Living on the Edge

I'm living dangerously. I did not cancel my student allowance for this month even though I've worked so much that the income limit will be a distant dot in the horizon. Oh well. The lure of easy living is too much to handle. I just want one month when I can both buy food and pay my bills and maybe even spend some money on something completely useless like new clothes.

Maybe I can even get myself a nifty Rammstein shirt I've lusted after for so many months. I dare not think about it too much lest the opportunity is taken away from me again... It seems that every time I get some money, it disappears. I'm starting to suspect that there's an international conspiracy behind all this. Their main goal is to prevent me from getting what I want. I might have to start wearing a tin foil hat.

I still haven't made my mind up what I'm going to buy, however. There's this neat grey shirt which has no other indication for being a band shirt than a heirate mich - embroidery on the other sleeve. I like the concept of being able to wear a band shirt anywhere. On the other hand, there is an extremely cool black-and-white jacket with Rammstein written across the chest. And I've seen a photo of Till Lindemann wearing that exact jacket, albeit without the Rammstein text. You can't get better recommendation than that.

Wouldn't my life be easy if that was the biggest problem ;)

Speaking of music - w00t! My Megaherz-less days are over! The postal delivery person, with whom I am deeply and passionately in love, brought me a copy of Himmelfahrt yesterday. That happy incident emboldened me so much that I surfed a bit on my favourite net store sites, and miracle of miracles! I found another album for sale! So maybe in a few weeks the Himmelfahrt will not be alone anymore and Herzwerk II has joined my little collection of Good Music (tm). After weeks of "You want to buy what?" and "We did have Megaherz when the dinosaurs roamed the Earth, but not anymore, also we forgot to remove that item from our site, sorry," I haven't been able to stop myself from grinning stupidly every once in a while. Sweet moments of victory.

And if anyone would like to point out that the precious little money I have could be used for something more useful than music, well, nah. It's important to me. I may not have life, but my soundtrack is amazing ;)

Besides, I truly felt I deserved some compensation for my efforts yesterday at work when I got stuck in a loop with a customer. I had let the guy who - how do you express in English handing out portions of food from behind a counter to the customers? That was what he was doing, anyway - does what I just explained to his break. In walks a customer, looks at the selection (never actually reading the menu. No one reads the menu. It pisses me royally off, because then I have to tell everyone the goddamn menu they are standing right in front of. Our customers are receiving the highest form of education available, you'd think that they could both read and comprehend written text?) and goes: "Fish." I ask him whether he wants Baltic herring or seithe, we had them both on the menu. "Yes" says the Hope of Mankind.

Me:"Baltic herring or seithe?"
The Chosen One:"Fish."
Me: "Which one? Baltic herring or seithe?"
Plucky Young Hero: "Yes"
Me:"Yes, but which one?"
Glorious Leader of the Intellectual Elite: "Fish"

Nice little infinite loop we had there going on for a while.

Finally he took the herring.

Meh. I like our customers. There are the default freaks every university is required by law to have, but on the whole they are a pretty decent bunch.

Time to shower, eat and catch up on this evening's entertainment in the form of Ten O'clock News.



Hottest links evar!
http://www.megaherz.com/
http://www.ericisgreat.com/tinfoilhats/ - tin foil hats for the discriminating lunatics

Hot rumor of the moment: Rammstein might visit Ruisrock festival. Double w00t!