antipathy for all in its totality...

i am not in the mood, and it's getting late so i will be brief. actually brief, unlike when Brother Whatever His Name Was in high school (i went to a Christian Brothers high school, but escaped from the experience vaguely normal you'll be pleased to hear) would say those 5 words and everyone would get comfortable and try to get some sleep in the ensuing half-hour's boredom. many things happened yesterday. most of them were good. a couple of them i am cleared to discuss below:

• Marcus Alan Michael K was born at 4:52PM, a little over 2 weeks late, but healthy nonetheless. Jules is recovering from the (emergency) C-section in hospital with Matt sleeping on a fold-out in the room. i went to visit them today and spent the 20 minutes we waited around on the other side of a curtain (there was privacy required), so i've not actually seen the sprog, but i HAVE seen photos and he looks... well, like they all look really. the corruption officially begins as soon as he's old enough to tell one end of a comic book from the other and hold a console controller.
  
• Rick and Kandace have (finally) gotten engaged after... um... something like 8 years. awwww...
  
• on the day once of my friends is giving birth, Ctrl+Alt+Del published a comic where once of the characters miscarries. how's that for unfortunate timing? Tim Buckley's credit, he carried the strip off spectacularly.
  

other things happened yesterday too. i went to work as an example, and once again completely failed to be killed on the roads. i ate, drank, slept and did the usual sorts of things one might consider doing in the hours they're awake. this is more or less what i've been doing for the last fortnight, interspersed with the watching of Stanley Kubrik movies (i finally got around to watching Dr Strangelove and Full Metal Jacket), Battlestar Galactica and the reading of various literature... most of it comics.

i've been tired, often irritated with the world in general, and generally apathetic towards anything that might be considered to be constructive. still, i'm saving cash at above the projected rate and this is a reason for cheer. at some point soon i'll be spending far too much of it on the likes of flights to and from Melbourne and Perth, and perhaps even frivolities such as socks and trousers.

otherwise i'm keeping busy doing the "work" thing and not dying on my way to or from same, which is better than i can say for the occupants of the 5 cars crushed front-to-back on Hindmarsh Drive today. judging by the wreckage it looked like there was a good likelihood that someone wasn't going home tonight, although hopefully i'm mistaken. people just do not take enough care in the wet, and obviously don't pay enough attention at the best of times. still, with luck the ones at the back were all insured and it'll all end well... well, except for the insurance companies and (who matters) no one really cares about them.

meanwhile, i'm going to sleep.