11/8/2012 Saturday in 2012

Day 3 of 12. I continued reading Cosmopolis today. At this point I don’t have anything to say about it. Tomorrow I will finish it. Then I will read Down and Out of Paris and London. Hopefully it will be a lot better. Though I have to say reading on my phone was a whole new experience. White text on a black background felt a lot better. Maybe I should try that at home. Today I lost a lot of times at cards. I have no idea why my luck has left me these days. Today they are not sleeping outside. It’s like 10 degrees outside and it’s raining so this time they are sleeping inside. They are in the kitchen right now. I would have thought they would sleep in the bed I usually sleep (during the colder times) but apparently they did not want to sleep near Opis. So hopefully they won’t trouble me and won’t be too loud. Supposedly next week will be a lot warmer. Today I made them something for the first time. They made a lot of pickles and a lot of potato pancakes (even though I don’t consider them as such because pancakes have flour and these obviously didn’t). Today I thought about poetry – the one field of writing that has always mystified me. I googled “how to write bad poetry” for reasons that I can’t quite comprehend. I did learn something in the end. Now I feel sleepy and they are making a noise. Things were so much better before when I didn’t have to worry about them. Now I’m almost wishing that the weather will improve. Or that they don’t sleeping in the dining room. It feels strange to call it that even though that’s what it technically is. Then again you could also say sitting room, or main room.