29/07/03

*** yesterday ***

the rest of my day can be best described by the words "tekken", "counterstrike", "irc", and "wiki".
sammy came over for the first two, irc just happened as usual, and editing the wiki until about 01.30 or something was a direct result of the conversation in the aforementioned chat.

*** today ***

this morning was insane. i got to sleep around 2am, and woke up at 8. if you've read the previous few logs, you'll notice what i find to be a pretty distressing pattern.

mild hallucinations while talking to a co (commanding officer) are not appreciated at all.
the story is fairly simple. my co was too busy to deal with me, so he sent me to someone else. she listened to what i had to say, understood perfectly, and went to discuss it with him.

when she came back, she informed me that i'm not being thrown out, and not only that, but that if i need an extra semester i might be given permission!

this basically means that i don't have to find another place to live, i don't have to move out, and i don't have to go to the army right now. i feel like there should be more to write - this is HUGE.

but now for the big news:

i have permission to leave the country for TWO MONTHS

which means a two month holiday to south africa for me!! yippee!!
(there's not enough space to express myself using exclamation marks)

the only problem is that there's a chance that i might lose my job if i take so much vacation. i'm writing this while waiting to speak to the boss, and while i really don't want to lose this job, i really need the holiday - also it's not like my mother would understand.

not that that's the only reason.

i have great plans to see everyone, and do everything, and sleep, and eat decent food, and go to clean beaches, and decent movie theatres, and not have to sweat twenty-four-seven.

so it's definitely a case of "one holiday, coming up".

oh, almost forgot - the reason that they make you wait to find out if you passed or failed the driver's exam, is because someone shot their tester when they discovered that they failed.
yet another tale of "sad but true".

*** later ***

IT - IS - SO - HOT.
i just had a shower, and the first thing is did after turning off the water was start sweating again.
which is why i had the shower in the first place.

at least i have my trusty fan beside me. hmmm. i think i'll take a photo - after all, it IS my most prized possession right now, not including my ticket to sa.

on my way home, i went shopping for soap and dark chocolate. and then made a pass by the driving school and received my "license".
it's a form that i have to send, along with NIS 250 (just over R400), in order to receive my license by post.
gee, thanks.

anyway, i resumed work on our marketing project, which was basically correcting 8th grade spelling and grammar - whoever said that american high-school graduates were functionally illiterate (and we're talking about someone that did well in a good school) wasn't joking.

she came over for about half an hour, just to show off (she'd been shopping). she bought platform sandals, which are really cute (i can't believe i'm thinking this, but anyway), and i have to say that she is SO incredibly sexy when she's about my height (she's tall)...
i'm considering myself quite fortunate.
*sticking out my tongue at the world*

after she left, i finished correcting the project, sent it and stored it.
i think it's the first task i've completed in a long time.
the target of that statement: i really can write the driver now, and i STILL haven't touched it.

ANYways, i played some cs, with 31 other people, and it was most enjoyable. much more fun when it's less personal. and the battles are epic.

just before i showered, i washed the dishes, and discovered that our sink is alive. i had a small skirmish with the creatures who've made it their home, and i think i won, as water drains properly again.

at some point in the next couple of days, i'm going shopping for weapons of anti-fungal doom - i will destroy this fearful monster and all of its allies.

and our bath is filled with stuff, that i think is from grootbek, and it's hard to identify anything in there.
enough is enough - the american way of student life will not win!
i think i'm going to pour industrial chemicals on the lot of it and see what happens.

i've had the lost prophets' song shinobi vs. dragon ninja stuck in my head all day - so i've just turned it on. she should be finishing babysitting soon, and then it's off for coffee we go.
good day - good night!