ciaran
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Montag, 13.März 2006
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about:
life
I work at least 70 hours per week and weekends are an important time
for getting stuff done without the usual amount of phone calls and
emails, so I felt pretty inconvenienced when someone locked the office
door on Friday evening and forgot to leave the key in the agreed
place.
I was returning from my second food break and I found that I could not
get to the office where I have Internet access, and my laptop and all
my notes and todo lists were imprisoned until Monday.
On Friday night I started reading Tariq Ali's Rough Music, and caught
up on some sleep. It's a short book and I I finished it on Saturday.
It was mostly about the bias of the mass media. Noam Chomsky's
Imperial Ambitions was better, but Rough Music used the UK as it's
example, which is a bit closer to home for me than Chomsky's book. I
also studied a bit of Brazilian Portuguese over the weekend.
I spent Saturday evening finally fixing the door frame and putting a
lock on my appartment. I had to get the door burst in with a crowbar
about a year ago when I lost the only key.
Saturday night was spent in Celtica - an Irish bar in Brussels city
centre where pints are 2 euro until midnight. Some friends were over
visiting Brussels and Pete O'Malley was doing the music. I left there
some time after 5am.
I got up at 11h30 on Sunday to get a potted plant at the huge market
which is at South Station on Sunday mornings and then went hunting for
an appartment. My current place is cheap, bright, is only a 35 minute walk
from the city centre, and is well-located for public transport but
there's no Internet access and it's so small that I can't even offer
visitors some floor space to sleep on.
On Sunday night I made my next day's todo list and wrote this blog
entry on paper. The 2-day typing break was surely good for my fingers, and my
girlfriend certainly didn't mind me being locked out of the office. I have one appointment
to see a new appartment, and one place that I have to phone, but I'm glad I got that job
started at least. But now, time to catch up
on all the non-home stuff I didn't get done...
