Friday, 21 December 2012

2012-12-21: A Survivor's Diary

21/12/2012
00:00 (South African time)
On the phone with Verushka. We saw some troublesome stuff on the net about today, but the world still seems to be intact so far.

00:30
Going to sleep now. Nothing has happened, but if everything's okay, I'll have to go to work, so I might as well have enough sleep.

07:25
My shower tap has broken off. Is this the catastrophe that the Mayans predicted?

07:56
I'm at work. I survived the drive too.

08:16
I'm at my desk wondering whether anything is going to happen today.

09:07
I have been reading Cavie's blog posts.
I've been so busy with work (and so tired after work) that I haven't been able to give him the attention he deserves from me <3
But the world is crazy if it thinks that it will end before I read and enjoy what he writes.
Work is going slow this week so I'm happy that I can comfortably read his blog.
I continue to marvel at his writings and how his November posts all start with C.

09:23
Adrian said "</world>"
I laughed. He said I should credit Terishka Bissoon for this joke.

09:40
Gangnam Style has 997,228,640 views.
Apparently the 1,000,000,000 mark was to be the end of the world :/

10:16
I'm so tired. Maybe I shouldn't have stayed awake to see if the world ends. Would have been fine if I didn't have late nights every day this week. Verushka keeps telling me how she's at home in bed, having coffee, etc.
I'm jealous.
Champs (Trishanta Pursotham) is chatting to me on GMail and refusing to get me a pillow.
Two songs still remain in my head. One will replay over and over, then the other one will step in for a bit and they alternate this way.
1. http://your-face-is-a-blog.blogspot.com/2012/12/cannot-stop-thinking-of-this.html 
2. www.mochachos.com (Yes, the restaurant franchise. Click and wait. You probably need flash and/or javascript. I'm not sure what it uses.)

11:56
It's almost halfway through the day and I'm still alive.
Dimension Data has a Christmas lunch on the canteen menu today. Obviously to distract us from the truth.
Larisha Govender says that all will be fine because "Goku saved us."

12:04
Gangnam Style has passed 998,000,000
It's only a matter of time now.
Champs says her bum keeps getting bigger. Definitely a sign of the apocalypse. There is no hope.

12:17
I want to see Verushka. I miss her.
We were meant to have lunch today. 5 minutes with her would make my day now.
I heard Cavie recoil and yelp at my previous statement. I heard it from here.

13:30
Verushka's about to take me for lunch. :D
*She's waiting outside for me.
I'm gonna seeee her.  [Dorky dance]

*(No, I didn't make you wait. I wrote some of these things later than they occurred and put the relevant timestamp because that's what I was thinking at the time so it's still cool.)

15:22
I got back from lunch with Verushka.
She's still alive. Whew.
So am I.
THANK YOU. I know SOMEONE in the audience said "whew" in reaction to MY safety. I appreciate your concern regarding my well-being.
She didn't let me pay and I forgot to sneakily leave my money in her car :(
Now I'll have to buy her TWICE as much food next time #BoyfriendProblems
There was some traffic but Verushka's driving skills made short work of any problems.
She jokingly yelled "HEY, LADY" to call the waitress after we attempted to get her attention and when she did yell, the lady actually turned around and looked. She felt awkward. Verushka felt awkward. Not the lady. Maybe the lady too.

15:31
VERUSHKA IS HOME. SHE IS SAFE. I sent her a BBM "Whew" face to let her know how concerned I was. She totally misses me already.
I am at my desk at work.

16:22
The important people have left work now.
I spent a while looking for some cute pictures of animals for Verushka.
I'm tired now.
Yes. Still alive. But there's still time for the world to end.

16:31
Leaving now. Verushka said.
If there's traffic, it's her fault :(

17:09
Got home just now. Was a little traffic but it was okay.

17:25
Tired. A quick nap and I'll be okay.

20:00
Shit. I slept for a while.
My parents and sister went to have supper and will be back just now.

21:30
I ate Verushka and my leftovers and a bit of a ham roll. My parents and sister were at Spur earlier. They came back a while ago. I'm going to Previn's house because it's Ony's birthday just now.
Still alive. If we die before Ony's birthday, it'll be funny.

23:00
There's an hour left. Perhaps we won't die today after all. THERE'S A SURPRISE.
I feel bad. :( I'm not talking to Verushka freely. I hope she forgives me. We'd better not die now.

22/12/2012
00:03
We are wishing Ony happy birthday as it's past 12.
We also did not die. I REPEAT: We did not die.
However, I'll wait for the day to pass in every country/time zone before I assume complete safety.

00:50
Got home a while ago. Gonna phone Verushka :)

01:39
Going to sleep now. If I'm still alive in the morning, I think I'm gonna call it a day and assume the world will survive.

[Awake]
I'm not sure what time it is. Didn't check yet.
But it's day-time and everything's okay.
We survived.

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