Seven Ways to Dance Around a Pole

[dotinthesky]

Anybody who is somebody knows that my stripper song is Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name". When I hear that rockin' intro, and the words shot through the heart, but you're to blame... I start looking for the nearest table top to climb on and start pulling my boxers down. Today, though, I went to a music store on my lunch break and I found the Best of Prince on the listening station. Maybe "When Doves Cry" is more suited for a proper strip-tease. It's got that bumpin' and thumpin' sexy roll, but also some melancholic sentiments behind it.

The men in strip clubs have very melancholic eyes. I know because I was once dragged into one (Crystal Palace, in Montreal) by the brother of a friend - who had no idea then that I was more interested in the Chippendales. I still have flashbacks of the pimps taking the stick-thin, boob-implanted, nymphets-cum-graduate-students, on to the stage.

Back in the Catholic Office, conversation centred around a TV show last night about abortion. There were some frantic phone calls to Bishops and Canons to get their views on this topic. Meanwhile, because I've stapled and shelved and forwarded all I could in the first two hours of work, I'm sitting at my desk and reading a biography on Marie Antoinette (when I'm not fighting off the feeling of hitting the desk with my forehead).

Did you know that Marie Antoinette met Mozart when she was 7 years old? That she was born on the same day (2nd of November) as an earthquake that hit Portugal and killed 30.000 people? (Incidentally, that date is also the Day of the Dead in the Christian calendar - and that particular earthquake even featured in Voltaire's novel "Candide"). Life in Versailles was alien, powdery, smelly, gossipy, and shallow. I might read biographies for a while, preferably with some good historical value.

And some rat-looking guy followed me around during lunch hour. He really creeped me out and I was scared he would follow me back to my office (which he did) and try to get in (which he thankfully did not try.)

I'm still no nearer to Heaven.

Comments

[4q.livejournal.com]

haahahahahah oh no!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

wat yeu meen? Not gunna trie talkin to me laik dat?

[4q.livejournal.com]

no way! fuck today sucks Ollie. come hang out with me and make it better

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

why does it suck??

*wish we could hang out too...*

[4q.livejournal.com]

I don't know I had an anxiety attack last night for NO REASON AT ALL, and now I am sitll feeling all anxious and jittery. I just feel really down about my money situation and I am obsessing about it. I can't get it off my mind, and I want to figure out what I am going to do. I am so frustrated.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

i don't know what to say... i get those attacks too sometimes, in the middle of the night! it's horrible... i understand the sense of powerlessness... but you have to remind yourself of the good stuff!

One minute left...

take care!!!

[4q.livejournal.com]

love you

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

♥

IM BACK!!

[4q.livejournal.com]

ha ha! that's going to come up a number of times! lol Ollie there are papers scattered all over my desk, and i have so much to do. I am so stressed out about money.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

me too... i've been sitting with the calculator, trying to figure out if I can pay next month's rent... it sucks.

how are you managing? is everything turning alright?

[4q.livejournal.com]

I don't know, I need a second job, I want to go to school Ollie, and i can't do that till I get out of debt

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

what happens if you postpone paying your debt and go to school? would the debt grow?

[4q.livejournal.com]

the debt would grow to an unimaginable amopunt

you have no idea what a hard time I had spelling unimaginable

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

man... that sucks big time.

i have friends in canada in the same situation as you - one of them just spent two years in Korea teaching english to pay off her debt. What about your plans of going to Japan?

[4q.livejournal.com]

well see part of the problem is I need a degree in order to do that, if i can go without a degree, then holy shit many of my problems will be solved

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

you could get a teaching degree. here in England you can get one in a 3-month long course. Would that work over there?

[4q.livejournal.com]

well there are a couple of things I am looking into right now but they all cost money too! it's honestly what holds me back from so much Ollie, I was so stupid when I was young, and I seroiusly haven't gotten much smarter with money. I am just not starting to get a bit better, but even still...I paid off my credit card, and with in three or four months it was right back up. Its crushing. The part time job will help.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

did you find any waitressing? or have you started looking for different work?

[4q.livejournal.com]

I am going to be doing that tomorrow, wear my finery and whore myself out

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

and spit in the coffee of the rude customers?

[4q.livejournal.com]

ha ha if i have to. I think if I can work at least on sunday and saturday that would help a lot

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

it's just tough...

we need better lives, the both of us.

[4q.livejournal.com]

yes I agree

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

kevin wants to use the computer... so this is my goodnight and goodbye! Have fun this weekend and...

and...

and...

catch you later!

[4q.livejournal.com]

love you. Have a good weekend too!!