when I moved here, to providence, my apartment was basically shit. I spent the first week and a half of my residence unfucking the place. I had to build three banks of bookshelves before I could even unpack the books, cuz I am a fucking supernerd. but anyway. the bathroom was/is the worst off; there is still a gaping hole in the wall and the light in there is absolute crap. one thing I did manage to add was a towel bar. the towel bar looks nice but mounts to the wall in a hideously chintzy fashion: you screw these metal plates into the wall, right, and then attach to the bar to the plates. the bar attaches to the plates at only two points for the whole bar: this little bit where you tighten this one screw with an allen wrench that came with the thing.

so of course the bar fell off, cuz I endeavored to hang a towel on it. the problem is that I lost the fucking allen wrench. for those of you that haven’t yet delved into the bracing world of home furnishings, an allen wrench is a device whose name grandiosely belies its utter cheesiness. it is basically a rail-extruded hexagon made out of cheap metal and bent into an “L” shape, such that a screw with a hole in it the same size and shape of the hexagon can be turned. it also doubly serves to irritate your fingers, plus frustrate you immensely when you lose it altogether.

cuz yeah: I lost the retarded allen wrench. now I have a somewhat nice looking but useless towel bar rattling around my apartment, and two ugly and equally useless metal plates screwed into the bathroom wall. bleagh. if you happen to have a teeny little allen wrench lying around, by all means throw it at me. you won’t be sorry for long.

sorry to be so needy these days regarding physical objects. my computer is still fucked, btw. I managed to get my spare machine bootstrapped in a halfway decent manner (BIG SHOUTZ to those of you who IMed or otherwise sent me pieces of software I needed, yeah) when it started crashing all the time and making strange ‘beep’ noises. I have already had the motherboard on this grabastic machine replaced twice, so my hopes are not particularly high. if I keep the thing directly in front of the full-blast AC, it gets slightly less crashy. what a mess.

anyway yeah. I’m just updating so that that hoplessly long-winded fusedspace bruinsma rant would get displaced from the top of the page, basically. otherwise shit’s just great. today, for example, I ate ravioli with lobster in it. that’s great. more great things happen than non-great things so sorry you have to read about the bullshit. c’est la guerre, yes?

yes!

-fish