Weekly Log - 07 through 13

Monday Sept 07

Someone should warn the little people who mind the weather up there we're fast approaching Fall. It's still blazing hot outside. Not as much as the peak of August, but uncomfortable still. Fuck global warming.

I haven't had the chance to watch a lot of movies lately, with the work and a lot of YouTube users having their accounts suspended for copyright issues. Nothing very interesting coming to the silver screen either, as I see it. What a crock of bullshit...

Auditing calls still. A recurring situation seems to be that of 20-ish year-olds who have their parents mind their accounts, so they can't answer the quiz since most of them has never gotten their ass in a bank before. I don't get it. My Mum gave me an ATM when I was 13, and by the time I reached adulthood, she told me I was on my own. Just like that: on my own. I could already sign legal documents, she didn't want to have anything else to do with how I manage my own cash. I've been doing my own legal shit since I was eighteen... and frankly, I wouldn't want it anyway else. If someone must take care of me, it's myself. How can there be so many twenty-somethings who don't know the basics of how to open an account, talk to bank people, transfer cash, deposit cash, work a credit card, ATM or ask for loans?

I don't get it. I'd feel completely helpless if someone else was minding my shit for me.

Tuesday Sept 08

I feel lousy. Like a piece of crap stuck to the sole of a bum drinking on a park bench. My head hurts, I'm too sensitive to the center's lighting, by the end of the shift I was pretty sure I was gonna heave. Nothing a pill or some tea didn't solve, but I had neither. Nobody else at the center had anything either. Is it just me who usuallt carries medicine around? Not even a bloody aspirin!

I've been watching a lot of Cheers lately, I don't know why. I recall watching episodes as a child since it ran half an hour before Sesame Street when I was a kid. I know it's been done half to death in the US, and I must be the only person alive who never saw every single episode... then again, I'm on my twenties. This generation's Cheers is probably House MD. That one's getting boring by the way, lost all the pazzazz of the first season. I can't find movies, and even the serials are turning to shit. Just my luck.

Lousy, lousy, lousy. My head's full of shit.

Wednesday Sept 09

Today is Cirno day, and unless you're a geek, you don't know what that means. Don't worry, you're not missing anything overly important. My plans for Cirno day? Well I never gave much of a crow for Touhou so I'm just going to do something apeshit. Or as apeshit as my boring days get, which frankly isn't much.

I've been bored stiff all week without breaks. It's an art by now. Nothing happens around here.

Thursday Sept 10

Spoke too soon.

My brother was caught riding the subway without a ticket. 70€ worth of a fine. Guess who gets to pay it? The money was reimbursed to me, courtesy of Pops (actually Mum took the cash from the firm's bank account without asking), but I don't think it's very right I get to bail him out. He rides without a ticket all the time. When I was younger, I sometimes took the bus without a ticket as well -with the difference I wouldn't do it by the middle of the month, when there is no possible excuse for not having a bus pass! Plus, I positioned myself so that the driver couldn't see me and left the bus as soon as shit started getting hot. He was just asking for it already.

A friend of mine told me to go pay the fine in person, do some crying, explain the kid didn't have 85 cents to buy a ticket and was tired... I don't think so. Let him go pay it and get the shame. And even if Mum didn't let him go ask for money directly to Pops, I know this doesn't end here. In fact, the next meal we have with Pops, this will be the main subject of conversation. Luckily, I went to Portuguese public school. I have long mastered the art of sitting somewhere and pretend I'm paying attention without listening to a single word.

Friday Sept 11

Still auditing calls. I'm getting anxious to start doing something for my paycheck. I get nervous when I'm given money for doing jack. Don't ask why, taht's just how it is. I guess I'm also a little scared I might get too comfortable and blow it when I actually get behind the computer terminal.

For some reason, I was depressed for most of the evening. It's the second sign of the coming of the Great Boredom. Everyone has their stupid moment sometimes, mine was at 3 in the AM of September 11 (it has nothing to do with the World Trade Center, I assure you). At some point I was asking myself if watching one more episode of Cheers would make me go to bed too late. If you're watching Cheers at three in the morning, you gotta be depressed. Also, someone set the trash bin across the street on fire in the middle of the night. The boredom continues still.

On next Tuesday I'm gonna see a lawyer about the debts my Mum has. I need it like I need a second asshole growing on the back of my neck.

Weekend Sept 12 - 13

BORED! What have I done this weekend... played games. Pretty much that. Madeen is right, Pokemon is addicting, even if I know I'll never complete it because I can't really hook up the emulator for trading. Anyone who knows codes to get the specific catch or trade pokemon in FireRed is required to post them as a comment in this log.