My mac and I took a seat in this city’s parliament yesterday for the first time and within five minutes I had figured out that the wifi was shaky and that I need to get a different cord to be able to feed the mac with a few electrons.
About 58. On tuesday during our party’s wing preparatory meeting I signed my first motion that was submitted yesterday to the chamber’s president by Philipe Müller. Actually I am not certain of all the logistic and administrative steps of submitting a motion as I have yet to read the guide book for parliament rookies, if there is such a thing, however the part about reading what I sign first I have down. The said motion involves a request for additional controlling of the social welfare recipients following a couple of prominent abuse cases that have come to light recently both in Zürich and in Berne. After we had discussed the matter in our meeting, I got the paper itself and given that I am in support of its intent, I signed it. Then I noticed that my colleagues all had a number next to their signature, and I quickly assumed that it must be the last two digits of my year of birth, so I added (57). Oops, wrong assumption! Upon entering the Rathaus building yesterday I was once more met with this bit of digits when I introduced myself to the concierge at the cloakroom and was told that I would inherit my predecessor’s number on the coat rack, 58.
Then during the session last night, the clerk Beat Roschi comes to my seat neighbour Christian Wasserfallen with said motion and is asking about that funny signature with his number on it. On overhearing this and after having cleared my confusion once I was informed of my seat number, we quickly clarified the matter.
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First impressions from the session last night: entertaining, better than TV which did not prevent me from trying to demonstrate zattoo to Christian during a rather long winded debate over a matter that is not so trivial or irrelevant to our society and culture. One remark, multitasking is in the order of the day when seating in parliament.
