Pijie's Filth & Fury

[dotinthesky]

Who needs a gym workout when they've got an apartment recently vacated by two male Australians to clean? Kevin & I began our move to the new flat today -- packed suitcases dragged across London, corner shop purchases (cleaning products and 2-litre Coca-cola bottle to keep us going), and the stereo playing old tapes in the living room.

To our surprise, we found a squatter living in our flat. Her name is Pijie and she refuses to leave our shit-smeared balcony or her little egg. We've decided to allow her to stay until her egg hatches, then lift the net around the balcony, pour bleach all over the caca and turn it into a prime location for neon-lights watching.

I spent the afternoon scrubbing the kitchen. The fridge looks and smells lovely but refuses to come back to the world of the living. I'm scared. Kevin wiped the living room clean and the shelves already hold some of our books. When the place is finally clean, and all our stuff is in place, I think we'll be very happy there.

Comments

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

11! From our living room we can see the commercial buildings around Liverpool Street rising to the west, and Victoria park directly to the north of us. And just below there are hundreds of gardens to peek at.

[izzybees]

So. jealous.! It is my dream to live in a high rise apartment, but in Ireland this isn't very likely. Alan did tell me that Bono and Co. plan to build Ireland's first skyscraper in Dublin which will have their studio at the top and the rest of it will be luxury apartments. I'd be tempted to buy one if I knew the money wasn't going to support him and his crappy band!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

If you could afford an apartment in his building, i'd kidnap you then would disappear in the Bahamas after Alan coughed up the dough.

Kevin doesn't like height very much so the view hasn't impressed him much. But I grew up in Brasil living in apartments (and in Singapore & Hong Kong as well) so for me it feels a little like coming home.

[izzybees]

You know you'd just end up falling in love with me, though, right? And then you'd set me free, because that's what you do when you love someone - you let them go. Ahahahahaha.

We totally couldn't afford it anyway.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Bono should stick cameras in all the apartments and make a tv show out of it. We could follow the lives of the rich people in the building and, every friday, watch U2 perform a new song from the penthouse.