distraction

the drives to and from campus were dangerous yesterday - it was obscenely difficult to keep my eyes on the road when the view over cape town from nelson mandela boulevard was so intensely beautiful; like something out of a hollywood movie that'd been touched up with cgi.

aside from the fun social, the module started late enough that i got into a game of thunderstone - i think i might want to buy that. fun, interesting, and doesn't take a million years to get through a round.

the module was great, we played teenage mutant ninja rodents back in samurai days and although there were a couple of fine points on the character that i forgot about, we succeeded and had a lot of fun doing so. highlight: failing to place a grappling hook correctly and surprising a ninja by landing next to his perch on the underside of a roof, fighting a losing battle with him and attempting to hook his leg with my tail while flinging myself topside... only i managed to evoke his patellar reflex on the wrong part of the arc and got kicked straight down into the mêlée three floors below...

we finished around 3pm, so i cruised back home to find pg suffering a bit of cabin fever. we went for a walk along the beachfront promenade, then returned via the video store to pick up skylight. after a long chat with a cousin of mine who's emigrating to israel soon, we began the movie over dinner, paused to spend an hour with my uncle upstairs, then returned to finish it and go to bed.

skylight is a completely crap film. and not crap in a funny way. it's teh suck.

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a good night's sleep (although my neck's buggered), discovering that i still don't have access to the online tools i need to perform my webmaster duties, and now i'm taking pg to canal walk. shopping day, yay :P