i'm getting kinda lackadaisical about posting now. its been a hectic month. finished my first "real" project experience in a flurry; 2 weeks of very little sleep. and then i was shipped to another project where it's basically just me and on a tighter-than-it-should-be schedule. so for the first couple weeks of this proj i barely saw my bed. now the project is nearly over and i'm beginning to realise that they don't pay me nearly enough to be spending sleepless nights up working my ass off. for a while there, i thought i was back at varsity, when days kind of just meshed into one another and there was little concept of bedtime until the body just decided to crash on its own, without warning. anyway its all good now.
except for the weekend before last, the past couple weekends have been pretty darn good and fun. this past saturday, i threw my first braai (bbq) at my place. the initial plan was to start out at my place and then move on to the picnic area in the complex. but things didnt go like that. we had everything at my place which turned out really good. got to spend time with some quality/fun people (including one especially one very quality person), grillin, chattin, jokin, and jistin. it was good times. lesson one from braai #1: throw the braai the week before the maid comes, not after. there was a huge pile of dishes that i just demolished tonight. it was a mission, but i couldnt just leave it for another week or so till the maid came. which brings me to lesson 2 from braai #1: don't throw another one!...well, not for a while i guess. unless i figure out a plan to use all plastic and paper material that can be easily cleaned and if i can have it somewhere else that i dont have to bother cleaning! all things considered, i had a blast. click on the link to see pics:
first braai
sunday was another awesome day spent with an extremely awesome person. i decided to cheat on my church and go visit another one. so that was in the morning. the church service wasn't that great, but there were some good parts, and i might go back soon. but ill go back to my old church now and hopefully they wont be too upset that i ditched them for a week! spent the afternoon lunchin'....then the sucky part came: having to wake up on monday morning.
tho this weekend was great for me, it wasn't exactly the best for south africa. the ruling party decided that they were going to pressure the president (a member of the ruling party) to resign. and he did. another win for the idiots and thugs that are threatening to take over the party. i felt really bad for mbeki, but not overly bad. he really brought it on himself when he tried to emulate the former nigerian prez (obasanjo) and both ostracize his veep and try to stand for a third term as party leader and ultimately as prez of s. africa. that was a silly, unconstitutional, and divisive move and it backfired. and now he's paying for it. but also allowing factions that think out of their asses (literally) to control the party. anyway, he announced his resignation on sunday night and until monday afternoon a replacement was not announced (cuz his deputy also resigned). and that got me excited, cuz there was essentially no sa prez for that period and i thought/expected/hoped i'd see something crazy happen. cuz...u know...theres no president...well nothing happened. shame. and one guy at work actually put it nicely that having no president is still much better than having george bush. at least zero is better than negative. how tru. next couple months should be interesting.
random post #952325: i like that it took a lengthy survey for people to realize that race does play a factor in the american elections. so people now know the answer to all those questions of why obama can't "close the gap". its cuz hes black. and white people are still scared of black people. and will believe anything that "whitie-i-will-now-change-my-position-however-is-popular-mccain (see republican calling for regulations and populism. wha???) campaign spews, whether explicitly (hes a muslim) or subliminally (he's not like u) or subconsciously, or through proxies (community organising is code word for "i am the antichrist"!!). im in the wrong line of business im sure. anyway, enjoy the article and ejumacate yo-sef:
Poll: Racial misgivings of Dems an Obama issue
