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I haven't updated my LJ this last few days, so let's start with thursday:

After a correct sleep, i get a normal breakfast which I'll find too heavy for a day-long scuba diving. Will have to be careful with that next time. Fill up the car tank since I don't want to go in someone else's car, not that i don't want to but I don't have money to pay for the travel. On other hand I don't push others to pay me back when they ride with me.

The guy I drove to the diving place was really nice and we talked for a while, first time I meet a professional helicopter pilot.

Somehow we are late because we expected someone else to come with us and in fact, this person went there already, so we had to hurry to change of clothes and wear diving gears, they are cool but really tight around the ankles and wrists. There was much wind and the first diving site was abandonned because there was no way to stabilised the boat with the strong currents, so we go to another place. All is good but I start to feel seasick, I know it will pass as soon as I'm in the water. So we start diving, as usual I'm slightly underweighted, my fault, but not by much. Fortunately I'm not as stressed as a few dives ago when I used half my tank just to dive down to 20 meters. This time I used only 10 bars, which is just ten times less. I'm a lousy diver, I'm not fit and I spend a whole tank while others spend only half of it. I showed the director when I was half and when I was in the red. I knew I could have confidence in him but for no apparent reason I had a panic attack underwater. I wanted to remove the mask and the breather from my mouth, I wanted to throw everything and just dive up to the surface as fast as possible. My old teacher told me about it when i first started to dive, not sure if it's a common stuff though but I managed to control myself. I guess my will is strong enough, cause after we landed, and I told my director about it, he said there was nothing visible in my acts underwater that showed any problem. Although I thought it was good to tell them.

Anyway, we finally reach the surface after this first dive and my tank shows less than 20 bars. And we surfaced like 200 or 300 yards from the boat with opposite currents. At least, the waves helped some and I swam more with each wave to gain from them, it took quite a while to get to the boat, but it was good not to be alone, then we had to remove stuff while holding the boat with one hand, my weight belt turned and I didnt thought of turning it underwater, so my director helped me, I turned facing the water, with my arm twisted and holding the boat, fighting to stay still as he asked me to :p.

From now on, my strenght was limited to the minimum, but I still had to get back into the boat, thanks to my fellow co-divers, it went easily but I was feeling pretty bad, a mixture of seasickness, dizzy head from too much effort, empty stomach and reminiscent of fear from underwater, or rather trying to understand it. I laid down on the boat floor until we arrive, I was cold and shaky (not visibly so though), of course I covered myself but the wind didnt help. We ate and I told the boss, I won't go to the next dive, he said ok but my dive director talked me into it, since I started to feel better after a small sandwich.

The second was rather uneventful; there was no current there, my tank went down as fast as before but we saw lots of interesting animals, like lobsters, tiny sharks, crabs, spider crabs, lots of fishes and even a torpedo ray, first time I ever saw one live.

Then it was time to drive home, I drove the guy back to his car and he gave me 10 bucks for the ride (I don't ask for those but it's the second time and the first guy calculated that's what my car costed me for the ride, so heh.).

Had enough time to shower and even rest a bit in it. Tiredness started to fit in but managed to go to school, and spend the two hours of course without a problem, thanks to the talented teacher. (One of them is so boring, he'd put me asleep even if I was on high-level cafeine). She told me something I heard when I was in school twelve years ago and which is still true:
I have the knowledge, I have the brain but I lack the way to explain it on paper in a scientific way (developping an explanation with details down to the conclusion).

Then comes friday, not much happened then, I tried to ride my bike but everyone decided to go on weekend at the same time, I drove like 40 miles in 2h30. Ordered two pizza, a special IE8 (yes the shop makes a internet explorer 8 pizza!) and a nutella one. The IE8 is really good but the other one is just a pasta fold in two with the nutella in it, the pasta was already getting hard as I got it, havent touched it since, will see if I can get it softer.
Saturday: naught.

Sunday: that is today. I went for a long ride, everything went well, 2h30 of ride, my ass just couldnt handle more, so I stopped under the sun for half an hour, no one to bother me it was really cool and then rode again, for almost another hour. It could have been the perfect if not 500 yards before my house, at a traffic light, I encountered a problem:
My light turned green, so I start, I got my sign to turn left, which means everyone coming in front has the right of way, in front there are two separate lanes with one light each, one lane goes straight or left (from their pov), the other goes right, ie: my right.

No car on the first lane, but one at the second, I start slow, cross the street slowly waiting for the car to move since I'm not sure if her light has turned green or not, I still go slow waiting for it to go then decide she might be red and starts to accelerate
...And so she does...

I was relatively far (not 100 yards though) from her, I braked hard, my rear tire slid a bit (might have been on the crossing lines). And I yelled at her.

The old person on the wheel was just not realising her light was green and she realised it as I came to her. Nothing wrong happened but it still pisses me off that people are not concentrated on their driving. If anything had happened I'd have been responsible because she had the right of way..

Oh well, it's over now and it's time to rest a bit waiting for mick to connect.