I'm sick. Please forgive any mishaps and incoherence.

I turned 28 this week, hurray for me!

I'm currently using my mother's guest account on her desktop because my laptop finally bit the dust. The screen had been kind of wonky the past few months, but now her network card is dead and it's like she's in a coma.

Right, yes, her. Ursula the laptop served me very well these past four or so years.

Ugh, I'm finding it hard to concentrate, forgive me. Sore throat.

I have much to tell, really I do, but the words are stuck. Been blocked for a while now.

Maybe later this week. I hope.

Blah, fever.

I am 26 today!

It's my Birthday.

And I'm actually excited about this age. Who would have thought it :)

Yesterday I had a brunch with friends, then sushi and pizza with family and this evening I'm having a shin-dig with a different circle of friends!

I'm having a really good time.

I'm impressed by my excitedness and contentment.

Waking up to all those birthday wishes on my previous posts (DW/LJ) have already made my day!

Thank you all for commenting, emailing and sending e-cards (you know who you are ;-)

And so much thanks for the generosity of paid time.

Actual information about my birthday, what I did last night, a TARDIS cake that was bluer on the inside and where the fam is taking me this evening, a little later.

Oh! And Happy Birthday st_aurafina, us Taurean Twins must stick together!

First things first: Happy Birthday queenmab21!!!!!
A quarter of a century is nothing to sniff at.

Second, it feels like Saturday again.
The one thing about these holidays is the whole messing up my days of the week thing going on. This has probably been one of the more eventful and weird holidays in a while.
Also the fact that the country went into a total warp during this time... I try to think what it was like last year and really the energies last year were way calmer.
This year people just went crazy.

I didn't write about Akko and everything that went on there. The Jewligans and the ethnic/religious sectarianism that absolutely blew up over Yom Kippur no less - in which this sort of thing is such a huge cultural no-no!
I mean the man (non-Jewish, as Akko is a mixed city) who drove the car when he shouldn't have, it's not something that should have created riots that went on for three days!
There's something wrong when religiosity, on a day in which contemplating our relationship with GD and Humanity is paramount, is used to invoke violence.
But really, I don't think I have anything intelligent to add to the issue, I mean, it shouldn't have been done.
The riots, the uber-over-reaction to someone who broke a cultural tradition, which strictly speaking isn't even their own - not driving on the Day of Atonement isn't written in law, it's more a common-practice, it's just something that's agreed publicly not to be done on this day.
It's taken far too seriously by some factions as every year you hear about kids throwing stones at Ambulances in certain neighborhoods.

It always occurs to me that people who are confidant in their ideas and ideals really don't feel the need to force them down other people's throats. It's one thing to be passionate about them and try and persuade people to see things your way... but to go so far and to, I don't know, try to force people into something they don't believe in.
And I'm aware that this goes both ways, no need to remind me of that one.
It reminds me of the motto's one hears around the country when the voices that aren't consensus speak out:
"Consider the feelings of the public"
The public is almost always the conservative and religious public.
It seems that it is often forgotten that "other" people are "the public" as well.

I woke up at an unspeakable hour this morning... looking at the time I'm updating it is still unspeakable.

I went with my uncle (to be known as Uncle D), Granny and Daddy to the air port to see him off, I'm staying in the Rainbow Nation for a few more days and staying with my other uncle (Uncle P) and his family, both are Daddies little brothers (is it still all right to call 50+ year old men "little"?)

In any event, yesterday being the last day of Daddy's holiday I got kind of weepy and annoying, I hope I didn't make things more difficult for him seeing as today is my birthday (yes, yes, many happy returns) I didn't want him to feel guilty.
Uncle P is taking out for a drive today to places called Kalks Bay (very pretty beach place), maybe Cape Point (where the two oceans meet) and it being the first clear day since I've arrived (remember I spoke of the mist and not being able to see a hundred meters ahead? It stayed that way from Friday until yesterday afternoon) I'll most likely be going up Table Mountain, which is my clearest memory of SA from when I was nine years old.

Will try and update again before I get home, but I make no promises.

It looks like I'm getting a week's worth of birthday madness.

I got a Devil of a comic book, which was IMO, way better than a Fairy Tale of a comic book.

The pendant I've been wanting since September.

And tonight I'm having a get together.

Much fun and and satisfaction :)

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.

morin for giving me a great birthday present!!!

To any of you wondering who this is... it's melody_kitty... only now I'm eumelia - which is "melody" in Greek.

About a week ago I talked about changing my user name and as you can see. I did.

I'm very pleased with it :D

In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.

וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.