Come as you are

This fall I have gotten more spam in my university account than ever. It pisses me off. (In fact I get more spam in my university mail than in my "trash"-mail which just seems sort of weird.) I finally decided to do something about it. I noticed that there was a filter that deleted all the e-mails that were definitely spam by some criteria that I'm not even trying to explain. Then I noticed that most the spam I do get has some sort of spam rating but is still not definately classified as spam. I then made my own filter in webmail. (I used to use pine but can't at work and I think I did set up a filter on that ages ago.) Had to do a bit of experiments with it to get it to work which was made easy by the fact that while I was fooling around with it I got like 4 spam mails. Now this morning I came to work and checked my university mail like every morning and to my immense satisfaction there was not one spam in the inbox. (All of the not definitely spam but spam however messages in my new spambox.) Mission accomplished. My life will be much happier from now on.

Did not go climbing yesterday. (Will maybe go tomorrow.) Did, however, go to see a Finnish band called Bloodpit. Now it may seem a weird thing to do especially since the band is not really my sort of ensemble. My boss, with whom I was supposed to go climbing, called me after lunch and said that she was going to go see the band with her boyfriend since they had suddenly heard about it from their neighbor. I was quite disappointed about the climbing but since I was invited to see the band I decided to think about it. There was not really much to think about since I don't really get out that often and even though after checking the band out in the internet I totally knew it was not my sort of thing, I decided to go. I even had time to do laundry before the concert so no worries.

So we get to the place and it is like really small. We find out there are 2 bands performing before the finnish group, which I'd really never heard of until my boss called me. The first bands were local. I drank a beer and got a crush on the guitarist on the first band. The second band was not so good (-looking?). The music was more of the kind I like but I didn't like their act. As I went to get a gin&tonic the singer of the finnish band came asking for water at the bar. The girls next to me asked him for autographs. I contemplated doing the same in finnish but decided against it. When the band finally came on I was sort of disappointed. And then the singer was like "you all must know this one" and played what was apparently their hit which did not ring any bells for me. I did however move along with the music and do my "fake" smile thing.

Oh the audience. If you happen to know the band you must guess. Yes, totally a "not me" crowd. Teen goth girls. And I do not mean to be mean but one could not help noticing - fat ones. I thought maybe German teen goth girls would be worse than the finnish versions but these girls looked innocent enough even with their huge amount of eyeliner smothered on half their faces. (Oh I also bought an eyeliner yesterday, which I've been meaning to do for quite a while, and thus could maybe almost fit in to the crowd.) Well the German teen goth (soem punk influences) girls apparently also liked HIM as one "might" guess. One of them had a flag of Finland. I felt so special. I had a fun evening even though nothing special happened though just being out is sort of special and I only had those two drinks in case you are wondering.

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