Monthly Archives: May 2005

larceny and pain 0

Well, it’s official. I can’t find my wallet anywhere. I searched my room and my car. I told my mom about it, and she freaked out and told me to cancel the card immediately, so I did. Better to be safe than sorry. I wish they would have stolen it like last week or something. Monday I get my car looked at, and I still can’t find the paper saying what time. I think it’s eight in the morning but I’m not sure. Tomorrow’s agenda:

6:45 a.m. wake up

7:30 a.m. leave the house

8:00 a.m. drop my car off at the auto repair place and ride my bike to Josh’s house.

9:45 a.m. wake up from my nap at Josh’s house, ride my bike to the bank/work.

2 p.m. (approximately) ride my bike back to Josh’s house if car still isn’t done.

This is not a very good plan. But I need to put my bike in the car notwithstanding. And find that fucking piece of paper with my appointment time on it. Holy fucking shit. I just found my fucking character chart. AND FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FOR THIS MOTHERFUCKING VOICE RECOGNITION TITTY-FUCK ASS SHIT CUNT FUCK!!!!!!

Okay, I’m done. The voice recognition is not working. My left wrist feels like a steak knife has been jabbed through it. I can’t live with this pain. I’m done blogging for the day.

random sci-fi movies 0

I went over to Martin and Adrien’s house and we fed snakes and watched Huckabees. It was fun. I’m blogging on Adrien’s computer. The crew up here is cool, they totally jazzed me out of my depressed mood. I’m thinking of getting a snake. It would be pretty cool. We’re watching Journey To The Center of the Earth and doing a MST3K thing on it. It’s so funny. Okay, I’m done.

DRAMATIC DUCK FOLLOWING SEQUENCE!

tits and lost friendships 0

Today has been really lame. I shouldn’t have left home. Blogger is down, so I’m typing this in a text file on Josh’s computer. Wrist pain aside, I must talk
about today.

Joe, it seems, is no longer my friend. He’s Samantha’s now. This is because I don’t have big tits. This is because I’m not a hypocrite. This is because I stand for what I believe in and I don’t forget what people did to me. Fuck the lot of them.

It’s sad. I really really like Joe. I think he’s such a cool person. But I should reiterate: I don’t have big tits, and I’m not a passably attractive chick. I don’t have tits at all. It really hurts that that’s the only thing he seems to look for in friends lately. Tits to make him forget about all the shit Samantha talked about him. Tits to forget how we vowed to make Samantha and Steve’s cult of lies and gossip tumble. Tits to forget all those days we spent hanging out, all the cool conversations we had, all the random trips. That just cuts me deeper than I ever thought it would.

I hung out with Selena a bit today on her break. We seem to really (as my mom would put it) “jive.” I don’t even know why. I just feel this kinship with her and Misty, like we’ve all been through something together. I don’t know what.

When I left the theatre to go over to Selena’s, I accidentally left my jacket on the DDR machine. When I got back, my wallet wasn’t in it and it looked like the pockets had been gone through. I didn’t jump to conclusions. I played one last round of DDR. I got an E. I stared at the E and my empty jacket on the floor and my half-broken down car in the parking lot.

Maybe this is how you hit rock bottom.

new design 1

Do you guys like the new banner at the top of the page? I had been meaning to do it for ever, and it only took 10 or 20 minutes. However, it still killed my mouse wrist. I have been making some improvement though, they don’t really hurt as much as they did that one day at work when I freaked out. Monday I must talk to my boss about getting an ergonomic keyboard and about taking a few days off to help my friend move.

Flash, one of the programs I use to design my web site, has been inexplicably crashing over and over. I can’t do any work in it any more. It’s $150 for students to get the latest version of Flash, and like $250 to get Studio MX, which has all the Web design programs I use. Note that these prices are with a student discount, Studio MX is $999 for businesses and such. I wonder if you have to buy separate versions for PC and Mac. Oh great, “Upon purchase of the English Box product you will have access to both Windows and Macintosh platforms; only one platform may be activated for use.” So I’d better wait until I get my new computer to buy it.

