Piece of Whinny Mail That Didn't Make It (So Far)
So, hi, how have you been? I've been watching lots of Seinfeld. I even had to do some maintenance on the computer, it started crashing due to the strain of the file sharing program I've been using. Had to check on the fan of the heat sinker, then the network drivers, the upload rate... It's a real challenge to have a Windows based system running smooth continuosly, the thing has a natural tendency towards chaos and unmanageability. I guess I should add those skills to my resumé, if a company wants to keep their file sharing going on, they should talk to me. I don't think I really like companies. I mean, I've worked for one once, I've been there, tried it in three different flavours, and well, I don't know. I've taught private lessons on monday, now that is a rewarding experience. But so far the clients have come much less then steadily, so it's not still something to look up as a way to make up a living. But anyway, I might have more fun as a High School Math teacher then as a programmer fighting in the corporate jungle somewhere. Students can be such nice people. But I digress. This whole"what shall I be when I grow up", I mean, come on, that's a theme suitable for me ten years ago. Still, can't shake the fact that I'm not Jerry Seinfeld. With some optimism, I'm George. Well, some George mixed on with some Kramer. You know, life isn't really like that, I mean, at least not for everyone. Ok, Seinfeld had this confortable life, he's got his shows, he's got the looks and style and girls comming for him, the real life Seinfeld even got the million bucks, but hey, look at other artists. They have their heydays, then they snuff, and sometimes they snuff along with their heydays. See Bob Geldoff. He did that great Pinky performance in The Wall movie, had a wife who left him with bunch of kids and went on to that In Excess guy, Mike Hutchins or something I'm *not* going to google up because it doesn't really matter, so, this guy was all hot and stuff and had dream girls like Kyle Minogue and stuff and was sexy and here is how he ends, I guess in his early forties doing self asfixiating masturbation alone in a bathroom. Strangled himself the poor guy. Now *that's* an artist's life. I mean, real artist. Well, I don't know why he would actually be more of a real artist then Seinfeld, it just feels that he's more into the general case, of what it is to depend on art to live. Seinfeld got there, in his early thirties, 9 years running a show where he makes some funny remarks and builds some interesting situations I've spent this afternoon watching trying to forget how meaningless *my* life is, and now he is 50, I've read somewhere he is married, somewhere else that he had had a millionaire divorce, but so what, he apparently rode his fame and made himself a stash and his life got figured out. The core of it is gone, he's gone through his thirties on show, he's been out of the show for the last 6 years, he will even be in a movie this year or so it seems. That is a way to have it. While he had his somewhat nice apartment and some savings Elaine had a roommate, didn't seem to have a car, while George had to go on all that omega routine at work, just as Elaine, while he is there, clean, goes to the club, makes some witty remarks, people laugh, the bucks flow in, he's back home, couffe shop, whatever. I mean, it's a celebritie's life in a smaller degree, while the friends are the real people, the common people, trying to laugh a bit as they too grow old and less employable.
This is where I figure up I'll have to end up in the public service. That's really where I should get a minimum of peace of mind. Stability. Not worrying too much about retirement, they will look that up for me. Having a last use for what once was a promising intellect, beating up all the other joes who *also* want a public job. And it even pays some. And if I ever graduate, in anything stupid I'll never really be able to use, such as, say, Computer Engineering (how many years was I stuck at College trying to graduate at that?), and if I keep a hint of my former intellect, I can still move to an even higher paying public job.
