I know its what youre all wondering. According to last eyewitness reports, [EJ] has seen her in Oxford , very much alive and being her indie self. We can only hope she blogs soon. And everyone else for that matter. But instead of flinging accusations (for I am Queen of procrastination), I hope youre all doing well, and that certain people won't use the "away" sign so much on msn, because if youre not in front of the computer, technically youre not online. :P (silly rhodent kids....) (and the aforementioned action makes other people wait in vain for the return of the subject. ...)


anyhoo.
be good

Where? : Bohemia, Stellenbosch
Who? Benita + Anni (later joined by Jakkie The Med student and Jaco...er...)

As usual , darling B had to haul me out with a long rope of persuasion but as always it turned out great to be having feta+avo-on-a-regina pizza with her and discussing the stronger (and sometimes uglier) sex over wine and cider. Some funny viewpoints came out of it, although I cant provide full details for the simple reason that it was quite private.

Anyhoo..
The past few days have been a welcome change from the neverending cycle of sleep-eat-veg which was the order of the day at home. I actually get to see my housemates - they are on a whole-weeker , and Im only joining in tomorrow night before meeting up with Benita and Jakkie.

And now, some existential crises folks!

1) Career : besides psych there is the little jewel people like to call Linguistics , which is also a love of mine (I can hear your muffled laughter already...) So if I decide on that I can go directly into MA and finish in 2 years. Apparently its a multimillion-dollar industry because companies lose millions in reduced productivity from workers and clients who are unhappy with correspondence and official documents. (case in point : anything printed by a municipality...or our one at least)

b) Men. Yes , you knew it was going to come to this. Firstly, there's the one I can't have because Pangea decided to screw future generations by splitting.
Then there's our new Lecturer, Prof de Stadler. Don't get the wrong idea...there's nothing even remotely going on/going to happen/will ever happen. But for an older guy he's not half bad.

I daresay there's something in him that smacks of Lex Luthor's dad in Smallville. The greying stubble with a hint of light mahogany. The dispicably successful air to him without being a snob. Heck, even good dress sense. And he is the Director of the Language Centre at the University.
Im simply saying that if he was unmarried and interested, he could be the older man fling.
(Don't take this too seriously though.....)

c) The State of Things
You know...everyday things. Should I get up at 8 as opposed to 10? If i get up at 10 does that make me an unproductive person? Shouldnt I just go to the gym? Should I get takeout or cook?
*sigh*

Its the little things, people.

It seems the Relationship/Gender topic has been abound these past few days.
Mikey's uneasiness at the thought of having one, EJ's denial that women are human
and are capable of feelings, and my own little struggle of being geographically challenged.

It would be interesting to try and prove that 90% of all things we do and think are about, or at least
pertaining , to the opposite sex. Sure a few would argue that we do these things purely for ourselves.
Do we?

Willow and I were contemplating marriage (obviously not to each other) this morning
over coffee. Let us assume that there will be a party for both partners prior to their wedding.
The male version is called "a bachelor party" , whereas the female version is " a kitchen tea."
So here's a taster of what's to come.

Im sorry. Maybe im one of the few women who dont have such a rosy picture of being married.
When I was little my Barbies never got married. They had hot affairs with that dark -haired Ken down the street and became
Paleontologists. No really. I didnt even own a Barbie wedding dress.
Also, I remember now....my one of my friends Mariska , was set on the idea that when we were playing out a Royal Scene
the Queen was to be prettier than the Princess. This just did not make sense to me.

In my mind, the Queen would roll over at 2 am in the morning and look at her King in the faint moonlight, morosely taking in the unruly chesthair
almost reaching the top of his burly chest and the jowls that moved as he ground his teeth in his sleep, all while wondering
where the hell the time has gone and why the big rock on her finger seemed more like a ball-and-chain than a sparkling promise.
In the morning she would appear content with busying herself with castle domesticalities and receiving a peck on the cheek as a show of affection.


Of course there's always the whole adage of "When the right person comes along" .... Sure. Maybe then. Or maybe in 3 years I'll
be blogging about how I want to get married because im just soooooo in love. But at the moment it scares 9 kinds of shite out of me.

Glad to see that my friends are still alive (even though they're being tortured with cleansing rituals, a la JournoBoy.)

Nothing noteworthy happens here at home, so please bear with me if the posts seem worn out and thin. To answer Lexi and EJ's question : Youre right, the Anni you know wouldnt let an opportunity go by but alas, the boys next door were ALL surfers and they seemed more interested in bobbing around aimlessly in the great blue expanse of ocean (devoid of waves due to the absence of wind) than having female company. So its their loss really. We even had cider.

Ive been quite intrigued in starting to write again, but not the shiteous things i made you lot read a while back. I want to do Eric Idle things. Alan Coren things. If all this language and psych nonsense could be put aside i'd just write humour until im 95 and looking like a prune in your grandma's fridge. Honestly. I want to stop being academical : I dont want to listen to people gripe , I dont want to have lengthy discussions about postmodernism and language as a means of globalisation. I WANT TO WRITE HUMOUROUS NONSENSE!

p.s how emo...wanting to get away from it all.
Ive also been spending alot of time talking to Mikey ( coincidence?) (perhaps)

p.p.s im sorry if this is so self-indulgent. It will get better soon :)

Hello!!! Finally! Getting some blogging done!

Hope youre all well. Im going to try and sum up my week in a few observations. Despite it being the middle of winter, we enjoyed sunny , warm weather (global warming....!)
We had neighbours of course - 1) a house of 8 boys all decked out in wetsuits. 2) two families who shared a house, with a sweet little scottish terrier , who my dog tried to violate on the second day of arrival. Fair enough he hadnt had some action for 8 years.....but....

For 4 days the Sibling and I had to amuse ourselves with the ocean, countless boardgames and marshmallows (and the latter isnt good for anything else than eating, i found out the hard way)
THe sibling , in my opinion, is the funniest person on earth, and i'l even go on record saying that.
To our shocked dismay, we found out that the Afrikaans scrabble doesnt contain a "c". Why?!? SUre there arent any words that you can spell in Afr with a c without having made a spelling mistake....but to exclude it completely? So we set out making phrases instead:

(and the grammar mistakes are intentional, i promise. )

Anyhoo. Of course my stay was punctuated by sms'es from Mikey and the delightful Tateson. Although the former's mostly began with "OMG BURN!!!" :P

The family (as families do) came around in droves, injuring the brandy/whisky bottle somewhat while turning various meats on the braai and generally being noisy and chatty.
Two days ago, Will and Meg joined and as my mum was feeling a bit under the weather I decided I will amaze them with my culinary skills .Which made the pasta pot boil over and the sauce too spicy. But all in all, no one died of it, so I guess I did *some* good.

We found a new game too, wonderfully childish, even if i have to say so myself. We stacked matresses and pillows and then ran and theatrically jumped into it, but trying to take photos while we're airborne. It was great.

The photo underneath is my favourite, it features the sibling running after the dog, it sort of sums up the whole damn week.


And here's our version of the trendy shadow you found on Mike's blog :P

Hope you all enjoyed your week :) much love !! me