*twitch* (31st Aug)

my word, that was an EXCELLENT way to begin the day. 8.30 saw me entering the acupuncturist's, for an hour of prickly meditation. very nice.

the only problem is that i'm still completely stiff... the training yesterday really did me in.

sunday:

i can't believe i wasted all that time watching the preliminaries - they were bloody aweful. my mom picked me up, and we went to a picnic birthday celebration for my aunt. i couldn't keep my eyes open, so i spent a couple of hours on my back in the grass.
t'was pleasant.

in the evening shadowslight picked me up, and we went through to play in babyacid's vampire game. i really enjoyed myself - both the game, and the evening in general.

yesterday:

i got up around 7.30, drove my mom to work, then went to training. firstly, it was really nice being welcomed back so readily. secondly, the last time i trained so hard (and properly, too) was a year ago, when i was here last.

i also found out the story behind the south african olympic team - these guys were selected FIVE YEARS AGO. we have SO much better here, and they just weren't given a chance.
that's really stupid, and most unfortunate.

i was quite sore after training, and went home and had a good, hot shower. after lunch, i drove through to my aunt's, where i started on the invoicing system - i've realized that i have a LONG way to go with this, and i'm not so sure i'll be able to finish before i leave.
whoops.

i went to training in the evening, too. it took a lot of courage, but i was compelled to make the most of my time here (no comments about not training till now, i had to WANT to train).
boy, was that EVER a mistake. i feel disabled at the moment, completely and utterly beaten. my body is totally unresponsive, and everything hurts.

^_^ at least it's for a good reason ^_^

i watched the heavyweight final last night, which was far more interesting than the rest of the tournament, and then had a hot bath before going to bed.
i slept like a king.

today:

i've been up since 7.30, having sorted out my mom's car (brakes), and getting acupunctured. and eating way too many salt & vinegar chips for breakfast.

time to work.

after the fact (29th)

wow. i can't work out if i didn't sleep at all, or if i just spent the few hours on the mattress dreaming of explosions, gunfire, and angry screams. the lan party was quite fun, either way :)

yesterday:

i spent the day resting. at some point, i worked up the courage to stretch, and spent 40 minutes doing some serious work. unfortunately, i'm paying for it now, but if i'm going to return to taekwondo then i really do need it.

today:

i've been up since 6.45, watching the taekwondo. it's disappointing, to say the least. there had BETTER be some good stuff coming up.

confusion in the ranks(28th Aug)

well, the last couple of days have been hell. i haven't been able to sleep, as my sinuses are rebelling, and breathing has become associated with trauma.

thursday (26th):

i watched the flyweight taekwondo preliminaries, which inspired me to get back into it (as soon as i can breathe again). i went off to campus, spent some time chilling and coffee-ing, and then returned to town to pick up my mom from work. we went and got my ticket to london.
we went and got my ticket to london.
we went, and got, my ticket to london.
paid for by my late father - the cute thing is that this is my entire inheritance, and it was ill-gotten. ^_^

we had coffee, and did a little shopping, at the waterfront, and my mom then dropped me off at shadowslight's. we watched the new the punisher. now that movie would've SUCKED the big one, if it hadn't been a good group of friends to MST3K it back to life. i thoroughly enjoyed the evening.
oh, and the peppadew, mushroom and pepperoni pizza DIDN'T give me nightmares! w00t!

yesterday:

no sleep for me. i gurgled around and blew my nose the entire night. it sucked.

i took a taxi into town in the early afternoon, and my mom dropped me off in obs, where i had a quick snack, and joined the boys for our more-or-less weekly universalis game. which was terribly entertaining, although we didn't get that much actual story in.
and i have been formally introduced to devil may cry. what a cool freakin' game.

last night we had a standard friday night supper, and we were graced with sweetiepie's presence. it was a most enjoyable evening. afterwards we went for drinks, then coffee, and had a jolly good chat, which i really needed. i'm actually feeling quite a bit better.

today:

i slept a lot better, but still not great. i'm supposed to be going to the LAN party today, but i don't have a clue when / where / how.
*sigh*

*grumble* (26th Aug)

it's fucking 6AM, but my sinuses and a post-nasal drip have denied me any more "sleep".
CRAPICUS.

yesterday was, erm, interesting.
i lie.
i spent the morning reading, and in the afternoon went to campus, finished the book, handed it in to the library, met up with zenstar and moonflake, and went back to town. waited for my mom for an hour at her work, before getting back to sea point for an evening wasted.

grrr (24th Aug)

stupid trojan horse writers. stupid antivirus programs. i just wasted almost an hour dealing with a non-issue, when i should have been doing the invoice system.

sunday (22nd):

whoops - a day's missing. oh well. i'm fairly certain i didn't do anything interesting. at all. the entire day. go me!