I currently have $500 saved up and I need $700 (approx.) for my new system, not including RAM upgrades, which will be costly ($111 a pop for two 1GB DIMMs). But it won’t be as costly as buying Apple’s overpriced RAM ($475 for the same upgrade). I really should go to sleep. And I should have watched a movie instead of just surfing the Web and blogging. Oh well.

Majesty 1

> Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl
> Claire Voyant – Majesty [Premonition]
> Daft Punk – Something About Us

Today has been a weird day. I guess every day that I take a nap after work is strange. I woke up rested in Josh’s house. I saw my old friend Christine outside of Josh’s complex earlier in the day, we smiled and waved. She probably still has my copy of SLC Punk. I didn’t want to keep mulling over. I bought another one a long time ago.

I woke up having dreams about zombies and warehouses, but none of them were scary. I dreamed about watching cartoons and television from the 1920s. I dreamed that me and my family from the 1920s (they were all archetypes except for one) got in a car accident and we were zombies, but we just thought that it would be really funny since we were dead to play a joke on one of our friends. So the whole dream just took place on the road that we were walking on, making jokes about cartoons and such. In the dream, my aunt Anna (who died at 94 years of age) was all dressed up like a flapper. I suppose in hindsight it was a bit of a ridiculous dream. But there’s no way to understand waking life as much as there is a way to understand my dream. Life is absurd.

I have been listening to that “Majesty” song all day long. It’s a nice song, and if you’ve seen the movie Pi, you’ll recognize the first few bars of the synth from Pi’s score.

May 20, 2005. 11:05 p.m. Restate my assumptions.

1. Existence is absurd.

2. Free will is limited and exists only because of the implications of the uncertainty principle.

2a. As a corollary to number two, Verner Heisenberg is my hero.

3. Ellen DeGeneres pisses me off.

4. I too suffer from The Nausea.

5. It is possible to find love.

6. The rich will always rule over the poor.

7. Boko-maru beats sex any day.

10. We live in a world of symbols that the world of instantaneous communication and the extension of the nervous system through electric technology have rendered simulacra. Everything is a copy with a lost original. Even our genetic code.

11. Every human endeavor is an attempt to deny the reality that life is meaningless.

12. We are just animals who killed off all our predators.

13. Life is wonderful, except for in Crescent City.

Well. It’s 11:27 p.m. I need to watch these millions of Netflix movies that have piled up during finals week. I think I’m going to watch Through A Glass Darkly. I’m curious how good of a director Bergman is.

movies and fun 0

> Just watched Team America for the first time

I’m realizing that I only blog when I’m depressed or bored. Like tonight, I had an incredibly fun night and have loads of stuff to talk about… stuff about Josh, Ben, Misty and Selena, and especially Joe. But we started watching the movie way too late, and I just don’t have time. Team America was really really really funny though.

Anyway, I guess I should sign off. I’ve been leaving my computer on so as to benefit the folding at home project. The check engine light came on in my car, it had better keep running until Monday. I don’t have the time or energy to slop out all my feelings on paper tonight, but I had a really fun night with Ben, Misty, and Selena. They are so cool and fun. I must go to sleep now or I will be painfully tired tomorrow.

yay! 0

Mid-July…like the 13-14

The Nausea 1

> Placebo – Sleeping With Ghosts
> String Tribute to Nine Inch Nails

Yes, I’m depressed and I’m listening to placebo. It always happens like this. I hung out with Martin tonight, we watched Requiem for a Dream. I kinda teared up near the end, but it wasn’t too bad. I propped up two mattresses against the wall and made a makeshift couch to watch the movie on. But that’s not what got me depressed. I ended up meeting that Adrian guy, and he wasn’t really very hot. He seemed really bitchy too, I don’t know why. The whole time I just pictured him and Martin fucking. It wasn’t a pretty thought.

I met a bunch of Martin’s friends, but I just felt dead inside. But anyway, I left shortly after meeting Adrian. They were going to see the midnight showing of Star Wars in Brookings. I felt a bit strange, a bit listless… so I knew what would fix it. DDR. However, I should have realized it was the midnight showing for Star Wars in Crescent city as well. So I had to dance in front of a bunch of people, and my pants kept falling down. Not like, egregiously… but they had the possibility of becoming that way.

