matthew vaughn is my hero.
[previous post continued] i was pulled out of my zone and offered a ride home, with the guy i'll be stopping over at and i trying to figure out the best way for me to get there. i hopped out the car, made my way to the bus, and answered my phone... tahoma and the alternative ride had spotted me and pulled over to give me a ride home :)
tahoma's first question was "what's happening?", which i found amusing because i gave him access to my blog :P
he's the man to ask about public transport, so i received an immediate answer to all the questions from the first ride :)
the alternative ride overheard me talking to the girl who was with us [here's me being tactful] about teaching her to rollerblade - he wanted to know if i'd teach him as well. we discussed the need for rollerblades to fit decently, and then got into an argument about whether or not i was really prepared to teach for free.
i'd offered, and he'd told me it would be as if he'd paid for lessons by giving me rides... as i said to him, that means he's just put a price on riding with him and it's no longer a friendly gesture. once i'd explained my point of view i had to jump out, and i almost [shameful admission] took out someone on a bike because i didn't look behind me when i opened the door :$
i've been reading the introduction to aristotle - poetics (the penguin classics version, and just in that found inspiration for my planned works ^_^
it really is mandatory reading!
i decided that it was time for a run - i filled and ran the washing machine and was on my way out the door when my cousin from the kibbutz called me up to drop a bombshell. in truth, the news is actually somewhat positive, but she's taken it hard in light of the traumatic couple of years she's been through and we talked for a while.
i'm not particularly good at consolation. the saddest bit is that she feels more comfortable (and with good reason at the moment) talking to me about these things than her own kids...
i exchanged a few sentences with chicken lady (thank you facebook), then headed out. one of the things i thought about a lot was my cousin's current predicament, and i remembered that she'd planned on doing the passover meal alone on the kibbutz... not cool. i decided i'd bail out on my other cousins and join her instead.
i discovered when i called her up afterwards that she'd already changed her plans, so that was a weight off my shoulders.
just as i slowed to a walk on my way back, some girl called out to me, begging me to hold the parking spot she'd found while she went to fetch her boyfriend. i'm *so* glad i don't have to worry about that sort of thing :)
i went to sleep fairly early. i woke up about half an hour before my alarm, and backed up all my converted writings so far before heading out to the post office. i was *very* excited to received my copy of the annotated alice and dr. horrible's sing-along blog ^_^
i began a random walk to look for a gift for my cousins, and ran into one of the girls from the rollerblading group. it turns out a whole bunch of us didn't feel up to riding this week... weird. while we were talking, a really cute dog stopped to sniff me. i bent down to give her my hand, she got really excited and a second later she was happily standing up with two paws on my chest, the lot of us having a laugh :)
the girl told me that we'd moved forward an hour during the night, and i was shocked. she checked my time, and told me to spin it - which i duly did. i gave up on the gift shopping, realizing its futility and decided to pick something up closer to home, and headed back to pick up my netbook and hit cafeneto.
there i discovered that my phone had updated the hour automatically, and i needed to swing it back :P
i had a great breakfast, and just as urchin arrived and i put my netbook away things started happening on the party front. i was offered a ride, then put in touch with someone who couldn't help, and then given the phone number of a friend of mine who hooked me up with the party info in the first place... it was only after i walked out of the movie that i managed to get in touch with the first guy and iron out the details :P
now i'm about to pack and head out. i don't have a ticket to the event - this could be a bit difficult. i hope not. it shouldn't be. it's time for another leap of faith, flying straight into the face of previous bad experience :P
robin williams - weapons of self destruction is okay, but not amazing. i did love the section on dock ellis, though - that was wild!
a possible cure for cancer? nice!
important alert: wasps are not bees.
urban dictionary: myth-information. i like.
m-sphere - in the heat just got me going for tonight ^_^
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