sunshine jelly

backwards post! i'm tired, haven't showered yet, and haven't made much progress with the paper. i keep leading myself down dead-ends and i keep getting side-tracked. this isn't good.

i just made jelly. no, really. jelly. only i made it with ground coffee and hot chocolate powder. it smells wonderful. it looks awful. it's destined to gross out the kinder when he receives a package with it smeared all over.

i just saw sunshine on my way home, stopped for two words and carried on. i saw a graph that says that the most sure-fire way to get the girl is to ignore her. i have a feeling that's not entirely accurate.

on the way home: i suffered from a sore stomach on a packed bus, while re-reading hyperion*, scribbling notes, answering both phones simultaneously while listening to groovy trance.
at least the trance was groovy :)
a really cute girl who reminded me of mpe sat down opposite me and sent me a few smiles, but i gotta be honest i'm now / still overly cautious :P

i had coffee with sammy when i went there to grab some of his books, his kids are really cute and i hadn't seen his wife in years... i unfortunately didn't have time to stay (over three hours of travelling to get to his place and back by bus).

on the bus there i took the helm of ars control - they were playing their crap music really loudly and everyone was too afraid to say something. i think i made myself some new friends :P
i'd taken the wrong bus from tel aviv, so i had to switch lines in ra'anana :(
i re-read lady of mazes on the way, it's an incredible look at human interfacing with reality. it ties in nicely with terry pratchett's explanation of how we lie to ourselves in the science of discworld ii: the globe.

i bought a ticket to see chris cornell! i didn't know until this afternoon that he's performing next week already :P
i then bought another one for the guy who informed me, he was certain they were sold out. on the way i got stuck on a fenced pavement behind a lady with a pram and a kid on a bicycle. i told the kid to get off the bike to let us through, and the lady got upset because she thought i was telling her to hurry up. oh, dear.

i took the train home with the goto guy, which was more comfortable than the shuttle and arrived at around the same time.

i closed my loan account with the army today! that felt good. take-away humus is way better than the regular sit-down meal, and the lunch chat revolved around snowboarding which is always nice :)

c++ project progression: i've explained to the guy that he's doing me a favour by letting me use my brain for once. nystire and i have been discussing the fact that i should be participating in open-source projects to keep active and interested, but without a personal excuse i've had no motivation to do so.

treachery! the work that's been irritating me the last few days with it's incompleteness? i've been feeling bad about cutting down someone else's hard work, only to discover this morning that the bastard copied it in its entirety from somewhere else - which explains why i have so much changing to do :/

i tweaked the section's virtual magic eightball today, it's looking good and running smoothly. that was a fun little distraction.

weight watching: my belly needs reducing
shoe shining: we were warned to be extra-specially presentable today, for no reason. of course, i brought out my "special occasion" pants and somehow got white paint on them...
sensitive tooth: the new filling, gonna have to complain :(

* i've decided it's a better bet than the magic pudding... and i suffered last night chrononhotonthologos, "the most tragical tragedy that ever was tragedized". this is a more appropriate tagline than it should be