it's all ee-grek to me

i found my cup! someone was kind enough to move it to the kitchenette, *boy* was i pleased to find it :)

the first french class was kind of boring, but that's how these things go. it's not too hard; the toughest thing about the class is the idiot who knows spanish already and is apparently a french history buff. he appears to have no control over his outbursts because the teacher reprimanded him on a number of occasions, to no avail...

i skipped off to work, and now that the redesign is being done i was left with little more than tweaking and thumb-twiddling to do... so i learned about relocating the /home/ folder to a separate partition and added functionality to one of the applications that really should've been included in the design.

i also spent some time focused on my studies; i was shocked to discover that my tuition fees (now that i'm properly registered) are double what i was expecting... i suppose it's as good an excuse as any to drop some courses and audit them instead, but deciding which to drop is tough because they're all courses that i really want to take. story of my life, these days ^_^

i left relatively early, which didn't help because the tel aviv night run caused massive traffic jams. after getting on to the second bus (an old asshole pushed me out of the last spot on the first bus, and as usual they were all packed at the front and empty at the back) i managed to score a seat, and i would have read a lot more if the heavy odour of unwashed, busy men next to us didn't have us all reeling. or perhaps if i hadn't been that tired and unfocused. regardless, i came home hours before pg (who was stuck in the same traffic, only for much longer) and spent that time eating (both from the vegan dish* and the chocolate cookies), beginning an ubuntu upgrade, and reading until i passed out (that didn't take long).

* the leftover foodstuffs from my apartment when i moved, that was left behind by the girls last april... it doesn't taste good hot, but cold it's delicious!

i woke up feeling terrible, and had a frustrating time communicating to pg that i wasn't feeling good but that i still wanted to go rollerblading. i must say, aside from a runny nose and slightly sensitive ears (it's getting colder) it was a comfortable route and i quite enjoyed it. i had a long chat with my mum in the middle - i'm well impressed with myself for continuing the conversation and only being a little out of breath through one of the steeper uphills...

i got home to find the upgrade successfully executed (that *never* happens! *knocks wood*), and an email from the professor that i mentioned hoping i made a good impression with; it was an email related to my task as webmaster, but she mentioned that she'd heard good things about me from the other faculty members and that... pleases me.

i'd be planning on being more productive if i didn't need to wake up in less than five hours...

[pg's right - i have totally failed in my resolution to write brief summaries only :S]