January 19th, 2008

A day in the life of me

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The bitch was in one of these

I paid the rent for The Mansion. I was late but they didn’t say anything. By mistake I gave them 2,000 baht more than I should. They gave the money back. This is a step up from the previous reception lady, the one who stole four months of my rent money.

As I walked up the soi I passed a parked white Honda Jazz. It had dark windows and I didn’t see the woman inside till I was close. I had absent-minded stared at the car while thinking about something else. She looked at me and I heard the click-click of the woman locking the doors.

I felt like going over to her and say: - How dare you lock the doors in my face like I am a dangerous nut?

But if I had done that she would have taken it as evidence that I was a dangerous nut.

Chalerm goes to school early and comes home late. When he comes home he is tired and goes to use the Internet. Then he sleeps. I could need a part time lover.

I wrote two new installments for The Novel, also known as Wouter’s Saga. I used Pages instead of Word. Pages doesn’t have auto-save and I lost what I had written when I restarted the Mac.

The lost text was brilliant work. We are talking Nobel Prize level fiction. Now it is gone forever. I don’t want to give my computer the satisfaction of seeing me type the two chapters again. First I will sulk for a few days. Then I will re-write it (but without the inspired genius of the original) in some Internet cafe so my Mac will not know.

Feeling mistreated by the world I went to the 7-Eleven to buy chocolate and a burger. 7-Eleven HQ must have read my complaints about undercooked chicken burgers as the new staff now actually checks if the chicken is done or not. It has dawned on them that a frozen chicken piece might take longer in the micro than a thawed one. See? Progress is possible.

There is currently only one gay boy working in the 7-Eleven. But the air-cond restaurant in my soi has three. One of them is the guy who keeps asking me if I am interested in “fun”. I am never interested in “fun”. Not with him, anyway. His a weekend go-go boy. If I want to inspect his goodies I can go to soi Twilight.

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7 Responses to “A day in the life of me”

  1. aussieal Says:

    Poor SF…….I’ll be there in 3 weeks, how about I buy you a late lunch at Hungry Jacks Silom.???????
    Would that help ease the burdon of mistreatment (how dare they!)
    Mai pen rai.

  2. Astro Says:

    Same, Same with me and my partner. I figured I will stay away until he graduates, because seeing him while he is sleeping is not worth the round-trip price!

  3. Silom Farang Says:

    Hungry Who? But I appreciate the thought!

  4. Steve Jobs Says:

    Macs must have file recovery software that you can download from the web, like the PC does. Even if it can’t find a ‘file’ as such, there should be other software to do a sector by sector text search for some key words. You’ll probably find the whole lot in one block on your hard disk.

  5. samart Says:

    Mac software has a cute red bubble in the top left corner of any windwow… where a black dot indicates if its content is NOT saved to disk yet… So don’t blame your mac!
    Great to hear you are working on The Novel again… but who is Wouter and what is he doing here? (Can’t wait to read it all).

  6. aussieal Says:

    Sorry SF,
    I meant Burger King, we call it Hungry Jacks in Aussie.
    Silly me!

  7. Math' Says:

    Hi,
    i’m reading your site and i’m afraid about many things. First, this story with the woman and the car… Even if I don’t undertsand everythin’ ( I’m French and i don’t speak english very wall), i was afraid readn’ you post about visa.
    Mine will be off soon, my first 3 months… and after? i do understand your feeling. I’m now trying to fight to find a job in an university ( as French teacher, that’s my job…).
    Cruel life in Thailand…
    I hope U’ll read my blog ( written in english, of course);
    Math’

    http://blogtitre.blogspot.com/

    matdelamarre@yahoo.fr

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