Tired But Happy

The Feast of St Homobonus is now finally over. Amazing how much hard work it takes to feed and accomodate a few dozen people. Well, not exactly amazing, as we've done it before and I actually work in the business. The really awe-inspiring thing about organizing events is the amount of free time and volunteer work people are willing to sacrifice in order to make sure that everyone are enjoying themselves.

So once more, thank you to all those who helped in any way.

Yes. I really am that good in photoshopping and also never repeat myself.

Anyway, after 14 hours in the kitchen I might have been a tad hysterical, tired and not necessarily entirely the usual euphoric sunshine people know me as, an expression I learned today while surfing the forums, but nevertheless happy and somewhat blissful.

One must truly be insane to actually enjoy cooking whole feasts in tiny kitchens but hey, I've never claimed that I'd be normal.

Sadly my left arm is consequently now on strike and has been numb since Saturday. So no heavy lifting or repetitive motions for the next couple of days and I'll have to limit cooking in events to the minimum in the future if a solution is not found. I'll have an appointment with a surgeon in a couple of weeks so hopefully things will solve themselves.

It's not nice when your body gangs up on you.

On a lighter note, Helsinki dwellers, have you been to the Corner Bar recently? You know, the stickiest, one of the oldest heavy metal bars in town? It's gone through a complete makeover. It's a heavy metal lounge these days. The ancient posters are gone, there furniture is very fashionable and they have a separate corner for the heavy metal karaoke so that the ladie's loo is no longer blocked every Sunday. It was such a culture shock to go there, for a moment I thought I had walked in a wrong bar. If they have removed the "those who smoke in the non-smoking area are dickless wankers" signs I'll shed some tears, I swear. Thank goodness the clientele's still the same bunch of no-nonsense metalheads and the service just as unfriendly as before so the atmosphere has not changed that much.

The truth be told, Corner really needed that makeover. What with the invasion of rock/heavy metal bars to every nook and corner of this town they must have been struggling to yield any kind of profit lately. I hope they'll pull through, I like having a good bar with excellent music and cheap beer within a crawling distance from home. That bar has history and it would be shame to see it gone. Fun has been had in there many memorable times.

On a second, even more lighter note, my trip to Berlin is now made more complete as I have booked myself in a four-star hotel for a ridiculously low price. The confirmation letter mentioned a double or a twin room so I doubt that despite the price I'll be sleeping in a broom closet. I went to the library to check out what they had to offer in the department of travel guides but either Germany in general is too boring or overly exciting travel destination because all they had there was Olavi Paavolainen's Kolmannen valtakunnan vieraana. Which no doubt is an interesting description of one man's visit to Germany and how he got to know its citizens, and a valuable source of information - the only downside being that it was written in the early thirties. Things are nowadays somewhat different, I'd say. And I'm glad that they are.

I need to find out places to shop, eat and see. I'm sorry, morgalou, but I am planning on packing both the camera and a bow tie ;)



Today's soundtrack:
Godsplague: Diesel Burning, Lake Of Fire
Rammstein: Ein Lied, Wo bist du?