Cold Reception
As far as moving (packing) goes, I'm not getting any faster at it.
Moving home after last semester, the trip to Jozi, coming back home and moving back to the flat at Stellenbosch, I always leave at the latest possible time; even late. I don't know whether it is simple laziness, procrastination or reluctance to leave. It steals relaxation time but, meh, as long as I'm ready before the plane leaves or university starts again...
Just as I left and got on the highway it started raining cats and dogs. I wasn't looking forward to unpacking in this weather, but, thankfully, just as I pulled up to the flat, it stopped raining. I got everything in the house and went to a computer lab to use the internet. Sitting there in the nearly empty room with humming Dell machines I was overcome with the sense of impending academic responsibility. It was very disheartening to experience that. Though it might also just have been the stuffy conditioned air. Whatever it was, it was the varsity monster's breath as he chuckled whilst beckoning the hapless students closer and closer. Its less like a siren's call and more like a butch, emotionless prison guard telling a condemned prisoner that its time.
Okay, enough fatalism for tonight then. Tonight is apparently going to be the coldest night in the Cape for this winter thus far. So was last night. Are we starting to see a trend here? I hope not. There's been some snow around Ceres and many people flocked today to go see it today. I predicted that this year there will be snow on the Stellenbosch mountains again. This has yet to come (I think), but if that happens, it is going to be very, very cold.
Ah, I miss the under floor heating Nikki's home has!
Moving home after last semester, the trip to Jozi, coming back home and moving back to the flat at Stellenbosch, I always leave at the latest possible time; even late. I don't know whether it is simple laziness, procrastination or reluctance to leave. It steals relaxation time but, meh, as long as I'm ready before the plane leaves or university starts again...
Just as I left and got on the highway it started raining cats and dogs. I wasn't looking forward to unpacking in this weather, but, thankfully, just as I pulled up to the flat, it stopped raining. I got everything in the house and went to a computer lab to use the internet. Sitting there in the nearly empty room with humming Dell machines I was overcome with the sense of impending academic responsibility. It was very disheartening to experience that. Though it might also just have been the stuffy conditioned air. Whatever it was, it was the varsity monster's breath as he chuckled whilst beckoning the hapless students closer and closer. Its less like a siren's call and more like a butch, emotionless prison guard telling a condemned prisoner that its time.
Okay, enough fatalism for tonight then. Tonight is apparently going to be the coldest night in the Cape for this winter thus far. So was last night. Are we starting to see a trend here? I hope not. There's been some snow around Ceres and many people flocked today to go see it today. I predicted that this year there will be snow on the Stellenbosch mountains again. This has yet to come (I think), but if that happens, it is going to be very, very cold.
Ah, I miss the under floor heating Nikki's home has!
posted by phantom-99w at 20:22
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