can i summarize?

it's about 5am, i'm back from a thumping good set in trinity and my hair's just about dry enough to rejoin pg in bed. i have a full list of all the things that have interested me enough that i want to write about them since monday, but in order to access them i have to re-install itunes on my mother's pc... it's a long story. maybe i'll fill in the blanks, maybe i won't.

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cape town: i love you. even in your winter clothes. even if pg's first view of the mountain was of the clouds surrounding the mountain. when you're cold and wet, you still smell like cape town, and i love your smell.

after a long, horrible flight through istanbul (wednesday - thursday noon, 24 hours from leaving tel aviv to arriving in cape town, with about two hours of sleep between us), we showered and zombied around sea point looking to change cash and eat. we didn't change cash because the place in adelphi centre charges a R50 minimum commission (what?!?!), so we had to find a place for food that accepted visa. that wasn't chop chop, where the poor bastard suffered our complex menu perusal plus order before we discovered that. it was steers, though, although i forgot to leave a tip on the card and asked for change for a tenner, then got impatient and walked out before the change appeared and the poor girl ran after us in the rain to give it back...

we crashed, woke up late to eat dinner, talk, and then go back to bed.

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friday:

we woke up early-ish to pick up the car (my mom took my brother's so we get the gti ^_^), then headed down to newport for a simple breakfast* before heading back home to pick up my second mother and take her shopping. then we came home thinking to rest, but dirk diggler popped by and we went to visit the farm in tamboerskloof, stopped for a cool lunch, then came home. i'm well impressed by the difference in mr. diggler's attitude, he seems to have finally gotten his shit together and i'm quite proud of him :)

* we could've done better, but my head's still righteously messed up. i NEED this holiday, alright?

pg and i went straight to la vie for the mutha fm launch party. we sat with hyperviper for an hour or two, then with protoplasm as soon as he finished his set, and i got an opportunity to have it out with one of the djs whose sets keep making me want to argue veganism with her - and it turns out she's actually very well balanced and quite intelligent.

i drank too much. i won a pair of sunglasses that really don't suit me. we left early so we'd be ready for dinner. we passed out, and were woken by the sounds of my sister banging on the door.

dinner was loud, fun, delicious and exhausting. pg has won approval, and handled the craziness like a pro :)

we were both really shattered, and went to bed, and i woke up at 2am to drink coffee and fly off to the club to join protoplasm. i missed the legendary house set, but was in time for psy-trance. the first set was dampened by the far-too-bass sound system, but the djs afterwards played stuff that was dark enough that nothing was cut off, and i had a good time before eventually walking out into the freezing cold to find the car and head on home.

now, post-lukewarm shower and much munching (why does everything here taste so good?!?!), i'm ready for bed. there's a gaming convention to go to soon :D

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on tuesday i discovered that between the bursary i'm going to receive for being the literature department's webmaster and what remained from my army's farewell package, my tuition fees for 2011 / 2012 are going to total NIS 60.

i like that.

the only problem is that on tuesday i was contacted with my first website update, and i hadn't been in touch with the previous webmaster for a hand-off yet. i received a response on tuesday night telling me i'd receive instructions by thursday, by which stage i was in cape town and using systems that don't seem to be able to connect to the servers... and thursdays are not the days to need support from the campus IT department.

*sigh*