not excited

thursday night: the movie was madagascar. i'd seen the first few minutes of it once, and decided it wasn't particularly interesting. now that i've seen the movie in its entirety: i'm totally unimpressed.

another restless night ensued, only this time i discovered that my feet hurt less when they're not exposed to the fan, but i still can't sleep unless the air-conditioner is on because no matter how strong the fan is, it doesn't adjust the humidity and it doesn't really help the parts of my body not directly exposed.

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friday:

i woke up early to meet with tahoma and his fiancé over breakfast, to trade travel stories and discuss politics. it was a pleasant start to the day, although all i wanted to do when i got back home was rest, not get ready to head off to training. the training itself was fun, although i think a muscle in my back got pulled when our instructor forced me, in spite of my anguished cries, to touch my forehead to the mat while i was sitting on my ass. also, one of the kids kept blocking my kicks with his elbows, which is rather bad form. he did quite a bit of damage to my left foot.

i napped a bit after showering, played a bit of gabriel knight 2 (after discovering that my system had fumbled when i turned it on for the first time in over a month - that required a disturbing reconfiguration and i'm not sure what's not right now), then skipped off with pg for dinner with her family. dinner was okay - my lamb was a bit overcooked, in my opinion - and afterwards i did some heavy shopping to ensure that there'd be enough drinks for the evening's munchkin.

we played a lot of pirate fluxx, then played munchkin until it got to be too late. we decided that munchkin just isn't as much fun as fluxx - a part of it was a completely unnecessary rules lawyering by eidetic that relied on such an obscure technicality that we had quite a big fight about it: if we let him have his way, the game would have been completely imbalanced. if not, he packs up and goes home.

it was a really unpleasant way to handle things, and it's not the first time he's done that; we let it slide in the interest of keeping the peace, but i couldn't sit easy and when i looked up the card in the online forums i discovered that eidetic was definitely in the wrong.

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saturday:

i slept on the couch under the operative air-conditioner this morning, at least until i woke up shivering from the cold and took myself to bed. it wasn't the greatest night's sleep ever, but it was a far sight better than not sleeping at all.

i've so far spent today performing my webmaster duties, both for the english department and for the event at the end of the month. i want to rest now.