publishing hassles

this post rescued from a publishing error : originally titled "i dun bin hitsed in the beanbag".

i left work at 5.45am. it was a really beautiful spring morning, and i was thinking that i'm going to be released in a year and 3 days, so the weather should be similar then. and i still feel a bit screwed over weatherwise from my immigration - i went from winter to winter. that was the start of all my problems.

so on my way back to humanity, i think it might be an excellent idea to stay here for the beginning of summer, and then head south for another one. that would be a most fitting end to 6/7 years of hell. and i could use the opportunity to make a bit of cash.

i arrived on base just after 6, flossed (that dentist really got to me) and brushed my teeth, and shaved (and threw away the overused and pretty much ineffectual blade), and waded (i was really tired, the air was hard to get through) to my office, and shone my shoes, and passed out.

inspection was at 7.45 - i didn't get up until 11.30. i don't think anyone noticed my absence. i was woken for a problem that i still haven't solved. mainly 'cause i've spent about 20 minutes total on it.

lunch. we're supposed to be given a meal. the quantity of meat on the plate made it purely symbolic. literally three bites. some border guard started fighting with the kitchen staff about it, and the kitchen staff produced their biggest lad to keep him calm. of course, once they'd calmed him down i pushed my way through so i was facing aforementioned large-boy, and took up the same argument. unfortunately, the reality is that there's nothing we can really do, short of sneaking food. that's just pathetic.

and it's not exactly gourmet, anyhow.

the afternoon included catching my SC and engaging - unfortunately he weaseled out, because he doesn't want to do anything that might involve him making an effort to help me out. so two meetings have been arranged for sunday morning, hopefully something will happen.

gta happened, a bit of work happened, and loads of flirting with mntns and a girl from our base happened, and all of a sudden hometime happened. on the bus home, i went through haifa technion's prospectus (a guy i know is applying). just reading about the courses made me edgy. interesting that i've passed almost all of the core courses... it's just another thing to consider once i'm done serving.

got home, ran laundry, watched tsotsi, showered, dressed and left for work.

tsotsi is a great film. i'm almost embarrassed that i was glad for the subtitles. good story.

i went to azrieli to get supper. there was an officer there, who looked familiar. he ordered the same thing i did, had more trouble than i did with the hebrew. when we got the food i invited him to sit with me, and about 5 minutes later we figured out that i'd seen him for some dental work (army dentist).

the meal was great, and he's an immigrant from uruguay so culturally not too different. it's fun to meet people with such similar stories (especially army ones). and good too that he has the same attitude towards his assistants that i do ('cuz they be CUTE, yo).

speaking of which, i've had my eye on one of them - and i found out today that she's being released from the army 6 days before me. she's bloody NINETEEN. that just kills me. i really have done it all ass-backwards...

so we went outside for a smoke, i left for work and he left for night-shift in first-aid. the walk here was quite pleasant. i pretty much crashed once i hit my chair, and i had to wake up separately for each of my calls. i slept between calls until roughly 3am. we finally finished about 15 minutes ago, and now i'm off home, to bed.

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i hung around at work for about an hour, failing to post and playing spider solitaire (which i really suck at), then took a taxi with one of my coworkers.

now that i'm home i'm planning on crashing until somebody wakes me up, or until i'm forced to go to mike's place for their amazing breakfast.

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