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Suicide Surfers > Diaries > Joe's diary > Project Mayhem

Project Mayhem

2004-08-31 14:47 GMT

Finally it is time to let go of my apartment. Tyler Durden, character in Chuck Palahniuks novel Fight Club, might say "You are not the place where you live.".

For me this has been especially true, because the part of the city where I've been living since January is often connected to rich and succesfull people. Rich? Definetely not. Succesfull? Only time will tell. It would be fun to bet, how many of our beloved Funlands advertising agencies operate in area 100 meters from my home. My educated guess is about 60 per cent.

But I'm out of that for now. Working in office full-rime feels almost as intriguing as owning a houseful of Ikea-furniture felt to Tyler Durden. Last two years have been interesting in more way than one, but now it is time to let the side of me that operates only in nights to become the real me.

Most of the people I've talked about my plans for the coming year have had these strange ideas about leaving to somewhere. They've been saying things like "I'd like to do that too, but I have all these commitments to handle." Facts are:

1. (Geography) We have maybe the worst climate in the world. No real summer and last decent winter was -98.

2. (Technical knowledge) Only thing to be proud of is a company, that technically isn't finnish and abandoned its corecompetencies by selling the branch which manufactured rubber boots. Result: finnish are proud of mediocre cellphones, which are made in china and generally thought to be japanese.

3. (Culture) Our best placement in Eurovision song contest is 6th place from 70's. Luckily other europeans have decided, that there is no point to come to the contest every year, if you lose. So finnish singers have to embarrass themselves only once in two years.

4. (Food) Most of the recipes we have inherited from our grandparents are practically uneatable. Take mämmi, traditional easter dish, for example. What kind of pervert would like to eat something that resembles shit of carnivorus animal after it has been laying on freezen walkway for two nights?

5. (People) Peaople just suck.

You may enjoy doing same things 9to5 every day with same people, at same places in same shitty climate. But I'm off. This project, going to the other side of the world as a suicidesurfer is my personal Project Mayhem.