strange fruit
Well Janine and I now live with 2 other people, a situation I had sworn to avoid after the last miserable experience with such arrangements, but it has been almost 3 weeks and I have yet to get up to pee in the middle of the night and find my foot further grinding a particularly unpleasant mound of fecaes into the carpet, so it's not as bad as first presumed. Quite the contrary...
Things have been good here. I have met a horde of the most unique, slightly insane people one could hope to find. All in all they lead reasonably normal lives, but I have discovered this about them: they think the way I do. They can smell the bullshit through the iron-clad sheilding of a political news report from 100 meters the same way I can. They can espouse on the virtues of the intellectually handicapped who try to make the most of thier lives anyway and in the same breath laugh at the local psycho muttering to himself as he walks past the front gate twitching. And abstract concepts and totally pointless intellectual debates amuse them. I mean this is great, it's the stimulation I have thus far only found in my oldest friend and my fiance, the lack of which has rendered me socially inept through ennui of making an effort, but I am learning fast. Tact is still my weakest link.
We have scheduled the wedding for the 19th of feb, which doesnt leave a lot of time, and we're trying to sell the idea of having guests pay for thier own meals in lieu of presents, on the basis that wedding gifts were designed to help a new couple set up thier new home that they're only just moving into together, and we already have a houseful of crap and no money..... I mean I suppose we could sell everything we own, pay for everyones meals, and get all our crap back as gifts again, but that means going a couple of months without a bed, computer, washing machine, cutlery etc..... When my fiance voiced this idea on her journal some spineless smear of grease on the shit-stained bedsheets of the dross of humanity actually had the gall to (anonymously) call her selfish for not wanting to start her married life a further 18k in debt :p Thoughts?
Apparantly I should think about a future in stunt work... One of the stuntmen working on the Lion/Witch/Wardrobe movie being filmed just out of town has befriended the flatemates partner and visits semiregularly. Anyway in his opinion I wouldnt have the first problem getting work, and the pay is unbeatable at $500-$2000 a day to be a stunt double for an extra, being a double for anyone with a line to say pays triple heh. Will have to see about this, altho hes currently living in the back of a van and showering in the producers winnebago while calling his kids in the bay of islands every night and waking up at 4.15am so he can get to the makeup room in time to be prepped.... so obviously some days you *really* earn yer money, but the slack days in between for that rate of pay have got to make up for it... I wonder...
ding 63 and 9s abound. Ill be ubah yet, you just watch me. Im coming for ya Inny...
Things have been good here. I have met a horde of the most unique, slightly insane people one could hope to find. All in all they lead reasonably normal lives, but I have discovered this about them: they think the way I do. They can smell the bullshit through the iron-clad sheilding of a political news report from 100 meters the same way I can. They can espouse on the virtues of the intellectually handicapped who try to make the most of thier lives anyway and in the same breath laugh at the local psycho muttering to himself as he walks past the front gate twitching. And abstract concepts and totally pointless intellectual debates amuse them. I mean this is great, it's the stimulation I have thus far only found in my oldest friend and my fiance, the lack of which has rendered me socially inept through ennui of making an effort, but I am learning fast. Tact is still my weakest link.
We have scheduled the wedding for the 19th of feb, which doesnt leave a lot of time, and we're trying to sell the idea of having guests pay for thier own meals in lieu of presents, on the basis that wedding gifts were designed to help a new couple set up thier new home that they're only just moving into together, and we already have a houseful of crap and no money..... I mean I suppose we could sell everything we own, pay for everyones meals, and get all our crap back as gifts again, but that means going a couple of months without a bed, computer, washing machine, cutlery etc..... When my fiance voiced this idea on her journal some spineless smear of grease on the shit-stained bedsheets of the dross of humanity actually had the gall to (anonymously) call her selfish for not wanting to start her married life a further 18k in debt :p Thoughts?
Apparantly I should think about a future in stunt work... One of the stuntmen working on the Lion/Witch/Wardrobe movie being filmed just out of town has befriended the flatemates partner and visits semiregularly. Anyway in his opinion I wouldnt have the first problem getting work, and the pay is unbeatable at $500-$2000 a day to be a stunt double for an extra, being a double for anyone with a line to say pays triple heh. Will have to see about this, altho hes currently living in the back of a van and showering in the producers winnebago while calling his kids in the bay of islands every night and waking up at 4.15am so he can get to the makeup room in time to be prepped.... so obviously some days you *really* earn yer money, but the slack days in between for that rate of pay have got to make up for it... I wonder...
ding 63 and 9s abound. Ill be ubah yet, you just watch me. Im coming for ya Inny...