What a day.
I think I've had a hangover today. I may also have been drunk while walking to work this morning. Everything looked different. It might also have been the sun as it is finally appearing or the fact that having to walk I had more time to look at things than when I usually pedal as fast as the company bike will go. The day hasn't been bad though. I've gotten lots done mostly having to do with the fact that I had lots to do.
Yesterday I got busy with work at around four in the evening when I had this new assignment from my boss. Having been sort of lazy and knowing I'd have lots to do today I decided to do it right off. Didn't take more than like 30 min. I'd had a pretty long day already so I just checked my e-mails and started leaving work. I had to go to the store and there was a party to go to across the river. I walked out of the lab and stopped in my tracks, said the word "damn" most likely out loud lots of times and would have hit my head on the wall while saying it if my brain wasn't my future livelyhood - I'd forgotten to get the bike key! (For those that don't know I'm borrowing the company bike which I have to return every morning just to take it again in the afternoon, not that anyone else uses it since there are lots of them.) Had to rush down to the office but of course it was locked since it was almost five already. I was mad, truly pissed. (Being mad at myself is weird. There no-one I can take the anger out on. Just have to swallow it.) I'm not good at being angry and luckily I had enough control not to get my usual side reaction from not being able to handle that particular emotion because that would have made me more angry and I think I would have just freaked out. Well, I had to walk home. At the gate so girl was trying to sell me something I think. If she had come any nearer I think I would have hit her. Now I just gave her an angry look and waved my hands around. I was not in the mood to try to speak understandable German. If the kids on the street had bumbed into me like they almost did I might have bumbed back onto them with like force. I was enraged. (See I really needed the bike where I was going to go.)
I had planned to go buy myself a new pair of shoes, ones I've been meaning to buy for as long as Ive been here, so in spite of my mood I decided to go check if they still had them. They did have one pair and just in my size. What luck. Those shoes and me were apparently meant to be together. That cheered (spelling??) me up some.
I decided to take the tram as close as I could get to the place where the party was. It was a wine party. Everyone brought a bottle of wine and there was food and we drank the wine. It was nice though I figured it was going to be quite a party since if I drink a bottle of wine I get pissed (the brittish one this time...). Not that I've ever drank a whole bottle or at least not that I know of or have calculated how many servings that would include and such. The party was fun though I was my overly quiet self that I am since most of the talking was done in German. Actually all but the talking by me. All was fine until this guy mentioned the most only thing he knew about me was the incident at the beach with me being pushed under water and getting mad. Damn if it wasn't for me still being mad about the bike thing I may have been fine. As it was I got upset about that then. A person with knowledge of me only as a quiet girl that gets upset easily is just not something I can tolerate. As it was, me getting upset about that probably didn't help at all. Well at least I wasn't quiet. I just had to leave soon after. Could not take it any more and it was really late.
There were no more trams going past the stop nearest and on my way home so I had to walk. It was a pretty long way though I don't know how long and I didn't time myself. There were bunnies on the way though. Cute little bunnies. Oh yeah, I was drunk walking home. I got home safe and in a better mood because of the bunnies in the park. It was cool. There were lots of them. (I want a little bunny. Or I really would never get one since there brains work like my fishes and they're a lot bigger and make more mess. No fun there though they are furry.) Went to sleep and even had the sence to put some drain cleaner, I'd bought that day, in my sink and shower. I got the bio one since the thought of having sodium hydroxide (NaOH) pellets in my appartment was not appealing. Nasty little things. I could not believe they sell them in pellets.
Long post. Sunday there is this biking thing and I'm going to bike 100km. I hope it doesn't rain. I hope I can bike that much. I hope there are no big parties on Saturday since the biking starts at seven in the morning. I hope the weekend will be nice. I need some fun. I need to get going home.
