Midnight Witticisms

Some people have no shame.  A few weeks ago, someone stopped by my apartment with his brand-spanking-new laptop, saying that suddenly his internet stopped working.  He then asked if we could sit in my bedroom, on the bed, beause I don’t have a lot of furniture, and we needed to stand.

So, after 15-20 minutes, Joel and I figured out the problem and fixed it.  Then he asks me if I can show him how to download things, watch streaming videos, etc.  As I start showing him, he gets a phone call.  Being an Israeli, he answers it and starts having this whole conversation with a chic he found through an online dating service.  I decide to pause, so I can explain when he gets off the phone, and he just says, go ahead, finish what you’re doing.  I just threw him a look and went to do something else.  Just as an FYI, it is quite disconcerting to listen to an unattractive, overweight religious man flirt.  N-O-T-H-A-N-K-Y-O-U.  As we’re doing this, he starts asking me about internet prices (not cheap in this country, as you have to pay one company for use of infrastructure and another company to provide actual internet).  So I tell him that prices depend on the speed of your connection: I have 4.5, so it’s more expensive than those with the basic 1.5.

Since then, he’s been sitting in the near vicinity of my apartment.  The first few days, he could be found sitting on our neighbor’s  stoop.  Sitting there until late at night, believing that he’s mooching off our (password protected) high-speed internet.  I think he soon realized that he was being irritatingly obtrusive, because he moved to a bench outside the building.  Sometimes I have half a mind to go to the upstairs neighbors and tell them to password protect their ‘net.

I got my hair cut a week ago, and now it’s super short. I’m going to see how feasible it is to keep it straight most of the time, because I personally feel that it looks much better that way.  Once I can figure out how to add pictures, I’ll include one on here.  (But since I’m retarded that might be a while).  Also, once that picture is up, my workout progress will be up as well on the workout page on the left.  I’ll try to take weekly or bi-weekly photos to monitor the progress on my upper arms.  If anyone can give me advice on how to make sure I get that wonderful definition, that would be totally rad.

I was on such a good schedule.  I’m not sure what happened, but lately I find it nearly impossible to wake up early enough to go to the gym before work.  I know I work from home, but the later I start working the later at night I’m stuck working, and it just feels longer and more unbearable.  This means that occasionally I go in the evening (which I don’t like) or I skip the gym entirely (which I really don’t like).  As hard as I try, my eating schedule isn’t exactly on the track I want it to be. However, it is way better than any diet I’ve ever had in my life - I’m eating less garbage and more protein, fruits and vegetables.  I mostly drink water, and occasionally make my own juice with my new juicer.  Even with this, I always feel tired, look like I’m about to die, and am pale with dark circle under my eyes.  I’m kind of at a loss of what to do.

On the bright side, I got a raise (yay!), and was even able to put in a few extra hours this week.  So…woot!

Ciao, bebes.

Shirah