i'm alive!

yes - VERY alive. and filled with goo.

i actually succeeded in getting to bed early last night. i woke up cockfart (5.30) in the morning, and made my more-or-less dazed way to the medical base. i got the injection, and i'm pretty sure the result was psychosomatic - after a while everything i saw was tinted, and i didn't feel too good.

the test itself was fine, although the doctor really irritated me because he kept telling me to only remove my dog-tags, belt, and boots - even though i was covered with metal objects. idiot.

after the test, i had to wait a bit for the results. once i got those i left for my base.

the results interest me - i'm going to try to scan them so i can post them, they look great! my spine is highlighted, my neck is bright. what interested me is that my tailbone is so bright everything in that region is indistinct. IANAD (doctor, duh), but it seems to me that i may just have a problem there. and i thought i'd just bruised / sprained it somehow.

i was almost at the bus station when they called me to come back - there'd been a problem with the results. so i went back, had a normal x-ray on my thigh (?!). they gave me this tiny plate to cover my privates with, and i expressed my unhappiness with the lack of consideration for my future generations.

i had to wait another half an hour for *those* results. while sitting and having a smoke (yes, i've been bad), i noticed two guys walking around handcuffed to each other. it took me a while to register that one of them was in a PA uniform - the only one i've seen until now was confiscated by a cousin of mine after he'd been in a gunfight with them - and then i realized that everyone in the area was giving them a wide berth.

i gave the man his last cigarette before he got taken to the wagon headed for prison. i thought that was pretty cool.

i got the results, and apparently everything's fine with my thigh. go figure - i was getting all excited for another excuse to be released.

long, long bus-rides back to my base, and once i got there i discovered a few things that needed doing. office work was all good, but our deadline has been pushed forward two weeks. totally unfair, but i'm thrilled that we'll make it in spite of that.

i LOVE good design.

the mongoose needed someone to replace him for an hour, so i managed to organize myself an uzi unofficially ;), and performed some arbitrary missions that needed doing. i replaced the mongoose for that hour - much, much easier to do one hour as opposed to four, and it was my first time guarding in almost a year without smoking.

nice one ^_^

i did a bit of work before the dog and i left for the airport to pick up his mom. gosh that sounds dodgy. there was a problem with the train schedule, so i left him to go on alone and stopped by the office. there was a shift in progress, but few calls, so we had an entertaining time, and i got to clear my mail.

one of the mails was from the boss, trying to find out who installed lemmings on a workstation. whoever did that will probably get a warning, maybe even fired, because installing ANYTHING on a workstation is strictly forbidden.

yes. it was me. but it had told me that it wouldn't install anything! it lied!!

i made myself a sandwich, then bussed to azrieli, then walked home. i spoke to my mom for half an hour, then called j-girl to invite her to a j-pop/rock hentai party at the lizard (with an offer to stay over afterwards). she didn't accept the offer, but the conversation went well... i think.

i then went off to said party. on the way, i thought about how to say "that guy over there is my friend" in case they wouldn't let me in (the mongoose is the manager, as i've said): ano kata wa watashi no tomodachi desu. i practised it until it was smooth, but my expectations were off completely.

the party was a large group of russians, some funky j-pop, and everybody dressed and acting very strangely indeed. cute girls flashing constantly was alright :P, but all the guys being dressed up as girls didn't really fly, and whenever they stopped the music to announce something it was always in russian.

very, very odd vibe.

the mongoose's father picked us up around midnight, and dropped me off here. i now have some work to do for the medsupply project, and then i'm shaving my face (thanks schpat for making me specify; maybe i think of you while scrubbing my nuts ;> hmmph, that wasn't nice at all. sorry. i was just kidding anyway. it's an israeli thing.), showering and sleeping.