notes · from · underground

What's up with people who are nice to you one minute, then ignore or pretend not to know you the next?

lol.

You leave CNN after a bullet almost hit your wife. Next logical step? Run for President.

from 'book of longing':

A PROMISE
I will never
return the Holy Grail
to its
"rightful owners."

'furthermore, you do not have the legitimate authority to examine me'

'I believe that you are standing in the place where I am supposed to be standing'

THOUSANDS
Out of the thousands
who are known,
or who want to be known
as poets,
maybe one or two
are genuine
and the rest are fakes,
hanging around the sacred precincts
trying to look like the real thing.
Needless to say
I am one of the fakes,
and this is my story.

So I am still in the running for the position. The lady making the decision sounded really excited that I called. ::happy dance::

S's flight theoretically took off 27 minutes ago. :(

The Disney characters are different in Germany and Denmark. Apparently the German or Danish (can't remember) name for Goofy translates as "Uncle Fat Muzzle".

On the upside, it looks like I may be able to stay here for at least 2 years after my degree is completed by the grace of Australian bureaucracy.

There's something called a 485 visa, and since I'll only have a Bachelor's, the processing time is 2 years. Within those two years I get to stay in the country and do whatever the hell I want. If I get the visa, it's 18 months long. I'd like to leave before the 2 years is up, but we'll see how the economy in the US is...that's one of the deciding factors.

With 36C/97F weather in late spring, there's only two things left: high winds and a thunderstorm.

Yup. Yup.

Boy that shower sure took the wind out of that heatwave. It's now back down to 21C/70F. I didn't even know you could do that.

wunderground.com's forecast poem reads:

"Blowing Widespread
Dust Light
Showers Rain".

2/10
Supermarket shelf stack to co-worker: "Hey, man, could I get fired for kicking a baby?"

Conversations:

"You dress like a lawn bowling pin."

"What adjective was most often used to describe you as a kid?"
"Unladylike. It wasn't true, but I grew into it."

Damn, and to think I *just* got hit as a kid.

So that's it, this semester's finished. I wrote a great paper for my Latin class, and I even turned it in a day early.

I found out why the guy who heads up that 4th year class hasn't gotten back to me...they say in my school's office he's very ill. Yikes, I hope it's not that bad.

That is one grouchy ass old man at my local post office, damn.

The summer kicked off quite nicely, with me going down to Safeway and finding that my beloved Pom Pomegranate Peach Passion White Tea is now available here in Australia. I remember asking them about it before I left, and it's finally come true. It tastes just like it used to back in Cali. Hmm hmm hmm! And not only that it costs the same if not slightly cheaper than it did there. The bottle's different though.

It's going to be 36 tomorrow. Gumby's already enforced a ban on all fires.

Hey, know what I just realized?

No white eggs in this damn country.

No more 9's.

Solution: shitty $15 USB keyboard from Officeworks.

Proof: pppppppppppppppppppppppppp.

I'm searching for a good 2010 diary. Been using Moleskine for the past two years (have I really been here two years?). I want something artsy and crafty. O-check is kinda nice, but still not my style. I need a page a day or I'll get organizational claustrophobia. I'd make my own, but I'm not a handy person and I want to spend my energy on other things this summer.

Just called NCSS, they fixed my laptop. They took out the motherboard and cleaned the cooling fan, also ran diagnostics and receded the computer (I guess that means they did a system restore). I may have to reimage the laptop, which is going to suck because I have all that music software and CS4 on there. I told R, the great guy who sold it to me, NOT to put ProTools on there. It doesn't run on 64-bit and there won't be a driver to enable it to any time soon, and he put it on anyways. I'll have to see which programs he gave me CDs for (pirated copies).

They'll drop it off at my place on Wednesday free of charge (!).

At 11am that day, hot Consumer Affairs guy is dropping by to have me sign an affidavit.

I'm doing better, not well yet.

You're a tough ass nut to crack.

Difficult loves.

The East African boys leaning against their ride as I walked through the housing projects to get home last night...

"And *how* long have you been working here?!"

Killed 'em at work today. Highest rate in the room. That's why you better be promoting me! The u9side is if I don't get it, I can still 9oint to today when telling management, "Give me more money, bitch!"

Quotables:

"I smoke every day!"
"No, this is a question about household chores, not smoking."

