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Raven's Journal: My donut cushion and I.
Posted Apr 13, 2007
Ok, right, before I start this, I'm going to tell you all not to laugh.
I repeat: Do NOT laugh!
It is NOT funny!
I fractured my butt last night - well, my cocsix at least, you know, the bone in my bum...
It all started off with the weather...
Once apon a time, in a far away land (well it is far away to you lot), the weather changed...
*sinister music starts playing*
*the wind starts howling*
*it begins to rain*
*thunder rumbles can be heard*
*a dinosaur roars in the distance* Ok right......
Enough with all the drama and special effects!
Basically it was cold outside and I was freezing
, so I wanted to switch the aircon off - it's controlled by a central unit-thing, but they can be turned off in each room seperately, so I figured I'd do just that.
Problem is I couldn't reach the switch coz it's right at the top back of the aircon, but I know its there coz Helen (scary big butch nurse) turned it off once before for me.
So, very clever me decides "I'll get a chair and switch it off myself!" Coz I was really cold and I didn't see any nurses around. Besides, it feels really stupid being male and having to call a female to come and do stuff for you when you're perfectly capable of doing it yourself.
Got my chair, stood on it, reached over to find the switch, found several, chose the one that I thought was correct, but the damn thing wouldn't stay up. So clever me decides it's obviously being like a kettle (you know when you've boiled the kettle and use the water immediately, then fill it up and try to boil it straight away again and the kettle thinks "But dude, I just boiled that!", but you know it hasn't, so you've got to hold down the switch for a bit and then the kettle realises that it is different water in there that is actually cold and it does in fact need to boil it, so then it starts doing its thing and you can let the switch go? You've never had that before and have no clue what I'm talking about, do you? Oh well, I tried...), so I decided to hold the switch up for a bit.
Clearly however, that was NOT the correct switch at all! In fact, the switch wasn't very happy with me either, so it sent a few volts through my arm, which caused one of those 
I believe I can fly... moments, after which I landed very very hard on my bum.
And that hurt like HELL!!! Yes, capital HELL!!! with all those exclamation marks too.
Anyway, I got up with my beloved bum in excrutiating pain and (now how embarrasing is this!) I called the nurse. Luckily Blondie is still on leave, otherwise she would've had a lot to say about this.
Anyway, Helen came and I could see she was trying not to laugh, but I was too sore to care anyway.
So I went for xrays. My god that was the worst! You try standing there while a strange machine moves around your nether regions looking right through you AND taking photos! My god, it felt like a freaky kind of porn I was modelling for!
And it turns out I had fractured my cocsix. Not too badly - apparently it's just a little fracture, but it still hurts like hell. Everything is still in tact, it's really just a hairline crack on the bone.
The docter said there's nothing they can actually do for it - I mean it's not like they can strap a plank to my bum to keep it straight or anything like they do with legs and it's impossible to put me in plastercast (although that would look rather funny).
So the only solution is for me to sit very carefully for the next few weeks on a donut cushion until it's better. A DONUT cushion!!! My god, and I thought those were only meant for old men with bowel problems! 
And I have to carry it around with me if I walk around at all in case I get tired and need to sit down somewhere.
Ok I'm going for a walk now.
*clutches his donut cushion tightly to him*
Ok, alright - you can laugh now!
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Ray's Journal - Photos!
Posted Mar 23, 2007
Ok, so I've got a photo-thing-do up. It's kinda fun actually and not nearly as difficult as I thought it would be.
Anyway, it started out coz Roy mentioned the water in Durbs (for those who don't know, the whole planet, sun and moon lining up thing, combined with the hurricane, have really messed the weather systems up over here). Anyway, so Durban has never been a whirlwind area, but they have suddenly started springing up all over the place and causing havoc.
Well my landlady was panicking coz our neighbour's roof had landed in our driveway and tiles from her roof had gone flying off and trees were falling all over and there wasn't much anyone could do about it anyway, so she called Prov to go over and check my place out (which was perfectly fine thank goodness), so Provi took some pics to show me of the road to my house after that big storm... Anyway, I've now put them onto my Yahoo Photos so that you guys can see them too.
Then I decided to show off a bit and put in the photos from my camera of the sunset from my deck simply because it is so beautiful! 
And then I got a bit carried away and added some completely arbitrary stuff, which includes a self-portrait of myself (I am a very good, yet still undiscovered, artist - orders of life-size prints of my portrait are welcome
); an old photo of Provi from back in the day when she was still a sweet little girl with Asha, her equally gorgeous dog; Felix my cat who has made a name for himself as 'the fireman'; and jellyfish - don't ask!
And you can see it all here!
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/ravenukaledi/my_photos
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Ray's Journal - Farewell!
Posted Mar 22, 2007
ATTENTION
ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD
LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE.
You will all be safe, I just wanted to say goodbye.
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Ray's Journal - you people are making me cry!!!!!!!!
Posted Mar 19, 2007
Ok, I don't know what I have done to offend anyone, but whatever is going on I want it to stop!!!
Please!!!
Providence, my sister, joined up here a while back. She left a message in my PS, and the h2g2 moderators have just emailed me to say that my replies to her have broken the house rules and have been removed.
Now I'm going to copy and paste from their email the reply I wrote here again and see what happens.
Here it is:
"PROVI!!!
Hey sweety, now what the heck are you doing online when you are at
Varsity? How'd you manage to get on anyway?"
This was a private conversation between her and me anyway. I see no swearing, I see no bad language, there is no innuendo, it doesn't give out personal information - I see nothing wrong with that!
I see the entire message has actually been taken off my PS, yet in her original one to me I don't remember there being anything wrong in it either! I'm horribly upset about that and I'd like this whole thing to PLEASE stop!!!
It's breaking my heart here!
Ok, so right now I'm still an emotionalwreck in genral, but this really hurts me. *sniff*
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Ray's Journal - WARNING! H2G2 BEWARE!
Posted Mar 13, 2007
Meet my sis: A7775282
Approach with caution!
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