So I would talk about the fact that the war has been going on for the last month, but that's boring so instead I'll try to run through what I've been doing...
BACKWARDS!!!!
- I rode a bike here for the first time (8/04)! I've been considering buying one, since Ulpan is thirty minutes away walking, and work is fifteen. Limor's friend Ido let me borrow his, as he's going to be gone for the summer. So, I was able to try out his bike, and asides from the fact that I have to carry it down three flights of stairs, and worry about people stealing it out from under me, it felt really good to get back on a bike.
- Since Thursday 8/03 was Tisha B'Av, commemorating the destruction of the Temple, I didn't have Ulpan, so Limor convinced me to take the whole day off. Ahh....relaxing.
First, we slept late, which I haven't really done for the last two weeks. Then, after goofing off on the internet for a little while, we went grocery shopping (we were out of cereal and milk and other equally important stuff). We decided to try a different grocery store, "Supersale", which last time we went was a really crappy place, but had since been renovated. It wasn't really much better this time, but there were less ants.
When we got back, we waited for Limor's friend Adi to come by for lunch. She was a little late because her bus broke down, so we killed time watching an episode of Futurama (great show - I miss watching it repeatedly with Mark, JK and Ryan).
After lunch, Adi left temporarily to look at apartments, so Limor and I went to go check out a bike she found online. It was kinda far away, so we took a cab. The neighborhood ended up being much better than the bike (it was overpriced crap) so the visit wasn't a total loss. Ramot (the neighborhood) is one of the nicer sections of Beer-Sheva, and the houses were all interesting and nicely built. The city also stops completely right behind it. And when I say "stops", I mean like a foot after the houses stop you have desert for as far as the eye can see, unbroken except for a stunningly aloof memorial in the distance. Unfortunately I didn't have camera, but maybe we'll go back sometime.
When the time came to leave, we couldn't find a cab to get back, so we started walking just to pass the time. We ended up walking so far before seeing one that we decided to just keep going. On the way we walked over a really nice pedestrian bridge, and through some pretty sections of the Ben Gurion Campus. We also passed the site of the Yom Student celebration, which looked very strange as it was just a big empty sand lot.
We got back, and went to Ido's to drop off some laundry, and pick up his bike. Then at home, to pass the time until the laundry was finished we watched "Get Shorty" at ate some bourekas.
- Limor visited me at work on 8/02 (finally). She stopped by for lunch, and I gave her a tour that was necessarily short (I have no idea what anything is there). It was mostly like "So, there's a hallway, and those are the stairs I walk up everyday, and there is the wonderful view of Beer-Sheva from the bathroom window." We did walk around the spaceship building, and look at some of the more interesting features like the rotunda and glass floor.
Then she left, and I went back to work. *Sigh*.
- Surprise trip four-day trip to Eilat (I'll post on that later)
- Met Amit & Amit, a couple we haven't seen for a while, and ate at sushi place in Bat-Yam beach.
- We drove to meet our new landlord, and signed off on our new apartment!. Then we went to a water park. Think "Emerald Point", only much crappier. Still, water feels particularly nice in this hot weather even if you have to stand in line for half an hour to get to it.
Other than that, I've been working really hard. Sometimes. When I feel like it. There's really nobody in the office right now, and there hasn't been for the last three weeks really. Kobi got drafted, so he's off fighting terrorists, and one of my "bosses" (Shlomo) had to serve in the reserves, so he was also off fighting terrorists, and my other "boss" decided to take last week off for vacation. So I've been pretty much on my own, and that doesn't make for good motivation. One day I spent six hours reading about comic books. I found a website that details basically the entire chronology of the Marvel universe, starting with the beginning of the universe and going to the present day.
Needless to say, I read the entire thing, and it was fascinating. Did you know Galactus is actually...well, nevermind.
NOTE: this post is actually several weeks overdue (as you can probably tell)
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