Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Home, holed Home

Hei, yeah you...where do you live? In a dorm room? Do you like it? Does a pleasant smell and friendly faces welcome you when you come from tiring and amazingly extremely useless and boring classes or from a job you hate but you need, or from the worst date of your life?...No?! Does it smell like a no-cleaning-lady-in-the-weekends-bathroom down the narrow and working-light-ball-less hall way, or like French fries and mould and after a scribbled door used by many, many others before you, you get into a dark and freaking-hot-in-the-spring/summer or Greenland-cold-in-the-winter room, with not much space for a computer and a table to eat on?!...well...you'll eventually have a home all on your own, where it won't be so dirty and so not yours, where you can open a window to get a breath of fresh air without upsetting anyone, where your bathroom is yours and only yours, where nobody will urge you three times a day to buy toilet paper, where you won't get your door almost beaten down at 4 o'clock in the morning by a bunch of merry dudes singing carols in the middle of October, where you'll remember the dorm years as your youth's funniest moments.
Jeremiah (the Red-eared Slider Turtle from Florida) got a very interesting addition to his cozy aquarium today...a house with many holes in which he can play all day long. I don't know where he gets the energy, but he "slides" in the water non-stop, eats as much as a small cat would (although he's less than 5 centimeters long and doesn't weigh more than 200 grams :) ). If you get a baby turtle, if you really want one, you have to really love it and take great care of it and buy it special turtle menus to find out what kind of food it likes and give it the necessary vitamins and keep it's swimming water clean etc. etc. etc....it's a lot of work and you have to do it, unless you want your newly bought pet to die an undeserved death.
It's great to have a home fit for your needs, it's great to have friendly faces that greet you when you want to be greeted, it's no that great if you live in an horrible and hateful place and you have no choice but to express your frustrations by creating irony at any cost, with Quills and wits.

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