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February 14th 2006. catching up with private stuff: a job in the city it's been a loooong time

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So after the looong time spent without a job, I am again someone who has one. Someone who gets out in the morning, or one day a week in the afternoon, and heads to this antique books store to file move and sell piles of yellowish scorched books for four hours as a part time job. Someone who will probably count the months left to the day he will be free again to go away, around and ramble and bum.

Someone who must learn the glossary of old books sellers, the elaborate ways they have to describe the conditions of books, the superficial ways they have to judge when a book is worth something or not (not by what's written on it). Someone who'll gradually reckon the small tribe of obsessed collectors from whom the store earns its errands, as they crave for certain books and disdain others, with the only criteria of whether an old book is a first edition or not.

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So, what. I'll always be someone who will take the longest route from work on foot, even if that means immerse himself in the thick scared noises of the hellish city living all around, stinky, dusty, deadly. To see a car burning as all the trams wait in line, and people run by, and many of them are scared and many smiles, because, who doesn't hate cars deep inside, and because it is an event, finally. To see the flames get very brighter as the front body of the car melt down over the macadam angular pieces of broken stone.

I had the most negative feelings toward this step back into their real world. Their expectations of me being presentable and regular and fit to be seen around or mentioned about as a piece of those macadam stones that are supposed to fit into place.
Oh, don't talk about me, you creep me out, I should have said, careless or nonchalant. I was just supposed to be consuming my left money and then become a real bum as I promised myself years ago.
But then I thought it would be too melodramatic, you know. Like a big complaint against the world, and for much I like to complain, that is something which can really hollow you in the end.
I'll let them think what they want of me. I finished trying to be like they want me to be anyway, even though my father would not be happy to hear this I guess.

Still I have the most negative feelings. I sleep even less, snap awake at four in the morning in the desperate effort to have more time to waste as I always loved to do, just sitting there, reading, thinking, drawing... I took a proposition a month ago, to only think about writing and do creative stuff this year and I already blew it, how good am I?

As Monica Geller said back then, welcome to the real world, it sucks, you're gonna love it. But seriously, I'm not gonna. And with this, I ended with myself for today. How about you? Damn comments are open you know.


 
 

 

2 Responses to “catching up with private stuff: a job in the city it's been a loooong time” :

Can't sit still.... said

Yeah, right, so I hadn’t imagined your resolution to concentrate on your artistic endeavors.. I’m sorry you’re disappointed about that…it sucks how life intervenes now and then. whenever I hear about someone in a situation they hate, it always strikes me as a fantastic opportunity to generate new creative material. I mean, not only is it completely emotionally inspired (by ennui or loathing perhaps) and therefore straight from the innermost heart, but it’s also (IMHO) terribly therapeutic…doncha think? Makes it maybe a little easier to get through if you’re always looking for ridiculous nuggets to jot down later. Just imagine the characters your going to encounter! Anyway, just my $0.02. You’re bigger than the situation, so it won’t get you.

corpodibacco said

Can’t Sit Still, you are the best as always. Thanks for what you say…
about the material… yes, other than money, that too played a role in making me take this decision to get back to work so you’re right. Now it is clearer to me. I guess I can say I have negative feelings but I won’t say I hate my situation. I reckon I am painting as difficult for me what is normal or sufferable for most of the people. I am not that big a person… About the resolution… I made it publicy on Dennis Cooper’s blog, if you remember. But as long as everything is ‘material’ I guess I am not completely blewing my resolution away according to this offical point of view of which I am very thankful to you. Grazie, Can’t… love ya.

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