the fire's still not out... - part ii

[... continued]

did i say night? is it sleeping late if it's only a handful of hours? i woke up just before noon to post photos from my recovered camera and respond (belatedly) to all the birthday wishes i got), then bladed to the wall to meet with scrapper.

the wall was tough on us, but i pushed through for a good finish. i left satisfied for the first time in ages :)

my hands were really sore, though.

i bought capetonian wine on my way home as a dinner gift, then scrambled to get ready to go to one of my professors' poetry readings. we'd left too late, though... i was disappointed. pg was shocked that tel aviv pubs and bars are so crowded and busy so early on a friday evening - i think i need to introduce her to the city she lives in :D

i was blessed with a crazy meeting on our way out... we ran into a friend of mine that i haven't seen in years! i've been worried about darko, but he seems to be doing absolutely fine and we sat chatting for half an hour over beers before pg and i had to get going.

shaking his hand afterwards painfully reminded me that i'd been on the wall a couple of hours before :P

dinner was loud, boisterous and fun - as usual :)
half the family was there, and already i've received pleased communication from south africa that pg has been described as my "lovely" girlfriend... news sure does travel fast :P

watching the news on the fire was pornographic. the media presentation was too detailed to be respectful of those who lost their lives...

---part of the dinner conversation covered a couple of cousins of mine - one in hospital with meningitis and his sister so riddled with cancer that she's had both her breasts and her uterus removed. that's so unfortunate that i don't want to absorb the information.

---my biggest complaint about the meal was that there was too much food and that i couldn't stop eating it even when i was totally stuffed :(

pg and i made it early for show, and i was disappointed to discover that the tmuna theatre wasn't in its usual configuration - kc's sister and boyfriend could definitely have joined us. even more disappointing when considering them because the show was awesome - the phototaxis kick ass! and yael deckelbaum was, as usual, AMAZING.

one of their songs put the following line in my head: "you'll have to buy back your meat from me". i can't even remember what the original lyrics were :P

---saturday:

we had a post-show social with wr and his brother, and i was presented with the new album as a gift ^_^

i stopped off at home to check my work schedule, and was surprised to find, yet again, a problem with it. this has got to stop!

i crashed at pg's, and we slept late. we had a really lazy, comfortable start to what turned out to be a breathtakingly perfect day outside - we need rain! it's winter! this weather is TOO good!
we had an excellent breakfast at cafesito, then came to my place to pseudo-study - i can't say that i got too far with my paper, although i did, at least, start writing it.

i passed by eidetic to pick up the gear from thursday evening, then went with pg to ze sushi for an excellent meal. aside from a few moments of discomfort when a mother couldn't get her baby to stop screaming, everything was as it should be. i may have consumed too much saki. the chef made a point of treating me to extra sashimi :)

when we returned, pg got stuck into my haiku magnets before going to bed, and i spent a few hours having issues with the flex debugger (thank you, chrome, for being difficult), then with the bytearray (why is it that most of the tutorials are simply wrong?), then overloading (because actionscript doesn't allow it), along with a few more things that i really shouldn't need to understand. i don't *wanna* be a flex expert :/

i love marilyn manson, doll-dagga buzz-buzz ziggety-zag kicks ass.

---today:

i had a decent sleep, waking up to attempt fielding's tom jones. i didn't get as far as i'd have liked.

i entered a poetry competition (general gripe, sunday morning surprise, springs have sprung and slow spiral): i hope i win something!

flex and i have been weirdly bonding this morning. how is it that the man i'm doing this for has unwittingly chosen a test-the-waters project that's so complicated? he *just* called me to say that we got the tender for the first job, so it looks like i'm going to be busy this week :)