch of huggies with signs: can't not grin like an idiot after being given a hug - and the truth is that it's more like have one taken from you. they're just walking around collecting free hugs from everyone! genius!

sunshine: total eclipse
so she does have a boyfriend. and he left the country today, and she was really, really upset. completely unhappy and uncommunicative, and burst into tears when the huggies arrived and gave her one.

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