yes sweat

i started off the day around 7.15, and made it to the ministry of absorption around 9. i took the loooooong bus because it got to the stop first, and it stops right by the ministry. i'm not taking it again if i can help it. it would have been quicker to walk, dammit.

so i get there, and they tell me that the "city officer" (a different kind, i can't explain that) had moved to offices right near where i live.

buggrit.

i check, double check, and make them call someone else to make sure. sod it all, i got on another bus and headed back to my side of tel aviv.

it took half an hour to get there, half an hour of walking from place to place only to discover that nobody had any idea what i was looking for, ten minutes to get the right phone number and discover that nobody moved anywhere, and half an hour to get back.

what i haven't yet mentioned is that today was SWELTERINGLY hot. crazy. unpleasant in the extreme.

so i get to the original place - a few blocks from the ministry goddammit, sort out my shit in under two minutes and then return to the ministry. took another five minutes to sort out the paperwork, and then i could go to the bank of jerusalem to sort out my money.

tuesdays are the days to go for soldiers - no need to wait in the queue, and all the right people / documents are available.

as of a couple of months ago, the bank of jerusalem is closed on tuesdays. FARKIN' HELL. i'll have to go back on friday after work.

i then took a bus to ra'anana. i was kinda tired, so i sat at the back of the bus and warped in and out of sleep. things kept getting hotter and hotter, and about 5 minutes before i had to get off the bus i realized why - i was sitting on top of the friggin' radiator. no wonder the aircon wasn't working where i was.

so i got off the bus dazed and dehydrated, sweaty and unhappy. licked the melted chocolate off the wrapper - making quite a mess - and got to the offices of my landlords, where i handed them the piece of paper that was due a couple of months ago.

last night my boss and i had arranged to meet in the late morning (which it was), so i called him. to discover that he wasn't anywhere in the area, and wouldn't be back till late afternoon. bastard. so i hopped on a bus back to tel aviv. what a waste of a long journey.

i spoke to my taekwondo instructor on the phone, i'm going to try to make friday trainings from now on - it's been too long.

i met up with j-girl at the central train station, and we went through to azrieli... just to sit with airconditioning. after a while we took a train back to the central station. it was so comfortable, and we were both tired, that i wanted to just miss the station and rest a while, then return a bit later. she agreed, but when the train stopped she jumped off anyway.

bummer. i would've enjoyed that.

waited for her bus, said goodbye and went to work. i arranged some stuff with the girl in charge of shifts, and got a neat gift from the company for my birthday - a voucher for a few books. nice ;)

snacked, sat online for a bit, then bussed to the supermarket to collect my monthly free goodies. floccinoccinihilipification? i guesstimated wrong - i had to pay 1.3 shekels over the amount i expected. not bad!

i then bussed back home, which included an unpleasant interaction with some old guy who didn't appreciate two of us having opened the window. it was all hot and sticky, and he was the last one on. that's not cool. he didn't stop harrassing me till i got off the bus.

dropped my gear off, and walked a bit to the hardware store and replaced my shower head. bussed back. spoke to j-girl on messenger, turns out she spent the last hour checking out SB on the internet - girls. always got to compare themselves against the ex.

my commander called, to make sure i'm alive. i hope no soldiers are in trouble again. they usually only do that when there's a reason.

i'm about to check if my new shower head fits. and then probably go to bed. my computer's been making a horrible intermittent squealing sound since this morning, and if i take it to the computer store here it'll cost me 120 schmecks just to check. and i'm not in any way inclined right now to check it myself.

i was contemplating going rollerblading tonight. it's a definite maybe.