So-So RL, Awesome From Italian Politics

[damigella]

RL: my current roommate speaks almost no English. She has been here for two weeks and has washed the dishes with a rinse product for dishwasher. I'm eating sandwiches until she's gone. She also cooks fish every evening and leaves the dirty pots in the sink all night, which means my bedroom (over the kitchen) stinks of fish all the time. And then they ask me why I dislike applied mathematics.

RL2: I broke the handle of the fridge. Fridge still works perfectly and is easy to open and close, but I may have to pay for it. Let's hope they are insured. 

AFIP: Two weeks ago the Italian government blatantly lost all local elections, including that in their stronghold, Milan, the economic capital of the country.

Today they lost again popular ballots: Italians voted against privatizing tap water services, against nuclear power plants (thank you Japan) and most awesomely of all against the law that allowed the Prime Minister to avoid being processed for his crimes. 

I'm going to dinner with the other Italians here. if you see a group of semi-drunken youngsters bringing home a semi-drunken middle-aged lady in Cambridge tonight, that would be me. One of the Italians has an open bet that the government will fall before the end of the month. I wish I could pray.

Comments

[rincewindy13.livejournal.com]

My sicilian BF was also very pleased about the outcome of these Volksentscheidungen! Hopefully B will be gone soon...

re: roommate

Is she Italian,too? And she cleaned the dishes with Klarspüler? LOL

Have fun drinking! Ever tried Snakebite?

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Roommate's French, her English is quite poor. And she's leaving in two days - no point complaining.

I had a pint of the local beer. Which is about as much as I can manage.

[selkie3.livejournal.com]

I think you need to put a hex on this roommate! I don't get the lack of common courtesy among people nowadays. Hopefully she doesn't even realize how rude she's being.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I think she has absolutely no clue. You can't get angry with someone like that.

Going out with people young enough to be my own kids made me feel very old indeed, but it sure was fun.

[alternatealto.livejournal.com]

But . . . but . . . but if the Italian government falls, who will the U.S. government have to point to and say, "Well, at least we're not that bad"?

Seriously, though, I hope you have (or had, by now) a great evening, and all praise to the voters of Italy!!

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

It was a great evening, although those youngsters are much better at politics than I am (doesn't take much) and explained to me that because of the lack of intelligent leaders plus the weight of the "Catholic" politicians the center-left coalition may still manage not to oust the current majority, or only for a short time.

"Catholic" refers e.g., to any politician who takes part in a "family day" homophobia parade while being divorced and remarried to someone much younger than wife#1: i.e., every party leader of the current Italian government coalition. [To everyone that's married en secondes noces around there: there's nothing wrong with it. Hypocrisy, not divorce, is what I have a problem with.]

Still, it felt so good.

[julefontane.livejournal.com]

Hehe, your roommate sounds a bit scatty and clueless and icky! Can be amusing - from afar. Ew, stinky pots! I'm a total kitchen Nazi (and only in that area) - which brings my boyfriend to tears sometimes and pleases my friends when I visit them and start cleaning... - I think I wouldn't survive ;) I have lived in Wohngemeinschaften a lot and that is probably why I developed that particular OCD.

Cool news about the referendum! I read it yesterday and was very pleasantly surprised! - I think Germany has to thank Japan as well for the new Rot-Grüne government in Baden-Würtemberg! It always has to go bad before something good happens...

Prost!

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I always lived on my own and thought I was a total slob but apparently I was wrong. And yes, if I share accommodation I tend to be very careful and clean after myself, even if I wouldn't be bothered.

Luckily she's leaving the day after tomorrow.

"Rot-Grüne government"
I'm very proud to notice that Regierung is female. Just as your awesome Kanzlerin (you may or may not like her, but there's no politician in Italy equally good).