Whale Time: Re: Avram

Re: Avram
Life Awake: Part 4 of 5

all stories by Avram Klein

Asking for a Reference

Merva (pronounced Mer-ah) is really nice and I'm about to meet her for the first time and I may become friends with her and find out that she would be pissed to know that she appears on a Web site. I'm not sure.

Things have kind of taken a downward turn though. There was this whole fake name thing and also my landlord is kicking me out on the 26th of August so he can make repairs before the next client moves in. He also hasn't mentioned anything about me not paying for the last week of August.

He also told me not to fill any of the holes in the walls, and I told him I already did. He got like tears in his eyes and said that he would have to paint any of the walls with spackle on them because the colors don't match. So I wiped the spackle off with a wash cloth, but he still is insisting that I move out a week early. He says I can sleep there, but that's it. So I'm going to get a quart of paint that matches the walls and do some touch-up painting.

There's a stain above the stove from a picture frame that somehow melted to the wall, I'm not sure if I can fix that, but I'm fixing everything else. There's no ceiling lights, so I'm going to take out all the lights and maybe we won't be able to see any of the holes anyway.

I've been drinking a gallon of water a day for over a month and have been taking expensive multivitamins for males and vitamin E and have been doing my yoga DVD everyday (which I returned to the video store instead of the story of Joan of Arc).

My brother and his girlfriend want me to switch my classes to online classes and bring my computer down to Brazil and pay rent and get a job down there. So I may. I'm 29 though, and I'm thinking about moving to Israel. I may be able to go to school for free in Israel and get a master's degree. The Peace Corps has positions for BAs teaching English, and if I teach English in Brazil, then I'll be qualified and can get a master's after the Peace Corps. So let me know.

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