sleep, beep, cake, angst

in brief, because i'm tired and have spent the last few hours in front of the pc reading comics and watching house and the prisoner.

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friday:
i spent the day *trying* to sleep. around 4pm i got up, was reminded that my old neighbour's wife's birthday party was happening, and left for it about an hour later.

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i arrived at cafesito just as the hooting began: a biker had fallen, and began to pick up their motorcycle when the idiot behind him/her held down the horn - one long, intensely loud hoot that she kept up for at least ten to twenty seconds before the biker - who was right in front of the car - lost it and attacked the driver's window.

i'm sorry, but i wanted to beat the crap out of the driver and i was more than twenty metres away at the time - hooting like that is a direct and painful attack and there really isn't any way to justify it.

someone managed to pull the biker off the car, and they resumed getting on the bike - that's when the driver CRUSHED THE BIKE. the biker just managed to get off.

what i don't get is the giant asshole who came running, screaming at the biker to leave the driver alone. i appreciated the irony of the driver calling the police.

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the birthday girl got a ribboned bicycle - cute! i couldn't partake of the rum cake - not cool! the brownie with dripping chocolate icing was amazing, though. i got drawn into a facebook meta-chat, and once that topic was off the table things got social :P

i returned home to wait for chc, walking past coffeeholic and leaving frsutrated because every question i asked was met with another - i shouldn't answer questions, because people in this country are willing to delve in order to not share stuff.

after playing syndicate for a while, i called up chc to see what was happening and *surprise!* she was *just* getting started on finding a way to get here.
"but i have until 9pm, you said"
"until 9 to be out of here. not until 9 to get here."

i went back to cafesito until the end of the party.

chc arrived at 9.15 (of course), but fortunately didn't take more than five minutes to get all her shit out. i went from deep irritation to pity - i'm pretty sure she doesn't understand what's going on and certain that she's told her new friends how fucked up i am (like she told me the previous sucker was)... then i wondered if that pity's just more manipulation.
so either she's a complete bitch, or she really is too stupid to understand what happened.

either way, she's out of my hair* - and such long hair it is :)

* she left her phone behind - i *just* managed to get it to her before they left.

umm. there's a sweet girl i tried teaching to rollerblade a while ago, who a few days back sent me an sms saying that we simply *must* meet before i go. she called me up last night - awkward pause following the greeting - and repeated the sentiment... then suddenly asked "do you have a girlfriend?"
"erm. can i do the facebook thing, and tell you 'it's complicated'?"

i like her, i'm just not interested in dating her. thank you, facebook. unless that caused more offense than was apparent :P

i went with singer to see yair rubin perform at levontin - he's pretty good. singer and i argued. a lot. both there and back. it wasn't pretty. i've learned stuff from the evening:

1. i'm normal, and that includes being defensive about stuff that's important to me


2. i need to deal with the fact that there is bad stuff in the world that i can't do anything about


3. i need to talk less. if that means doing what i complained about earlier and simply ignoring questions, then perhaps i should give it a try.

i must chillax, and gaming is important because, like everyone else, i need to immerse myself in "nothing important" if i'm to retain some semblance of sanity :P

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when the results of an attempt to finish a syndicate level anger me - it's a sign of a great game. i was all set and had completed all the mission goals, and got ripped up on my way to the rendezvous :P

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it suddenly dawned on me that exercising a lot is a possible explanation for my potassium deficiency.

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today:
i spent the day *trying* to sleep, but woke up around 2pm, made a great omelette and then settled down to do nothing online. now it's time for vampire :)

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gnarcade - skaters, snowboarders and invaders

speaking of invaders - thank you, nystire, for this advanced material

only $3000?! it's a steal! (or a murder...)

i like skittles - but these advertisments disturb me a little.