i feel better. i found a place to live and i'm moving in tomorrow. it's in a hostel with all kinds of rules that seem crazy to me, but are apparently perfectly normal. I like the part where you have to ask for permission if you'll be arriving home later than 8:30pm.

Also, I have to bring a letter from my father, accepting responsibility for my behaviour. ha!

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last night, the woman i'm staying with opened her third floor window and gave some girl hell for "misbehaving" with some boy in our courtyard. Apparently, this "misbehaviour" (her words) brought shame to our whole building.

The couple was at least thirty.

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This afternoon I watched disbelievingly as a tail inched closer to my foot in the booth where i sat eating lunch.

"a lizard?" i wondered, optimistically.

No. A mouse. It ran over my foot. Ten points to me for finishing my mouthful before i bolted for the door.

geh.

I ate dinner in a cafe with fluorescent lighting and kenny g covers of 'lady in red,' lionel richie, and michael bolton. Inexplicably, there was also a cover of that TLC Waterfall song. The music is killing me, but i haven't seen any mice, so i'm dealing with it.

9:13 a.m. - 2003-09-10