Not so rancid

Hey not rancid I'm not so rancid. here is proof and a piccie of the apartment - all right so it is infrastructural or even extrastructural. It was raining when I took this. It lasted 5 mins. Decided not to take camera to work since there would probably be extra security checks. Didn't notice extra checks which hopefully means they are checking very well all the time.

Went to register as a resident today, the driver took me to India passports. A nice policeman told him where to go after an officious doorman had told me where to go in Hindi. Never mind, only 40mins wasted. Then we went to foreign passports.

So I met my fixer and he got me through a door I wasn't supposed to go through and into a queue (enter details into computer). Did that bit, no fixer apparent, doorman waves me out so I go, half way back to office the call comes from fixer - where are you? Go back and join second queue (to get documents scanned), fixer comes up about 4 times to tell me where next queue is after this one. Get chatting to a Kenyan lad who has lived in Australia who knows the ropes better than the fixer - he tells me which lady to go for in the next queue. Finish the scanning queue and join the interrogation queue, fixer is apparent near to me. My interrogation is precise - this lady knows what she is doing, not taking any shit. Asks me straight how long my contract is, I answer and then she says prove it from your documentation - wow. So I do. Once she is happy it is quick. Come back tomorrow to collect your stamp she says. I turn. No fixer, I look. No fixer, I leave. Just get to car, fixer calls .......... argh. I lose my cool and start swearing at the driver about the fixer - but only cos I know he doesn't understand. So the fixer wants the paperwork and my passport so he can collect the stamp. I still want to know where he kept buggering off to.

By the time I get back to work its all over so its time for beer and now its:

The Smiths - Reel around the fountain
The Rezillos - I love my baby (cos she does good sculptures)

I once worked with a girl who said she auditioned for the Rezillos
"Hi, I'm Fae Fife"
"Yeah - so am I"

I'd better get the washing in (before it gets hot)