02/03/04

*** 29th ***

i'd agreed the night before to taekwondo training at 08.00, and i'd forgotten to set my alarm. i woke up, somehow, at 07.40, jumped up and got ready, and got to the busstop.

no sooner had i paid for the bus, and started walking towards the rear, when my alarm went off, informing me of a meeting at 09.00 with a city council social worker (for my community service).

so i got off at the next stop, and walked back home.

the meeting went well, and afterwards she picked me up, and we went for a walk in herzliya, including a visit to the public library, which is very cool.
and they have a HUUUUUGE kiddies section, so i rate i'm going to have to move in there...

she dropped me off at a busstop on her way back to gedera, and i took a bus to work.

i need to mention here that i was still suffering majorly from heat-stroke, and it was a really hot day.

i was at work for a little less than half an hour, sorting out my social security, and having a quick breakfast, and then i left to meet up with JOSH on shenkin (artsy-fartsy soho place). he sat with me as i ate an enormous portion of good thai food, at a place called "thai food", and we then went on a mission to nowhere, that ended up with us being at his kibbutz, about 7km north of gedera.
and she didn't have time to meet us. oh well.

we spent a few hours listening to crazy house and trance (and i played around a bit on his decks, which are a bit fscked, but i haven't touched sound equipment in YEARS).
we watched an inspiring documentary video on a huge israeli trance party, called "drugless" (the documentary name is karahana), and it was anything but.

i took a bus back to tel-aviv, where i visited with karnaf, and he joined me as i took my supper at pizza-meter. a spinach and cheese pizza, which was surprisingly good.

*** yesterday ***

i had a good grapefruit breakfast, and went to idc to finish up my community service. which didn't happen. we discovered that i have tons of work left to do still, and so it's all going to take far longer than expected.

i got back a bunch of exam results, and aside from algorithms (with exam on the 15th), math (i got 68%, and i need 70%), and israeli economy (no results yet), i did quite well on most things, and superbly on at least four exams - superbly being greater than 87%.
i'm fairly pleased with myself.

i came home, and learned about flash, putting together a cute site, for which a cheque for $140 is apparently on the way. it would be so nice if i could trust grootbek, but i can't.

i went out around 18.00 to buy a lock, and i got a good one. but when i tried to install it, the hole in the door wasn't big enough. so i went back to the store to return it.

but the store was closed.

so i returned home, pulled out a hammer and a pair of needlenose pliers (what? no chisel?), removed my door, and hammered new holes - a most successful enterprise, i must say. it's not pretty, because the old covers simply don't fit, but it's not so bad, and most functional.
i now have real protection from my extremely honest american flatmate.

training was good last night. this girl, who i introduced to our gym, thanked me with a very cute keychain, and one of the black belts kicked me in the face. it's the first time in my entire life that someone's given me a nosebleed.

grootbek accosted me as i got home, and i spent over an hour working with him on the flash and the website...

*** today ***

i had a hot shower, and a hot (loads of chili) supper, and fell asleep with no trouble.

*** later ***

i woke up at 07.00 to go running with our argentinian flatmate, but i couldn't get out of bed. my legs hurt.