Monthly Archives: April 2005

failure 0

So this is what it’s like to fail. The feeling is a bit different than usual. It’s about twenty minutes until my class is over. I’d have to print my story out right now and rush over to the college. But I can’t, I only wrote two pages. I stared at the word processor for ten minues. Nothing. I could think of nowhere to go with it. A few minutes ago I thought of a good way to go with it, but it would involve a major rewrite, something I don’t have time for. I didn’t do my quiz either. I am just sucking on all cylinders today. Hopefully work won’t be so bad. They won’t know that I failed. They won’t give me the disapproving glances. Eh, fuck all this bullshit. I’m going to put my shoes on and get this shitty fucking day over with.

fuck this 0

There comes a point where you just have to give up. I was on the second page. It is four o-fucking clock in the morning and I am not getting anywhere. Fuck everyone. I’m failing. And it’s my supid fault. I’m such a fucking failure. I guess I can kiss the 30% of my grade goodbye. I don’t think I’ll be able to wake up with only five hours of sleep. I can’t put into words how shitty I feel. Oh well. I should just get the fuck on with my stupid pointless life.

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fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck I have to fucking do this story, it’s 30% of my grade. I’m having a bit of a meltdown. I most inexplicably hit myself in the head with my binder when I realized that I would fail my class. I feel like tearing my hair out. You know that feeling where you just need to break something? Yeah. I can’t put it into words. I have to somehow make a few more pages to that shitty fucking story. FUCK.

Camilla 0

I’m writing my story. I don’t think I’ll get it done, but I must try anyway. I ate so much food, god. But anyway, my story is about a woman named Camilla who drives off an overpass onto a little island where one of the stanchions supporting the overpass is. She’ll be trapped in the car for a while, ruminating over her stupid and lame life, and then in the end she’s going to see some rescue personnel and wish she was dead. But I need to invent the inner conflict. I was thinking that she could have an ex-husband or an adversary at work. OOh, how about a sado-masochistic relationship with her boss? I dunno. That’s kinda lame. Hmm…how about she’s driving to meet someone in Shepperton, maybe? I’m leaning towards her having an ex-husband. Hmm. Crap. It’s 1:19. I should have rumnated more on this. Eh, who cares. It’s my last story. Shit. I need a conflict. I know, how about she’s driving back to her loving boyfriend. And when she hits, she’s up to her waist in water and the car is sliding slowly into the deeper water. Sweet. Eh, it didn’t work. The “river” ended up being a marshy area. She’s having a flashback about something that happened on Western Avenue…and I don’t know how this relates to the “conflict.”

I guess she has an ex-husband/boyfriend. Weird. Writing is the strangest thing. You just put yourself into other people’s heads and like…stuff happens.

Okay, her ex-boyfriend is named Lucien, but I don’t know how their interaction makes or breaks this plot. Right now it’s all I’ve got unless she gets out of the car and there is another character.

Shit fuck. I’m stuck. I wrote myself into a corner. There will be no scenes with dialog in this story if she just stays there dying in the Jag. Can I do that? I think this is going to be boring as hell. Okay, I’ll read it from the beginning and see where I think I need to go.

Shit. Dead again. I got a good paragraph about Lucien, but I can’t work in this one part that I want. Shit. I don’t have an ending. I can’t come up with a compelling enough reason that makes her want to die. Camilla would have gone down in history as one of the best characters ever, and one of the few chosen? lol.

But yeah. Dead. Dead meat. No ending. Great, I just lost the bottom half of this post. I just fucking love Blogger. Long story short, I wrote myself into a corner and I’m going to get an F and a disapproving look from Molly. De-fucking-pressing. Maybe I’ll go uber-passive agressive and not show up. Fuck. Well, I guess I’d better get to “accepting the consequences of my actions” and all those related bullshit platitudes. Fuck fuck fuck. Well, at least I know when a story sucks too much to write it. Maybe Camilla should recover from her accident and begin her trip to Mt. Rubidoux. Lol. Fucking sad. I hate myself. I should just stop wallowing in self-pity and get the fuck to sleep so I can at least be half-awake to register the disapproving glances from my teacher and classmates. Eh, fuck ‘em. I don’t think I’ll go to class. I hate it when I fail. It makes me ersatz suicidal. It makes me very depressed.

I think I’ll take the passive agressive way out. I’ll sleep through all the looks of derision and all the “you didn’t write your story?” shit. If I’m going to fail, I’m going to do it in the privacy of my own home. Fuck everybody.

