Leaving...

[kasche]

So, I'm leaving for Lucca. - I'm actually writing on the train. I'll be here, today and tomorrow. Ok, technically just tomorrow. But these are details, because people are what matter. =P

On the up side:

well, I'm leaving. :D And I managed to carry with me a pj that wasn't pink. (I have a total of THREE pink pjs. Pink pjs. Of course I noticed that I had them, but I didn't realize they were THREE.) And I probably won't sleep at all tonight. *laughs*
This morning I found the pendrive. Yeeeh!
I managed to finish the drawings in time. YEEEH!
Plus, Agnese and I will show the world what we can do, when we are together. World -- beware. *grins*

On the down side:

I have with me my CD player, I have the batteries, I have the CDs, and I forgot the headphones at home. How stupid can I be? So,to entertain myself until Florence's station - where I will change train - I only have this notebook (which is about to finish, though) and Schopenhauer's "The art of offence", that I just bought at the station's newsstand, before boarding on the train. From what I can remember from school, I didn't esteem him much - more than a philosopher, ha was a collector of aphorisms, largely based on common places. But the title was catching (he...) and, well, it was either that or Paolo Coelho, and I'm not really in the mood for Coelho. I doubt I will ever be in the mood for Coelho.
I forgot to buy a bottle of water.
And my cellphone isn't working. This is not nice, not now.

On the baffling and unexpected side:

Oh, my. This morning I went -- almost running, I think -- to a local shop, to scan the drawing for Ish. (to scan Jo's I had to sneak in the study at about 6:45 in the morning. (Well, we leave at 7:30.) You know, I wasn't that comfortable with showing it around. ^^;) The woman of the shop not only didn't charge me for it (and it was the second time she did that), but she asked me the permission to print it out and hang it in the shop. I went from normal to this---> °o° in three seconds flat.

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h 13:50

Boarded on the train. Just realized I forgot the damned headphones. Some boys have a stereo: good.


h 13:58

The only cd they seem to have contains "Slide along side" (or something) by Shifty. Multiple times.


h 14:03

And they listen to it. Also multiple times.


h 14:04

Wondering whether going there and offering some CDs of mine would sound rude.


h 14:05

Boys got down. Yeeh!


h 14:05:48

They didn't forget here the stereo. Damn.


h 14:16

The woman seated across me is eating an apple. Which reminded me that I wanted to buy an apple for Agnese, and I didn't. Damn. (Don't worry - it has to do with an in-joke. --and with Death Note.)


h 14:42

Situation is v. v. worrying. I've picked up again the habit of writing down the names of every station we cross. We'll see how worrying it is tomorrow. Usually, during the travel back I strike them out. Still haven't touched Schopenhauer.


h 15:00

The ticket collector actually looks in the eye the person he's talking to. You don't find that too often in people.


h 15:02

I can see someone in the wagon who's reading Wilbur Smith. Well, someone had it worse than me. (I get mean when I'm bored to death, I see.)


h 15:05

Schopenhauer is a misogynist. His remarks about love are making me sick. Will try to look better for the headphones.


h 15:13

No such luck. Schopenhauer again, then.


h 15:16

Funny. Right after an aphorism about the baleful concept of spiritual love, there is one that starts with: "The syphilis..."


h 15:24

Now, I didn't want to say something about every page I'm reading, but damn. I thought that the "kalos kai agathos" idea (even if contrariwise) was Homeric. This man is pissing me off. Not because of the subjects he's throwing himself against,but for the poorness of his arguments. It makes me think of something Ni said about Nothomb: shiny outside, shallow inside. Ditto here.


h 15:36

I thought I was logorrheic, but this man is able to write two pages and a half on how and why he hates the snap of the whip. He writes two lines on university, women, friendship, and two pages on that.

Am intensely trying to perform wandless magic and Accio here my headphones, but to no avail.


h 15:38

Memorable: two aphorisms I liked. I'm not saying just how many I've read until now.


h 15:47

"The coitus is mainly business of men; pregnancy, instead, of women alone."

I'm giving up on Schopenhauer.


h 16:00

Just reached Florence. Just found out the existence of a strike of all the regional trains. Great.





...and afterward, I met up with oliver_baston for the first time, and we talked all the way to Pisa. She's a very nice girl, if you want my opinion. =)

In the evening we went to a chinese restaurant, where we laughed a lot, Agnese took a lot of photos which I will snatch on a later date (XD), and did I mention I had fun? =P