Self-Diagnosis: It has taken me up to 25-minutes of leisurely stretching in bed before getting up, proving fatal for punctuality reports. Have tripled amount of nicotine, despite sweetheart’s campaign to “Stop Smoking Soon”.
But soon, we will.
Sub-entry: The Flying Mouse
This mouse has been culprit of disturbing the peace in our abode. He/she has danced the Macarena across the keyboard of Julien’s laptop while we were watching ‘Metropolis’ (please watch this… it’s A+!) and has raided our basket of candy.
We have caught him, on numerous occasions, dawdling like His Majesty on his way to the lawn for crumpets and tea. He would have been cute if not for likeness to a hairy, brown, rubbery-nosed little rodent — which, by the way, he is.
I bought Julien those delicious thin chocolate Lindt squares. The mouse thought it was good, promptly chewing up one side of the box.
And as we thought it couldn’t get any worse, I awoke one morning to see him on top of our table. Walking around, as usual. Our eyes met and locked (never shall I forget his cold, rodent stare) and to my surprise, he JUMPED to the floor and scurried away. I swear I almost blacked out.
Yesterday night though, it stumbled upon an open plastic bag of our McDonald’s leftovers. Julien watched it enter the bag, then quickly tied it up once the tail disappeared inside, trapping the mouse in. We threw it over the fence at the empty lot.
This story to be filed as Reason No. 8342 in the Why I Love Julien Series.
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A grave injustice has been done. Discrimination. We are being treated like criminals, lepers.
Our building has been declared to be “TOTALLY SMOKE-FREE” effective today. We are not even allowed to smoke at the 6th floor parking lot anymore. We are not allowed to smoke in the restrooms or within office premises. Will we risk the who-knows-how-much-they’ll-charge fine for smoking in the streets? Do they not even have the decency to provide employees with a smoking area that complies with all the rules of the new anti-smoking law?
Today, the Makati City Anti-Smoking Ordinance No. 2002-090 has stripped me of my rights and my dignity as a smoker, and I am being shunned by a society that looks down on my rightful habit to light a cigarette. My freedom has been taken away from me. There is no more escape, the very fleeting yet important 10-minute shangri-la, from the harsh grinding reality of corporate life.
We have been nicotine-raped! And we do not have justice on our side!
