digital downward spiral

frack, my neck's out again :/

nystire is a rotten bastard. galaxy online isn't just free and easily accessed, it's essentially an MMO version of one of my favourite games - master of orion. i lost four consecutive hours to it this morning.

it was due to the game that i left late, and had to rush to meet my cousins for lunch. lunch was magnificent, the steaks were brilliant and the desserts were sinful and decadent. the best part for me was seeing my gift so well received, and not only by the birthday girl - everyone else gushed over it too!

and in addition to that, their little brother enjoyed the hebrew comic i got him for his birthday and i heard from his mother that he's been seen in bed reading hunter x hunter after lights-out ^_^

i stopped at home, running into the neighbour who borrowed a perfect circle - thirteenth step a while back and arranging to meet with him soon, and then at *my* place to check out something that's been bothering me:
the water was running fine until yesterday morning, and i figured that i might have left a tap closed. i hadn't. there seems to be a problem with the hand-basin taps.
this, for obvious reasons, upsets me.

i've been browsing through the game, and i was highly amused at the difference that it makes walking with "alpha male" status in mind.
i have begun working on a very interesting project that lake suggested, and it has a photographic element that ran down my phone's battery very fast. as nice as it is to have a decent integrated camera, for serious abuse one needs a dedicated one.

i'm very amused that i managed to lock myself out on her stairwell when i went to take a couple of snaps of tel aviv.

lake and i watched whale rider, i loved it the first time and enjoyed it this time too. it's a great film. afterwards, though, we finally had a chat that i've been putting off... it was a bit uncomfortable, but i think she understands where i'm coming from. i like being intimate with her, but that doesn't include any sexual contact.

it's a very odd situation.

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i cannot fully express how happy i am to be leaving this apartment soon - i seem to be the only person who cares about stupid things like cleaning and having enough toilet paper.

i'm unhappy about having to wake up in five hours.