[Caelum's Scrapbook] Use Your Words.

by **Caelum** on April 2nd, 2012, 6:40 pm

This Monday was going wonderfully. I had an excellent weekend hanging out with one of my best friends, attending another friend’s book release party and playing a whole lot of Cards Against Humanity. (If you don’t know what that is, google it. I promise it will be worth your while.) This morning came with me well rested and sunshiny. Mondays are never awesome to me, so I should have suspected something was up.

I am not usually a “not my problem” type of person, but today I had to resist the urge to tell in exactly those words that to my tenant. He started school here and he signed a lease for which he paid in full at signing. That lease is up in three months. I received an email from him today stating that the condo will be available ASAP as he has decided not to continue with the program he is in here. Further, he expects to be reimbursed for the remainder of the lease he already paid.

I beg your pardon? He signed a lease. He paid it in full in advance. Once I have the keys in my hand, I’ll be happy to refund the security deposit; but the rent? What? Where has he lived in which that is acceptable? Because I am a nice person, if I happen to be able to get another tenant in there within a reasonable amount of time then I will refund those months. Frankly, though, the chances of that happening are super small.

He knows we’re first time landlords. I feel as if he might be trying to take advantage of that and therefore the possibility that we just don’t know better. Only we do know better. The lease is clear and legal and he signed it. He initialed every bloody page.

Humanity makes me sad sometimes. I’m not wealthy. I need a tenant in there. It allows me not to eat Ramen noodles for breakfast, lunch and dinner and to buy new shoes when the ones I have fall apart. There has never been a problem with the place, or if there has been he never contacted us so that we could fix it. He has my cell phone, my work phone and my email address. Also? It happens to be a really nice place.

I just.. Ugh. Don’t try to squeeze me dry because you have made different choices. Unfortunately, I have to go with: not my problem. Someone needs to restore my faith in man.

To end on a good note, I saw GoT second season launch last night and holy wow Davos. Also, Dani’s Spanish wine was delicious.

by **Caelum** on April 5th, 2012, 12:20 pm

Crystalised by the Xx makes me think of Syna and Leth. I don’t know why. The lyrics probably don’t even work all that well; but still. It just does it for me. Also? It’s a nice, chill Thursday morning song.

You've applied the pressure
To have me crystalised
And you've got the faith
That I could bring paradise

I'll forgive and forget
Before I'm paralyzed
Do I have to keep up the pace
To keep you satisfied

Things have gotten closer to the sun
And I've done things in small doses
So don't think that I'm pushing you away
When you're the one that I've kept closest

Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh

You don't move slow
Taking steps in my directions
The sound resounds, echo
Does it lessen your affection
No

You say I'm foolish
For pushing this aside
But burn down our home
I won't leave alive

Glaciers have melted to the sea
I wish the tide would take me over
I've been down on my knees
And you just keep on getting closer

Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh

Placid as I melt into the sea
(Things have gotten closer to the sun)
I wish the tide would take me over
(And I've done things in small doses)
I've been down onto my knees
(So don't think that I'm pushing you away)
And you just keep on getting closer
(When you're the one that I've kept closest)

Go slow
Go slow
Go slow
Go slow
Go slow

by **Elhaym** on April 5th, 2012, 1:45 pm

I love the xX, even if they all look like big dorks. I know what you mean about songs kind of striking a chord with random things... for some reason I've been jamming this song by Gotye because there's something there that resonates with me and Mizahar in general. Maybe it's the post apocalyptic theme, etc etc, but anyway.

lyrics :

by **Legion** on April 6th, 2012, 12:20 pm

This made my world this morning. My whole world.

by **Caelum** on April 10th, 2012, 5:41 pm

I can't find time these days with two hands and a flashlight. I have not vanished. I am just ridiculously busy with life. It's comin'. It's comin'.

Now I'm going to finish my lunch. Omnomnom.

by **Caelum** on April 14th, 2012, 7:50 pm

Thank you, Mr. McCarthy, for keeping a look out for us commie artists.

by **Caelum** on April 19th, 2012, 1:43 pm

Hey!

So, I’m on my way back. Toe at a time. (The water here is still bloody cold.)

Meanwhile, check this out. Monica Hesse for the Washington Post says:

The barbarians have done it, finally infiltrated a remaining bastion of order in a linguistic wasteland. They had already taken the Oxford English Dictionary; they had stormed the gates of Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition. They had pummeled American Heritage into submission, though she fought valiantly — she continues to fight! — by including a cautionary italics phrase, “usage problem,” next to the heretical definition.

Then, on Tuesday morning, the venerated AP Stylebook publicly affirmed (via tweet, no less) what it had already told the American Copy Editors Society: It, too, had succumbed. “We now support the modern usage of hopefully,” the tweet said. “It is hoped, we hope.”

Stupid barbarians. Let’s take off our pretensions? Oh, fine then.

by **Laszlo** on April 25th, 2012, 7:37 pm

Hey, I heard you had to write an essay. I saw this gif tutorial on writing boring essays and thought you might like to use it!

by **Tabarnac** on April 26th, 2012, 3:25 am

I miss your face.

by **Caelum** on April 26th, 2012, 5:10 pm

Laz, that gif is amazing. My essay is coming and now it will have be concluded with "rectangle america megaphone monday butthole".

Dani, I miss your face too. You should come see me. I am feeling recovered. Life is getting shinier. I shall post for all my silly, emo peeps and also those mod type things. I miss Mizahar's face too, it appears.