yesterday:

got up early, took my mom to work. i returned home, ate a few breakfasts, passed out on the couch for an hour or so, and then went through to work on the project.
denied - the systems were virused. so i paid a visit to my cousin at work, and we went for some coffee at cavendish.

i then visited a friend at his work, before going to get my mom from hers. which took FOREVER, so i got to clear my mail (finally!).

thank you shadowslight! i have gmail! weee!!

last night i went to shadowslight's, where we watched a LOT of tv (las vegas is COOL), and then protoplasm picked me up, and we went to some club.
lots of cute girls, some great music (although some shitty music too), so some spading was in order. almost successful, too :P

today:

i got home from -insert club name here- around 3 / 4am, and got to watch women's beach volleyball! w00t!

i got up around 10 / 11am, took a taxi to town, scaled my mom's car, and drove to campus. quite fun, really - i love lunchtime. ^_^

i've spent the last couple of hours working on the project, which has been going alright (fingers crossed) for once, but time's almost up. i did wash the car, which was an experience. i'm sure it'll get dirty again soon.

lonely saturday night :_( (21st Aug)

thursday night:

there were two too many prince charmings in the house... but it made the conversation that much more entertaining. the tv at shadowslight's was bust, so we made do with good company, and some chez geek, which was quite fun.
i had to leave a bit early though - i had to get to bed responsibly.

yesterday:

i got up at 6.45, to take a shower and have a cup of coffee before running my mom to work, and then my niece and nephew to school. i went back to bed for an hour, and then hurriedly re-dressed to go to plumstead.
after a completely pointless meander around the area i was meant to be in (due to unnecessary earliness), i entered the quiet, peaceful home practice.

they use long needles. cool. they hurt me. not cool.

i lay there for an hour, imagining all sorts of creative deaths, as the one in my solar plexus REALLY $@%!ing hurt, and i was lying on another one...
i also bled quite a bit, i'm not so sure that's supposed to happen...

a couple of us played a demonstration game of universalis, which got really interesting - we have a super-cool story to start with, which shall be continued (dot, dot, dot).

i had a short nap when i got home, before we went to my great uncle and aunt's for supper, which was very nice.

after supper, i finally managed to get some family stories out of my mom. i'm still in shock over the amount of stuff i didn't know about my own history / heritage, and some of it is incredibly good, some incredibly upsetting. it's going to take a while to assimilate all of it.
and it does, to a degree, change the way i view myself. interesting.

today:

i got up fairly early, and my mom and i went to look at some apartments (out of interest, really). i had a quick, mostly insignificant lunch, and then took my niece to blouberg for a ballet thing, which gave me a chance to read, and listen to the cd that karnaf gave me (for the first time). it really is an awesome cd. and the book's good too (the science of discworld ii).

after zoning out to wrestling for a bit, my mom convinced (forced, guilted, whatever) me to go with her for a walk on the beachfront. it was very pretty, and inspired me to go for another run.

i ran about half the distance i did the last time, but i ran far more consistently, and it was much easier. although i'm now completely buggered, i do feel better for it.

the rest of the evening was spent rewatching edtv, and the olympics, and now it's bedtime again.

yeeeeee-HAH!!!

dammit that took too fucking long! i not only got the two serious bugs kicked out, but i solved another major dilemma at the same time! and it WAS my error, but it had nothing to do with the section i had changed, so OF COURSE i couldn't find the damn thing.

funny how one has to give up on something in order to get it. like when you have a girlfriend, and that's when all the other chicks dig you.

i think i'm gonna go throw up now - the BOMB has been making me nauseous...

another missed birthday (19th Aug)

well, today's rabbi_e's birfday, another one i've missed.
* sigh *
oh well. this damn growing-up stuff is still annoying.

live and let die is complete rubbish.

i got up really early this morning, and gave my nephew a ride to school - i promised his teacher i'd visit, so i did. being back in my old high-school was WEIRD.

i then spent the morning up on varsity campus, which was quite fun :) i got out a book on java, so i can brush up on the AWT stuff, and met up with an old friend... t'was very nice. i did drink too much coffee, however.

saturday (14th Aug):

my mom and i went shoe-shopping in the morning, and we got a beautiful pair of nike's. and a masala-steak toasted sandwich, with really good slap-chips (vinegar'ed completely).
^v^

i spent the majority of the day watching firefly. firefly is the shiznit. so pretty, SUCH good stories... mmmmm ^_^ (pretty girls too)

in the evening we went to the one ring, where we played some fun pool, and generally had a good laugh. unfortunately, i had a couple of cigarettes, which i paid for on the 17th...

four days ago:

i woke up at 06.25 to go for a run. i switched off my alarm, said "nuh uh", and promptly woke up around 11.15. a much sounder plan.

i did some more watching of firefly, and then went through to my aunt's for supper. her parents are incredibly opinionated people, and they had way too much to say about the israeli situation - we had some rather loud and aggressive arguments. was kinda fun, but it's getting old...

