Thursday, 25 September 2008
Friday, 19 September 2008
Letter to Somewhere
Was walking down the street, and saw a letter lying there, somewhere on the ground. The letter was addressed to 'Somewhere' - which made sense. However the destination was 'Somewhere, Lyon', where as I was in Montpellier. So I guess the letter had been wrongly delivered, after all...
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Elisabeth & Cyrus
Elisabeth: she is living upstairs from us. Her toilet leaks into our toilet, and provides a brown-yellow shower for everybody who can't get up and out in time. Once she forgot to close her bath tub, and our bedroom was drowned by several gallons of water. Since then her bathroom is leaking. She gets dodgy psychopath to repair her leaking bathroom & toilet tubing; does tests between 1 - 3 am to see if water still leaks in our sleeping room; reasons that if we don't get up to tell her, then everything is ok.
plitsh, plutsh - and here goes another good night's sleep.
Elisabeth looks like 40 when she takes her medicine, but like 130 when she doesn't.
At night, she either shouts at someone (inexisting) or does something which appears to be a 'parcours d'obstacles' in her apartment, just above our bed.
Cyrus: neurotic old dog. Well wasn't neurotic before Elisabeth 'took care' of him. Since then: shits in circles in our buildings' staircase (because Elisabeth forgot him there). Sometimes spends some nights barking and howling in front of the building door. When Cyrus finally dies in Elisabeth's room, Elisabeth leaves him there in the hight of summer until the neighbours can't stand the smell any more (about two weeks).
plitsh, plutsh - and here goes another good night's sleep.
Elisabeth looks like 40 when she takes her medicine, but like 130 when she doesn't.
At night, she either shouts at someone (inexisting) or does something which appears to be a 'parcours d'obstacles' in her apartment, just above our bed.
Cyrus: neurotic old dog. Well wasn't neurotic before Elisabeth 'took care' of him. Since then: shits in circles in our buildings' staircase (because Elisabeth forgot him there). Sometimes spends some nights barking and howling in front of the building door. When Cyrus finally dies in Elisabeth's room, Elisabeth leaves him there in the hight of summer until the neighbours can't stand the smell any more (about two weeks).
Longevité
Tried to have a siesta; First neighbour's drum and base, then downstairs shop's renovation works, then mosquito then Mani's phone call. The Chinese neighbours are normally quiet during the day, but come home to do the opposite of chinese whispering after 1 or 2 o'clock, just after the bar has stopped to shake our bed with electronic beats.
Ideosyncrasies
The server at the coffee bar never says 'bye' in the same way.
'Bon aprèm'
'Merci, au revoir'
'A bientot'
'Bon aprèm'
'Merci, au revoir'
'A bientot'
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