I took this class because I thought that I could somehow express how I feel about the world, and now I realize that I have nothing original to say. Everything I think has already been thought for me by the great philosophers of the world. I’m nothing but a philosophical parasite, digesting the ideas that others have worked their entire lives on. I will never have an original thought. I am a machine controlled by the media, brainwashed into thinking that things will make me happy and that there is the perfect mate for me out there somewhere. It’s all bullshit to make you buy clothes, mouthwash, and cell phones. Everything I’ve ever wanted (love, success, an education) I want because I saw it on TV. I’m a machine. A slave to corporations. I scream, but I can never break free. Never. There is no “I.” There is just a demographic. A target market. Consumers. It’s so fucking disgusting. I envy the dead.

procrastination 0

I have totally rearranged and cleaned my room to avoid doing my story. But at least now I have an idea. That DDR emulator is the worst thing to happen to my productivity since Diablo II. But I don’t really play it much, it gets boring since I don’t have a pad. I set up my room with a big empty space right in front of my TV to play DDR. It should be so fun. I’m really hungry and there isn’t any food in the house. I guess I should just make some more toast, but there’s no jelly. I can’t write unless I’m totally full. Hmm. I need some junk food to motivate me. It took an entire package of rock candy to keep my blood sugar high enough to write my last story.

I hate how my dad is always in the living room. I just can’t have fun when he’s around. I was going to make myself some tacos but I just knew it wouldn’t be fun with him in there. Why doesn’t he just die? Right when someone goes into retirement the government should come and kill them so we don’t have a social security crisis. I mean, what are all those retirees going to do anyway? I’m surprised there aren’t any elderly mass suicides. Well, I guess they have religion or something to keep them going. Gosh, my wrists are already starting to hurt. I can tell that this will be a painful story. I should turn off the computer and do something until my dad goes to bed so I can go into the kitchen and make snacks.

StepMania 0

I just downloaded every single DDR mix ever made for this program called StepMania. It’s so cool. I can’t wait to get my pad! If it’s cool I’m going to buy a PlayStation to USB adapter and if it’s lame I’ll buy my own pad with a USB adapter. I just don’t want to waste the money on shipping if I’m going to have to buy the adapter too. I must do my schoolwork tomorrow. Eh. I got enough done today. Well, not really. I feel like this was a wasted day…kinda. I hate that tomorrow is Sunday. I’m almost back at work and school already. I have no clue what to write my story on. I came up with a kinda cool idea when me and Naiya found some bones on Pebble Beach, but I don’t know how it would work out. I have a plot but no characters. Oh well. I’ll sleep on it.

agoraphobia and computer desks 0

After much chickening out and driving back to the theatre to play DDR, I finally purchased the computer desk I’ve needed for a long time. All I need now is a wrist rest and a new mouse. However, the new mouse and keyboard will have to wait until I get my new laptop, as it would be pointless to buy a new mouse/keyboard combo and then have to buy Apple’s significantly more expensive version. I went over to Josh’s and watched L.A. Confidential, the movie Susan loaned me. It wasn’t too bad but was very very very cliché. If I see one more movie with the “hooker with a heart of gold” premise I’m going to puke. I sucked at DDR today, mostly because my legs felt like someoneone had injected hydrochloric acid in them while I slept. I think it’ll feel worse tomorrow since I played again.

My wrists hurt so bad this morning that I couldn’t do my schoolwork and now that I’ve got the desk all set up, the last thing on my mind is doing my schoolwork. Maybe I’ll have a snack and watch some Adult Swim and I’ll be more in a working mood.

I cleaned my whole room too, it’s spotless. I have a huge box full of trash. I guess I should get rid of it somehow before it overflows. My computer is running very cool (72 degrees), I think it’s because now it’s right in front of my big fan I wedge into the window to blow cool air at it. I’ve done so much today I simply don’t know what to do. I can’t finish my FAFSA until I get my dad to give me his social security number so I can sign the thing with his PIN. But I didn’t check my e-mail until he went to bed, so I can’t exactly blame anyone but myself for that. Well, I can cross one thing off the to-do list, watching that movie. Man, remember that last post where I said I’d take a nap? I totally slept until noon the next day. It was something like seventeen hours. Weird. But anyway, I’m going to make some dinner. And then I think I’ll watch Gia.

money is the problem 0

I’ve been spending a shitload of money lately, and I really want to save up so I can in the short term afford a PowerBook and in the long term afford to move out of this town.

Income:

$400 / month (approximate)

Expenditures:

$112 – Insurance

$33 – Hi-speed Internet

$12 – Web server

$16 – Netflix

$80 – gas

Total:

$251

Disposable income:

$149 (approx.)

