sleepy weekend

hmmph. 17 hours sleep, interrupted for a 20 minute break to eat and have a smoke. i woke up with giant bags under my eyes. bags for too little sleep, bags for too much. fascinating.

after a quick argument with a cabbie, i managed to get a decent deal, and then a fun walk (getting only a little lost) to meet up with spot and a dutch friend of his. after a short while, we walked on to a cute beach bar called eganu (a play on higanu, or "we arrived"). some very cute girls, and a hilarious conversation in mixed dutch / afrikaans (i can actually understand the guy, but it was extremely well animated :P). a really cute girl came up to us afterwards to ask what language we'd been speaking... silliness ensued. but i do have enough data to track her down and leave her a message to call me ;)

we drank black sambuca, something i haven't had in years. i was fascinated to note that we couldn't light it. apparently something to do with it having 2% less alcohol than the required amount to be flammable. i know for a fact that in sa, we used to light the black successfully... what gives?

from there we went to mike's place. an odd story involving an edible shark later^[1], and we sat an hour or two chatting to some girls. i suppose i'll just have to give the cute one a call during the week :P

they gave our dutch friend a ride home, and spot and i went off to my coffee shop, which was pleasant as usual. and the sexy waitress was most entertaining. then a chilled walk back here to spot's gran, and i've been sitting online for the past couple of hours. whoa! time for bed! the only problem is that i'm supposed to go look at the two apartments today, but i suppose in the worst case i'll just take the pre-ordained one. it's only for a couple of months, anyway.

fyi: they DO sell toothbrushes on saturdays in tel aviv. you just have to know where to look :P

^[1]yes. all sharks are edible. this one was gelatinous, though.