Today in the library I was given an air assault by a serial farter. Big, trumpety wet ones, too. What is the matter with people!
I will get my apartment key next week and then I have to find willing/able movers on labor day weekend. I don't think that's going to work out, for some reason.
I am loving the heck out of Aberdeen so far. I described it in an email today as a honeymoon stage situation, where everything is new and all the articles are good and the personality quirks haven't gotten to either of us yet (except the gassiness of the library patrons. Seriously, people!) and we have yet to argue about anything. And that's kind of where I am right now.
My new place will be on the fourth floor of an older building, facing the bay. It's very cool. It's also a little bit smaller than my old space, so I'm ruminating on either getting rid of stuff or putting a bookcase in the small, narrow kitchen.
Another reason to love Aberdeen: Good electronics mojo. For the first time I don't have to get up and adjust the connection between the cable and the TV; the cable that sends the signals from the VCR, that is. Maybe it's because I put the VCR next to the TV instead of under. I have no idea. It's very nice to not have to decide if I want to get up and fix it or see if I can wait it out.
Because I have no cable, I am relying on Netflix, the DVD rental place of champions. Right now I'm watching "Rome," which is all the stuff they SHOULD tell you in seventh grade Latin classes. Actually, I'm pretty sure Florence mostly did (there's some pretty raunchy stuff (there is, where I'm at in the series, a completely gratuitous lesbian subplot, and that seems to be the way the BBC and HBO people like it) and hard-core suggested violence in the series), as you kind of can't avoid it when people like Herodotus wrote most of the history of the place and you had historic exemplars like Caligula ruling you. But it's fun to be reminded without the middle school atmosphere and grueling tests.
I still miss TV, but I'm doing okay without complete access to it, I guess.
1 comment:
CW--
Wilkins here. Didn't meant to give you short shrift at Aberdeen Council last week, but at night meetings I am most interested in getting in, getting my two paragraphs and a sound bite, and getting the hell out, so I grab a chair where I think my mike will work best and as close to the door as I can.
Your blog makes me smile. Particularly the sort of sweetly-shocked horror at the flatulent foibles of public library patrons. In Aberdeen, see, the public library is the only place a homeless person can go and cruise the Internet, have a quick wash-up, and perhaps make an afternoon of the indoor plumbing without too much fear of being rousted by cops, grouchy retirees, and/or irate loggers.
I'd tell you stories about your new employers that would make a gaseous assault by residentially-challenged library patrons seem picnic-like by comparison, but why spoil your fun? Suffice to say you're young, this ain't the last encore on your career tour by a long shot, and judging from your blog, you'll know when, to paraphrase Master Po (to Kwai Chang Caine) "...it is time for you to leave."
Anyway, welcome to the jungle, and if I can ever help you out, or you just want to tell funny stories about Alicia, drop a dime.
Cheers,
Wilkins
Oh, and P.S.--I'm an old guy and new to the blogging thang, not to mention still a little crispy on the whole notion of writing daily after doing it for the World for 8 years, but I've recently joined the lemmings at Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/brotherbeavis
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