So that’s why I haven’t been able to save. I’m looking into various ways to become more efficient. I was complaining about my insurance bill and Josh suggested that I might be overinsured, and I think he’s right. I’m going to go over my coverage with him sometime this week. I really want to cancel the Netflix, but I just love movies so much. Oh, after I finish what I’m doing I should watch Gia. It should be so good.

The DDR obsession is getting worse and worse. Well, I guess from a physiological perspective it’s getting better and better…it’s like the muscles are invading my body from the feet upwards. Already my calves are full of muscles and I’m exponentially gaining muscle definition in my upper body. It’s so strange. Joe and I bought home DDR pads on eBay, I can’t wait to try them out. I’m going to bring him over some night and we’ll use the emulator on my computer and my surround sound speakers and TV to get some hella DDR going on. EEk! I can’t wait. If this obsession lasts more than a month, I’m going to get the metal arcade pad for $99 and hook it up to my computer with an adapter. But I don’t think I’ll rush into that any time soon. The cool thing about playing it at the arcade is that you can play all night, if I were to have it at home I’d have to stop at 9:30. Lame.

Well I was good and did my FAFSA. I just need to wait until they send my dad’s PIN so I can sign it and send it. I have a shitload of stuff to do this weekend:

- Write a story for Creative Writing

- Do Creative Writing quiz

- Ask my dad for the Internet money

- Watch the movie Susan lent me

- Do character chart

- Rewrite my old story

- Work on Matt’s website

- Get cleaning supplies for bathroom

- Make website for Kelly’s photography.

Right now all I want to do is take a nap. At least I did one of the things I was supposed to. And I paid my insurance. I just have to ask my dad for the Internet money and I will have done everything I need to do financially. Just looking at that list makes me sleepy. I think I’ll take a power nap and then attack that quiz.

too early 0

I was rudely awakened this morning by the Marines recruiter. I guess they need more boys to die to make the rich richer. I dispensed with him pretty quickly since I was tired. Usually I have some restraint.

Me: “I believe in the sanctity of human life.”
Him: “So do I”
Me: “That’s interesting, as a member of an organization solely concerned with killing brown people with the utmost speed and efficiency, you have some interesting notions about life.”

He hung up halfway through the second sentence. I’m all happy in anticipation of my new laptop. I’ve decided to pay all my bills with this paycheck and then to wait until the end of the month to buy it so then after that I’ll have two checks I can use to refill my savings. Not to mention that OS X Tiger comes out on the 29th, the day before I get paid. Crap. It’s 10:52. Must get ready to go. Grr. I don’t want to go to work today. I want to sleep in. But it’s only Thursday, me and Joe will probably hang out. I must admit that I have no dinero for DDR. I only have nine more dollars budgeted for this pay period (I get paid Friday). I must stop blogging and get ready to go to work.

3rd wheel bullshit and impromptu speeches 0

I did an impromptu speech today, it went really well. And I played überDDR. I just can’t get past the ones with the arrows that aren’t like lined up. I guess I’ll just have to play it a million times.

Anyway, me and Josh and Misty went to Cazadores for food and such, and then we went over to Misty’s and played this dumb game, but we had a few beverages so it was entertaining. Me and Misty were fucking cracking up. It was sooo great. I made her puke, it was so funny. And I was making fun of Kala to beat the band. It entertained me so. But anyway, me and Josh and Selena went back to Josh’s and immediately I realized that I was the 3rd wheel. They were going to have some sort of romantic pussy plunging night and I was going to be the deadbeat on the couch. So I was all “fuck you guys” and went home. But no, I didn’t say “fuck you guys,” I gave some lame excuse about being sick of people–when I was really just sick of the pathetic Josh flirting with Selena shit. What a fucking liar. He’s not gay at all. He’s all “well I’ve been gay for the last few years.” Gee, ever think of telling anyone else about this “last few years” shit? I fucking swear. What a liar. Why don’t you go choke on a fucking clit.

Fuck.

I didn’t work on Matt’s website or watch Susan’s movie or fill out my FAFSA. I’m a lame freak and all I can do is school and work. I definitely don’t have time for the Drift. I’m so lame. But at least I found a way to make my Netflix service do everything I want it to do. I’ve decided that when a movie arrives I’ll just rip it onto my computer and then immediately send it back, that way I can watch it at my leisure and I’ll get the maximum amount of movies I can get. Mouhahahaha. I have 9 minutes left on Gia and I’m going to go out and stick it in the mailbox tonight so I don’t forget. I just feel like such a loser and I don’t know why. It’s probably because I’m lonely and I have to cram in these 6-hour social sessions to somehow add up to the loving boyfriend that I don’t have. Titty fuck.