Weathering Work and Cars

Autumn has dawned on the southern tip of Africa, but the drought, bush fires and plain heat that has characterized the summer of 2004/05 has not yet ceded. If anything, they’ve intensified. Although I appreciate any extension of warm weather, we need rain; not only to lift water restrictions but also help the agricultural sector. The irony has been widely recognized during the long past holiday: while the rest of the province has been washed away by floods, the Cape has escaped any great downpour and continues to thirst.

Varsity has been on now for just more than a month and the new year honeymoon period is passing away. Next week the first wave of preparatory tests will hit me like a brick wall. Despite this, I’ve taken this week pretty slow. I’ve mostly been recovering from whatever bug took a fancy in me, but also from the work that I did for Computational Physics. The next tut and project is already lined up, but praise for what I did with the first two from the lecturer eased away all the previous resentment. As shallow as it is, accolades like these are what I need from time to time to keep me going. Academically I currently don’t aspire to much, but when my efforts reap ripe rewards, they certainly are sweet.

I’ve finally resettled into the hum-drum of academia. Striking a balance between every thing that requires my attention is going to be the next step. A single diversion had, however, brought a sparkle to today: one of my friend’s friends had to borrow his dad’s car for today. Of course we had to convince him to give us a quick spin the Mercedes AMG CLS55! 8-) Oh, what a car! What a feeling! The sheer luxury of the interior and the perfect hum of the powerful engine lulls a person into a paralyzed comfort which makes the acceleration from 0 to 100km/h in 6 seconds feel as natural breathing. Unfortunately we were unable to experience top speed :-( , but even at 180km/h acceleration is blistering. This was quite a ride for a Mercedes Benz fan like myself. German perfection. ;-)

I have to go dream about a quite, low hum now.