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Driving home in the snow, with the snow on the ground and the plows not having made a pass - on the highways, no less, makes for an interesting day. Several times I was glad for anti-lock brakes. Not because I ever put myself in a dangerous situation (although coming over the hill as the light changed could have been a dangerous situation without the ABS, but there was nobody at the cross street do I might have slid on through if I felt I was going to do so.), but it made slowing down and stopping that much easier. However, I got home to find that my housemate had taken the back parking spot, blocking me from the unused one. Is it that hard to ask that someone pull up into the open spot so that everyone can park their car? I'll leave the keys on the counter or you can wake me up to move the car, I really don't care, but leaving your car like that because you're likely going to move before I do tomorrow is just aggravating. So I put my car up at one of the university parking lots that's free for the moment. I just hope it'll still be there in the morning. I know who's going to get hit with any costs incurred because of this incident. Argh. I pity the fool.
Congresscritters studying football bowl system. As the person who brought it to my attention noted "Don't they have better things to do?" The answer is apparently, no.
On the other hand, they could just sit down and enjoy the Metaclysma Discordia and not worry too much about it. Which is probably the right idea to do.
Today was a one-half Hitomi day. Which means, for about half the day, I felt like I wanted to just get away and have some sort of great adventure, to go out and be a hero in a strange land, save the world and get the girl. My delicate balance of sanity and cheeriness was tossed out when I went downstairs for the first meal of the day, to be greeted with an accusatory message on the board about my delinquency of rent, due three days ago - admittedly, I forgot about it, but normally that housemate provides a nice reminder to us to get our rent checks in before they're due. Along with the message were the terms about housing for next school year - either I find housemates to fill the house with, or I find another place to live in for the next school year, along with a message noting that there was another group of people interested in the house. I got the strong feeling I was being told to get out, since it wasn't a matter of asking whether or not I could live with some people for next year - it was a matter of either I filled the house or I left. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that was not a nice thing to wake up to. Things like that, I think, deserve face-to-face conversation rather than messages on the board. And a nice reminder about rent when it didn't show up immediately would keep feathers unruffled. I guess I'm just the bad housemate. So that's what started it being a Hitomi sort of day. The snow's been pretty, though. And plentiful.
Yeah, it's one of those "feel useless to the world" sort of funks. Maybe it's because the sun goes down early. Maybe it's because I feel a bit hopeless and uncertain about the future of both my professional and personal lives. Maybe it's feeling a little disconnected with my previous world and not yet having built the new world. Maybe I am all those things I'm afraid of and just kidding myself. (But that one doesn't seem too likely - people keep hitting me with various objects when I say that.) Maybe it's because I haven't shaved in a few says and need to. Maybe it's because the VEWPRF is approaching and I'll be spending it with my family (not that that's necessarily a bad thing - my family rocks.) - maybe it's because Thanksgiving passed and I didn't deliver on having the pretty girl there. (Through no fault of my own, other than for whatever reason it was that I wasn't her choice) But she's still friendly and talks to me, so as rejections go, that one's pretty soft. (And if I'm taking a soft rejection that hard, what's wrong with me?) I just seem better at the life on-line than the real world. I might be choosing the right profession, someplace that I can just sort of fade into the background on and just go about doing my work at.
I guess I believe the novels a little too much. I've bought into a different lie, not the one about how owning X or Y will make you popular and cool, but one just as bad. I've bought into the lie that says that it all turns out well for the awkward guy, that the guy nobody wants turns out to be the hero and save everyone... or that the knockout beauty with the brains falls head-over-heels for him just by getting a peek into his mind. I think I bought into the lie of happily ever after and have been wondering where it's been. I think I believe "Be yourself", which might be the biggest lie of them all. Sad, isn't it, when you're not sure whether some of your strongest convictions actually have any truth to them.
Congresscritters studying football bowl system. As the person who brought it to my attention noted "Don't they have better things to do?" The answer is apparently, no.
On the other hand, they could just sit down and enjoy the Metaclysma Discordia and not worry too much about it. Which is probably the right idea to do.
Today was a one-half Hitomi day. Which means, for about half the day, I felt like I wanted to just get away and have some sort of great adventure, to go out and be a hero in a strange land, save the world and get the girl. My delicate balance of sanity and cheeriness was tossed out when I went downstairs for the first meal of the day, to be greeted with an accusatory message on the board about my delinquency of rent, due three days ago - admittedly, I forgot about it, but normally that housemate provides a nice reminder to us to get our rent checks in before they're due. Along with the message were the terms about housing for next school year - either I find housemates to fill the house with, or I find another place to live in for the next school year, along with a message noting that there was another group of people interested in the house. I got the strong feeling I was being told to get out, since it wasn't a matter of asking whether or not I could live with some people for next year - it was a matter of either I filled the house or I left. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that was not a nice thing to wake up to. Things like that, I think, deserve face-to-face conversation rather than messages on the board. And a nice reminder about rent when it didn't show up immediately would keep feathers unruffled. I guess I'm just the bad housemate. So that's what started it being a Hitomi sort of day. The snow's been pretty, though. And plentiful.
Yeah, it's one of those "feel useless to the world" sort of funks. Maybe it's because the sun goes down early. Maybe it's because I feel a bit hopeless and uncertain about the future of both my professional and personal lives. Maybe it's feeling a little disconnected with my previous world and not yet having built the new world. Maybe I am all those things I'm afraid of and just kidding myself. (But that one doesn't seem too likely - people keep hitting me with various objects when I say that.) Maybe it's because I haven't shaved in a few says and need to. Maybe it's because the VEWPRF is approaching and I'll be spending it with my family (not that that's necessarily a bad thing - my family rocks.) - maybe it's because Thanksgiving passed and I didn't deliver on having the pretty girl there. (Through no fault of my own, other than for whatever reason it was that I wasn't her choice) But she's still friendly and talks to me, so as rejections go, that one's pretty soft. (And if I'm taking a soft rejection that hard, what's wrong with me?) I just seem better at the life on-line than the real world. I might be choosing the right profession, someplace that I can just sort of fade into the background on and just go about doing my work at.
I guess I believe the novels a little too much. I've bought into a different lie, not the one about how owning X or Y will make you popular and cool, but one just as bad. I've bought into the lie that says that it all turns out well for the awkward guy, that the guy nobody wants turns out to be the hero and save everyone... or that the knockout beauty with the brains falls head-over-heels for him just by getting a peek into his mind. I think I bought into the lie of happily ever after and have been wondering where it's been. I think I believe "Be yourself", which might be the biggest lie of them all. Sad, isn't it, when you're not sure whether some of your strongest convictions actually have any truth to them.
