12/07/03

What a long, long time it's been since my last update. i feel like reality has struck with painful precision - and yet i know that it has yet to unleash its worst.

*** yesterday ***

yesterday was a beautiful day on the kibbutz, although i was exhausted and it took me a couple of hours to get up.
i ate chocolate cake for breakfast, played some stupid game on the pc, and went for a couple of short walks (shopping without money).

it was then "pack and go" time. it was already getting hot, and i really didn't want to leave.
the bus ride was quite long - i met a rather interesting soldier who had very little english, so i got a bit of hebrew practice, and we had a fairly comical conversation.

she picked me up from the busstop, and i went to her place (parents away) to pig out and rest.
she went out for a few hours, and when she returned we went to sleep.
i had some SERIOUSLY messed up dreams last night - nightmares within nightmares, which i thought only happened in bad movies. my deepest sympathies to all those who've had that experience.

*** today ***

the day started off slow, had a few minutes of regular time, and returned to a pace that is absolutely destroying me.

i have work to do, plenty of it actually, and i just can't get around to doing it.
the invader zim download finally finished, but unfortunately episodes 12 and 13 are fucked. oh well. but i watched the first three and they are GOOD.
i had leftover pizza from a few days ago and it didn't kill me. not yet, anyway. i'm taking this as a good sign.

tomorrow morning, fox sport is covering the opening game of the tri-nations rugby... i actually want to watch. what absolutely bites is that i have to be up and outta here early to go and sort out the mess at wingate, caused by the Very Responsible Organizer Person neither answering his phone, nor responding to his voice mail.
biznatch.

i gotta get away from this pc. my brain's buzzing.

*** later ***

i had a shower, which was the first proper one in days (does nobody in this country keep soap in the shower?), and was on my way to bed when she called, and told me to be ready in ten.
we went shopping for a friend of her's, who's about to go into the army - so as usual all my advice was ignored until the last minute...
but we managed a rather nice, and useful gift. based both on the needs of someone in basics, and girly properties that cannot be fully understood by any heterosexual man.

after i got back, i watched yet another episode of hunter x hunter, and then decided to give counterstrike another chance.
THAT was by far the most brilliant decision of the day.
my average ping was about 200, and so i played, and played, and played some more (this is about three or four hours). and it has been fair, and i have played well.
some of the guys on the server were REALLY good - there's was a constant challenge and loads of frustration, but nothing that could take away from my sheer delight at finally being able to play the damn game!
side note: sniping in the middle of a gun battle is f**king insane - the adrenaline kicked in and i managed six frags within fifteen seconds... oh yeah!