JR

Oh my god im pissed. Tuesdays is my day to wake up early, go to work for 8 hours then go to school for another 3. Its fucking exhausting and i usually lose interest into about 1/3 of the day. Im particularly pissed as my alarm went off and I woke up an hour earlier then i was supposed to. This means i woke up at fucking 5.30am. Useless. Its not even like i can do anything at this point in the bloody morning. Really not cool. I at least wish i had some orange juice.

Even tho its early in the morn i do remember the following character JR. There are several reasons for this. He had the same name as a czech footballer (he was polish though, this was verified immediately), he was openly distainful of women (although he had been married and had a daughter, or so he claims) and he seemed to have a fear of soap (or at least smelt like he had a fear of soap).

Outside his misogny (and foul smell) he really was a quite pleasant man. He had been an architect in both the iron block and in Halifax at the time and had helped design one of the cities universities. I took great interest in his old time experiences in Communist Poland and he was all too happy to oblige. Oh lord how he loved Russia and he still considered them a world power.

Its at this point that I will write a sidenote but in the middle of this piece.

If im not mistaken at the time (2003) that this was written Russia was still undergoing some significant changes. Granted Putin was in power and the oligarchs had already raided the government for its goods but Russia was not quite butting heads with Western and Eastern countries, particularly the US, as it is today. As a result I had written the following, which at the time wasnt too far off (and to a certain extent still isnt).

"Maybe my North American Upper Middle Class mind has been poisoned against Russia's current glories? No, they are still fucked"

Since then Putin has been nominated as Person of the year by Time (granted so was Hitler, Stalin and Chang Kai Shek, even then that means something), their economy has boomed significantly, Russia has started to meddle with the likes of Ukraine and Georgia's (the country, not state) national elections, theyve been accused of sending spies to England and poisoning Politicians and expats. Regardless the country has become a world power (once again) along side China. That didnt take very long did it?

It should be noted that the dialogue between him and his roomate was like something out of a sitcom. She too was a lovely little thing probably bordering on the age of 107. In between the bickering she let it be known that I was allowed to read her National Enquirers and Weekly World News, which i was all to glad to do. The fact that she had called them smut made it very hard to resist.

Ech, i apologize if this post is a bit more scattered then usual, im really tired and have to go to work now. Blech, what a long day this is going to be.

Oh yeah, also this.