the shortest weekend

this past weekend was the shortest in living memory. the time just seemed to slip through my fingers. friday i went to work for the first half of the day. tried to get as much done as i could, and then went home to work some more on my presentation. i found that instead i sort of needed to just sleep. i know i needed get some writing in, but i found the need to take a moment to breath was much stronger. but for some reason, my eyes just would not close. i laid there, staring at my ceiling fan, when suddenly the urge to creatively write came on me. i quickly grabbed my laptop, and wrote solidly for 15-20 minutes, stream of conscious, and out popped a short story - the first creative thing i've written since being in the israel. if your nice to me, i may share it. i'm not sure if the blog though is the appropriate place. after writing it though, i felt quite relieved and i was free to work on my talk.

later that night there was a dance party held in my living room. the girls from the floor below (my friends kathi, gigi, and corinne) asked to borrow my flat for this party as there air conditioning doesn't work that well - that and i'm pretty sure they just didn't want to move their living room furniture around. i have a super, duper air conditioning; so i said sure. it took just 10 minutes to get everything out of their and basically into my bedroom, set up the sound equipment, and turn the air conditioning on full blast in preparation for lots of people. it was heaps of fun. lucia even stopped by to dance, and nathan spent much of the evening playing my newly strung guitar in my room. after that i was of course pooped, but hung out at kathis place for a bit afterwards, where we were joined by enas, sogand, jodie, and kat.

yesterday morning, i woke up really late - unfortunately slept through a meeting. i guess i needed the sleep though. later i joined amelia up in the mercaaz for coffee and clever banter; went to roya's for some scones, scrabble, and more banter. and THEN i went home to relax and write. i think i need more sleep though. i'll try to find some pictures of the dance party soon to post.