Like a Good Book

So... I went to see the dancers of the Paris Opera House yesterday at the Suzanne Dalal center.

( Longish report of this amazing performance )

Udi was home when I got back and was very kind to listen to my rambling about the show. I also got to talk with him about what he wanted to do when he will be discharged in November, and a bit about politics. He seemed to be in a fairly good mood (might have something to do with the fact he's on vacation this week) and the late hour seemed to help him open up. It was a good conversation.

My mom and I went to buy me a dress today in Hod Hasharon (since she didn't like the one I got and I really didn't want to go to the wedding we have this week with pants or a skirt) and we managed to find a nice one we both liked, with good shape and it's not black (only needs to be shortened a bit). Spent the day doing nothing much, supporting a headache (third time this week... Damn air condition).

I can't wait until tomorrow, because I'll be giving Hagar her birthday present and it has been in the works since March. Finally. The card is done as well, and all I have left to do is wrap it, which will be a hassle, the painting being 70x100 cm...

Thuesday night I had a fight with my dad. It ended with him saying "Find another house" and in me packing a bag and getting the hell out. Called Hagar and made sure I could crash there.

Spent the evening with her, a bottle of beer and "Twilight" (finished my month-and-a-half-project of all the "Harry Potter"s) and went to sleep at about 11:30. Slept badly - there was the noise of cars, the too-narrow-bed and my anger, who was creeping into my dreams. Only really fell asleep early in the morning, and by then the alarm went off and I got up, thankful, that the night was over.

Got some breakfast and made a few additions to my papers and then we left for the university. We were there with plenty time to spare so I was able to go print a few more things before my test. All in all, the test didn't go down as well as i could have hoped, but better than I could have expected. My eventful evening and night didn't help with that, too, and I found myself at times gazing blankly at the wall, my head full of buzzing.

Had a meeting with Keren after that, got plenty of compliments and a few points to work about (it was a feedback meeting) and then my mom picked me up and we made a few rounds before going home.

Spent the afternoon slouched on the couch, half dozing off half reading (Netalie called during which, and my behavior after that told me I wasn't really awake while speaking to her) until I got up and went to the shower. Was out of the house by 19:30 and was in Suzzanne Dalal at 20:00.

Netalie came and met me there and we ate at Suzzanna (I was supposed to call her when I got to Tel Aviv and pick her up but, as I said, I was half asleep when we talked). Dinner was great, though, and the dance show (Oyster - Inbal Pinto again) was beautiful.

I've seen that show before, some years ago, and it was just as wonderful as I remembered and even more - the theater-like feel they have to the dance, the costumes, so much great dancers... It was like a dream made into a performance. Netalie was just as thrilled about it as I was.

Drove her home and was home myself at about 11:30.

Now I need to study.

But House just finished downloading... Mmm.

Netalie and I went to see a show last night - "Hydra" - a dance show by Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak. It was fantastic! We left Suzzanne Dalal with our mouths open, it was so good. I can never really describe dance shows, sadly, so if you're interested and you love dance - go see it. Wonderful.

After that (we had lunch at Bellini beforehand, wasn't that great) we went for a walk and then decided to go the TA harbor, where we could find ice cream and some places to take a few pictures. Netalie really wanted me to take a few photos of her. I must say, I think the first one is the best portait I've ever taken...

We had ice cream at "Iceberg-Volcano", again, wasn't all that great (we took a dish I'm not familiar with and it was a bit anemic) but they gave us some candles and a Hunukia so we lit candles and again, I took some pictures.

Also took some pictures of the harbor.

( Here they all are )

Got tickets for two shows - one is Hooverfonic that's playing in the Barbi in Tel Aviv on thursday night and the other is a dance show on Friday night in Susan Dalal's Center - Three Creators - Britain, Israel and the Netherlands, which is supposed to be relly good and with Talia Paz (whom I love).

So, lot's of money spend, but these things are priceless, to me.

Just need to get ther, now, as in, let it be Thursday night and Friday night.

Went to the TA museum of Art yesterday with Mel. Had a lot of fun walking around some of the exhibitions - especially the "One Family" photograph exhibition and the contemporary Italian art one. The impressionist constant exhibition was very beautiful as well, and I loved some of the cubist stuff Mel didn't. We both loved Jackson Pollock's paintings, and the Chagall paintings as well. We spent about two hours there and after that we went to "Cup o' Joe" across the street for a sandwich and diet coke (which made Mel go "I'm at "Joe" and I don't get coffee?!"). We walked back to Begin road and I caught the bus as Mel went over to the train station.

I'm finally writing "Gold Dust", the HDM fic I've been thinking of for so long. It's only the beginning, but it's coming on nicely, and I hope It'll be in a condition good enough for others' reading in a while.

I hope I'll have some time to go buy myself something new to wear on New year's eve, but my hopes are not high. Oh, well. We are the hosts this year, since my grandma doesn't have the strength to make the entire preparations. I'm planning on making wine-punch to make everybody extra-cheery.

I also had a dream last night which drew power from all sorts of stuff - starting with HP and ending with "Kyle XY" which I watched last night - a beautiful beach with dunes on a cliff, me trying to hide myself and some objects and a feeling of peace. Hmmm.

T.V. annoyance - Two episodes of "The Dead Zone" got to 99% and got stuck there... It's been there for three days, and I haven't been able to find another torrent to download them from. ARGH.

A text from Eyal yesterday: "I have a surprise for you"

He bought me a bunch of Macaroon cookies in "Mazarin".

Happiness!

Second session about china last night wasn't as good as the first - the first two lectures were quite dull, the first about Mau Tze Dung and the second about the army in his days (the duller than the two). The third lecture, however, was presented by a young enthusiastic woman and dealt with the station of the woman in Mau's days as ruler of China, with the Communist party. I enjoyed the lecture very much, and it seemed to have woken up half the crowd (which was dosing off slightly...)

After the lecture ended Michali and I went to meet Eyal in his parents' house and headed to have a cup of coffee (or ice-tea, in my case) in "Cafe Henrietta" close by. I was rude and ate a few of the cookies right then and there, but the place deserved it - it took them a few good minutes to pay attention to us standing (because there was only two chairs around our table) and it took them a few more good minutes to fetch our drinks (how long does it take to make two cups of coffee and an ice-tea?!?!). We didn't stay long, and left to go home after ten minutes (Eyal bluntly refused to let me pay).

Had work this morning but Motty didn't show up so I had time after finishing the usual stuff to sit down, listen to Pandora and read. Plus, Navot called and we had a 30-minutes talk about a cool idea he has.

It's really hot outside, and I'm still wearing a sweater (haven't had the boost to get up and change it). I'm meeting Avihu tonight to go have dinner at "Edisson". Joy!

( Dance show - pretty amazing )

( Susana and a cat )

After about an hour we have finished our drinking and eating (and conversation), so we headed home. I dropped her off at her place, and walked into our apartement just as my dad was turning off the lights.

My floor was, again, peed on, so I had to clean it up before I turned in, and was quite annoyed about it, but the wonderful evening I had kept me from swearing loudly...

Morning brought a very strange weather. The window is open and there's some wind, but there's haze outside, and I can't help thinking something's changing.