We’re still highly unemployed, and money i.e. time, is running out. We’ve realized that we might have to go home at the end of March. Realized, not accepted.
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Yeah, it’s been a rough couple of days. This state of blue started this last Thursday and it is best explained by us presenting a three-part snapshot.
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Snapshot no. 399.1
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It’s Wednesday evening, we’re discussing tomorrow’s job rendez-vous...
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Marty: It said “test” in the ad. What do they mean by that? A test!
Mousse: Nah, they won’t test you. What could they possibly test? It’s a cleaning job!
Marty: It also said ironing. Ironing and cleaning. I can’t iron.
Mousse: How hard can it be? Everyone knows how to iron. Cool down.
Marty: I cannot iron.
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Snapshot no. 399.2
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10:55 Rendez-vous at Adomo
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Employer: So you’ve never cleaned houses before?
Marty: Only my own.
Employer: But you have ironed.
Marty: Yes. Yes, I have ironed ...in the past.
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Snapshot no. 399.3
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At a café not too far from Adomo, Mousse was enjoying her coffee when...
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Mousse: What!?
Marty (newly arrived, shocked): They made me iron!
Mousse: What are you saying?
Marty (hysterical): A test! In ironing! And I failed!
Mousse: What are you saying!?
Marty: I CANNOT IRON!
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11:07 we’re on the métro home, still jobless, and it’s official - Marty can’t iron.
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Snapshot no. 578
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Two weeks ago, hunting for a two-room apartment...
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Mousse: This would be so much easier if we were lovers.
Marty (dreamy-eyed): Yeah.
Mousse: We could rent a really cheap studio with one bed and make love all day long.
Marty (even more dreamy-eyed): Yeah.
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Snapshot no. 88
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Yesterday, in a very, very, very crowded métro...
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Marty (aiming for her mouth, hitting her chin): Maybe this isn’t the ideal place to eat pears.
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Snapshot no. 11
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It was last Monday, we had just returned from grocery shopping and scored gold. One kilo of pears and one kilo of bananas, for less than 1 € each.
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Mousse: This is a good day, right?
Marty: Yeah, not entirely fruitless.
Mousse: Ha.
Marty: Ha.
Mousse: HAHAHAHAA
Both (desperately): MWAHAHAHAAHHA MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAAA WHAAAA HAHAHAHA
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Let’s just say that panic and despair, as well as great joy, is always close and strangely intertwined this very uncertain time of our lives.
6 comments:
I like to read this blog.
(I also had endives at Julien's house, it was.. ok, but I did not take another portion)
What she said! Only no endives.
comments! we like comments. took us awhile to understand ape's cleaverness, but when we did, it was a beautiful thing. we have learned to appreciate understanding. ja?
M&M
Men du Lolly, exakt hur var endiverna tillagade?
Vet inte om vi någonsin kommer att köpa endiver igen, men det är ju billigt och vi är fattiga.
Tja... det låter ju föga gott men det var endivegratäng. Jag tänker icke tillaga denna rätt.någonsin.
huh.
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