Having Fun All The Time

I am sitting in perhaps the grossest Internet bar on the face of the Earth writing this. At the moment my apartment at the college is being renovated, so I can’t access the Internet there, and the place I’m staying has no Internet, so this is my most convenient choice.

The cigarette smoking in here is heavy and the clientele is mostly teenage boys playing video games, clearly at several hour-long stretches. The Internet bar actually wraps around the second floor of a really dingy indoor mall and there is a “Jico’s” fast food restaurant attached to it. Air conditioning is limited, which means that there is a smell of sweat and oily skin and cigarettes that sort of feels like it’s soaking into my skin, and the chair I am sitting on and desk I am typing on have a blackish sort of patina that is obviously the result of thousands of hours of continual use with no cleaning.

The point of all of which is to tell you that I will probably be making posts much less frequently this summer, as the environs for web use have become much less amenable to creative thought.

My friend and I started our teaching class last week. We have nabbed about a dozen students so far, which means that I might stand to make a few hundred extra dollars this summer, and also I landed a one-on-one teaching gig that pays 9 USD per hour, which is a joke of a wage considering it’s just one-off tutoring and four hours a week, but in this corner of the world that’s significant enough.

Ah, that’s really all I can think of right now. The nasty chair I’m sitting in is too distracting, as is the teenager who is sitting next to me and eating a chicken sandwich and spitting on the floor and smoking and playing Warcraft III all at the same time. The filth and debauchery is staggering.