Yesterday I got busy with work at around four in the evening when I had this new assignment from my boss. Having been sort of lazy and knowing I'd have lots to do today I decided to do it right off. Didn't take more than like 30 min. I'd had a pretty long day already so I just checked my e-mails and started leaving work. I had to go to the store and there was a party to go to across the river. I walked out of the lab and stopped in my tracks, said the word "damn" most likely out loud lots of times and would have hit my head on the wall while saying it if my brain wasn't my future livelyhood - I'd forgotten to get the bike key! (For those that don't know I'm borrowing the company bike which I have to return every morning just to take it again in the afternoon, not that anyone else uses it since there are lots of them.) Had to rush down to the office but of course it was locked since it was almost five already. I was mad, truly pissed. (Being mad at myself is weird. There no-one I can take the anger out on. Just have to swallow it.) I'm not good at being angry and luckily I had enough control not to get my usual side reaction from not being able to handle that particular emotion because that would have made me more angry and I think I would have just freaked out. Well, I had to walk home. At the gate so girl was trying to sell me something I think. If she had come any nearer I think I would have hit her. Now I just gave her an angry look and waved my hands around. I was not in the mood to try to speak understandable German. If the kids on the street had bumbed into me like they almost did I might have bumbed back onto them with like force. I was enraged. (See I really needed the bike where I was going to go.)
I had planned to go buy myself a new pair of shoes, ones I've been meaning to buy for as long as Ive been here, so in spite of my mood I decided to go check if they still had them. They did have one pair and just in my size. What luck. Those shoes and me were apparently meant to be together. That cheered (spelling??) me up some.
I decided to take the tram as close as I could get to the place where the party was. It was a wine party. Everyone brought a bottle of wine and there was food and we drank the wine. It was nice though I figured it was going to be quite a party since if I drink a bottle of wine I get pissed (the brittish one this time...). Not that I've ever drank a whole bottle or at least not that I know of or have calculated how many servings that would include and such. The party was fun though I was my overly quiet self that I am since most of the talking was done in German. Actually all but the talking by me. All was fine until this guy mentioned the most only thing he knew about me was the incident at the beach with me being pushed under water and getting mad. Damn if it wasn't for me still being mad about the bike thing I may have been fine. As it was I got upset about that then. A person with knowledge of me only as a quiet girl that gets upset easily is just not something I can tolerate. As it was, me getting upset about that probably didn't help at all. Well at least I wasn't quiet. I just had to leave soon after. Could not take it any more and it was really late.
There were no more trams going past the stop nearest and on my way home so I had to walk. It was a pretty long way though I don't know how long and I didn't time myself. There were bunnies on the way though. Cute little bunnies. Oh yeah, I was drunk walking home. I got home safe and in a better mood because of the bunnies in the park. It was cool. There were lots of them. (I want a little bunny. Or I really would never get one since there brains work like my fishes and they're a lot bigger and make more mess. No fun there though they are furry.) Went to sleep and even had the sence to put some drain cleaner, I'd bought that day, in my sink and shower. I got the bio one since the thought of having sodium hydroxide (NaOH) pellets in my appartment was not appealing. Nasty little things. I could not believe they sell them in pellets.
Long post. Sunday there is this biking thing and I'm going to bike 100km. I hope it doesn't rain. I hope I can bike that much. I hope there are no big parties on Saturday since the biking starts at seven in the morning. I hope the weekend will be nice. I need some fun. I need to get going home.

4 Comments:
At 1/9/06 18:41,
elina said…
A hundred kilometers? That's a lot. I'd be stuck in some bush after having collapsed after 2+ km... I'll have to test it though, on a fitness bike at the gym. ;)
Working late always gets me in a bad mood. Not recommendable. That guy at the party must have been a real ass. People are not supposed to go telling stories about others being almost drowned and getting mad. Not funny.
I don't know what kind of people they are there but in Finland at parties people speak English if there are people there that don't understand Finnish there. At least at the parties I go to.
Oh, should really go to the gym now I suppose. Since it's a friday and Jaakko is out with his friends...
At 1/9/06 18:45,
elina said…
Oh, I meant to write 20 km...
At 4/9/06 14:26,
Anonymous said…
bunnies and real jürgens. what a post, while reading it made me mad and laugh out loud. Kinda confusing. 100k's on a bike is doable, but a pain in the ass in the morning, if u get my meaning. ;)
ps. we all need anger management every once in a while, although I've never seen u really angry now that i think of it...
At 4/9/06 18:15,
elisa said…
Oh the guy at the party was actually really nice. Hope he didn't get all weirded out about me.
There were also people who didn't speak english at the party so it's complicated.
I'm not even sore from the biking (yet?). My neck is just complaining a bit.
Food, food, food...
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