I’m aware that I spend a lot of time complaining about my job and life in this blog. This is partly because my lifestyle, however desirable it may seem to the casual observer, is wrought with frequent obstacles, setbacks and surprises, with the ever-present threat of financial ruin looming overhead. This kind of environment would test the patience of Buddha Himself on occasion, so I make no apologies.Also, I’m crotchety. And don’t ask me why, but when I’m annoyed, I’m twice as funny as when I’m blissed out. It’s sick and masochistic, I know, but we all have our strengths and mine is to make personal distress and injustice hilarious.
That said, there are undeniable perks to this life, like my current living arrangements. For the duration of my LP Tuscany write-up I’ve secured a short-term apartment literally inches from the shores of Lake Trasimeno in northwest Umbria. The apartment itself is about as character-starved as a tube-sock, but it has everything I need and, well, there’s the view:
So, I know it’s not gonna make coffee spew from your nostrils, but this is what I get to look at (and walk around and swim in) for the next six to eight weeks and I just couldn’t help but share.
Though there’s the troubling matter of sitting just out of direct sunlight, on a freakishly uncomfortable plastic chair, working at a table that’s three inches higher than the ergonomic ideal for eight to 10 hours a day, seven days a week, while I update about a hundred pages of old information and greatly expand the book’s coverage on things like Sienese art, patron saints, popes and cathedral floor mosaics, subjects that could bore a free-range chicken to death.So stay tuned, laugh-riot complaining should resume presently.
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May 11th, 2007 at 12:58 am
Kudos on finding such a great spot and sincere sympathy on your lack of ergonomic writing arrangements but the real question is do you have WIFI access at the lake or or are you lurking in 5* hotel lobbies for internet access? By the by, if one is under 60, crotchety behavior embellished by wit is not only socially acceptable but can garner a fan or two.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:09 am
At first I was worried that your comma to period ratio had fallen below 2:1 in this post, but then that second to last paragraph totally saved you.
May 12th, 2007 at 3:47 am
“Character-starved as a tubesock.” Priceless. Coffee going through correct bodily tubing rather than nose, but that’s OK.
May 12th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Looking forward to your next post!
Ian