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hmm, it's seriously been a while since i've posted anything. well, truthfully there hasn't been much excitement in my life since the last time i posted. i go to work usually before the sun comes up to try to avoid traffic. 1.5hrs later (if im lucky) i'm at work. and then i leave well after the sun goes down to avoid traffic. 1.5hrs later (if im lucky) i'm at home. day over. this actually brings me to a story from last week actually. the HUGE trade union federation here, COSATU, decided to have a national stay away and organize rallies in many big cities around the country. i don't know the number, but i think many people did decide to stay away from work for that day, including the ubiquitous taxi drivers. that day i left a bit later than i usually do and was prepared to stranded in traffic all morning. instead, i got to work in 30 minutes. that day i left work at peak hour, also mentally prepared to be sitting in traffic. instead, i got home in less than 30 minutes. THIS seriously was the best day of my life. i dont know what they were striking or staying away from (perhaps some global problem that no one in sa really has any control over??...) and i dont really care. but im firmly advocating now that COSATU or anyone with any pull call for at least one stay away/strike per week. and im not being selfish here. i do this because i care about workers right. viva!

on to bigger news. i finally got a roomy. he is p-eter from p-oland. well kind of. he's sort of a mutt: polish-canadian-south african. its been very interesting living with a flatmate after going so long without one. i didn't realize just how much i'd grown accustomed to doing my own thing and how interesting it would be to adjust back to having a roomy. well, its taking a bit of adjustment. plus he's a huge house music fanatic. huge. also a dj when he feels like it. so he's trying to get me into house music. it hasnt worked that well. tho im tryin, cuz ~98% (to put it modestly) of sa-ans love their house music. i like house when it doesnt all have the same beat and they change it around a bit. no, ive actually heard some/a few house beats that arent too bad. think im just too stuck on my hip-hop/blues/jazz ways. anyway, if u see p-eter from p-oland at ur local house club, say hi to him and welcome him to chez folu.

finally, you avid ubuntu-adventures readers (all 2.8million of you. congrats.) will appreciate this. a few posts ago, i mentioned how the bathroom at work has a stall that looks like a stall with a stall door, but when you open it its actually 2 very closely placed urinals. when i wrote the post, i said it was weird, 1 to have a stall door (do u open it or lock it) and 2 to have 2 stalls that close to one another. i now believe that there someone at work reads my blog (welcome), cuz now they have removed the stall door. solves one problem. bt theres still the fact that the stalls are close together. well u can't ask for transformational change to happen too quickly i guess. but this is one change i can believe in.

speaking of change, i read this column a couple days ago that laid into clinton and her supporters for still creating problems for the democratic party and wanting to hi-jack the DNC. The op-ed ended by stating: "A woman who wildly mismanages and bankrupts a quarter-of-a-billion-dollar campaign operation, and then blames sexism in society, will dampen the dreams of our daughters." yikes! best part, this was written by a very popular female columnist. yoh!

till next time.