a full weekly - part iv

[... continued]

the anime screening: i'd thought last week's was brilliant - this week's was incredible! catshit one totally blew me away, and summer wars is a wonderful, wonderful movie.

---on the way home:

1. as i walked on the sidewalk and was passing the cash machines, a cyclist cut in front of me and stopped. when i sarcastically said "thank you" she asked, aggressively, if something was wrong. "yes," i said, "you cut me off."
"i needed to get to the cash machine!"
of course you did. and you couldn't wait one second, even though the machine was already in use.

i'm sorry, you are an asshole.

2. zero coke has a new promotional message of "zero is culture". how ironic to walk past a paper-only recycling bin upon which someone has left a pizza box and a can on top, with the "zero is culture" facing me. what is it with israelis (and arabs) and trash?

3. and more than trash - dog shit. i caught someone from two buildings down taking their dog for a walk... around the back of our building. ignoring the fact that he lied to my face when i questioned him - an obvious, stupid lie - pg then had a run-in with him and his girlfriend later wherein his girlfriend was downright abusive, and even told pg what a cow she thinks she is for having the indecency of calling the cops when we needed our parking space and they'd used ours without permission and hadn't so much as left a note.

really.

we've had enough.

---in spite of both of us being exhausted, we hit the climbing wall and made a good evening of it.

i returned home to struggle with azure's interface upgrade (oh, it's prettier, and a bit more intuitive - but i no longer have access to my virtual machines that i *know* are running), then crashed in front of futurama.

---friday:

i woke up to some serious paper sorting, and more work on this last-minute-hack-project that's been going all kinds of wrong. after finally getting everything more-or-less functional, i discovered that azure's table-locking is completely messed up and i now have to begin again, employing work-arounds whose effectiveness will only be testable after a few hours of processing. this is all very stupid.

i took pg's mom's dog along for the walk to take my new jacket to the dry-cleaner, and was totally infuriated by a couple of the people we came across and the idea of running into our shitty neighbours. i really wanted to give them a piece of my mind.

after meeting with my tenant to sign the lease renewal (which pg and i had worked pretty hard at putting together), we went to helinka for a delicious lunch. mine was entrecôte and eggs, especially decadent in light of preachy vegan song that i was exposed to afterwards.

the rest of the afternoon has been spent checking on work, purchasing delilah dirk, writing this and studying french. it looks like i have a busy weekend ahead of me.

---this week has been filled with great links, here're a few select ones:

the reality of living in cape town: i couldn't find a link to the image that wasn't on facebook. if you're not familiar with south african politics or asterix, you probably won't get it, but it's a beautifully made image nonetheless.

marks and spencer make a case for carbon neutral: and it's both environmentally and economically responsible. good for them!

inspirational space venture. also, nystire just pointed me towards socis, which sounds pretty interesting too.