jigsawdust

thanks to cable tv and a showing of philadelphia i went to bed way later than intended, hence the current post covering two days.

backwards.

i'm about to take a nap.

on my way home i went past my old client section, said hello, and got an earful of how absolutely horrid everything is. it was rather uncomfortable, and when i called piles to find out how things got so bad i discovered that he's on holiday.

i spent my day on the induction base answering unclear and irrelevant questions and writing essays instead of paragraphs because i misunderstood certain phrasing. the experience was amusing, and the girls were helpful... one of them went so far as to bring me a dictionary, but it was english -> hebrew which wasn't particularly useful.

and then towards the end the power to the building was cut, so our last test was skipped completely.

at least the personal interview went alright. it'll be a couple of weeks before i know if the army finds me worthy to learn what i've already got experience in.

the food on the induction base is far worse than i remember.

i overslept half an hour this morning, but it didn't do any damage. good planning is important! and having a completely screwed up biological clock is useful sometimes!

i've heard about philadelphia, but never took the opportunity to watch it - really great film.

the kid prepared a serious meal after training, it was so good we just kept on eating and in spite of the fact that he made enough for three days it's almost gone.

this crimsonland addiction is becoming absurd.

training was good, but we didn't have enough time. that was my fault - i was exhausted after the park and just couldn't get up off the couch. one cute girl walked in with an absolutely *perfect* body... i couldn't help myself.
"hey, you see that girl over there? i think she works out."

so we spent the afternoon in the park by the side of the river, the kid reading while i learned how to carve and match the bits of wood. once i got a few notches done i realized i could use them as a template, and things are progressing much faster. which means i might actually be finished within a year :P

park highlight: the ice-cream man on his bicycle, going up and down the park roaring "ALL THE CHILDREN CRY, CRY TO YOUR MOTHERS SO THEY'LL BUY YOU ICE-CREAM"... now that's a bad man.

on the way to the park we passed a real-life *ahem* real-unlife zombie, and a rather disturbing rodeo clown. these are things i don't see every day.

i began working on the wood, but cleaning up all the sawdust was a bitch. this was after dealing with smelly laundry that our new flatmate had put in the day before and forgotten to tell us about. that was part of my wake-up, which began at a stupid 7.30am... weird.

and this took a solid 40 minutes to play with: