Nil by Mouth

Feeling slightly overwhelmed today by

Feeling slightly overwhelmed today by the multiplying financial attachments tagging along my ankles. In the abstract, the unmarried and childless twenties-ish urban lifestyle requires only rent, and the obligatory few dollars for booze, drugs, and clothes. Not so, friends. The student loan payments, the out of the blue rent hike, the cat expenses from across the ocean, the domain name renewal, the dsl… ok i can’t possibly go on with this list [sigh]. I am also feeling like i am getting jacked by everyone and anyone. You know that feeling?

And now that we’re bitching, my desk at work has possibly the worst feng shui imaginable. Directly behind me is the door, the printer, and the water cooler. There’s a constant stream of people poking their noses into my computer screen, making gulping noises centimeters from my ears, and reaching over my shoulder to borrow a stapler and shuffle their papers on my desk. Grrrr. That’s it, i am just going to start growling at them, like my cat does when she’s reached her boiling point on my refusal to let her sleep on my keyboard. Oh my high maintenance cat, how i miss your furry princesse attitude.

Ordinarily i’d take the evening to go home and stew; but now with my shiny new Acme Brand Social Life, i’m not going to stew, no sireeee. Going to the opening of the Palais de Tokyo [warning: this is one of those sites that decides to hijack your desktop]. Actually Paul was nice enough to send this NYTimes article which talks about the Palais and other wonders of Art making appearances in my adopted step-child of a city.

• Jan 22