stressball part ii

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dammit - i didn't know it was possible to export all my post to xml. it would appear i've wasted a fair amount of time on doing it manually :'(

the ride through to the party was a bit crazy - i was broken, but i couldn't sleep and i kept sliding between reality and dark dreams. at one point we drove through rain, which was difficult to believe - it's the end of june! in israel!

the venue was really well hidden - even though the driver was one of the organizers, we managed to get lost in the mountains. all i picked up was a conversation with a cop on the way in to the area*, the moon shining down through the clouds and then a weird noise before we all had to get out and walk... the weird noise was the radiator overheating :/

* "why did you lie to me?"
we should have responded with "ask me no questions, i'll tell you no lies" :P

two things i noticed on the way:
1. my tongue's fully healed. i know this because i'm very aware of the bar being too long.
2. i randomly feel great pressure behind my left eyeball. i thought it was something that builds up from eye strain, but there was no reason for it to strike suddenly at 3am.

we walked into the party with a german tourist who said / asked strange / amusing things, and got into the little valley just in time to enjoy an amazing sunrise.
mission 1: accomplished!

the first part of the party started a bit rough - i was tired and not feeling particularly well. it took a while before we were organized and sharing someone's tent to store our gear, and the music was just beginning to get groovy by the time we hit the dancefloor. the girls seemed to be having a good time - i wonder if they fully appreciated just how insanely good cosmosis is - he was up and down with his electric guitar, playing every style (i especially enjoyed his hendrix covers) and throwing us unbelievably solid beats ^_^

i can't recall any one artist driving me that nuts in a while; not even simon posford!

the sprinkler system was a must... umm... right until it began to rain. it rained! the weather was cool for a few hours, and the main tent got so waterlogged that it had to be dropped to protect the beams from being crushed!

so there we were, dancing in the rain to the most wicked tunes in the middle of israel in the middle of summer. it was a fantastic spiritual experience, but i don't believe there's any more obvious sign that the end of the world is nigh - global warming weather patterns have taken a big step :(

the girls found a ride back to herzeliya, explaining that my cousin's friend wasn't feeling well and said goodbye. i really hope they enjoyed the party as much as they said they did.

at one point i felt so gone that i took a nap; i woke up overheating, when there was a cool breeze outside. there was too much sun to remove my shirt, so i was glad that one of the guys was running around spraying us with water :)

the only complaint i have about the day is that everything after cosmosis was a let-down. they really shouldn't have put minimal / progressive / whatever after crazy psy and goa. it was still great music, but it was hard to get worked into a frenzy :/

i made a couple of new friends, and scored a ride home with them. i was the only person who didn't pass out, so it was my job to keep the driver occupied; i'm really glad my ipod has a speaker, otherwise we would've been stuck listening to the radio the whole way there :P

i hadn't eaten since supper, so i thought i'd head for a coffee shop before getting to sleep. my body didn't agree with that plan, however, and i passed out almost immediately after showering. i woke up in the evening, and chc walked in looking crushed midway through an episode of the prisoner.

she'd gotten a ride back with a couple of friends of mine, and they're a difficult bunch to get to know. she hadn't made it any easier when she took her time at a gas station on the way... *sigh*

at least she seems to be okay. she's gone, and she left me with a shrek candy fan as a parting gift. she still has my key, but a lot of her stuff's still here and i think it's alright. it did give us an awkward pause as she walked out the door :$

i didn't get anything of value done yesterday, just chilled and caught up online and then went to sleep after posting. i thought i'd read myself to sleep, but i didn't even manage a sentence before i realized that i wasn't going to make it...

... i began the day at the city council - i now know how much my council tax is and that they don't care about people who've been released from the permanent force. at least they give reductions to poor students - not me, hopefully, unless i find myself in real shit :S

i went shopping, and made myself a solid spicy pastrami omelette to consume while posting. i'd been planning on visiting my piercer, but i realized that it was too late so i whizzed off to work instead.

it was a pretty productive day, and i came home with the intention of getting some work done.

i'm about to begin.

i promise!

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an interesting link from gco - why do the arabs want israel?