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...getting rained on in Tokyo.
...old enough to drink alcohol but not old enough to know when to stop.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

It's only funny because it's true
Last Friday I had my first lumbago ever and almost keeled over with pain in front of my office. I made it up the stairs and to my desk but for the rest of the day I lurched through the cubicle jungle like the hunchback of Notre-Dame. The very concerned people from my department offered to drive me to a walk-in clinic but I declined politely. I am a firm believer in the natural selection process and declared that it would either go away by itself or take me down with it. Infantility of the mind and frailness of the body rarely go well together.

The weekend passed well when I used alcohol to numb my back. First thing on Monday, my boss cornered me.
Boss: How was your weekend? Did you go to the doctor?
Me: No, I really didn't need to.
Boss: So how's your back?
Me: Thanks, better. It only hurts when I laugh.
Boss: You have come to the right place then.


posted by Bunny at 6:54 PM



Sunday, February 19, 2006

London experience #3
On Saturday I indulged in an old English tradition together with my flatmate S and her adorable friends: the pub crawl. At 2pm we arrived at our first pub. Slow but persistent drinking led to the desired state of intoxication later that day and at the penultimate pub of the crawl, I even engaged in a (one-sided) conversation with Tom the pub cat which, for some reason, wore a Shakespearean collar. "Nobody lovsh me but you doooo, right, little kitty?" I slurred and scratched his black-furred chin. Tom only looked slightly embarassed for me before he left mid-sentence. Without a starched collar to call my own, I probably wasn't posh enough for him. Well, it's his loss.
On my way home, some Tube workers took down a man in a blue kilt while some embarassed Japanese tourists had to walk around the lot of them. On the train, a man held his girlfriend's index finger while focusing his attention on his other hand which was busy playing a golf game on his cell phone. London at night is positively surreal.


posted by Bunny at 11:26 PM



Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Laptop woes (continued)
Vacuuming has prolonged the time before switch-off to 20 minutes but this is only a temporary fix. I long to take my laptop apart and scrape big chunks of dust out of the vent with my bare nails but when I already fail at disassembling the casing, there is not much hope of sinking my fingers into the intestines of this little shit any time soon. My achievement of the night was putting lots of dents into the plastic casing and scratching my finger tips. And my hardware savvy ex is a Channel and a couple of mountains away. A friend in need my ass...
Tune in for tomorrow's episode of the destruction derby of outdated laptops: broken plastic! Tears! Lost screws! Electric shocks!


posted by Bunny at 10:49 PM



Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Happy Valentine's Day!
On my way to work, my train got cancelled and I had to wait half an hour for the next one. In the rain. Making small talk with co-workers that talked in cheerful singsong voices. Oh the joy.
Later that day the same co-workers carried home flowers their boyfriends sent to the office and raved about the greatness of companionship. My feelings, on the other hand, were limited to concern for my laptop. It has lately refused to stay switched on for more than 10 minutes and I was obsessed with the idea to clean the vent to prevent the laptop from overheating. That's why I declined an offer of social interaction with a nice young man who called after work. And now that I can finally venture back into the virtual world that I have neglected for so long, I see no point in dealing with the real world, especially when there's no alcohol involved. And that's how I declined sex to vacuum my laptop.


posted by Bunny at 9:16 PM


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