my spacebar is going through menopause right now, so i'm writing this post from the computer lab

list of electronics are mine that are currently broken:

• camera. status: in johannesburg. i sent it in for repair, but i don't know when i'm getting it back.
• blackberry. status: incapacitated until the replacement parts i ordered online arrive. then, i get to play a little frankenstein on my phone.
• laptop. status: sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. when it does, i use it; when it doesn't, it's off to the lab for me.
• ipod. status: waiting to miraculously get enough money to buy a replacement ipod, which currently has a battery life of about 15 minutes.
• ipod headphones. status: why should i bother replacing these when my ipod is in such bad shape?
• lamp. status: it fell off my desk, it no longer switches on, i don't know what to do about it. (yes, i realise that a lamp isn't an electronic, but it still counts!)

obviously, the aggregate of all these damages i find very aggravating, especially considering i'm also trying to resolve the namibia car rental bill situation. oh, and i have to go to school somewhere in there, too.

in the mean time, brigid, april, and i have opted to go to bloemfontein over the weekend of october 10 for the macufe cultural festival. bloemfontein is hardly a noteable tourists' destination, but it's a chance to see another part of the country, and since i'm here for an entire semester, why not? besides, macufe should be fun... t-pain is for some reason performing there. hurrah!!

bloemfontein is not too far from the lesothoan border, so we're hoping to pop on in to lesotho while we're there. for those of you who don't know, lesotho is a country. it has its own flag and laws and everything! :) good for lesotho.

anyway, hopefully camera will be back and alive again come time for bloemfontein. as for right now, i'm exhausted, but i'm dragging myself to class anyway. fml.