Like a Good Book

Today's Ilanit's birthday. Ilanit was my perach girl six years ago, when she was 12, and today she turns 18.

( Perach, for the non-Israelis )

I needed the money, back then, so I signed up. My instructor (a job I would have fulfilled later on, when I will have started my engineering studies) assigned me Ilanit, saying she was shy and lonely. She was, for about a second, and we had a wonderful year together.

When the year ended we said goodbye, and spoke only on her birthday or mine for a few years, until we stopped.

I have a younger brother, but she was (is) my younger sister, and I hope she knows I still think of her.

But it's just weird. She's 18 now. A senior in school, she'll probably go to the army next year. She was a child when I knew her. Oh, dear.

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.

One more dropped out.

I hate these fucking people.

If the junior staff doesn't declare strike, the school year begins tomorrow.

Bought all my stuff about half an hour ago at Office Depot here at the mall and I'm contemplating on organizing a bag for tomorrow now. Haven't really done that since the third grade. Scratch that, I've never organized a bag the night before. I'm lazy.

Anyway. I've got 9 hours tomorrow, 8:00-17:00, no breaks, of physics, and math and more physics and more math until my eardrums will pop, and then interviews of potential tutors.

Yey for a sucky first day.

Also, my dad and my brother got on my bad side today and I'm still pissed (typical males; they think they can make do with not lifting a finger around the house), so yey for a sucky before-first-day-day.

Oh, and stomach ache. Peachy, ain't it, to be on my period the first week back to school?

The problem with rants, they don't really help.

Well.

On the other hand, House was so unbelievably cute today!

Finally, new painting on the go. The first half came out much nicer than I thought it would, but the real job is yet to come. Will go back to it at some point this week. I really needed that.

Also, "Lunar Cycle" got work today, I fixed what was fucked there and now I need to see where I'm taking this one. For some reason I think that black would work really good there, but not as a color per-se. Beads, perahps, or strings.

Another no-name-painting got work, I still haven't finished the base yet (and my plans for this one requires a lot of work).

Got to close the whole perach thing, so I'll have that money (good), checked out my scheduale for next year (crazy, crazy, crazy!) and found out that tomorrow is a dance show I have tickets to, and it's Ruthi's bachlorette party. Completely slipped my mind. So I'll go after no time at all, but I'll at least be there long enough to say congratulations and drop off my gift... I was bummed, I can tell you that.

Tomorrow - Photography session first thing in the morning at Nahlat Binyamin, make chocolate truffles, party, dance show. Yup, full day's work. But good work.

Night. :)

Finished "Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox" this morning (yes, while I was supposed to be studying). The end was... Well, an ending to this story but as for a(nother) sequel, it will come. But not soon. Well, never mind. It's not as if I'll have a lot of time to be reading much in the next three years.

Two more tests for this semester, a special test in Linear Algebra in September (because I failed the moed b) and that's it for this year. Too bad next year is closing very quickly.

On the 15-17 of September I have the perach seminar, on October three days of a class for my new first semester job (TAing a first year engineering's class on graphics), I've a photography course starting next week (a day after my last exam for this month), also Comic Book Tattoo is finally on it's way (it'll probably be here with a lot of time to interrupt my studying for materials), and I ordered "Tales of Beedle the Bard" from Amazon, but that's gonna be only on December.

I'm planning on a movie sometime this week (can't wait to see "Dark Knight" and "Wall-E"), and Hagar's b-day is approaching as well, so her present needs wrapping (and a card).

I need to get a tripod for the photography class, and I don't really have the money right now.

Oh, and get HP 1-3 in English for the major re-read I hope to get done during the next couple of weeks.

OK. Mechanics now.

Had a lovely weekend.

Friday was our trip from perach. We went to Alexander stream, which was a very beautiful place. Those of us who came sang stupid songs on the bus on the way there and made half of the other people there glare at us with rage. That was quite amusing...

The route itself was very pretty and fun, with a bit of competing between the teams (there are 3 teams in our administration) and we won (we were the only team who cared about winning, so), and I got to see loads of cute turtles and some sort of a mammal which I've no idea what is it, but it was cute all the same. When we were standing looking at the turtles some stupid people from the other teams started throwing bisli to the water, and they wouldn't stop even though Eitan, myself and a few other people told them to stop, and even the signs that said "Please do not feed the turtles" didn't help. We grumbled out of there about the stupidity of some people (they said "If they're eating it it couldn't be bad for them"... ARG!).

In the end we came to where our bus was and ate our share of a ton of food and went home, tired but pleased. I got burnt on my shoulders (couldn't reach them with the protective cream) and was tired for the rest of the day, but it was worth it. Didn't do much as the day wore on, and I went to bed pretty early.

Saturday morning I went to have brunch with Netali and Mel. We ate at Idelson (I loved it, as usual, Netali wasn't quite happy with everything) and I bought some things to take home. We rolled out of there and badgered each other up until we came to the car. I drove Netali to her dad's and Mel home, and went home myself, put the stuff I bought in the fridge and drove to my aunt's. My brother was very happy I came because he could take the car and took off some time after I arrived, and a bit after him my mom and my sister and brother in law. I remained behind to play cards with my dad and a few other people (in which I lost gloriously) and we went home at about 17:30. Spent the evening at home again and fell asleep on the sofa at about 21:00.

So I've made up my mind to do all my stuff today and go hang in TA tomorrow. It's going to be a wonderful day and I want to spend it outside, and for once I want not to work on a Friday.

I took my time this morning (fifth night in a row of weird dreams I can't remember, only bits of them), and I only left home at around 9:30. Got to the school at 10:00 and made my round for all the reports, left a few notes for the principal, some teachers and talked to the guidance counselor, as well as with one of the perach kids whose tutor is leaving the country and made it out of there at about 10:30.

Got home and found out a few of my T.V shows finished downloading into my computer, so I watched them for some time. My brother got home at about 13:00, along with my mom and we decided to go eat someplace with my sister.

We planned on "Barbunia" but ended up in "Benedict", which was a great choice - all of us kids took eggs benedict (my sister with ham, my brother with bacon and I with salmon) and enjoyed them tremendously. My mom had a pot of meat and veggies, which she enjoyed less. All in all it was great, and I'm definitely making it a place to eat for me.

On the way back Udi and I did our best to annoy Michali, which was huge fun and made us laugh our asses off (sometimes it's fun to be a younger sister).

Mom dropped me off at the HIT, where I had a meeting and now I'm home, relishing the weekend ahead.

Spent 8 hours today meeting tutors. Oh my.

Also am in the middle of my Umberto Ecco book (I still can't remember what it's called, something with mysterious I think), I ate too much junk today and my head hurts since 11:30.

Gladly, I am home now, and I'm wondering what to eat, that'll be better than all the other stuff I ate today, and then I'll watch the end of "Pleasantville".