The Never Ending story

Jueves, 6 de Marzo – 14:31

It's here I sit and rust amid this ruin and rancor like tire irons
toothy grills and car parts before me
...the acid rain floods my floorboard, burns my pores, and rots my upholstry..
once I was worshipped, polished magnificently, now I lay in decay by the dirty
angry bay
-King Crimson

Well, yesterday was a long day. I told Nikos to fuck off and get out of the house. He called Isidro and Rosa and then lied that they said it was okay for him to stay till Sunday. Little did shit-for-brains know that I just happen to teach Isidro and his children on Miercoles. He also told them that the heat is high because i always leave the windows open.

I was ready to come home and physically throw the deadbeat out. I figured I'd just stick his hand in the microwave and staring pressing buttons. But La Profesora is a good influence on me. I asked her what she would do when she called before he got home. She said she would just leave him be if he'll be out by Domingo. I'll be with her this weekend anyway. And i have his deposit, but that may not cover all the utilities. Plus I have to pay the whole rent for Marzo. So – inbetween thinking about killing him with a snow scraper and pondering fleeing to Marakesh, i came up with another idea. I am moving out on the 15^th.

JJ offered me to stay with him til July. I have to go see it tonight (God help me!) but i fear it's not very close to the Metro. And it's east of where i live now. I can stay with La Profesora for a week or two, but that's far from work as well.

But it buys me time to find something for April. It's the Never Ending Story for me – looking for a place to live.

Free at last
Free at last
Thank God almighty
we're free at last!
-Martin Luther King Jr.

The good news is that i believe i am divorced. The email said they were sending the final decree, but alack, the asswipe forgot the attachment. So it comes full circle – incompetence in the beginning comes around to connect with ignorance in the end.

Erection Day
At least that's how my Japanese buddy says it. And why the hell not? I am praying the Socialists can win on Sunday. These people are nuts if they bring the right back. Crazy. And I will be one step closer to Asia or Buenos Aires. I can't live here very long under the PP. They are pinned against the right wall. Mariano Rajoy wants foreigners to live in a box. I'd be living in Maria's Mother's attic like Anne Franco. Speaking of which, I read The Boy in the Stripes Pajamas on the plane ride back from Kobenhaven. Chilling. Really good.

My first class didn't show, which is why i am typing. I have my computer with me because I am showing one class The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. They love it, it's a classic of literature and it's an Easter story, of course. We watch it in English with English subtitles.

Don't think i'm doing anything on Semana Santa. May go to the beach for a weekend once i get settled in a new place.

Bounced out of Europe
Real Madrid crashed out of the Champions League last night with a crippling loss to Roma here in Madrid. I really don't like Real Madrid, but the bar across the street is a great place to watch. It was electric. You could barely hear and it would have been deafening if they had scored the tying goal. Also many people rolling their own cigarettes and lots of curious blue smoke.

Most peculiar Mama!
-John Lennon

So I have about ten days to clean before i move. I have accumulated a lot of stuff here in the past year – i'm such a well trained American!!! Some of my clothes are beat and i can give to charity. There's a dumpster for that in the park outside the house. The rest i just need to pare down. Travel light. Don't get weighed down by material possessions. Roam the earth like Kane in Kung Fu. But with my iPod.