getting back to the sweet life
breakfast this morning was three bars of snickers down washed with a can of red bull. went to bed pretty late last night - watching way too much tv and catching up on the sopranos season 6. i'll probably see the rest of it next year when it airs on channel 4 in england. have so much packing to do. must buy some boxes and ship all the old stuff by sea. dont really need it in a rush and i'm not prepared to fork out a premium to british airways.
went past walgreens, bought a disposable camera. that makes four cameras that need to be developed. i need to get myself another digital. make my life so much simpler. but for the last thirty minutes i've been taking random pictures outdoors. my first day being unemployed once again and i feel like a tourist. made plans to go check intel hq. pictures will be taken.
i went beaching this past weekend. weather was a beaute and santa cruz was crying for an invasion. we had plenty laughs at the boardwalk. you know, i'm not the biggest fan of amusement parks but they had some real stuff going on with the famous dipper (rollercoaster) and the pendulum thing which looked like it was going to snap mid-air. the water was a bit cold but the surfs where huge. more pics to develop.
i'm busy playing that lenny kravitz tune in my head - fly away. must figure out the chords so that i can strum it. mind you i haven't picked up a guitar in four years so that would be a bit crazy.
in the library right now. it's right next to a local uni and there's armies of students huddled over messes of books, volumes and paper, laptop parked in the middle of the mess. finals week i guess. everyone seems to have a blank expression: i know the feeling and i miss it! overdose of red bull (who remembers bioplus from back ekhaya? - i was hooked during my a' levels), creased clothes (probably slept in them at 4.33am), hair in mess, ububhori by the eyes, constantly scratching your head not to make you think but because it's not geza-ed and it's itchy, getting up from seat every five minutes just to calm your nerves, observing everyone who walks past you aimlessly, checking if you've received any emails in the last two minutes, stretching your arms coz you're way too tired and then bowing down onto book as if the words will magically enter head by osmosis. the sweet life of being a student under pressure.
and then as the time to go sit the exam fast approaches, you gather everything into your bag except that all important crib sheet. you swing the bag over onto your back and instead of leaving for the exam room, you sit down on the same chair with the bag on your back and try to steady your shaking hand and make sense of the scribbles you've made. then you realise that you dont know where the exam room is and find the nearest unoccupied library computer (laptop is in bag already!). you figure out that it's in the law building which you've never set foot in. why why why do they have to do this to me?
yes yes yes, i can't wait to get back to it all.
went past walgreens, bought a disposable camera. that makes four cameras that need to be developed. i need to get myself another digital. make my life so much simpler. but for the last thirty minutes i've been taking random pictures outdoors. my first day being unemployed once again and i feel like a tourist. made plans to go check intel hq. pictures will be taken.
i went beaching this past weekend. weather was a beaute and santa cruz was crying for an invasion. we had plenty laughs at the boardwalk. you know, i'm not the biggest fan of amusement parks but they had some real stuff going on with the famous dipper (rollercoaster) and the pendulum thing which looked like it was going to snap mid-air. the water was a bit cold but the surfs where huge. more pics to develop.
i'm busy playing that lenny kravitz tune in my head - fly away. must figure out the chords so that i can strum it. mind you i haven't picked up a guitar in four years so that would be a bit crazy.
in the library right now. it's right next to a local uni and there's armies of students huddled over messes of books, volumes and paper, laptop parked in the middle of the mess. finals week i guess. everyone seems to have a blank expression: i know the feeling and i miss it! overdose of red bull (who remembers bioplus from back ekhaya? - i was hooked during my a' levels), creased clothes (probably slept in them at 4.33am), hair in mess, ububhori by the eyes, constantly scratching your head not to make you think but because it's not geza-ed and it's itchy, getting up from seat every five minutes just to calm your nerves, observing everyone who walks past you aimlessly, checking if you've received any emails in the last two minutes, stretching your arms coz you're way too tired and then bowing down onto book as if the words will magically enter head by osmosis. the sweet life of being a student under pressure.
and then as the time to go sit the exam fast approaches, you gather everything into your bag except that all important crib sheet. you swing the bag over onto your back and instead of leaving for the exam room, you sit down on the same chair with the bag on your back and try to steady your shaking hand and make sense of the scribbles you've made. then you realise that you dont know where the exam room is and find the nearest unoccupied library computer (laptop is in bag already!). you figure out that it's in the law building which you've never set foot in. why why why do they have to do this to me?
yes yes yes, i can't wait to get back to it all.
are you spying on me? ngoba I feel like that student description was of me about a week back. so accurate...so true! you might be wanting to come back to student hood...but some of us are ready to bounce exce.
Posted by
Unknown |
9:41 pm, May 11, 2006
just one more mnyaka will do me just fine. i know the the "at loss" feeling when it comes to student pressure.
Posted by
mpenseli |
2:42 am, May 15, 2006