when i was buying the Gaba Kulka album that premiered today, the clerk at Empik was feigning casual lack of interest in the print on my credit card for a moment a little too long and too eye-squinted, and i knew he was following the company's newly imported tradition of addressing the customers by given name given on the card. of course i couldn't ( Read more... )

symptomatic : taking an entire hour to decide if one'd rather order curry fish from their favorite East·Asian place or just undergo the evening on occasional sandwiches ( Read more... )

that project which was supposed to have left my office permanently? it returned in the shape of a three-hour meeting initially disguised as a ten-minute talk on finer details of the budget estimate of this thing. i will probably have to rework some slides tomorrow. this has already called for a beer tonight, and i'm looking forward to cuddling up ( Read more... )

a few days back, Päivi sent over a link (sharing Internet curios is a habit of ours that dates back to when the Commune'd shared an apartment.) to a cover of one tacky and, frankly, not very convincing song - although catchy; i admit - about a female homosexual experience, or experiment. the redone version differs from the original in two major ( Read more... )

weather forecasts timidly suggest a possibility of temperatures of around fifteen accompanied by unclouded sun, which has me more than excited after the boreal glooms of Marchuary. now i ought to finally purchase the bicycle i've been talking about for so long. i had been thinking of a vintage-like frame to accentuate my undeniable class, but i ( Read more... )

my favorite Kathy Griffin standup is on the computer, the Firefox tab we watched it in still open. some nasi goreng that clung to the wok is soaking out in the sink; an empty beer bottle lingers under the kitchen counter since the moment i decided to stay in instead of celebrating with my coworkers. a white mushroom of steam is fixed above the ( Read more... )

i just finished Towelhead. for the most part of the read, my reception was lukewarm at best. this briefly changed for the exceptionally lively climax of the kind that brings to mind all the awkward family confrontations one might have ever had and puts a scandalous cherry on top of it by having the tension relate to nothing else than the barely ( Read more... )

i've been spending so much time at the office lately that i didn't have time to do a thing about my hair except regular maintenance. no trimming, nothing. even the easiest way out (salon.) seemed beyond capability as days are only so long. my do is now an awkward-length mop that bears an uncanny resemblance to a whole range of things, varying from ( Read more... )

i'm leaving the office in a minute, as soon as we end the jolly whining session i'm having with Ania El because work sucked as usual, then i'll reach home in about twenty minutes and get myself a serving of premade pierogi with sweet filling, splosh some sugared and spiced yogurt over the plate, and open a beer. and it will be the first beer in a ( Read more... )

i was going to touch on my adoration of kasha and post some recent culinary experiments : herring salad with buckwheat groats and pickled beets, and putting kasha in soup. but fatigue won and i won't. nor will i get long-winded on the deeply unsettling digestive system malfunction that's fortunately resolved by now, or of the usual passing thoughts ( Read more... )