Spending a weekend amongst abandoned army forts is more restful than you’d think. I read Asterix comics, slept more than I have in weeks, played vastly underrated card games, and helped small children use the toilets. I also got into tattoo-related arguments with my semi-cousin (she says that artists prefer to design entirely on their own; I said ( Read more... )

Pro-con recap of my day.

-had to go to work.
-accident at my bus stop, so it was crawling with police.
+saw a guy who looked exactly like peridium's character Dio today. The only differences were smaller stature and a slightly shorter haircut. He nodded at me in the hall at work.
-saw a guy who looked exactly like rhombal's character Ciaran today. He met my ( Read more... )

1) This post is still open! So go comment. (So is this one, but it's slightly more friendslocked ( Read more... )

My friend Megan and I went to Cape Town's (apparently) only piercing parlor today ( Read more... )

Good things:

I blew three fuses today and no one got mad.

I got to do metal work-- drilling and sawing.

I already read Gorgias for Classics on Wednesday ( Read more... )

Well hi there, lack of money in my bank account. Where did you come from? Considering, you know, I've been saving all my money and stuff...

This was an eventful but unproductive day ( Read more... )

1. I miss having a disposable income. I owe my mother heaps of money from phone bills and buying books, and I need to save up to buy my books for next quarter. This means that I can spend about nothing for the next two months. And I also have to start saving up for Africa, unfortunately, and Dad's decreed that I have to get a "real job" this ( Read more... )

I have class in a matter of seconds, but I have to get this out before then.

With my scholarship and tuition discount, it would cost me approximately $600 to go on Dr. Segall's class in South Africa this summer.

The four-week class.  The one focusing on theatre and literature.

Hot damn.

Babysitting yesterday included a prize exchange while Charlotte and I were looking at a book of animal pictures. You know, one of those National Geographic mini-genius photo things. I asked her to name the animals-- she did all right with the peacock and the fish and the turtle and the elephant and the lion and such, and then we got to the zebra ( Read more... )