Monkey Wedding

[eumelia]

It's been a week since I moved into my own apartment.

I happen to be spending this weekend without [Sexy!Roommate] but that's all right, because I met with friends last night. A friend from Uni (previous, not current) invited me over for Friday night supper and it was quite glorious. A close-knit group being so warm and accepting towards a "stranger" and excellent food - there were not enough people to eat it all.

And today I work up so very late and had breakfast for lunch.

Apparently I moved into a neighbourhood with quite a dodgy reputation, which I understand where it comes from, it is quite neglected (despite the fact that many of the neighbourhoods, other than the tourist traps and historically restored ones, are equally neglected by the city) and what you'd consider "low class", I can't really tell you if the reputation of dogdiness is warranted. Maybe once I've lived here for longer.

Right now it's raining buckets while the sun is shining. My parents always said that there's a monkey wedding when that happens.

I don't really understand that idiom, but it's something that stuck on my mind, because I can only assume it means monkeys get married under a rainbow.

My room still doesn't feel like it's mine. There are too many things missing and there is still so much to be done in the flat itself.

Maybe you're all bored by all this writing about the changes I've gone though over the past few weeks...

So, is there something you want me to write about? Something you miss reading on this LJ/DW? Are you all busy writing NaNoWriMo?

Comments

[ghostgum]

I live in a neighbourhood with a dodgy reputation but, to be honest, I've never actually had a problem. I think just treating people decently, and minding your own business, are pretty much the only cardinal rules in that case. I'll easily confess to my own inverted snobbery, though, and that probably makes a difference, pft. I hope that things turn out well with that, though, and the dodginess is with either not warranted, or else doesn't impact upon you negatively, either way.

A monkey wedding! That's an adorable idiom though, like you, I have no idea what it's supposed to really mean. :D

[eumelia]

My middle-classness still rules my brain. I'm positive this place is no better or worse than other residential neighbourhoods. But yeah, being decent and minding your own business in the rule of thumb in my place as well.

I should ask my parents what the hell it means?! It has to mean something, right? A monkey wedding? Huh? :P

[starlady]

Actual dodginess and reputation of dodginess are not entirely congruent, in my experience.

Japanese has the same expression, except it is called "a fox's wedding" and it is the only day on which foxes can get married.

[eumelia]

Agreed. I was just speaking with a friend who has lived in the city all her life and she said that due to the fact that the neighbourhood is made out of racial minorities it is especially neglected by the municipality and with that come all the "problems", such as they are.

It doesn't really bother me as such, though now I can see I'll have to be very proactive about bureaucratic nonsense.

[ironed_orchid]

I'm enjoying reading your posts because this whole thing of moving out of home as an adult is pretty strange and exotic to me (although I totally get that it's more of a generational thing and to do with the high cost of living and studying).

[eumelia]

Yeah, both my sisters, both of them are over a decade older than I, moved out when they went to Uni. It took me a while to get to the point where I let go of the apron strings, I guess :)