Life is a highway

Everybody left Saturday morning ‘cause the students have a week long break here, so it’s disturbingly quiet. When I came home from unexciting shopping Saturday afternoon my only roommate that’s still around asks me what I’m doing that night. I tell him I’m hosting a satellite Bloodhound Gang concert (since they’re playing a show in California that I would’ve gone to if I wasn’t here) and he says that sounds cool, what is it? To which I reply that it consists of my listening to Bloodhound Gang and dancing around my room with a couple friends, but he’s welcome to join us if he wants. “Oh,” he says, “interesting.” Then goes on to explain that he’s doing something similar and I’m welcome to join him if my posse and I so choose.

Flash forward to a couple minutes later. I’m in my room checking to see if I’m missing in Bloodhound Gang songs and all of a sudden my roommate turns his music on and it begins reverberating off the world. He is on the other side of the building from me and it sounded like it was coming from just outside my window. Those are some acoustics! Needless to say there is no way my little laptop speakers can compete with the thunder, the ubiquitous power that is whatever kind of electronics he has in his room. Well, when you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! So I spent the time until my friends got there outside with his friends: listening to music, learning and promptly forgetting people’s names, talking about the differences in our various countries and other slightly less cliché things.

I’m a little disappointed I never had my satellite concert, but my roommate was nice enough to play a couple of their songs for me, and I really do mean me as no one else liked or cared about them...so underappreciated *sigh*

Sunday brought a much more relaxing time as I spent the whole day doing chores and reading in my room. Later that night I went to a friend from work’s house for a braai and a dip in her hot tub. A very relaxing and wonderful end to the weekend. And I learned more about South African Idol than I had ever hoped to know, which is...interesting.

Yesterday I found out my supervisor isn’t going to be here for most of the week, so I have a stack of things to do and am struggling trying to find the motivation to do them all before he gets back. I also found out that this weekend is a four-day long weekend and not just a paltry three-day one. This means that instead of going to Cape Town for the weekend, OM and I have decided to rent a car and do part of the garden route, making for a very hectic day of planning and trying to find places to stay on late notice, on a long weekend, while all the university students are out of school for a week. Always fun...

But it’s all organized now, so the only issue is that I have to learn to drive standard in the couple hours we have Thursday night before we leave Friday morning. I’ll let you know how that goes...