Das Leben eines Teilzeit-Berliner

Tonight, my 1995 Toyota was brought in the garage and my father began removing the rust off the wings. It therefore means that I'm without a car until Wednesday.

So I get to use mom's Honda for those 2 days. I wonder if I'll get smiles from women at traffic lights like I did while I drove it last summer :D

I tend to see myself as some kind of lazy person (my sleeping habits, my very basic cooking, my deficient sense of order in my apartment...) but I do realise, from time to time, that I'm not. Depends for what, of course.

But take this very moment for example. I've been on the road over the past 2 weeks, and now nothing. Well, I'm in a sort of panic "What am I gonna do?????". But WTF, I'm in Berlin Thursday so it's not like I won't do anything of my week.

And my dinner sucks, well it's now cold.

Plus I need to change my mind as my stress level increases since tomorrow is Wednesday. The last time, I invited to the second interview on the Friday so this was 5 days after. Tomorrow, it's been five days. So, yeah, I really can't wait to see if there's anything in my email box. Maybe I'd be more calm if people stopped asking me "Did you get news? Did you get news???".... Even at school, everyone is impatient to be drinking the bottle of sparkling wine reserved for big occasions.

I do believe we will, but give a break to my nerves!

Ok, let's eat a bit more and then go to the gym.

http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20071112/CPMONDE/71112109

«Accuser de xénophobie et d'intolérance quelqu'un qui comme moi n'a fait que dénoncer des événements qui font partie de la chronique noire de l'Italie de ces dernières années (...) signifie que l'on est à court d'argument», poursuit Mme Mussolini.

Well you are xenophobic and intolerant, otherwise you wouldn't seat in the far-right group!

M. Tudor affirmait dans un communiqué que «nous ne voulons pas que, tout en bénéficiant de notre appui de manière indirecte, un porte-parole de la xénophobie, de l'intolérance, et du racisme de type fasciste se fasse écouter en Europe».

OMG we subsidise your intolerance TOO!

Le Parti de la Grande Roumanie de M. Tudor «ne veut plus avoir le moindre rapport avec Alessandra Mussolini, qui se permet un tel sacrilège envers notre peuple», ajoutait le communiqué.

ROFL! Wait, what they say about Roms and Jews are not sacrileges against peoples?

Enough laughs about those who consider me a parasite. Let's go to the gym.

Tomorrow: Valgaften med Reimer Bo, clawbug og terrabyte

Tomorrow is, FINALLY, the first day of French tours for this season. Coincidentially, I received a booking for September 11th - excellent. Now, if someone can please tell my grand-mother how it works - I've given up.

I spoke to my mother yesterday and she decided to call herself the bank (she has a procuration on my Canadian banking because I am absent) and step into the process of claiming my money back. Like I said too, she thinks the bank is hand-in-hand with the scammer by refusing to admit I've been frauded AND she says I'm just being treated unfairly by a sexually-frustrated woman who is mad that I was at a stripclub.

I dunno if that will help but I can't stop her. Besides, damn, my father and her have been with the fucken damn Caisse Desjardins since they were kids - every cent since my birth transited to them. That's more than fidelity, it's arse-licking: mortages, car loans, personal loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, insurance - name it, we got it there!

Ok, let's go sweat the rage at the gym.

Btw, Deutsche Bahn strike starts tomorrow - let's hope S-Bahn won't be disturbed!

So this Sunday a part of the people from work went to eat Moroccan food to celebrate the departure of our boss, Daniel, who has been promoted as the manager of Montréal's Lucky Brand Jeans store. A four-course meal, I ate like two people! And the beer was expensive. However, we did try red wine from Morocco and I was a bit surprised, I had never thought they produced wine!

I've got some pics, there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8040312@N08/sets/72157600185946243/

The day was a bit long, though...so it can fit into one bigger text:

Melie came with her friend Hélène at 9:30, Melie had told her I have furnitures to sell due to my eminent and longer-than-last-year Liberation. Fine, the fridge/washing machine/dryer/dinner set out for 850$. Now Delphine wants my futon.

Went to the gym. I'm pissed that I'm the only one to have completed, so far, the challenge of 20 minutes of cardio per day for 10 days (Prize money of 500$). I want that money and those calories must be burned before I return to the city of Hot People (well, Montréal is too but I don't feel much concerned while in Berlin I have to be presentable since it's only away from Canada that I "reconnect with my sexuality and maleness" :p) [not to mention that like everytime I post a shot of me, someone will post that I'm fat]

Gilles came at work to tell us he had voted Sarkozy but was ashamed of it. He's forgiven...at 52.8%, his single vote didn't make THAT much difference! :) Marjorie voted blank.

After work, we didn't all have time to return home before going out so we just hung in the park (forgot the name) where there is a Boer War Monument for the Canadian soldiers who went there.

Ok, you need funny stuff so let's recall the toast...

