NO TEA FOR ME! My stove or "hob" as we call it here is kaput. Which means the room is plunging from chilly to colder. (I had to keep one ring on as a roomheater most nights, so I don't know whether that knackered it out or what...) And no more cooking. (Stew's still on the menu as that comes from a Marubishi Japanese pot.) Tea is off as I was using a saucepan to boil water; not a jug. If the fridge is down too there's hope it's just the fuse. Otherwise Evilstein's going to have to sort me a portable cooker!
My new reading book is Идиот by Фёдор Миха́йлович Достое́вский. Sorry! Brief attack of pretentiousness there. I mean Dostoyevsky's The Idiot. I'm quite offended that he took the title before me. Otherwise I'd have used it for my memoirs ... wah-waaaah!!
The memoirs are back on track again. I'm up to my first fulltime job and so the monotony of student - depression blah is broken. Heroin is still years away. I think I'd experimented with just about everything else until I came to that. And had my warning early: most drugs and me do not really agree. That is the thing about heroin. Far from frazzling you out the way most party drugs eventually do, it agrees so very much it becomes a kind of cure-all. Anytime, anyplace, anywhere it makes life more bearable. But I must say, by the time it's doing that for you, you're already an addict.
I won't go on except to say I found a new dealer - from Jamaica. I've only seen him twice and had such trouble with his accent on the phone I don't see how this is going to work. Loads of dealers come from Jamaica but this one's utterly incomprehensible!
Bashful is pinging about "beneath the tartan"... looking just like a cartoon character.
James Bond "Die Another Day" is on telly. V watchable. I specially like the tweetling noises from all that high tech...
Right! Have a cheery weekend everyone!
Video of the Day
Leona Lewis: Footprints in the Sand
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Here's two other videos I couldn't dredge out of the archives. Clickonthem you will get to the vid again once it's gone from this page:
Sonique: I Put A Spell On You
Zucchero: Senza Una Donna
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PS I just looked up "puppies" on that English mastiff website link above and got the story of one called "Jasmine" from 4 weeks to 16 months... wow! At 4 weeks she's a hamster... by 16 months a real moon-bayer!
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An ultra-funky Danish blog
SEE! An army truck parachuted from the sky~!!
I used to do apartment maintenance, so I understand. Get on that bastard and tell him you didn't sign on to live under a slumlord. Even if he is one...
ReplyDeleteAnd that particular Dostoevsky sounds fascinating. I love Crime and Punishment. It was a little slow to begin, but hit a good pace by page one hundred.
Have a great weekend and Merry Christmas.
You just have to call that dog Tinkerbelle, with the personality you've imbued her with, no-one would dream she would have a name like that, which is why I like it.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read any Dostoevsky for a very long time...but I tell you a book I loved and I'm sure you'd enjoy it if you haven't already read it. "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee. A lovely book. I read it again earlier this year. It's been 30 odd years since I last read it, but I enjoyed it just as much the second time around. Hope you like it, too.
Where did you get the Russian font? If I'd had that I'd have passed!
ReplyDeleteI would be very sad without my Tea. So would my husband.
Name the dog Tinkerbelle-- like puss said, no one expects a dog like that to have a name like that. Your accent calling her will have Americans smiling and talking about encountering the two of you. She doesn't eat hamsters, does she?
ERIC: Crime and Punishment's falling in half and I've lost the 2nd half which is where I read up to! The Idiot is quite interesting, though the central character really does live up to that name he's so naive!!
ReplyDeletePussinboots and Tea: I have a favourite name already but have conceived a cat too who is fiercer than the dog!
SORRY I had to reply very quickly there as my time was up.... in answer to the Russian Script query: I looked up Dostoyevsky The Idiot up on Wikipedia and purloined the Cyrillic type from their sidebar!
ReplyDeleteclever use of wiki! I think this internet thing is really going to take off one day...
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Diary of a Madman by Gogol is excellent reading, too. I was talking to Ivan about the Russians, about how they were so far ahead of their time. They were post modern fifty years before the term ever came to be--they handled fatalism and nihilism with the best of them, and still tried to have a glimmer of hope.
Sometimes they did, anyway...
As I van said, "when one man controls the life and death of everyone in a country the size of most continents, it's hard not to be fatalismo". Or something like it.