And then the girls. Yeah, I can see them now. They come. They check. We even go out. I'm not that timid anymore. They see the baldness, the eye glasses, but most of all, the pudgy face. Hell, I'm just so ugly. It's not a screaming ugliness, it's just a boring ugliness, so, I don't even get too mad anymore when they don't call anymore. Well, there are other issues, of course. I live with my mother. How pathetic can that be? I don't have a car. I can't even *drive* my mom's car. That's too little to add up to the general ugliness and flat personality. Hell, I don't think I can really respect much a women who would go for *that*. Yeah, I indeed don't. When I see them moving away, I sense there is still hope for her. But so, the public service could solve at least the part of living with the mother. The car part I'm not so sure. I'll have to check, maybe they have very old used cars I could afford. Car and house, now that combo plus a pretty unambitious woman could lead to a next generation. Now, this kid, or these kids, they could have a future. They could inherit some of the brilliance, and definitelly there isn't so much madness to inherit, I'll *never* be as talented as my father & my mother in fucking up kids. I mean, really. That is pure concentrated bullshit in raising kids. There is nothing I could do to match up that. I mean, I guess that *was* probably my mistake, to be so concerned about not being like them when there was no way... Well, I'm not so sure. It's easy to say this now, ten years later and alone in front of a keyboard, and when I press for my memory, I can remember quite a lot of shit reflecting my parent's. So, anyway. The kids will have a good chance. To actually choose a career, to be higher then omegas, to have their places and cars, to succeed abroad. Israel maybe, they'll have Israeli citzenship, that much I've already secured for them. How ugly and how stupid they will be will depend on this eventual fleeting girl I'll be getting. I don't know, I'm pretty dismayed about all this stuff. Deborah hated my guts, let's put that plain. The others I had here before, well, I was a bit healthier back then in some details, and I did have all that hair. Adria was a real loss. She was much in love, she was beautiful at least for my league, and she was smart enough. But then, hey, *not* screwing up things is the mark of the supermen. I'm no superman. I screw things. That's what makes me *me*. That's what makes many people *them*. But then I get some things right. They too. They get quite proud of these things they get right. I sometimes get proud too. The whole thing is such a big mess, I don't know. I guess I should really focus on one thing at a time, as if I was the sort of autist I actually became, listen to all these people saying how much of a pathetic loser I am and strive to become a little less of a loser. At least a loser who drives, I'll say for now. And then a loser with a public job. And then a loser with College. I'll be an older loser by then, but I'll be older by then anyway, with or without these very atractive traits.
The real issue is, I was really surprised with these two last girls' losses. I mean, it seemed to be going fine. Really, I mean it. Not spetacularly fine anyway, but as fine I expected things like this to go now. Come on, I'm not young anymore. People have expectations. They accepted some things from me at 23 that they are not taking from me at 29. I got to move on! But how's that suppose to happen? Do I really see myself hours and hours digesting things to the College admitance exam, or for the public service exam? Do I? Really? Come on. I guess I should become a taxi driver. There should be taxi drivers on Seinfeld. There was one in Pink Floyd. Bog Geldoff, who looks a lot like Seinfeld by the way, he had been in a taxi and said shit about Pink Floyd, and the taxi driver happened to be the brother of Roger Waters! Now how much of a taxi driver insertion is that? Éverton my friend's father is a taxi driver. He is an Engineer. My father is an Engineer, so how about me being a taxi driver? I could even shoot people and save Jodi Foster, I guess. Of course then I'd have to be a war veteran, but so what, that's just a movie and De Niro get's all shot in that story. Naturally nearly everybody by then was a war veteran, only the woossies dodged that draft. Yeah, people like me. One more reason I'd have to think of being another kind of taxi driver. Like Water's brother maybe. Water was a woos in regards to war. He was all worked up because his father died in service when he was a kid and his mother smothered him to make up for the loss and all that crap. Barret was probably even more of a woos, and he ended up all really fucked up. I guess his ex-girlfriends grew to hate him. I don't know. People get burned up. But so, Geldoff's wife left him for Hutchins, and not long after Hutchin's had killed himself or died anyway in a kinky accident, there she goes. Overdose. Which is another very artistic feature of life completely absent from Seinfeld. Where are all the drugs? The damn guy is completely clean! Nice Jewish boy. Jewish artists are supposed to be *that* nice? So, the woman is dead, I guess she wasn't with Hutchins anymore when he got dead, and Geldoff has all these kids to raise now who became orfans. That's pretty much artistic. That's panache, that's bravado, that's angst. Fuck Seinfeld I say. And hail to the fallen.