Gilles: And don't forget that if you don't look at each other straight in the eyes it's seven years of bad sex
Me: Fuck that, I've survived 4 so there are only 3 left
Delphine: Jo, stop speaking about this to people. It doesn't make you more appealing
Me: It's always better to make fun of than cry about it. Life is too short, we have to fight and accept adversity
Daniel: Exactly my man, I'm proud of you there! *cheers!*

One more patch on my supressed depression *sarcasm*

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070305.wpopnation0305/CommentStory/International/home

I absolutely hate when some media does this. Not least because in Canada, it becomes ultra-nationalist material but also because we're all the FUCKEN SAME!!!!

I wish someone woke up, admitted that we're all brainwashed into thinking Canada is the best country in the world and that everyone on this planet wants to be Canadian ONLY BECAUSE WE NEED OTHERS TO TELL US HOW WE'RE GOOD SINCE WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT ALONE!!!! This has a name: POST-COLONIAL SYNDROME.

Btw the magic words of the elections have been pronounced: "comme au Danemark". It had to come up at some point, it did. But will Politiken and its competitors publish Danneborg-masturbation editorials because Québec politicians want to imitate them? No. They don't need anyone to tell them they're good, they know it.

Now if you want to laugh, in French it was reported "upside down": Iran and Israel have the worst influence on world affairs

Guillaume and his friend, who is sick, got all their money, passports and cards stolen near Machu Pichu. It sucks, A LOT.

My parents arrive tonight, I've mentally prepared. I will survive. :)

You Follow Your Heart

You're romantic, sentimental, and emotional. You tend to fall in (and out of) love very quickly. Some may call you fickle, but you can't help where your emotions take you. You've definitely broken a few hearts, but you're not a heartbreaker by nature. Your intentions are always good, even if they change with the wind

Sunday: Work 12-18
Monday: School 18-21
Tuesday: School 13-16
Wednesday: Work 9:30-16, School 18-21
Thursday: School 13-16, Work 17-22
Friday: Work 13-22
Saturday: Work 12-18

I'm almost tired in advance! lol

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Grand Duke Tvuutietyle24 the Spurious of Chalmondley Chumleyton Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

( The view from my window, 21.12.2006 )

I've written this. No corrections made yet but if someone can help it'll be welcome. Don't tell me I exaggerate, I am much more polite than my usual style of writing.


Offener Brief an den deutschen Politikern


Sehr geeherter Herr Bundespräsident,
Sehr geeherte Frau Bundeskanzlerin,
Sehr geeherte Minister und Ministerinnen,
Sehr geeherte Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages
Sehr geeherter Regierender Bürgermeister von Berlin,
Sehr geeherte Mitglied des Senats von Berlin,
Sehr geeherte Mitglied des Abgeordnetenhauses von Berlin,

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Berlin tolerant gegenüber Ausländern

Berlin ist nach einer Studie der Universität Bielefeld die ausländerfreundlichste Stadt in Deutschland. Eine ablehnende Haltung gegenüber Menschen aus fremden Ländern zeigten in der Hauptstadt rund 37 Prozent der Einwohner - das liegt deutlich unter dem Durchschnitt der Ost-Länder (60 Prozent) und dem in Westdeutschland (46 Prozent). Das berichtet "Die Zeit". In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern legen 63,7 Prozent der Einwohner und in Thüringen 61,1 Prozent eine fremdenfeindliche Haltung an den Tag. In Westdeutschland sind mit 54,2 Prozent die Saarländer am ausländerfeindlichsten. Generell sei die Ausländerfeindlichkeit in ländlichen Gebieten ausgeprägter als in den Städten. dpa

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The most tolerant Germans are Berliners with "only"' 37% of xenophobes? I'm not sure this is a number to celebrate. Rather, it should be the wake-up call.

In 1984, Iceland was still a tighly-regulated economy. A complete opposite to what Milton Friedman, Pinochet and Thatcher's hero, professed. His thoughts were probably eccentric enough to have the Icelandic television invite him for a debate with three university professors. Ironicly, Iceland still had a state monopoly on broadcasting and only one television channel so this show had a nowadays-impossible-to-reach market share of 100%.

RUV retrieved the show out of its archives and showed it Monday night, 22 years later and a month following Friedman's death. I love old Icelandic tv shows, they're special if we consider the absence of commercial logic in their existence (something also found on DR, NRK, SVT pre-1980 productions) and low-budget feeling that remains present despite the efforts to make it look good.

I hope the four men had a good laugh on how they looked back then!

Friedman í Sjónvarpssal, 1984

The LOL of the day goes to the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean SRC newscast, who reported "The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, will visit the region Monday".....the last time I checked, he was not a foreign head of government!

P.S.: I should have put the Christmas stockings friends-only, my LJ saboteur is back.

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( my xmas stocking )

Thank you to all!

I'm sleepy and still as uninspired as ever. Fuck theory.

Btw...


YAY for the death of Pinochet. He may have never appeared before a court, but he was morally condemned and cornered in the last years of his life.

I think he chose the date appropriately: on December 10th, International Day of Human Rights.

I wonder if Henry Kissinger will be at the funeral ROFL

Remind me to never do someone else's homework again.

Yes I am paid but fuck I'm so uninspired that I simply can't push myself to finish. I know I have to and I will but I hate every line that I write.

Classical international relations theories suck big time. But I can't use critical, Melie hasn't seen this in her class.