i then went through to sweetiepie's (her nick, not mine!) mom's place, and set up a printer for them. we then watched a movie, the contender, which is a great film. sweetiepie really made me feel at ease, and at home, which is why the following happened...

three days ago:

i spent my day in complete emotional shock / turmoil, thinking about the past few years, and how difficult some of the things i've been through really were.
and confused about my feelings regarding my relationships. very confused.

in the evening, i went through to shadowslight's mom's place to see how the renovations are coming along. jesus h., i'm so completely jealous and in awe of the place. it's totally cool and stylish.

after dinner, i went through to shadowslight's, and moonflake, zenstar, shadowslight and i played lots of lunch money, and chez greek, which was awesome.

the day before yesterday:

i actually went for a run! i lasted about 2km before my lungs began to throb, hum, and agonize. oh, the pain! that was some serious discomfort.

protoplasm and i did a basic tour of a couple of arb places - one of them was call a pizza, which has become more interesting than normal pizza parlours, one of them was a cute bar(s) with a REALLY decent pool table, and one of them was springboks, which is as dodgy as springfield's was. but most amusing, nevertheless - trust protoplasm to get caught between a rock (the girl he'd dumped that morning) and a hard place (his ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend). the really cute girl disappeared before i could decide on whether or not to hit on her :(

yesterday:

my legs were killing me the whole day! i took a taxi into town, which turned into a rather humourous (spelling?!) event - we were overloaded completely, with Very Large People, and i was sitting in the back corner... and i had to get out first...
so everyone had a good laugh as the whole taxi was re-arranged to let me go :P

i spent the afternoon coding, and am having severe problems with the BOMB, which are completely nonsensical and are driving me totally nuts. i did do some messing around with the KoL, which is always good.

... has left the building (14th Aug)

well. well, well, well.
well.
i've just returned from the gallery. that place still exists - amazing. i've discovered, to my shock and dismay, that i have totally outgrown house music - and
everything related to it. it was a cute trip down memory-lane, but nothing more.
how sad :'(

the day before yesterday (12th):

TNM was quite fun! we watched eurotrip, which was entertaining ("scotty doesn't know!"), and played lunch money and chez grunt well into the morning...

yesterday:

i slept REALLY badly. i had horrible pizza nightmares - really aweful. and the worst part was that i was aware of the pizza during the dreams. some pizzas just don't know when to stop hassling.

to make up for it, i spent the entire day in bed, getting up only to go to dinner at my sister's, and to watch the olympic opening with everyone. which wasn't QUITE as spectacular (although spectaculary boring watching all the nations entering) as i expected, but the firework show afterwards was incredible.

workaholic (12th Aug)

i finally resumed working on the project yesterday: i'd forgotten that i'd almost finished. i set up a machine to work on, and solved an important problem... things could be worse :)

yesterday evening i went with sandman to the video store, and we spent over an hour going through the videos to find one we both wanted to watch - mystic river was an EXCELLENT film, but quite sickening. nice to see kevin bacon on the other side of sleepers.

this morning i went through to visit some friends in somerset west, and it was quite a fun experience. i'm now working (so very hard, as you can see) on the project again, and a bit later it'll be TNM, although i'm supposed to fetch my cousin from constantia, which is most inconvenient.
oh well.

bombed (10th Aug)

i basically slept the day away. aside from breakfast, intermittently reading my book, and going for a brisk walk on the beachfront with my mommy, i've been in bed or chilling on the floor at my sister's place.

amazing.

*YAWN* *stretch* (10th Aug)

i just had an AWESOME sleep, which i've sorely needed ^_^

i woke up early yesterday, and spent THE ENTIRE DAY playing munchkin. it was fun, and i did make it into the final.
where three of us screwed up SO badly that we essentially gave the game away.
oh well.

last night was prize-giving / the afterparty for the convention, and it was quite fun. i finally met the girl who played sleeping beauty in real life ;)

Riddick-ulous (9th Aug)

i just got back from watching chronicles of riddick - it was absolutely fan-friggin'-tastic! beee-YOO-tiful. and incredibly, gratuitously sexy.
mmmmmmm. pure turn-on from start to finish ^_^

three days before yesterday (5th):

i woke up quite late, which was to be expected, and we rushed off a friend to the airport. it was a hair-raising drive, but we managed to fly through rush-hour inside of an hour, which was simply dangerous and unnatural. there are some experiences i'd rather not have.

i was picked up by aeroplane in the evening, and went off to his place (with one minor detour for drinks).

two days before yesterday (6th):

we spent the day chilling at aeroplane's, which is the coolest crib i have ever set eyes on. it's every teenager's wet dream *jealous*.

i got dropped off at home with a couple of hours to nap before supper. supper was very busy, but really good.

