Ι went to the publishing house today and spent all day at work. I did all the things you get to do when you work in an office and haven’t done for so long. For example: I talked to friends on MSN (I also do it at home but mostly when I have work to do), I ordered a salad, I drunk 3 lt of water, I cursed the computer and went into computer rage mode (I never fight with my computer at home, if it gets angry with me I’ll die), I talked on the phone, read my blog in internet explorer (the browser at home is Mozilla Firefox) and found out that some of the code is visible. I am furious at Bill Gates once more, and I want to take this chance and direct this message to him:
Dear Bill,
Allow me to call you Bill after the huge amounts of money I have paid for your products. The only reason that keeps me from suing you is MSN. Although I am sure that one day I will regret that too. My complaints are many but I am going to focus on the most crucial ones now: Windows crash all the time, Internet explorer is rubbish (Mozilla has tabs and you don’t need to open 20 different windows, plus it is quicker), and Outlook Express is susceptible to viruses. As for MSN, I’ve got something to say: Why can’t I pretend to be offline and still talk to the people I want to talk to, like I used to do with ICQ? When I want to appear offline it means I will have to live in isolation for the rest of my internet session. Is this an honesty policy you are promoting there?
And now the rest of tonight’s program:
I had coffee with blondie and we discussed people of the new generation like the good aunties we are. We agreed upon two obvious things: People from 22-28 (we don’t know any people younger than 22) are extremely conservative and their dream is to relax with a loved one for ever. They never fight with their parents whom they respect endlessly, they don’t swear, they don’t have sex, they are too reasonable and they are very tired already. Also, we established that when WE were their age we used to be such monsters our parents didn’t really know whether we were going to survive.
I think this conversation has signaled the onset of middle age for me and blondie. That’s what it means when you start damning younger people. Excuse me can I take this back? No, they are the middle aged ones because the only audaciousness they are capable of is downloading free music from the internet and I am a wild youth ready for a revolution (and blondie too).
I bought two little books: The Queen in Hell Close (Sue Townsend) and Νοise (Hari Kunzru, the one who wrote The Impressionist). Unfortunately, I have to separate them now since one is green and the other blue.
I have to finish my article on migraines (to start it would be a better description), and it is giving me an awful headache. Oh, I saw a wonderfully tacky t-shirt with the words:
F CK
all I need is U
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