That New Computer Smell
Aug. 20th, 2003 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ltmurnauHi everyone, just checking in during that brief interval of energy and optimism that comes between getting off the bus and the first new e-mail of the day - nothing like new work piled on top of old to spoil the mood.
We got new pooters at work. Faster and with optical mice. About time, too - I had most of a muffin clogging up my keyboard. This one is black and smells like the box it came in. I was getting tired of beige. That's all the details for now.
I packed until past midnight last night. I am amazed that it looks as if I can get everything, including food and a spare tent for Joe, into one rucksack, one duffle bag and one daypack. Of course there might be some 'splaining to do at the border ("Sir, why so many AA batteries and so much oatmeal? Why do you have so much solder and no soldering iron? What is this large cloth banner of Lenin for, and why are you carrying a Chinese Army uniform with you? And what exactly are these metal blobs made of?"), but that's nothing new.
I got all my hair cut off too. My head looks like a Chiclet going gray at the temples.
I can't wait to get out of here. This is my first real vacation of more than a few days since Berlin in 1989.
Random Outburst:I hate the demands of the body - feed me, water me, let me sleep, wank me, this underwear pinches, clean me, I'm bored do something funny... and you can't get away from it, like a child that never grows up. Bah!
We got new pooters at work. Faster and with optical mice. About time, too - I had most of a muffin clogging up my keyboard. This one is black and smells like the box it came in. I was getting tired of beige. That's all the details for now.
I packed until past midnight last night. I am amazed that it looks as if I can get everything, including food and a spare tent for Joe, into one rucksack, one duffle bag and one daypack. Of course there might be some 'splaining to do at the border ("Sir, why so many AA batteries and so much oatmeal? Why do you have so much solder and no soldering iron? What is this large cloth banner of Lenin for, and why are you carrying a Chinese Army uniform with you? And what exactly are these metal blobs made of?"), but that's nothing new.
I got all my hair cut off too. My head looks like a Chiclet going gray at the temples.
I can't wait to get out of here. This is my first real vacation of more than a few days since Berlin in 1989.
Random Outburst:I hate the demands of the body - feed me, water me, let me sleep, wank me, this underwear pinches, clean me, I'm bored do something funny... and you can't get away from it, like a child that never grows up. Bah!
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Date: 2003-08-20 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-08-20 10:08 pm (UTC)It is now apparent to me that I feel compelled to cut things to avoid HEAT. Cut my LJ entries so people don't give me grief over a three-screener in their "my friends" view, cut my hair so I won't cook in the desert under a cap of my own ex-epidermal filaments, cut my food into little tiny pieces so no one says, "stop gobbling or you'll choke yourself!", and in a meta-sense cut work and go on vacation so as to avoid two weeks of nastiness here (though it will all be kept warm and waiting for me on my return).
And my body's complaints are not pretty, they are trivial and unending. Fix my shin, there are too many scars on my arms, when are you going to get busy and heal that metatarsal bone, help me lose weight, cool me down, oh now I'm cold, that metal plate hurts, SHUTUP SHUT UP SHUUUT UUUP....
"I am in my body the way some people are in their cars." - Laurie Anderson
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Date: 2003-08-20 10:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-20 10:17 pm (UTC)For what in particular?
There are so many choices....
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Date: 2003-08-22 03:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-22 03:17 am (UTC)