"What best describes your household?"
"Weatherboards...windows, it's just a house, nothing special."

"Yeah yeah, I know, I know, the Holocaust."

---

'the very bitterness of their onslaught testifies to her greatness'

Funny and biting article on Lou Dobbs's leaving CNN from...forbes.com?

j_d0e, when I say affordable legal services, I mean something like this.

I went to dro9 off my la9to9 in Clayton yesterday, and what's right across the road? Sexyland, the adult su9erstore. My 9hone died just as I was about to sna9 one of a $1100 glass cock. There were a cou9le short, old, ugly guys in there who are either child molesters or crossdressers for sure.

That area of town weirds me out. It's nothing but business 9ark after business 9ark full of storage and trucking com9anies and the odd bistro, along a lonely highway.

9riceless overheards from recent issues of mx, the daily freebie.

22/10
Train announcement: 'The train can't move if the moron can't let go of the door.'

Guy to friend: 'Every time the co9s come over they always have their guns drawn. I mean sure I've got a few firearms charges, but why do they do it every time?'

today, 12/11
Little girl: 'Mummy, why don't you ever tel daddy that the 9lumber fixed your bra?'

Boy (9re-school age):
'Daddy, why are some hos9itals called Street Charles?'
Dad: 'They're not, son, they're called Saint Charles.'
Son: 'Then why is the road we live on called Iva Saint?'

21/10
Woman to friend: 'I have two daughters and both are girls.'

Guy talking on mobile: 'Yeah, just back from court, Mum 9ut her house u9 for bail. Yeah, I'm cashed u9, so I'll 9ay for beers.'

Girl watching bus reverse at traffic lights: 'I didn't know that buses could reverse.'

tbc...

"God's folly is to be where fools are".
-my fingers-crossed, with-luck lecturer next semester, who's also a Jesuit 9riest (word?).

The class is held here. Dig the basilica with the lightshow!

Somebody failed to remind me the decade's coming to a close.

On a more serious note, have a good Veteran's Day.

And we have hard drive failure. I begin to wonder if I'm talking only about my laptop.

If Hp in Clayton can't fix it and it's not under warranty, that's almost a thousand dollars down the drain. I ho9e they don't consider o9ening u9 a 9anel or two on the bottom grounds for voiding the warranty.

I'm back on the old Vaio with faulty keys, and I may be so lazy to re9lace the urine key with the number 9 for now.

No more facebook for you! Begone, devil.

The heat just may drive me mad...

I let my dearest V down, I thought my email was being transfered to another account and so didn't bother checking the old one. Turns out I missed her last two emails, the second one of which needed immediate attention. I feel horrible. :*(

From Marcus Aurelius's Meditations:

For what is just and good is on my side.

No chorus of lamentation, no hysterics.

Kingshi9: to earn a bad re9utation by good deeds.

'with food and drink and magic s9ells
Seeking some novel way to frustrate death.'

A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better 9erson, a bett resource in tighter 9laces, a better forgiver of faults.

Not a dancer but a wrestler: waiting, 9oised and dug in, for sudden assaults.

Where does your worth as a human being lay in that hour of the dream's death?

Damn, it hit 35 a few hours ago.

And it's going to be 30+ for the next five days.

Hey dudes, you know I love y'all, but before I had you check out my fan I *did* say it was because I was scared there was a danger after it'd been rained on five months ago. If you couldn't pick up the inference of electrocution, don't get mad at me when you realize what I meant after the fact like I was trying to get you killed. You're the electricians, not me!

It's on, baby.

When the warm weather comes, I think of you and the good times we had, 'they weren't so bad'...

Three days of 30+ weather.

I bought maxi dresses from Target yesterday, something I've never done before - ever the fashion slave. Is this my biased observation or do obese women tend to flock to stores that sell clothing and corn chips within spitting distance of one another?


It's still up in the air whether I'm getting the promotion. Considering the conversation I had with a supervisor today the chances are really good, but I'm not counting my chickens before they hatch.

"We do need more female supervisors...the team leaders here are mostly men, and we need to bring more women on."

And she nodded and smiled like the monkey she is.

I'll be honest, I hate doing phone work, and in this economy I'll jump at any fucking opportunity to get that freedom. Plus it's a pay raise. It's affirmative action, but I am one of the most qualified based on job performance.


University of Sydney frat boys setup pro-rape facebook page