But here’s what made me depressed: I saw my friends Kyle and Matthew from fourth grade. Kyle was always mean to me, so I didn’t give a shit about him, but Matthew was a totally different person. He was all dressed up like an emaciated skater boy and was smoking outside. I don’t know, I just felt like a ridiculous child in cheap clothes.
I need to cut my hair. I need to buy good clothes. I need to not feel ugly. I love you guys too much to blather on about how depressed I am, but that’s all I can seem to do. Only two people in this whole world understand me. It’s disheartening, to say the least. This whole night just felt so futile. My whole life is futile. I’m deprived of the only thing that I like–computers. That’s Murphy’s Law for you.

I haven’t felt like this in a long time. This is the feeling when Taggart wouldn’t hold me any more. This is the feeling when my dad told me I have to be done with my degree by fall semester or he’s leaving. This is the feeling when people like Amanda are let loose on this world to destroy people. This is the millions of people working for three cents an hour in a factory in Malaysia.

We’re the fucking sugar ants. My only solace is in the fact that every day that passes is one closer to my death.

I have to get out of this fucking town.

I need to find somebody that fucking understands me.

I need to find somebody that loves me.

Always stays the same, nothing ever changes… English summer rain, seems to last

for ages.

I hate those days where you suddenly realize that you are profoundly unhappy. Today was one of those days.

I hate people that mope about how sad they are. I’m moping. Please don’t read this. It’s emotional masturbation. I feel ugly. I feel like everyone’s looking inside me and they see nothing. I feel like I’m so empty nothing can ever satisfy me. My techlust drives me on, but what else do I have? I’m nothing. I’m a scared little boy hiding inside the shell of a 19-year-old. I put on this big façade of stoicism to push people away so they’ll never get close. So they can never hurt me like those children did in school.

The perfect man for me does not exist. I will always find flaws. Flaws too big to ignore. I feel so ugly. I’m repulsed by myself. I want to be one of those vacuous, flippant fools smoking cigarettes. I want to be dumb. I wish I could live the lie of Christianity. I wish I didn’t know that my life doesn’t mean anything.

Work until you die. Work until you die. Work until you die.

That is not the life I want. But I don’t know what kind of life I want. I’m a fucking teenager. I hate my indecision, my stupidity. I wish it would just all go away.

I don’t hate this world. Just the people in it.

Ennui. Ennui. Ennui.

So it goes.

work and cake 0

I don’t know if I mentioned it or not, but last night Ben came over and we made Devil’s food cupcakes for our cupcake porno. We only had one cupcake pan though, so we just made one batch of cupcakes and then I poured the rest into pans and actually made a Devils food cake with vanilla icing. It is so good, it’s totally orgasmic. Me and Martin are supposed to get together to watch Requiem for a Dream today, but I said hi to him online and he hasn’t responded. Work was OK. I didn’t have to type anything too lengthy, but my wrists still hurt a bit, enough that it was a distraction. Even if Martin doesn’t come over, I still need to watch movies tonight. I have five DVD RW’s, and they all have movies I haven’t watched on them. In other news, I have enough money to buy my iMac… but I’m afraid my car is just going to suck it all up. This always happens. Oh well. I will get my iMac (in Eh Steve voice) if it’s the last thing I doooo!

oh God. This page makes me so hard: http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

I wish I could afford that dual 2.7GHz Power Mac ($3000). I would be the envy of all the little boys and girls. if I won the lottery, I’d also get that 15 in. PowerBook. And I would donate the 20 in. iMac of my dreams to my work so I could do all sorts of cool stuff on that big 20 in. monitor. It would be heaven. And somehow my carpal tunnel would be magically cured.

I must go to Brookings. I have people to see, games of Dance Dance Revolution to play, and movies to watch. Oh yeah. I don’t know if I blogged about this, but at the arcade in Brookings there is a Dance Dance Revolution machine with the eighth mix. I can’t wait!

carpal tunnel 0

I’m bored. And in pain. And bored. Fuck repetitive strain injuries. It was so bad today that I couldn’t even type my work, I had to go into the bathroom and run cold water on my wrists until they didn’t hurt anymore. I don’t know what to do. I really need to tell my boss. But I’m not ready. But I’ll never be ready. We’ll see what my pain level is tomorrow. I’ve restricted myself to voice-recognition only at home.