İ`m sitting here dressed me up like İ want and fell, that İ don`t feel like confronting me to the predictable reaction today. so İ will redress probably before living my flat. less color, less skin, less “female”.

yes, its opression. does anyone feel like wandering the streets of beyoğlu together and react to such boring people in a way, that`s them, who have a problem afterwards and not us?
hey, sometimes a give a shit to those heterosexist folks, but somehow not at the moment.

angry,

vera

a big deasaster appaered, the second worst thing possible to happen to my housing condition. the worst would by the internet not working any more, but this is bad enough: the saeling ring of my esspresso can dosn`t work properly any more. what can İ do. İ think its diffucult to get them in istanbul.

but at least the worst thing didn`t happen. the internet wasn`t working, İ tried rebooting my modem, but it didn`t help. rebooting the computer was working, though İ have have no idea wy. the strange thing was, that İ could resolve urls to ips, just not connect to any server. strange to me …

.. is collected once a day in my street. people just throw it on the street, other, mostly sinti are collecting the paper, plastic, metall and so on - earning so maybe 5 or ten million a day, if they are not lucky and find somethimg valuable in the çöp. but about 3 o`clock in the night the big garbage-cat is coming. İ like watching it, because its a sign for ending the day and preparing the next morning.
The street is one-way, going from down to up. since some weeks ago, the garbage-car was going from doen to up, following the direction of the one-way-traffic. Now they changed. probably it`s easier for the driver, because the street is quite steep for going stop and go with the big truck. also for those, throwing the bags of rubbish in the car it might be easier this way.
İ just wait for the moment, that there is big chaos because cars are going up and blocking the street. but so far there was no bigger problem. it`s not so much traffic at this time anyway.

there seems to be a problem with the comments tool. anyway sammelsurium answered to my cats story and found an other way for the meassage to reach me. here you are:

sammelsurium: In fact, it is quite the same as with dogs. You have to “konditionieren” the cat. Like hugging her, if she does something good, and crying or simply saying “no” loudly and angry everytime she does something you don’t want.
But a cat does not need to know so many things like a dog. Like “sit down” or “go”. But things you should teach her for your own convenience is something like “don’t lick on or eat my food”, “don’t walk on the oven, or anywhere in the kitchen”, “use your cats toilet”, “don’t destroy the tapestry with your nails”, “don’t bite or scratch me” and “don’t drink from the toilet”.
And you should investigate ypour balkony, because cats, especially young cats sometimes can’t calculate the height and their own ability to jump and land safely, so its best not to let your cat out or making the balkony safe for her.
Good luck!

so, my balkony is a closed one, there just could be a problem, if the windows is open and even if the cat jumps out, its not so much high. anyway, my biggest problem in the moment ist the issue “don’t bite or scratch me”. we will see

İ mentioned already - İ now share my flat with a cat. Oh it`ts sooo cude. İ call her “kedi”, or “miststück”, sometimes “kedicim”. do cats need names? İm not sure. say do not follow your orders, so there is no need to call them by name. so İ can use whatever İ want.
Kedi came a few days ago. she was quite shy, crying all the time and hissing, whenever you tried to touch. it was quite a drama, cause İ expected jelena to know what to do, but she didn`t. The solution was: just to ignore her - yes, she is she - hissing und cuddle.
now she isn`t shy any more. sometimes İ wish, she would be. She is climbing, hunting, running - and sometimes she attaks me. so it`s time for education. İ have to tell her, that İ don`t like to be beaten - at least not like this. But how to do. to a dog you just have to snarl. but a cat is not as much an authoritarian charakter. she will just take her next chance for revanche.
until now İ`m still stronger, so İ can survive. but the cat is eating masses of food and will soon be strong as a tiger. İ have to do some deals with her before.
and about her job? yesterday she recoverd the mouse hole and tried to catch something in there with her tiny little feed. İ don`t think, any mouse will neter my flat anymore.