the suitemates took a trip to thessaloniki this weekend... i politely declined because i was mad stressed with intern business last week (consider me employed. or unpaid-interned. www.pgfusa.org. count it!) and riding a midnight bus on friday night, returning 5am monday morning sounded like the opposite of good. instead, i have spent my time doing an inexcusable amount of yoga in the middle of the empty apartment and paying my cultural dues by visiting the national archeological museum yesterday and the benaki museum today with my dude rob, an art history major and therefore handy as hell. besides a stalking incident (i was the stalkee, not the stalker... just to clear things up) on saturday in omonia aka trifesville junkietown, it was a pretty nice weekend of educational excursions. i actually enjoyed myself. is this what maturity feels like? it's cold and weird.
there are these horrifying posters up all over town of a pale naked woman with her head thrown back and blood pouring from various orifices. just to up the graphic description ante, it is literally like being raped in the eye everyday on your walk to school... truly goddawful. and it's to promote some nerdy 15-member orchestra band, like the michael jenkins band or some other westernized name along those lines. people have tried to cover them up with flyers and graffiti tags (well, those are probably unrelated and not altogether altruistic) but the image is burned into our minds, and now probably yours too. enjoy sharing our pain.
there was a general strike last week, temporarily shutting down all public transportation among other things. striking is different in greece; they tend to do it in scheduled 2 hour intervals on a previously announced date when it's something that affects everyone so as to avoid sheer chaos... they also don't keep it up until changes are made. they just make their statement and head home. how this actually works to change anything continues to baffle me. i don't understand why greek government pays attention to these tame demonstrations, or how the demonstrators themselves don't see that full-blown apocalyptic chaos would be way more badass and legendary. but i'm probably just mad because i'm pretty sure it's affected the mail system, and girlfriend wants her expected package.
i just sent in my thesis proposal form to skr, advisor extrarodinaire. ask me how psyched i am to start planning the most hellish project i will ever undertake in life, 5 months in advance, while still living in greece where it is beautiful and tight like erraday.
so psyched.
love,
kg
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