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.