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Wednesday 27 September 2000 - midday
Posted Sep 27, 2000
Inspection completed at 11.00am today. We passed, although the age and decrepitude of the house was noted, yet again. The place is falling down, frankly, and the agents, it seems, are aware enough of this to allow us to do things like make our own repairs to holes in walls, in the knowledge that we can't really make them any worse. I took the opportunity to sign on for another 12 months of the same rent, which is a relief - I wouldn't want to pay any more for a place like this! I also asked the agents to deal with our trashed letterbox, which the agent representative agreed to do. I'm still shaking with adrenalin, although I was civil to the agent, I think.
Good things haven't started happening, yet. If anything, the good things which looked like they were going to happen have been obscured by some fog of misapprehension. I'm confused and concerned, but I can't really say or do anything until gym tonight...
I'm so bored I think I'll try and do my tax return...
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Tuesday 26 September 2000 - midday
Posted Sep 27, 2000
Yet another inspection tomorrow. We've finally finished plugging the hole in the wall, after much consideration of paint colours, use of fans to dry the paint off once it's applied, and equally lengthy consideration of best technique for putting it there. The weather has suddenly turned against our cause, again, which is why the fan needed to be used. It's rainy. Rainy, rainy, rainy. Nothing could be expected to dry naturally in this weather, and mechanical (hence electrical - there's no point having a method unless it's going to cost us money) aids are thus essential.
The weather has depressed me, although the moment is an unusually light one, in that good things are starting to happen. I can't comment more for fear that I'll jinx them out of happening, and anyway the soul of discretion is one we should all really seek to emulate...
In the meantime, though, with overcast and wet skies, and rain coming down in steady torrents, it's boring, restricted (not even the HDMBH can really go for much of a ride in this rain - there's not really any way of getting your clothes clean afterwards) and cold. I've effectively been banned from talking to the gym staff, having spent so much time over there in the recent past, and I'm tired of sitting at home by myself, but there's nowhere to go and nothing to do that costs sufficiently little money to allow me to do them. Not even cooking is all that attractive to me at the moment, which is rare. I feel like I'm getting fat and indolent, in spite of all the gym work, and even more to come with the launch of the next tape for Pump and the immediate follow-up of Combat which are on tonight.
Listening to the traffic outside is jarring. There's no fruit on the trees yet. Somebody has trashed our letterbox (they did that on Monday, but today is the first day we've had to miss mail because of it) again. I feel like I'm at the end of my tether, although I wasn't really aware I was sliding down it to begin with.
The temptation to swear, obtrusively, is strong...
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Sunday 24 September 2000
Posted Sep 24, 2000
Sunday afternoon. The weather has turned from its early sunny brilliance to an overcast and glowering, although still dry, depression. I am tired and overborne from too much Olympics- watching with Roy and H.G. The simple words "battered sav" will never mean the same thing they used to, however, so this is not all a bad thing...!
The show we watched *that was an old and dishonourable, but still effective, trick* was the ‘Body of Work' retrospective by the Sydney Dance Company, which was staged at the Canberra Theatre. VERY interesting. I had, for some reason, anticipated seeing the glorious bubster there, but I did not catch sight of him in the large crowd who attended with our - rather unusually large - party. A slight disappointment in an otherwise fabulous day...
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As usual with such gym group things, it was a more social event than such cultural excursions are wont to be, but it was worth it. My favourite gym instructor in the world also bought me a book - Joseph Heller's sequel to ‘Catch 22', the critically but not popularly acclaimed ‘Closing time' - which will keep me busy for a week or so, I suspect, which is great.
Note to self: get a life underway...! You still have a lot to do, so DO some of it!
The overcast is clearing...
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Friday 22 September 2000
Posted Sep 22, 2000
Nothing good happening, nothing bad happening - that's life, I guess...!
Lovely day, lovely week.
Going to see a show, tomorrow. Will elaborate when there's ti...
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Wednesday 20 September 2000
Posted Sep 19, 2000
Sophie's back...!! The next challenge is to come close enough to actually talk to her.
I seem to be surrounded by people, at the moment. The loneliness of the long-distance runner is what I'm more used to...!
Day's good - clear, bright and sunny. The Olympics are on, and the world is in the right place...!
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