after supper i went off to protoplasm's place, where we watched most of trainspotting. this movie upsets me more and more every time.

the day before yesterday (7th):

we spent the morning at upstairs at mama africa - this gave me much time to meditate, which i really needed (and still need) to do, and the music was great from the word go. protoplasm and his partner got screwed, as they were listed to start playing at 5am, and by that time no-one was left on the dancefloor. i went home shortly after.

i was woken up with an sms telling me that i was late for the role-playing module, so i RUSHED and made it to campus just in time. the module was quite fun, but then it was an absolute RUSH back home to change into a princely outfit and RUSH back for the LARP. shadowslight and i RAN in the rain, only to discover that everyone else was late too.
bastards.
the larp was cool, but confusing. but i was typecast: prince charming ^_^ it was a lot of fun... i've never come up with so many innuendo-filled one-liners before, and the girls i used them on simply had to be intrigued. i even got to sleep with the evil queen (esmeralda, to those in the know) *evil grin*

yesterday:

i finally got to bed around 2am, after a night-cap with my sister's boyfriend, which also involved a religious / philosophical debate.
ugh.

i got up around 11.30, and rushed to get to campus, and managed to slip my way into a module - which was rather entertaining. i spent the rest of the afternoon playing munchkin, and sucking at it, and we then went as a group to watch the movie.

Unhealthily pacifistic (5th Aug)

right now:

good heavens! i just got back from a club (for which i had to get all dressed up), that contained more INCREDIBLY beautiful specimens of female than i've ever seen in one place.
very nice.
also, i saw a couple of people i haven't seen in years, and the music was quite funky.

i also got pickpocketed - luckily i caught the little bastard, but i just didn't feel that beating him up would do any good. i'm also way bigger than him. and i didn't feel like dragging him off to the police station.
thanks to the gods that i didn't have to lose my cellphone... that would have been absolutely debilitating.

two days before yesterday:

i took the guys on a tour of uct campus, which was most refreshing. afterwards, i went to shadowslight's, which was fun, and i saw not only arad, but zenstar and moonflake too :)

the day before yesterday:

i woke up at cockfart in the morning, and went to moonflake's astro lecture... it was @$%!ing freezing, but very interesting.
zenstar, moonflake and i went to canal walk to watch walking tall, which was fun and humourous.
yes.
we also saw the preview for chronicles of riddick, which looks fan-friggin'-tastic, and the teaser for avp.
AVP!! AVP!!

afterwards we sat at moonflake's for coffee, and i got to borrow terry pratchett (et al) - the science of discworld, which is what i've been looking for.
tres cool ^_^

i then met up with sandman, whom i haven't seen in yonks, and his girlfriend. we had coffee with my mom, and then went off for drinks at a touch of madness, which is a super-cool place.

yesterday:

i finally finished orson scott card - ender's game, and it was just as amazing as everyone told me ^_^. i have begun the science of discworld.

the guys and i spent the day at canal walk, which included go-karting.
i sucked, but i did enjoy myself.
afterwards, they came to supper along with shadowslight and moonflake, which was nice,
and then we went off in search of a party.

whoa... (1st aug)

29th:

even more family stuff in the morning.

i went around cape town with my mom, and discovered that she has a really awesome job. veeeery interesting. she manages huge properties, like mall lots and so on, and it's amazing how much stuff (and the different kinds of it) she has to deal with.

supper at my cousins, absolutely amazing. we even played a board game, which was incredibly non-characteristic of our family dynamic.

SxS and ru55 had arrived, and i met up with them after supper. we did some arbing around camps bay, then eventually settled on steers for supper, and played pool at the sea point stones. sucky place, severely sucky tables.

yesterday:

ru55 and i got to getafix around 3am, and left around 5am.

saturday's mostly a blur, aside from a great lunch at some cousins.

we had a birthday party for one of our uncles after the synagogue, and half the evening was seriously unpleasant - our family's disfunction reared it's ugly had, and it was most upsetting. the food was good though.

i rescued SxS and ru55 from somerset road, and we went through to obs to play pool at the one ring with protoplasm and some other friends. was nice.

today:

we moved through to getafix around 2am. protoplasm and i met these two girls, and we had some seriously warped sexual discussions - i've never been so turned on by talking. crazy shit.

we stayed there until about 6am, i showered and got to bed around 7. i was rudely awoken by my mother at 11am, with a fake cup of coffee (damn decaf), and spent the morning/afternoon saying goodbye to the family, and then going to take my brother to the airport.

i went over to SxS and ru55's with the psOne, so we had a bit of a tekken session, which is always fun. we played tons of table-tennis and pool at the hotel - i couldn't see straight, and i still did quite alright ^_^

we've been sitting in cafe erte for a while now - good enough coffee, great music, and the internet more or less works. sign off time soon... $$$